According to the narrative, Leicester is experiencing a spike in Covid cases.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to make a statement tonight confirming whether Leicester will have to stay locked down for two more weeks amid the city’s fresh outbreaks of coronavirus.
Language barriers, high levels of diabetes and poverty among Leicester’s BAME residents were today being blamed for the Covid-19 surge in the East Midlands city as it was revealed its 350,000 population may have their lockdown extended for two extra weeks from Saturday.
Sounds bad. However, I smell that rodent…
You see the mayor says something rather different.
He talks about needing evidence – silly man, whatever do we need evidence for when we have feelz?
Importantly, he makes a valid point – more testing will produce more positive results. Well, duh!
But they ridiculed Mr Trump when he said exactly the same . . . .
Ah, that must explain why there are so few positives around here, very few people bothering to get tested.
A Council Official was on beeb radio explaining that Leicester has a lot of crowded ‘intergenerational families’ and even mentioned religious practices but on Radio 2 News they only reported crowding, poverty and deprivation.
Is this the same Labour Mayor of Leicester who had to apologise for breaking lockdown, twice, to see his lover?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53048566
I’m not entirely convinced his rhetoric is based solely on the effects it will have on the population of Leicester, and possibly more to do with point-scoring.
Looks like it. However, it does tend to suggest that he takes the whole shenanigans with the same pinch of salt that I do.
He’s not the only one:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8476065/Clothes-factory-bosses-Leicester-vow-defy-city-lockdown.html
Weird isn’t it, when the government told teachers that they should go back to work and teach some childrem Labour get all high and mighty about the dangers of doing so, but when the government tells Leicester it must stay locked down, suddenly the Labour mayor declares thats all wrong and they shouldn’t have to do so.
One might almost conclude that they’ll just oppose whatever the government says on principle, regardless of what it is………
“One might almost conclude that they’ll just oppose whatever the government says on principle, regardless of what it is………”
I can remember thinking that during the Thatcher/Kinnock era. I thought, surely it can’t all be so completely black and white, there must be some grey areas that both parties at least partly agree on. Nothing much changes really.
and only yesterday Kier Starmer was telling R4 Today that he was not out to make cheap political points in a crisis before doing precisely that.