The rules are: stay home, which is the take-away message and what he said.
Some people will always go "yes, but..." and look for ways around the rules, as we've painfully seen in the UK since March.
In fairness, some people have very good reasons not not stay home and the PM did also mention these reasons.
Overall I found the message and level of details well calibrated for a short, straight to the point, speech. Going into an exhaustive list of all the rules and exceptions would have clouded the message and would not have been a good use of the format and of time.
The only thing he announced, the only change, is that some (not all) schools are closing. The fact he spent 10 minutes and didn't quite manage to communicate which schools/kids were affected says it all really...
This is not the only change. Overall this is back to full lockdown as it was in March, which is quite stricter that the current situation (aka tier 4 in most of England)
Edit: yes, children of key workers are still accepted although schools are closed, like in March. He said that, you guys clearly understood that. Let's not be disingenuous here...
All he had to say was "school is cancelled tomorrow, except if you went when we closed them last year or for kids under 4. Exams are still on this month."
I don't see any other changes at all actually. Weddings are still on, there are 101 exemptions for visiting people. The main one of course is anyone doing business. Workers keep working so that 30mil people many of whom will be moving around and breathing on each other tomorrow.
Let me know if I missed something? It seems next week will be the same as today for me (no kids).
Our local school is providing lunch tomorrow, although didn’t come out until after 10pm. However they are only taking key worker kids if both parents are key workers - unlike last time. We are, but a lot of unhappy parents on whatsapp tonight.
I travel in to work sometimes from teir 3 to teir 4, but I was teir 2 last week. Am I still allowed to do that? I tend to go in to make sure things keep working for people at home. Is that OK? Only I have three people straight on to Teams asking if they should go in tomorrow. All have things to do that are hard but not impossible to do remotely. What should I tell them? They all saw the speech, perhaps they were not listening hard enough?
Come on, the speech was as clear as possible: there are no more tiers, all of England is in full lockdown, stay home unless you positively have to leave (including if it is absolutely impossible for you to work from home).
He said that in rather clear terms.
You answered your own question when you conceded that it was possible to carry out the work remotely and that your trips were not essential.
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If Boris had given out at least a basic summary of what the new rules mean I would have stayed off the website.
A better speechwriter could have saved a huge amount of bandwidth
TLDR for below. Several people argue that Boris was totally clear, and then demonstrate their complete ignorance of the rules he so clearly set out.
The rules are: stay home, which is the take-away message and what he said.
Some people will always go "yes, but..." and look for ways around the rules, as we've painfully seen in the UK since March.
In fairness, some people have very good reasons not not stay home and the PM did also mention these reasons.
Overall I found the message and level of details well calibrated for a short, straight to the point, speech. Going into an exhaustive list of all the rules and exceptions would have clouded the message and would not have been a good use of the format and of time.
The only thing he announced, the only change, is that some (not all) schools are closing. The fact he spent 10 minutes and didn't quite manage to communicate which schools/kids were affected says it all really...
All schools are to close as he very clearly said.
This is not the only change. Overall this is back to full lockdown as it was in March, which is quite stricter that the current situation (aka tier 4 in most of England)
Edit: yes, children of key workers are still accepted although schools are closed, like in March. He said that, you guys clearly understood that. Let's not be disingenuous here...
I don't think that's correct.
They're remaining open for vulnerable pupils (not defined) and children of critical workers.
Also, nurseries will remain open.
They're also staying open for exams happening this month. But the summer exams are cancelled.
Also, schools remain open for "elite athletes" to train.
And the building will continue to be used for religious activities.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home#g...
All he had to say was "school is cancelled tomorrow, except if you went when we closed them last year or for kids under 4. Exams are still on this month."
I don't see any other changes at all actually. Weddings are still on, there are 101 exemptions for visiting people. The main one of course is anyone doing business. Workers keep working so that 30mil people many of whom will be moving around and breathing on each other tomorrow.
Let me know if I missed something? It seems next week will be the same as today for me (no kids).
All schools...except nursery schools. And this is only England, Scotland, Wales and NI all have separate rules.
Full lockdown like in March? I read that I should not go out more than once per day to exercise. In March I read that I must not.
See, you perfectly understood the message. Nurseries stay open, all schools close, he did say as much.
Our local school is providing lunch tomorrow, although didn’t come out until after 10pm. However they are only taking key worker kids if both parents are key workers - unlike last time. We are, but a lot of unhappy parents on whatsapp tonight.
It’s not as simple as “schools are closed”.
I travel in to work sometimes from teir 3 to teir 4, but I was teir 2 last week. Am I still allowed to do that? I tend to go in to make sure things keep working for people at home. Is that OK? Only I have three people straight on to Teams asking if they should go in tomorrow. All have things to do that are hard but not impossible to do remotely. What should I tell them? They all saw the speech, perhaps they were not listening hard enough?
Come on, the speech was as clear as possible: there are no more tiers, all of England is in full lockdown, stay home unless you positively have to leave (including if it is absolutely impossible for you to work from home).
He said that in rather clear terms.
You answered your own question when you conceded that it was possible to carry out the work remotely and that your trips were not essential.
If that is what you got from there speech then it was very misleading indeed.
That is a world of difference from 'absolutely impossible.'
I also did not say that my trips were not essential, that is just as big a misunderstanding as you made above.