Are you watching the Prime Minister speaking live on news channels?

Important bit of information from Gove

“It is very important that we follow the advise of experts”

?????

He said it with a straight face too

Reports that families are trying to borrow money to purchase food.

“If you can’t feed your country, you haven’t got a country”

Possible government rationing on the horizon.

www.politicshome.com/news/article/excl-crops-could-be-left-to-rot-during-coronavirus-outbreak-due-to-shortage-of-workers-mps-warn

We know that everything for such a scenario is in place as it will be used in a no deal brexit.

Another link this one about help with the farmers harvest

www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/28/fruit-and-veg-will-run-out-unless-britain-charters-planes-to-fly-in-farm-workers-from-eastern-europe

An open letter from a doctor to Johnson

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/doctor-johnson-thousands-deaths-nhs-patient?CMP=share_btn_link

Whitewave; check out Dr John Campbells latest utube blog. He is very reassuring.

Has anyone heard anything from Dominic Cummings lately? I'm hoping he's quietly slunk away to hide in a hole.

I'm up and down like a yoyo. One minute I feel more positive and then something will floor me. And have seen a comment from someone I know slightly saying she needs to go shopping tomorrow, but she's supposedly in 14 day quarantine because her son has symptoms. Trying to tactfully say what the hell are you doing....

I was feeling resigned to it all until I heard the UN Director General.

Now I’m scared to death

Can you tell me what he actually said that made you feel more positive?

I watched today, and felt more positive about it all.

My OH runs a small business fixing and selling non-essential equipment. He has decided the rules don’t apply to him. I wonder how many others will have the same attitude. Unless they properly clamp down on people using police enforcement nothing will change.

Strangely enough, my partner and I were only saying this morning we wished May was in charge.

Good Lord no. She was not a sharer - not a good manager at all. Whether it's for good characteristics or bad characteristics Boris likes a team of those who are expert in their area where he can get them.

Is that unusual? Is Yorkshire normally law-abiding?

It's probably as law-abiding as anywhere else in the country but we can get very cross Callistemon

My anxiety is through the roof. I haven't the heart for politics.

Better tonight BJ.

Still think BJ is not the statesman we need but he does seem to acknowledge his shortcomings by allowing those more capable to be propping him up.
Sunak shaping up well.
Mark Hancock showed up well in the HoC this afternoon. He seemed far more confident and on top of the subject. Now MH, PLEASE get the necessary PPE to my DGS and her NHS colleagues.

Strangely enough my partner and I were only saying this morning we wished May was in charge. As for Corbyn [who, as I have to keep pointing out to people that insist on thinking of me as a leftie Corbynite, I am no fan of] his first thought when all this kicked off was for 'the people' and not 'the economy'. I thought it was Johnson et al who didn't believe in experts; surely it was Gove [who allegedly is now jealous of Hancock for being in the limelight so much] who told us not to listen to experts? When did Corbyn say that?

I am very grateful that we have Scientific expert and Health Expert. And Boris is listening to and basing his decisions on what they advise. Thank goodness we don't have dithering May in charge or JC who defies advice from experts because he knows better. I read papers early each morning and watch briefing every evening. I think they are helpful to keep people up to speed on what they should be doing or not doing. I can't see it ending anytime soon. I am furious with my sister who has now gone up to her daughter's to look after children. She has heart issues too and I am even more angry with my niece for allowing her to do it. Thankfully the rest of my family all doing what has been requested of them.

What happened to Boris's water cannons?

These are the kind of people who won't catch it, or only mildly, but kill others by passing it on.

Armed police?

And ambulances have now been vandalised. These are the sort of people that the PM is politely asking to behave in a sensible manner.

I meant nothing against Yorkshire in particular, I just wondered if it was normally more law abiding than anywhere else.

There are eejits everywhere, Greymar

Just deserts?

I have no doubt that the self employed will eventually be compensated by the government once it gets its act in order, based on the declared income over the tax year.

Of course this is declared income rather actual income. Oh well, they have done very well over the years cheating the system.

I can’t feel much sympathy tbh.

Where do you live Callistemon? Is it law abiding? I love Yorkshire.

‘A spoilt prep-school boy incapable of doing a real job’. ?

BJ looks a bit dishevelled but does anyone really care considering what he is having to deal with right now and he is clearly not out of his depth.

As for the little lady, she can stay right here she is.

paddyanne there are always eejits, sadly