Another do as I say

Gagajo people are allowed to walk their dogs.

In addition to all the local voluntary groups, local authorities are now setting up emergency response "hubs" for people who are falling between the help that's available. They have been given some funding to help them co-ordinate help.

I suspect they vary between one authority and another. Having been initially quite critical (constructively) of my local council, I'm quite impressed with the systems they've put in place. They've started from scratch and the systems are increasingly coming together. They can be Googled for each area and have Facebook pages.

There is no reason why anybody should need to flout the (admittedly badly written) law - and certainly no reason for a cabinet minister not to set an example, especially as he'd been lecturing others. It's a prime example of an MP in a stronghold constituency (where he claims not to live) feeling entitled to do one thing while the "plebs" have to do something else.

I don't think I have ever said this before, but I agree with your last post, quizqueen!

I think some journalists need to investigate whether there were other family or friends, who were nearer to his parents to help them out, thus his journey would not have been essential.

How many houses this man owns is irrelevant, if he can afford them, but wherever he was on lockdown day is where he should have stayed for the whole time-no excuse there at all. He would have been forewarned of the date so could have travelled to his family on the Monday that Boris announced it, and worked from home the whole time there. In my opinion, this is a resignation matter, just as the Scottish Health Minister had to.

Oopsminty, Gagajo
Thank you

I will sort it!!
Even if I send this MP to fetch it for me; it's not that much further out of his way, if he's doing one trip he can do two.

Atqui - it's Herefordshire rather than Herts. A somewhat different distance.

Jenrick made a televised broadcast not to visit relatives. Why should anybody take any notice of what cabinet ministers say? Let's all just find loopholes and do what we want!

I would not drive 35 miles to aid a relative. I would make arrangements. here we have groups helping. One lady contacted the group from Canada and the relative was helped.

I didn’t write Paddington silly phone I wrote pad

I’ve just read an article where the MP said his family were in the Hertfordshire home before lockdown and they consider it to be their main residence ( the London Paddington being for work) so now he’s gone “home” to his family and will be working from home. There must’ve a lot of MPs and Lords leaving their weekly London places to go back to their homes now Parliament has closed

2nd comment to Riverwalk.

They've managed it in China and Italy. And some families there live in very small apartments with no outside space.

My family are assuming we're in for a minimum of 3 months. And we're in proper lockdown. No shopping or dog walking.

It is quite a long delivery mission from London to Shropshire! I am sure the meds could have been delivered far more efficiently by a neighbour.

Callistemon, could you book a taxi to collect it? Or would that be an extortionate cost? They'd be glad of the work. Less risky than an actual person in the cab.

A few days ago on Today on Radio 4, and repeated this morning, there was a clip from Nick Robinson who said something to the effect of

"some people would say it's OK for the middle classes with their big houses & gardens, second homes, etc. to tell people to stay at home but what about people who live in small flats"

Jenrick replied yes, I'm a father and know what it's like to be couped-up with the children.

Yeh, sure you do!

Lockdown is unsustainable for more than a few more weeks.

Southwark - Newark

Goodness me, Callistemon

Just read about your predicament

Very difficult for you

Have you explained to the powers that be?

What shall I do, then?
Does anyone have any suggestions?

That is what the hospital have written to tell me and others to do - ask a family member a neighbour or whoever to fetch it from some place we've never heard of, presumably a galaxy far far away.

This is his third home - he has no need to be there as his main two are in Southwark and London. The CMO in Scotland resigned for the same thing and he has to go too. It can’t be one rule for people on high positions and another for everyone else.

From what I've read, his parents have been receiving help from neighbours

Of course it’s a non storylemon he’s a Tory cabinet minister telling others what to do. How could there possibly be a story there? Which cabinet position does your son hold btw?

I have managed to sort out help for my daughter without travelling to her house. He should be ashamed.... 40 miles of non essential travel, he's taking the p..s

If it is essential, it is permitted.

Whichever way, Gagajo, it is risky.
A pharmacist is in touch with people who may have the virus if the offer personal delivery.
Postage may not be as normal, and who has touched it?
Does she understand to leave the package for 72 hours, or use gloves?
You could break down, have to stop for fuel.
Your DB fetching it is the best option by the sounds of it.

I am not going to ask DS, although he did offer and I said no.
They will have to post or courier it to me.

But sometimes there is no option Greymar.
Would you ask someone from the local volunteer group to do it when the journey is roughly the same for them as for a relative?

Well this person has it seems three homes. He can choose which one he lives in, with his family although it may not be his main residence.
In normal times this is fine, as we all like to go to the countryside or coast for a break.
In this case I think families who are in lockdown in small flats in towns and cities, with no gardens, may feel a little aggrieved when they are not even allowed to go out in the car for a walk in the countryside, and who can blame them.
My mother lives 16 miles away, in her home, totally dependent on carers four times a day. She doesn't understand at all why we can't visit, and I would love to go. She can't even get to the window if we wanted to wave to her.
It just shows to me that we are not all in this together, unfortunately.