They will make no difference at all (save, perhaps, by sinking the businesses through imposing additional staffing burdens and driving away the fraction of the clientele that can't by arsed with… (View Post)

On the last point, despite the Government being reliant on Opposition votes to apply the restrictions, Starmer has no leverage. Labour's USP on Covid, like that of the three devolved governments… (View Post)

The problem is that we are all totally exhausted by this rotten pandemic, a lot of us are really, seriously dreading the lockdown that we are convinced is coming and will be very long and difficult, … (View Post)

That rather depends on whether he has the time to achieve anything, or if he's allowed to. If there's a new PM in a few months' time he'll probably find himself on the move again;… (View Post)

You're talking here as if the concept of forcing people to do things they don't like in a time of national emergency is something new. It isn't. We had mass conscription during both wo… (View Post)