Anti Lockdown Protest

[webbo3]

there's an anti lockdown protest in Glastonbury today.

Are these people really that stupid, take their names and if they get ill refuse them any hospital treatment.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/glastonbury-protest-lockdown-police-live-4100523


And there was another one on Friday the 1st with a special guest speaker, Piers Corbyn, yep.. Jeremys brother, who thinks we will all be injected with micro chips...

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/coronavirus-myths-piers-corbyn-lockdown-4098881

[Deskdiary]

I would never protest - I don’t see the point because protests serve no real purpose - but I admire the sentiment.

The lockdown has gone on too long. It just has.

Six words - The economy, the economy, the economy.

If anybody is blind to the overriding importance of the economy, then they obviously don’t contribute to it.

[teacake44]

How can anyone living in the UK, not contribute to the economy in one way or other, now, or in the past, if your talking just Tax and NI, then I would think everyone has, plus spending their money within the UK.

[TheWholeTruth]

^

"NI" whats that for, why do we pay it ?

[New Judge]

//How can anyone living in the UK, not contribute to the economy in one way or other, now, or in the past,...//

There are tens of thousands (at least) who have not and never will contribute, teacake. I'm not talking about those who cannot due to disability or illness. Just those who won't.

[ToraToraTora]

"How can anyone living in the UK, not contribute to the economy in one way or other" - There's a gazillion WSS that only take TC!

[ynnafymmi]

I dont like to ask ,but what the heck is WSS?...or TC...?

[shoota]

Work shy slackers (at a guess) & Tea Cake

[ynnafymmi]

Ohh,we have quite a few of those up here in Scotland also,all of whom vote for the SNP for some strange reason.

[jourdain2]

Teacake 19.46. I agree that the vast majority of people contribute to the economy. If this lockdown carries on then every service will be short of funds, including the NHS (not a fan, by the way - the nurses and doctors are wonderful, the system has woeful shortcomings i.m.o.).

Crowded protests are, indeed, to be deplored - but people are being driven past their patience-levels. It's OK for me, I have a pension, which will diminish in purchasing power because of the inevitable inflation to come and give me huge problems which no-one else will notice, but so many have found all their income gone. Just like that. Perhaps protesters should gather 2 yards apart and then it would be OK.?

Many small businesses (including my sister's MOT garage) will go out of business in about 2 weeks, so depriving the exchequer of contributions at the same time as demanding compensation for the workforce in the form of social security. It's not rocket science.

[jim360]

I would have agreed with jourdain and others about being "driving past our patience levels", but, from what I've seen, support for the lockdown remains strong. It seems that most of us are able, at least as long as we trust the Government's actions, to tolerate the lockdown measures. Maybe it won't be long before even that patience wears thin, but I've been surprised that such protests are so small-scale. In the UK, at least.

[jno]

support for continuing lockdown is in the high 80% range - a bit lower when it comes to reopening schools.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/fearful-britons-oppose-lifting-lockdown-schools-pubs-restaurants-opinium-poll

[Spicerack]

Injecting micro-chips? Lol, the man's an idiot.

[waterboatman]

Morning webbo.
What a pair of idiots!

[Chipchopper]

The fools they're putting everyone's lives in jeopardy!

[naomi24]

I reckon they're a bunch of old hippies who've found a withered magic mushroom in an old sock and are intent on revisiting their misspent youth. ;o)

[Captain23]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/may-never-be-coronavirus-vaccine-105403358.html

Even social distancing measures can clearly not be maintained for ever, with massive queues. Lift the lockdown totally, treat people who become ill and accept that some will die. Not acceptable? Hard cheese, quite frankly.

[retrocop]

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