A Simple Misunderstanding Of Lockdown Rules In Blackburn?

[fiction-factory]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-53787323
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18655531.waheeds-buffet-blackburn-named-wedding-recpetion-venue/

Abdul Toheed Manager of the restaurant said, “I would apologise if there was any misunderstanding. Many food establishments and bars are having the same issues. I cannot stop people turning up at the restaurant wanting to eat..."

[david small]

It’s all a load of codswallop. Forget this farcical counterproductive nonsense spouted by the fact denying crew. Get on with our lives. Those a feared stay home.

[fiction-factory]

What's a load of codswallop, david?

[fiction-factory]

"The fact denying crew"- sounds to me like that includes the type bloke i heard spouting off on Saturday that it was all a load of bowlocks -the government have been making up all the deaths- apparently there's only really been "free farsand deaths" and we've all been conned

[jourdain2]

I think that david small, 19.21 was referring to the numerous marches against the scaremongering media at the weekend. Only just found out that there was a very large demo. in Hull. We tend to agree. Get out and get on with it.

I'll give an example:-
Tonight on Look North (BBC1) there was an item on communities finding themselves under lockdown again. They chose to refer to Bradford. For reasons best known to themselves they sent a reporter to to Baildon - on the edge of Ilkley Moor, well out of Bradford city although it has a BD postcode. My sister lives there. There is no Covid there, hasn't been for ages, but they had all these shots of leafy roads and moorland and white people wandering around, dog-walking etc..

There is a real stink brewing-up over the inclusion of places like Ilkley, Menston and Baildon in the lockdown - when everyone knows (born out by facts) that the problem is in the city, not the outlying districts. The local MP is going bananas. :)

[fiction-factory]

Yes, I knew what david really meant.
Well that I think the focus in your news is because they are trying hard not to draw attention to the main issue which is that the most affected areas seem to be the Asian heritage (and perhaps the most deprived/ most crowded in terms of households) areas.

[jourdain2]

Which raises the question, F-F, why do they not draw attention to the real problem? I don't pretend to answer that, but I do know that unless you address a problem - you can't solve it. The inner-city Bradford areas used (many years ago) to be decent small terraces with whitestoned doorsteps (I remember from childhood - my grandma lived just off Manningham Lane). In many ways they should be better - indoor toilets, street-lights etc..