Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36028160)

A year isnt exactly a few minutes. :dozey:

I dont see how it would be practical to follow the current "advice" for a year.

Business would collapse, and how would we afford to bail out the owners, the money has to come from taxes, and they are going to take a large hit if people have no jobs anymore etc to pay tax. People will get fed up, then angry, then the riots will start. :erm:

People keep comparing it to the "spirit of the war".
In the war period you still had pubs open, plays, concerts etc, you could still go out.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36028174)

But they didn’t go out to where the bombs were dropping, which is the equivalent of going to social gatherings (except this time it wouldn’t be the ones at the bombing sites who were harmed, but those they met afterwards).

Also, there were draconian war-time laws and restrictions on personal liberties, including movement and transportation - often the people (not you) who invoke "the blitz spirit" only remember the working together for a common goal, not the rationing, black-outs, children evacuees, black-market spivs, conscription (on the Home Front, such as the Women’s Land Army, the Bevin Boys), the 60,000 dead and 86,000 seriously injured from the aerial bombing, etc..

To quote from the Imperial War Museum site

Surely we should learn from that, not just repeat it.

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36028178)

VE Day found Britain exhausted, drab and in poor shape, but justly proud of its unique role in gaining the Allied victory


This time around exhausted drab and in poor shape is our starting position.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36028182)

Not everyone lives near Grimsby/Cleethorpes...

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36028187)

Night clubs, theatres, gyms, cinemas and leisure centures must also close on the same timescale.

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36028190)

I don't use any of those but it's a big change for many,hope the staff are all getting paid by HM GOV.


just seen Hugh's post so that's a relief



How long before panic buying of booze begins.