Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
to be fair to boris ( and i know that wont happen here ) When he did his announcement with Prof Doom and Gloom, it was said that " modelling " showed that by the time " freedom day " came ( in 2 weeks time ) the UK might be getting 50 K new cases per day days

They were right
What I don’t get is why they felt the need to delay for a few weeks in June and now insist on going ahead when the figures are so much worse - when I looked last, the vaccine figures had flattened out somewhat in the interim period as well.

The rights and wrongs of opening up now can be debated, but Johnson is clearly not being guided by “data, not dates” as his whole approach has been dictated by them.