Reply With QuoteThe feckers who say he's deliberately trying to wreck the economy are the people who need a good leatheringOriginally Posted by Hilts
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it's clearly to emphasise the point that this is a serious lockdown and people should be modifying their behaviour as much as reasonably possible to make the lockdown as effective as possible.
I really can't understand why people have such an issue with this.
The feckers who say he's deliberately trying to wreck the economy are the people who need a good leathering
I feel safer in my local pub than the local supermarket. Tw@ts outside in the queue smoking or vaping. People standing around talking , rummaging around and gathering at the bargain area. People handling items having a look and putting it back.
Unfortunately the bufoon in number of 10 still waffles about the common sense of the British people.
I try to avoid the supermarket as much as possible. I just go in quick to grab essentials.
Online order once a week and have started using a local butchers.
It's two weeks, people need to stop being so precious.
The fewer items on sale should result in fewer people in store, which is the object of a lockdown, surely that’s common sense. And it’s only for another fortnight, if one life is indirectly saved through these measures it’s well worth it.
It's two weeks, Drakeford and his merry men need to stop bringing in restrictions that are so pointless.
Do you honestly believe that will be the case?
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I think there will be a climbdown on basis of this, non-essential goods rule, being announced later in the week compared to initial fire-break lockdown but we'll have to wait and see. We don't want people spending too long browsing for clothes as that risks 17 days not being long enough so unless you need to, and most of these debates start to suggest why different items are essential, you should try to avoid spending extra time indoors whether there is a climbdown or not.
Well said
The aim is for people to stay home. If they have to go shopping and can get all the items they need in one place, that should reduce the amount of time they are away from home.
Exactly, and that's how Drakeford should have explained it to us. Instead he doesn't trust enough so has to go into the nitty gritty about what we can and cannot buy. If he treats like kids.......
A good reason non essential items are not on sale. Less time in the shop.
If somebody is desperate for clothing for some reason over the next fortnight it would be pointless them going to a supermarket to buy it. It’s only for a fortnight, nobody is going to end up bollock naked by a week Friday.
That would make sense if they could buy the same things elsewhere... But they can't. If they want the things that aren't on sale in the supermarket, then they aren't going to be leaving the house... Which is the whole fecking point of it!
How are people still not getting this?!
I'm going to use one of the Tory sound bites and say that this has become "party political".
It really is that simple isn’t it, I wish people would just go in, get the grub that they want and leave. The browsing and dawdling is more prevalent in the non essential goods aisles in my opinion.
To me, the ban on non-essential items in supermarkets appears petty and utterly pointless. The only thing it will achieve is to irritate people, but our friends in local and national government around these parts have seemed increasingly determined to do that in recent months.
Witnessed much of this in recent months, Steve? I haven't.
Oh come on. Do you know what is listed as non essential items? If unsure you'd probably go to the supermarket and have a look.
Stationery it seems is now OK, but does that include birthday cards, and if that's Ok how about sellotape and wrapping paper, or ballpoint pens, or crayons. And if crayons are Ok then can I buy a child's colouring book, or a reading book or a DVD
It's totally confusing, it treats us like kids, and all for a lockdown lasting 17 days.
I have, in fact my missus very often annoys me if I’m shopping with her when she says ‘I’m just going to have a little look at the clothes’, invariably there are women taking things off the rails and holding them up against their bodies because trying things on in changing rooms is off limits at the moment. Getting her in and out sharper because these aisles are shut has to be a plus and X the many other women who browse should mean that folk are in and out a lot quicker and clothes haven’t been double or triple handled.
Well considering you were on here asking if you could drive to Brecon to get meat from your favourite butchers when we and most of the world were in full lockdown I'd say it's the second one and probably not without reason
Isn't the aim to create a level playing field? Three elements, not giving supermarkets an economic advantage over local and other retailers, stopping a concentration of people into a confined space for a fortnight looking for goods that they would otherwise source elsewhere and instructing people that they should keep their journey where they come in contact with other human beings to an absolute minimum.
Maybe some of us need to be treated like kids considering what I've been reading on here.
Seriously though, is anyone going to Tesco to buy a just a colouring book?!
Either way, I can tell you from looking up the rules, everything except a reading book and a DVD are classed as essential from your list of items.
If you would like any further assistance, just put a list of items in a message and send me a PM and I'll be happy to tell you what you can buy in Tesco.
17 days of a lockdown and people are losing their shit. We lasted months of a lockdown earlier this year and I saw less moaning about not being able to do things we were used to doing during that time.
I've even read a post on here today that Drakeford is just attention seeking and no other country in the UK is locking down... Despite N.I. being under lockdown too. It's a tool to beat Drakeford with for some reason.
"The local shops won't last these two weeks under lockdown" is another one I've heard.
Will they do better under a potential UK lockdown from mid-November onwards when the majority of people will be doing their Christmas shopping?
It's almost certain that if Boris Johnson had implemented exactly the same policies nationally then the majority of the posters who are being critical now would be, at the very least, accepting of them.
I'm off to watch Borat 2 now.
Enjoy Borat 2, it'll be better than Covid 19.
You are right we managed a longer lockdown fine earlier this year, and we weren't subject to Drakeford's micr-management then, but we all got on with it.
If the Senedd are introducing restrictions on supermarket sales to create a level playing field, then I believe they are into the area of competition law and may be acting in an anti-competitive way and outside their remit.
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