No U turn on essential goods ban

[dml1954]

I think Drakeford has done some good (metro) and also some bad (M4 relief) but this one is the wrong decision for the right reasons.

I understand why it’s implemented. You know the sort, can’t cope with being bored, or inside with children so ‘pop to the shop for something to do’. But it’s just going to piss the people that aren’t going to listen anyway, and divide them further.

Lets face it, he’s a nobody who is having his hour of fame in the spotlight and is milking it for all its worth to try to make a name for himself. This ban on ‘non essential goods’ makes no sense whatsoever, as does having a national lockdown whilst the rest of the UK doesn’t. When this is all over he will disappear again hopefully, although ‘doing a Drakeford’ could well become an accepted phrase in future years for describing someone who is unduly stubborn, pedantic and dithering (or possibly someone who wears clothes that are two sizes too big 😀😀).

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This ban on ‘non essential goods’ makes no sense whatsoever, as does having a national lockdown whilst the rest of the UK doesn’t.

Stopping people from going to supermarkets unless it's to buy consumables, and also trying to be fair to businesses who sell books/tv's etc who've had to shut down. It's not difficult to get the logic. Also not difficult to know that Northern Ireland are going into a lockdown twice as long as ours.

[the other bob wilson]

Lets face it, he’s a nobody who is having his hour of fame in the spotlight and is milking it for all its worth to try to make a name for himself. This ban on ‘non essential goods’ makes no sense whatsoever, as does having a national lockdown whilst the rest of the UK doesn’t. When this is all over he will disappear again hopefully, although ‘doing a Drakeford’ could well become an accepted phrase in future years for describing someone who is unduly stubborn, pedantic and dithering (or possibly someone who wears clothes that are two sizes too big ����).

All my life, the Conservative party have portrayed themselves as the party of the small business man/woman, but the interesting thing here is that it seems to me that the WAG has made a decision with those very people in mind and the tories on here are slagging them off purely because that decision has been taken by the Welsh Labour party.

The line taken by many tory MPs against Andy Burnham was that he was playing party politics (I heard Matt Hancock say that five times in a two or three minute radio interview, thereby proving that, if he was doing such a thing, Mr Burnham was not the only one playing party politics), but what else is it but party politics from people like you when you come down against the small business man/woman because the "other lot" are doing something designed to stop them being discriminated against - by the way, how can someone be stubborn and dithering?

[dml1954]

All my life, the Conservative party have portrayed themselves as the party of the small business man/woman, but the interesting thing here is that it seems to me that the WAG has made a decision with those very people in mind and the tories on here are slagging them off purely because that decision has been taken by the Welsh Labour party.

The line taken by many tory MPs against Andy Burnham was that he was playing party politics (I heard Matt Hancock say that five times in a two or three minute radio interview, thereby proving that, if he was doing such a thing, Mr Burnham was not the only one playing party politics), but what else is it but party politics from people like you when you come down against the small business man/woman because the "other lot" are doing something designed to stop them being discriminated against - by the way, how can someone be stubborn and dithering?

Perhaps you should ask Mr Drakeford the last one - he has got it down to a tee.

[splott parker]

Perhaps you should ask Mr Drakeford the last one - he has got it down to a tee.

If his decisions mean fewer people are out and about because they can’t browse through the frocks, socks and phoney Welsh rugby stuff in Tesco and Asda it has to be a good thing in thinning out the volume of people in these shops. Ok, ‘non essential’ can be a blurred line, what’s essential to one person is ‘what the f*ck’ to someone else but some folk moan that Drakeford is inept yet when he does something what a lot think is a positive move they regard him as a tin pot dictator. I’d take him over Johnson any day of the week.

[PontBlue]

Lets face it, he’s a nobody who is having his hour of fame in the spotlight and is milking it for all its worth to try to make a name for himself. This ban on ‘non essential goods’ makes no sense whatsoever, as does having a national lockdown whilst the rest of the UK doesn’t. When this is all over he will disappear again hopefully, although ‘doing a Drakeford’ could well become an accepted phrase in future years for describing someone who is unduly stubborn, pedantic and dithering (or possibly someone who wears clothes that are two sizes too big ).

So how would you protect the NHS from being overwhelmed by very ill people. I see lots of criticism but nothing constructive. Some topics, such as ensuring disadvantaged children have a daily meal during school holidays or that the sick can get the care they need, should transcend party politics and be the decent thing to do.