Lockdown easing in England

[groom]

back track and sack

Is this the new tracing system 

 

 

[Gadget]

There are reports of Alok Sharma, the Business Secretary, felt ill when speaking in the Commons today and has been tested for C-19. The areas where he'd been has been deep cleaned.

Maybe the easing of the lockdown might have been a little too early. 

I shall keep to the original guidelines for the time being.

[heywood]

Well if they have to go into quarantine, excepting those who have had the disease, the Prime Minister will be taking charge as he promised today.

I hope he doesn’t have it though.

[Maiden Stone]

There are reports of Alok Sharma, the Business Secretary, felt ill when speaking in the Commons today and has been tested for C-19. The areas where he'd been has been deep cleaned.

Ed Milliband, his opposite number, noticed that he looked unwell and poured him a glass of water. It's fortunate that Government and Opposition benches are 2 swords' length apart or Ed might get a message from track 'n' trace telling him to enter quarantine.
There has been a suggestion that shouting by MPs should be discouraged as it increases the risk of sprayed droplets travelling further. Waving order papers around while shouting is likely to increase the effect. I offer no evidence for the latter, just common -sense.
 

[Maiden Stone]

Anger about visitors messing up the countryside. "Farming Today this Week" Radio 4 this morning. Includes a polite request from Duchess of Rutland who said more than an hour a day is spent clearing up. Another contributor remarked that advice jumped from "Stay at home" to "Go anywhere". Some comments contain bleeps, the speaker was so angry.
A Yorkshireman has expressed himself eloquently. Yorkshire Prose @YorkshireProse
There is a campaign to ban sale of disposable barbecues and to outlaw barbecues in public places such as parks, wildlife reserves and moorland.

[candleflame]

Just been on a family zoom call and a friend of one our family has a daughter at uni in England but they live in Cardiff. They have been today to empty the uni room at the request of the uni and received an email from the Welsh department of education which they had to take with them to prove they were on an approved journey. The good thing was apparently the motorway services were open and so were the loos!

[groom]

I was wondering the other day, if everyone has to wear a mask, will it lead to a rise in the crime rate? At the moment you cant go into a bank or most shops wearing things like balaclavas or a hood, but if we have to wear masks they can't stop people. Will it lead to more robberies and shoplifting and muggings?

Also what about phones (like mine) which use face recognition to unlock them and apps? I tried it by pulling my teeshirt up over my nose and it didn't recognise me. That means people will have to go back to putting in the password or code. As a lot of people use their phones via face recognition to make contactless payment it could cause problems.

[Guy Etchells]

There has been a suggestion that shouting by MPs should be discouraged as it increases the risk of sprayed droplets travelling further. Waving order papers around while shouting is likely to increase the effect. I offer no evidence for the latter, just common -sense.
 

Unfortunately those who watched the MPs queuing to vote the other day could quickly draw the conclusion they totally lack common-sense and are unable to follow simply instructions.
Why should MPs be treated any differently from their constituents who have to queue round a supermarket car park to shop?
A clear case of them and us.

Yes I do realise the queuing slows down the vote and having to be present in parliament excludes a number from voting, but a lot of democratic procedure has suffered also.
The fact that MPs are not present to listen to, and take part in the debates being just one.

Perhaps it is time for a complete shake up of the system abolish the party system and have each MP responsible only to the views of her/his electorate, rather than acting like sheep and following the dictates of a political party.
Cheers
Guy

[sugarfizzle]

There has been a suggestion that shouting by MPs should be discouraged as it increases the risk of sprayed droplets travelling further. Waving order papers around while shouting is likely to increase the effect. I offer no evidence for the latter, just common -sense.
 

Unfortunately those who watched the MPs queuing to vote the other day could quickly draw the conclusion they totally lack common-sense and are unable to follow simply instructions.
Why should MPs be treated any differently from their constituents who have to queue round a supermarket car park to shop?
A clear case of them and us.

Yes I do realise the queuing slows down the vote and having to be present in parliament excludes a number from voting, but a lot of democratic procedure has suffered also.
The fact that MPs are not present to listen to, and take part in the debates being just one.

Perhaps it is time for a complete shake up of the system abolish the party system and have each MP responsible only to the views of her/his electorate, rather than acting like sheep and following the dictates of a political party.
Cheers
Guy

Tradition, I know, but having to leave the room to queue for voting seems very outdated. The time taken, and in this current situation the risks taken, seem out of proportion. When Brexit (anyone remember when that was all that was talked about in the Commons?) was debated, one day they were in an out every half hour or so, the voting took about10 seconds, the other 29 minutes and 30 seconds were taken up by
them walking out and back in again. Or so it seemed.

In this day and age you would think there might be such a thing as electronic voting.
The Whip might have more of a problem, knowing who their MPs had voted for, but that might not be a bad thing either. Or perhaps the keypads could be individually traced to MPs.

I don't fully understand how Parliament works, and have no particular desire to find out, but so many of the things they do seem heavily steeped in tradition, and inappropriate for 21st century.

Regards Margaret