The trouble is, we both said we wouldn’t abide by January’s one, but that didn’t help if we wanted to book a hotel or get a bunch of flowers for a funeral. I think back to when I wanted to stay overnight in London for the simple purpose of making it easier to visit the PRO in Kew, and it was a case of either doss overnight in my office or pretend to have a “permitted” reason to use a Premier Inn!
We need to resist this to the maximum extent possible, if we allow *any* kind of restrictions over this coming winter then the precedent is there forever, IMO.
I’ve been up to London by train twice this week, it has been so refreshing being able to travel by train and not think about masks. I wasn’t wearing them before, but this still meant feeling on the defensive.
This is absolutely true.
However if people aren't observing lockdown and going about their lives as best they can, the Government is likely to think "well people are still meeting eachother anyway, why are we taking the economic hit of them not doing so in businesses".