London in Tier 2, Whole of North East Tier 3

atypical_boro said:
Well yeah, maybe thats because deep down you can actually see why it looks so absurd to the rest of the nation?

I can completely get why Cornwall and North Yorkshire are in tier 2. But if you're locking down the major cities over Christmas, not locking down THE major city is always going to raise major eyebrows I'm afraid. So its nothing to do with 'chips on shoulders'. I used to live in London myself and I don't live in Teesside, as do many others questioning it.
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Cornwall are in Tier 1 mate. Probably because the area is spread out far and wide. Much like North Yorkshire but we are north of London, they've got to make sure the their mates and donors can visit their holiday homes in Cornwall for Xmas breaks don't they?
 
Pog said:
That’s my current thinking.

Followed the rules as best as I can while others have just flat-out ignored them to this point, but I’ve had enough now.

I’m capable of making my own decisions and deciding what’s best for me and my family.
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Fair enough.... but do you think that the middle sentence could be part of the problem on Teesside? Too many people not prepared to be dictated to by rules/authority, and hence the higher numbers than many other parts of the country?
 
atypical_boro said:
Well yeah, maybe thats because deep down you can actually see why it looks so absurd to the rest of the nation?

I can completely get why Cornwall and North Yorkshire are in tier 2. But if you're locking down the major cities over Christmas, not locking down THE major city is always going to raise major eyebrows I'm afraid. So its nothing to do with 'chips on shoulders'. I used to live in London myself and I don't live in Teesside, as do many others questioning it.
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We aren’t locking down all major cities. Liverpool, Southampton, York, Milton Keynes, Brighton, Warrington to name a few are all in the same tier as London
 
RandySavage said:
Cornwall are in Tier 1 mate. Probably because the area is spread out far and wide. Much like North Yorkshire but we are north of London, they've got to make sure the their mates and donors can visit their holiday homes in Cornwall for Xmas breaks don't they?
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ok. I just meant I get why places like Cornwall and NY are NOT in tier 3.
 
SmallTown said:
We aren’t locking down all major cities. Liverpool, Southampton, York, Milton Keynes, Brighton, Warrington to name a few are all in the same tier as London
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Warrington, Brighton and York are not major cities. Liverpool appears to have had its period of hell.

MK/Southampton - Buckinghamshire/hampshire - full of the London workforce.
 
atypical_boro said:
Warrington, Brighton and York are not major cities. Liverpool appears to have had its period of hell.

MK/Southampton - Buckinghamshire/hampshire - full of the London workforce.
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Glad you can be so selective and still maintain all major cities are shut. Must be nice to change the meaning of the word all
 
• there should be no public attendance at spectator sport or indoor performances and large business events should not be taking place. Elite sport events may continue to take place without spectators
The gazette

I’ve been an exponent of the lock down systems from the beginning but The worry now is this IS politically motivated as now london are out of it then I can see the likes of us in the north largely being forgotten about as the south returns to some form of normalcy.

There is no way London is lower than say Durham city or other areas that have always been quite low.

To bracket THE NORTH (bar the scousers) is concerning.
 
This regional, local authority approach is nonesense in a country like ours where you can travel from one end to the other in a day.

London it appears to me is all tier 2 because it would be impossible to enforce different restrictions between boroughs, the same logic really applies uk wide.

We successfully controlled the virus in March and April when we were supposedly all in this together. Since May with different sets of rules between the devolved nations and then a regional approach, the collective spirit has been lost. We can only keep this thing at bay until mass vaccination and without an effective test, trace and isolate system with a simple message which appears fair to all.
 
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Ah goodie tier 3 till April no doubt. We're well and truly through the looking glass when you have people who previously argue it's not fair to shield old people now claiming it's fair that their region is in tier 1/2 compared to the north east. Up is down and left is right.
 
uncle_rico said:
That high? 153 per 100,000 people. Thats not even close to being high. Get a grip man.
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It doesn’t sound a lot but when you think travel bans were introduced for visiting countries with a rate of over 20 per 100 000 then 153 is relatively high.

Some people are possibly over cautious I’m certainly in that camp.
 
Leicester and Leicestershire as a whole have been in some form of major restrictions since JUNE (or March if we're been honest) yet today they've been placed in Tier 3.

Lockdowns work don't they?
 
FatCat said:
It doesn’t sound a lot but when you think travel bans were introduced for visiting countries with a rate of over 20 per 100 000 then 153 is relatively high.

Some people are possibly over cautious I’m certainly in that camp.
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I have been since March and will continue to be, because although I might not fully agree with it, that is what has been mandated. But at those odds, if you are young, fit and well, you'd take your chances, especially when there's a what, 99.9% full recovery rate...
 
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