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Lockdown Three.
JANET STREET-PORTER: The Passport Office is conspiring with Network Rail, Border officials and Just Stop Oil protesters to stop you leaving your street. It may as well be lockdown three
In case you haven't got the message - lockdown three has arrived by stealth, writes JANET STREET-PORTER. Earlier this week, as temperatures soared towards 40 degrees, doomy weather wonks told us to stay inside and draw the curtains. We were told not to travel unless it was essential. The heat might have subsided, but our movements remain severely restricted. Were you planning a trip this summer to see family and friends? You might want to think again. Boris might have reluctantly bowed out, but some things (like Covid) just linger on, like that ancient packet of crisps you bought when a bit p**sed - only to discover they're blue cheese and chardonnay flavoured. In spite of Dumb Dom Raab going off message and telling us to 'enjoy' the sunshine, some of us are finding that simple pleasure very hard to achieve. If you're excited by the prospect of an hour loafing in the local park, alongside half eaten chicken bits and empty beer cans left over from the night before - 'enjoying' lovely summer weather is simple. Clear a space amongst the **** ends and dog poo, brush aside the fox s**t and used nappies, lay your towel down on the brown hessian (which is dead grass due to council cutbacks) - and you're good to go. But if you fancy a trip to the seaside, or (God forbid) a holiday abroad where the booze is cheaper, and the sea marginally less polluted than the Kent coast - please think again. Because a demonic combination of Network Rail, Border officials, environmental protestors and civil servants have all conspired together to make it virtually impossible to leave your neighbourhood. Yes, lockdown three has arrived, and the only benefit is that you don't have to wear a mask and can shout at the top of your voice as you drink to forget the financial mess we seem to be in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11038955/JANET-STREET-PORTER-lockdown-three.html
In case you haven't got the message - lockdown three has arrived by stealth, writes JANET STREET-PORTER. Earlier this week, as temperatures soared towards 40 degrees, doomy weather wonks told us to stay inside and draw the curtains. We were told not to travel unless it was essential. The heat might have subsided, but our movements remain severely restricted. Were you planning a trip this summer to see family and friends? You might want to think again. Boris might have reluctantly bowed out, but some things (like Covid) just linger on, like that ancient packet of crisps you bought when a bit p**sed - only to discover they're blue cheese and chardonnay flavoured. In spite of Dumb Dom Raab going off message and telling us to 'enjoy' the sunshine, some of us are finding that simple pleasure very hard to achieve. If you're excited by the prospect of an hour loafing in the local park, alongside half eaten chicken bits and empty beer cans left over from the night before - 'enjoying' lovely summer weather is simple. Clear a space amongst the **** ends and dog poo, brush aside the fox s**t and used nappies, lay your towel down on the brown hessian (which is dead grass due to council cutbacks) - and you're good to go. But if you fancy a trip to the seaside, or (God forbid) a holiday abroad where the booze is cheaper, and the sea marginally less polluted than the Kent coast - please think again. Because a demonic combination of Network Rail, Border officials, environmental protestors and civil servants have all conspired together to make it virtually impossible to leave your neighbourhood. Yes, lockdown three has arrived, and the only benefit is that you don't have to wear a mask and can shout at the top of your voice as you drink to forget the financial mess we seem to be in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11038955/JANET-STREET-PORTER-lockdown-three.html