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Post date: 07-May-2020 18:46:13
The tabloids have leapt on hints that the lockdown may be eased soon with ridiculous headlines such as "Hurrah! Lockdown freedom beckons" (Daily Fail), "Magic Monday" (Daily Star), "Happy Monday" (The S*N). the Telegraph is just as bad with "'Stay Home' advice to be scrapped". Fancy Boris not realising that people (especially the right-wing press) always tend ot hear what they want to hear and not what you actually said! It's not as if he didn't take advantage of that phenomenon when choosing a message to put on the side of a bus to convince people that Brexit would be a wonderful success.
Gavin is worried that policing the gradual release from lockdown will be even harder than policing the lockdown itself. He doesn't like arresting people for doing things that aren't demonstrably both illegal and wrong. I don't realy think he enjoys arresting people at all. He'd far rather be stoping trouble before it starts and helping the victims of crime. His job will be made all teh more difficult if people assume that the newspaper headlines tell the whole story and aren't ready to accept that things will have to move very, very gradually and may have to move backwards if infection rates increase again.