[hibeejim21]

I'm inclined to agree, jim, but, for me, this is the opening gambit in Andy Burnham's Labour leadership bid. There should be no bargaining regarding planned restrictions anywhere in the UK, but I'm afraid the pandemic and the resultant presure on the NHS is becoming a bit of a sideshow to the financial side and political muscle.

Boris has lost all semblance of control and therefore any minimal respect he had left.

Naah. That ship has left the port, you need to be a MP or a peer to be labour leader. Not an earthly Starmer is going to allow him near a leadership challenge now. Thing is if he'd argued as passionately when he last stood he would have beaten Corbyn.

The crux of the issue is simple I think. If you want people to get behind those kind of restrictions you have to put up the money or they wont work. The tories are going to have to up the ante or they could lose a lot of the northern seats they won.

Your right though the Boris/Cummings administration has lost all authority and instead of sitting down and trying to make a plan to fund all areas hit by the lockdown in a fair and sensible manner..... they have doubled down on the stupidity and tried to strong arm Burnham.

Burnham is standing up for the poorest and weakest in his community, I'd actually forgotten what it looks like to see a labour politician do that.