I hope they remember for the rest of their lives to **never** vote Tory. They should still vote though, even if it’s just to keep the Tories out of power.
Go vote next time then
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They should not have answered the questionnaire. No sympathy.
They broke the rules too though…
Why should I care about the views of those who put lives in danger?
An idiot PM doing something stupid doesn’t excuse Students doing something stupid.
>Sorcha, who studied at Warwick University during the pandemic, received a £100 fine after attending a birthday party along with nine other people in February 2021. (She asked to use her first name only due to fears for her future employability.)
Ah yes, that most common of names. How will we ever work out which Sorcha it was.
It was a joke they were fined in the first place
get THEM out, this dickhead is just the tip of the iceberg
They got out partied by the dam Tories, it’s truly a sad day for the students reputation
Every single person who was fined should be refunded and pardoned completely.
These restrictions were a joke and should never have been implemented. As a nation we should say never again to any future lockdowns, for any disease.
They blamed the students for the covid spike whilst openly stating by the government they were batch testing on students. Madness really.
My dad died in the first lockdown, stuck in a care home all by himself surrounded by strangers for the last weeks of his life. He had dementia but he sometimes remembered me and his face would light up when he did.
None of us broke the rules because we thought we were doing the right thing.
It broke my heart.
We should organise a day where we all send letters to Boris telling him how pissed off we are. Even if he doesn’t read them it will clog some system.
Don’t see why everyone is being so puritanical about the rule breaking in this thread
They’re fucking Uni students they’re going to party, it’s the one chance they get, they were all doing online classes and 99% of them are very very unlikely to get seriously ill.
Easy to paint a picture with photoshop.
I remember being ratio’d last year on this subreddit by Tory-apologists when I spoke out against the ludicrously high lockdown fines they were dishing out.
Students were being hit with £10,000 fines for throwing and attending parties during lockdown while the Tories who were livin’ la vida loca in 10 Downing Street got £50 fines, only after Conservative ministers who were literally laughing at how they made the entire country look like absolute mugs sparked a national scandal and forced the Met’s hand.
To a Conservative cabinet minister who is literally being paid £84,144 a year to serve as an MP and holding down lucrative second jobs, £10k is a moderate inconvenience. For these students, £10k is a life-destroying amount of debt that would damage their credit score and force them into bankruptcy or an IVA ***for the rest of their lives***, and I got voted down and ridiculed by you guys for stating this is an overly harsh punishment because “MUH LOCKDOWN MEASURES.”
I feel pretty bloody exonerated right now…
If students are remarking this way, just think how many of their family and friends feel the same way. This is how a government is undermined and made illegitimate. Lack of faith in the government??? Absolutely lack of faith follows when fools rule.
Jesus Christ I am *exhausted* that the response from seemingly all corners is moral posturing of how *absolutely wrong* it was to see people during the lockdown, instead of that *maybe, just maybe* if the government weren’t following the rules, and if SAGE weren’t following the rules, and if multiple countries in the world weren’t following the rules, and if what the rules were, what was expressly illegal and what wasn’t, didn’t actually follow any scientific merit and was essentially plucked out of a hat – then maybe *that’s* what we should be focusing our outrage on.
Everyone has got some serious sunk cost glasses on that **it must have been** right that we didn’t have any human contact for years and allowed people to die, give birth, grieve and suffer alone, instead of that *maybe the government got it wrong and were too stubborn to say so*, if they were breaking their own rules willy nilly with no fear.
Have restrictions on contact, fine. Go **completely** black and white and refuse anyone absolutely crazy things for years at a time with no justification for why it was done, and then as soon as those most at risk are vaccinated, **remove the restrictions on them but keep them on everyone else**? That’s the kind of thing they have you defending.
Imagine getting a £10k fine, crippling you financially for years…and then finding out Boris and co got £50 fines.
It’s a fucking piss take.
Silly plebeian, back in your hovel. Dont’cha know there’s a war on!
/s (obviously, hopefully)
All the comments here of people saying how they let family members die afraid and alone in order to ‘not break the rules’ because they thought they were doing the right thing absolutely astounds me and makes me sick.
I don’t know how everyone so unquestionably listens to governments known to lie so much and rigidly sticks to the rules without any semblance of common sense weighing up of risks vs benefits.
As long as all parties are happy to meet up I see no issue with it, everyone is consenting to taking an agreed risk. I saw my friends during lockdown and just lived my normal life, and I’m very glad I did. Everyone I saw was happy to take the risk, so we did.
I remember getting a torrent of downvotes at the time, now it seems the people who followed the rules to the letter are feeling stupid and wishing they just went about their normal lives. You all ended up getting covid anyway lmao.
I’m an expat living in Australia.
I am currently sitting at home on annual leave as I had to cancel a trip away because my son has Covid so I am a close contact.
I’m not actually restricted from going, I just have to wear a mask, but it doesn’t feel right getting on a plane and potentially developing symptoms while I’m away. I’m surprised that some friends have suggested I just go anyway.
It’s not hard to take personal responsibility and do what I feel is right. I can’t fathom how the people who attended these parties thought they were in anyway doing the right thing.
You guys/women actually think voting makes a difference? What about the Scottish independence . What happened with that ?
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I hope they remember for the rest of their lives to **never** vote Tory. They should still vote though, even if it’s just to keep the Tories out of power.
Go vote next time then
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They should not have answered the questionnaire. No sympathy.
They broke the rules too though…
Why should I care about the views of those who put lives in danger?
An idiot PM doing something stupid doesn’t excuse Students doing something stupid.
>Sorcha, who studied at Warwick University during the pandemic, received a £100 fine after attending a birthday party along with nine other people in February 2021. (She asked to use her first name only due to fears for her future employability.)
Ah yes, that most common of names. How will we ever work out which Sorcha it was.
It was a joke they were fined in the first place
get THEM out, this dickhead is just the tip of the iceberg
They got out partied by the dam Tories, it’s truly a sad day for the students reputation
Every single person who was fined should be refunded and pardoned completely.
These restrictions were a joke and should never have been implemented. As a nation we should say never again to any future lockdowns, for any disease.
They blamed the students for the covid spike whilst openly stating by the government they were batch testing on students. Madness really.
My dad died in the first lockdown, stuck in a care home all by himself surrounded by strangers for the last weeks of his life. He had dementia but he sometimes remembered me and his face would light up when he did.
None of us broke the rules because we thought we were doing the right thing.
It broke my heart.
We should organise a day where we all send letters to Boris telling him how pissed off we are. Even if he doesn’t read them it will clog some system.
Don’t see why everyone is being so puritanical about the rule breaking in this thread
They’re fucking Uni students they’re going to party, it’s the one chance they get, they were all doing online classes and 99% of them are very very unlikely to get seriously ill.
Easy to paint a picture with photoshop.
I remember being ratio’d last year on this subreddit by Tory-apologists when I spoke out against the ludicrously high lockdown fines they were dishing out.
Students were being hit with £10,000 fines for throwing and attending parties during lockdown while the Tories who were livin’ la vida loca in 10 Downing Street got £50 fines, only after Conservative ministers who were literally laughing at how they made the entire country look like absolute mugs sparked a national scandal and forced the Met’s hand.
To a Conservative cabinet minister who is literally being paid £84,144 a year to serve as an MP and holding down lucrative second jobs, £10k is a moderate inconvenience. For these students, £10k is a life-destroying amount of debt that would damage their credit score and force them into bankruptcy or an IVA ***for the rest of their lives***, and I got voted down and ridiculed by you guys for stating this is an overly harsh punishment because “MUH LOCKDOWN MEASURES.”
I feel pretty bloody exonerated right now…
If students are remarking this way, just think how many of their family and friends feel the same way. This is how a government is undermined and made illegitimate. Lack of faith in the government??? Absolutely lack of faith follows when fools rule.
Jesus Christ I am *exhausted* that the response from seemingly all corners is moral posturing of how *absolutely wrong* it was to see people during the lockdown, instead of that *maybe, just maybe* if the government weren’t following the rules, and if SAGE weren’t following the rules, and if multiple countries in the world weren’t following the rules, and if what the rules were, what was expressly illegal and what wasn’t, didn’t actually follow any scientific merit and was essentially plucked out of a hat – then maybe *that’s* what we should be focusing our outrage on.
Everyone has got some serious sunk cost glasses on that **it must have been** right that we didn’t have any human contact for years and allowed people to die, give birth, grieve and suffer alone, instead of that *maybe the government got it wrong and were too stubborn to say so*, if they were breaking their own rules willy nilly with no fear.
Have restrictions on contact, fine. Go **completely** black and white and refuse anyone absolutely crazy things for years at a time with no justification for why it was done, and then as soon as those most at risk are vaccinated, **remove the restrictions on them but keep them on everyone else**? That’s the kind of thing they have you defending.
Imagine getting a £10k fine, crippling you financially for years…and then finding out Boris and co got £50 fines.
It’s a fucking piss take.
Silly plebeian, back in your hovel. Dont’cha know there’s a war on!
/s (obviously, hopefully)
All the comments here of people saying how they let family members die afraid and alone in order to ‘not break the rules’ because they thought they were doing the right thing absolutely astounds me and makes me sick.
I don’t know how everyone so unquestionably listens to governments known to lie so much and rigidly sticks to the rules without any semblance of common sense weighing up of risks vs benefits.
As long as all parties are happy to meet up I see no issue with it, everyone is consenting to taking an agreed risk. I saw my friends during lockdown and just lived my normal life, and I’m very glad I did. Everyone I saw was happy to take the risk, so we did.
I remember getting a torrent of downvotes at the time, now it seems the people who followed the rules to the letter are feeling stupid and wishing they just went about their normal lives. You all ended up getting covid anyway lmao.
I’m an expat living in Australia.
I am currently sitting at home on annual leave as I had to cancel a trip away because my son has Covid so I am a close contact.
I’m not actually restricted from going, I just have to wear a mask, but it doesn’t feel right getting on a plane and potentially developing symptoms while I’m away. I’m surprised that some friends have suggested I just go anyway.
It’s not hard to take personal responsibility and do what I feel is right. I can’t fathom how the people who attended these parties thought they were in anyway doing the right thing.
You guys/women actually think voting makes a difference? What about the Scottish independence . What happened with that ?