From coast to coast, millions of people are living – if you can call it that – under Government-imposed ­restrictions. It’s a mammoth experiment and we must all play our part, while Boris Johnson offers patronising words about northern “fortitude and ­selflessness”. These are damning figures, made worse by a fake pledge to fully fund the social and economic impact of holding a piecemeal lockdown. The Tories are cutting us loose, using the North as a test-bed for their cack-handed, piecemeal pandemic policy, as they once used Scotland for the Poll Tax. Spain is in a six-month national ­emergency, France goes into total lockdown today, with similar measures in Germany and Italy.

Source: Daily Mirror October 29, 2020 18:32 UTC