Bournemouth is so…bracing?
A major incident was declared after tens of thousands of people defied pleas to stay away and descended in their droves on beaches in Bournemouth and other stretches of the Dorset coast.
The local authority, BCP council – covering Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole – said it was forced to instigate a multi-agency emergency response to tackle issues ranging from overcrowding on the beaches, traffic gridlock and violence. Security guards had to be used to protect refuse collection teams.
The Bournemouth East MP, Tobias Ellwood, said half a million people had flocked to the beaches and said the situation was so overwhelming that the UK government should step in to help the council deal with the crisis.
He said: “A lot of people have chosen to be not just irresponsible but dangerous. We’ve made such progress tackling this pandemic. I’d hate to see Bournemouth be the one place in Britain that gets that second spike.”
And it wasn’t even a chance to watch Trump do a crap stand-up act.
Apparently it was because the lockdown had been eased?
So that’s the UK’s stats about to soar.
I will say there is some relief in seeing that the US isn’t the only country with dangerously irresponsible people, though actually, it would be comforting to think that somewhere there was a country that wasn’t doing things this stupid just because they can.
It’s because Dominic Cummings, who developed the policies, chose not only to ignore them but to blatantly, contemptuously, sneeringly ignore them, and faced no consequences. There is now zero credibility for pandemic mitigation measures here.