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LAST NIGHT, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a tough suite of measures across the UK to enforce people staying in their homes.
Johnson said that from now on people will only be allowed to leave their home for very limited purposes including shopping for basic necessities, one form of exercise a day, medical need and travelling to work only when absolutely necessary.
He added stores selling “non-essential goods” would be closed.
Now, let’s take a look at how the UK front pages reacted to last night’s developments.
The Daily Telegraph runs with “End of freedom”.
The Daily Star puts a bit of a historic spin on things with its front page, which reads: “Your country needs you … to naff off home”
The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, leads with “National lockdown”.
The Sun has: “House arrest”
The Daily Mail keeps it short and simple with “Lockdown Britain”.
Similarly, the Metro runs with “Britain on lockdown”.
“You must stay at home … for all our sakes” leads the Daily Express.
The Times plays it straight with “You must stay at home”.
The Guardian leads with “PM: ‘Stay at home, this is a national emergency’”
“Johnson closes Britain in bid to halt rapid spread of coronavirus,” leads the Financial Times.
And finally, the i leads with “Lockdown UK. Public told: stay indoors”
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I do have sympathy with the people affected by this drought, but you have to wonder why Ethiopia is spending €100m on 200 tanks while its people are suffering like this
There buying them as they are building a the biggest dam in Africa on the Blue Nile much to the dislike of Egypt, which has more than once said it would go to war if the flow of the Nile is reduce because of Ethiopian power & irrigation projects.
Because it’s run by corrupt despots. Throwing money at these countries isn’t the solution, education followed ousting the leaders and putting a democracy in place is. Easier said than done though.
It’s an unjust world we live in.
dont get me wrong, i feel sorry for these people but i dont think we have “additional” money to send over there when we are closing A&E wards here.
As an alternative, everyone could buy one less pint this week and use that money, that’s a few million right there. But we all know that’s not going to happen either
so what your saying is take even more money out of the economy? if everyone in the country drank one less pint a week it would cause job losses and less tax revenue to support our own country, just so we can send it all abroad.
How on earth can this country afford to be giving money away?
It’s not our money, it’s the IMFs! (they don’t know that we’re not gonna pay it all back ssshhhh)
Seriously though what’s another 6 million to pay back? It doesn’t even scratch the surface of the interest.
Seeing and hearing about people in these countries really puts our “problems” into perspective. We’re far from utopia, and we do have our issues with poverty here, but it’s a different world over there.
I think we can & should help these people out as best we can. To stand by & let people suffer in the name of austerity so the bankers & IMF/ECB can have it instead is not an option.
One million is barely a bonus for one banker. At least in aid it will help reduce the suffering of many.
One less pack of cigarettes from those on the dole would cover much more than this aid package – and I’d much rather see our limitedresources spent on feeding the hungry rather than on fake tan and going-out pyjamas for the unemployed.
That is ridicuous, why are we giving so much money away to this? That’s 5.6 million that could be used to provide special needs assistance in schools or keep the a&e open in roscommon hospital. Not a cent of that is reaching those poor people.
Totally agree, what about the aid we also give to Africans here claiming asylum. As we seen earlier using forged documents and other scams. These funds could be better spent on our own people. I believe we should end foreign aid completely until we are in a position where we can afford it.
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