The Telegraph reports this morning that mask-wearing in indoor settings will continue to be advised by the Government even after we leave lockdown (whether that will be on July 19th or later). But there will be no “legal compulsion” to wear a mask once restrictions are lifted, according to Environment Secretary George Eustice, who says he will personally ditch his mask when the rules are changed.
Sky News has the story.
George Eustice said the Government wants “all of the legal requirements to do things to be taken away completely” at step four of its roadmap for lifting Covid measures, which is currently scheduled for July 19th.
“Whether there will still be some people who might choose to wear masks or whether it may be advisory in some settings, that’s a separate matter,” he said.
“But the objective of that final stage is to remove the legal requirement to do these things.”
Asked if he would continue to wear a face covering beyond that point, the minister replied: “I wouldn’t, no. I have to be honest, once I’m told it’s safe not to, I want to get back to normal.
“I think a lot of people will want to shed those masks.
“But while it’s contributing to controlling the pandemic, yes I will wear my mask like everybody else and do my bit.”
Recent polling from Ipsos MORI suggests that, whether we are legally required to wear masks after July 19th or not, a significant proportion of the population will continue to do so. It showed that more than one-fifth of British adults aren’t looking forward to “not wearing a mask in public places”. Continued “advice” on the matter will likely ensure that this figure does not significantly drop.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he will ditch his mask “as soon as possible” once the mandate is ended. The Telegraph reports:
Rishi Sunak has said he will ditch his face mask at the earliest opportunity when it ceases to be a legal requirement.
Asked if he would stop wearing a face covering if it only becomes advisory after July 19th, the Chancellor told a summit: “Yes, as soon as possible.” …
Mr Sunak also stressed his “strong expectation” that coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in England on July 19th, adding “things are looking good” for getting back to normal.
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I binned mine back in April 2020 when it was clear this wasn’t a pandemic and they were virtue signalling bullshit for lobotomised morons.
I can truthfully join you in the never, ever have I put one on club. Looks like we’ll never have to! Oh, except this is never going to end.
Legal regulation is in fact unlawful. The government realised a long time ago that very few people know the difference between the words ‘legal’ and ‘lawful’ The dictionary even misinforms in this context.
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I have never worn a mask, never stayed at home, never clapped the corrupt NHS, never avoided people in the street or stayed away from my friends and family.
I’ve never owned one. Yet surely this begs the question as to why he is wearing it now? In other words, he clearly isn’t wearing it for health and safety reasons!
I’m still waiting for any evidence that these silly masks have ANY benefit against covid infection at all. They are purely talismanic, the equivalent of a pocketful of posies….
Proof they don’t work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaul0U83d0&list=FLB-fCMSo3bKYJRm4EpU5Bjw&index=1&t=1s
Kate Burley…. Yuk!!!!
Chief hypocrite, Kate Burley. Another lying shrill who spouted lies about the virus and then did exactly what she had been telling the rest of us not to do. Horrible Woman.
Can’t bin what I never had
Tbh, a fifth is probably not all that far off the core constituency of the over-prissy hygiene obsessives who fear any contact with anything. Now that wearing masks around other people has been rendered normal for them, and they’ve been accustomed to the inherent nastiness of mask-wearing, a lot of them will probably stick at it forever.
Only harsh ridicule can train such people out of these behaviours, once learned.
Same here never owned a dog muzzle
If we think things are bad in the UK, I was amazed (not) on watching a German golf tournament where every spectator was muzzled.
Did anyone mention the war?
What’s the catch?
They’ll change their minds and keep the mask mandate??
P.S.: see Rogerborg’s comment re Widow Twankie in Scotland.
Coming shortly – another even stricter lockup.
The catch is 75% of the population has been injected with a cytotoxin.
Oops, he’s clearly not been told.
The Dwarf from the North has already jumped the gun and blabbed the real plan, for a New Normal of indefinite muzzles and isolation, even at “level 0”.
She’s clearly very excited to be seen to be the first to follow the WHO / CCP orders, but I’d be certain that the Johnson regime will also be complying with them.
Yes you have to read Eustace’s comments with the big pinch of salt which is that “Terminus Day” will likely never actually come – to be postponed because of another scariant – and so he won’t get the chance to bin his mask in line will all his big boy talk.
““But while it’s contributing to controlling the pandemic…” It’s not.
First of all – find the fuckin pandemic.
The lying scumbag.
Patronising bollocks. People have had the choice to wear a mask (or anything else short of offending public decency, which masks do anyway) before this crap, and if they want to now, so what. It’s not a question of “will still have the choice”. I haven’t worn one, because it mucks up the layout of my handlebar moustache.
Spoken like a true chap! Yep, if only most had worked out they did actually have a choice whether to wear them or not.
I got on a train on Tuesday evening. Sat opposite another mask free person. We got chatting as we were both going to the same Cricket match.
We were aware of the glares in our direction from a woman behind a mask when she suddenly pulled it down and sneezed loudly without covering her mouth. We both pissed ourselves laughing.
Mr H got on the train yesterday and sat near the only other maskless person as, he thought, a gesture of unity. This person however, two stops down the line, suddenly pulled out a nap and stuck it over his face, and wore it for the rest of the journey. What goes with these people???
Who knows? I despair sometimes, I really do.
I love the people who wear it down round their chin – leaving both mouth and nose exposed – technically they ARE “wearing a mask” but just in a way which renders it totally useless – well, even more useless than it is if you wear it over your mouth and nose.
Mask wearers tend to be followers, I’d expect very few to continue to wear masks once the legal requirement is dropped and it stops being the norm.
Agreed. You have to be inherently conformist to go along with the vile rags in the first place.
At least 95% of the (sub)human race are cowards who will demean themselves to the uttermost in order to keep out of trouble.
Oh, I don’t know.
Give it a couple of months and we’ll see.
‘once I’m told it’s safe not to’
He is the perfect victim for these Nigerian princes.
I guess this makes it just even more likely that July 19th won’t happen…
there was never a legal compulsion whilst you could self-assess as exempt and not require proof
be interesting how many people wear them after
I totally agree and don’t understand why so many comply with the recommendation.
It’s obvious. Fear is the most potent psychological weapon.
And a great big fucking fine
Maybe in the early days but as time went on the police, shop workers etc have obviously and gradually been made aware that a person could simply and legally claim exemption without any proof whatsoever. Yes, a shop could refuse to serve me without a mask if that was their want but I have yet to come across one that has. The £££ means more when push comes to shove.
It’s mostly fear of being confronted and intimidated by shop staff or other shoppers.
If this happens which I doubt, now that we’ve got India + 2 variant.
We will be able to see the covid lovers, the fuckwitts that have jumped on the government bandwagon and made our life miserable for the last 18 months.
I wonder how many masks Boris received in the post this week.
Yes I really think this campaign may have done some good.
I had to borrow one to send, but point made.
Must’ve been fun for one of Pfeffel’s fags, opening the things with gloves on.
The legal requirement on public transport has already expired. For shops it is 24 July. For churches 8 August.
No, they extended it to July 19th on one of their emergency bills waved through by parliament.
Three and a half weeks away from July 19, if he says the same on the 18th July I ‘might’ just believe him.
He won’t
Everyone needs to just fade out of it, which seems to happening now. Most people with some intelligence now realise the whole thing is a trumped up money making venture, with a few activist agenda’s thrown in.
I wish I could see some evidence of that, Dan, but in my area (North Hertfordshire) mask compliance is still incredibly high, especially in supermarkets and even outside. All the big talk of ditching masks on 21st June regardless of ‘freedom’ seems to be just that – talk.
It’s strange but it does seem to be area defined, my area south coast is relaxed I know cafe’s with no restrictions and not a lot of mask wearing. Hopefully it will move onto non mandatory everywhere and only the permanently fearful will slap them on, so far, I have never worn one
The comments below that Twitter post cause me pain, people really are terrified, bedwetting, self righteous, morons.
Self-selected audience?
Who else gives a s*** what Kay Burley or Sky News has to say?
the bizarre film of Queen and PM meeting yesterday showed neither were wearing masks
odd that, but then both would be double jabbed so fully protected – who knew saline could confer such immunity!!!
Well consdering all evidence shows mask wearing does not stop a microscopic virus and actually causes harm to your health, why is anyone wearing one now?…In June? I think the general public would believe anything this government came out with.
They are liars and are playing with our minds. This is just the softening calm before the storm.
I’ve never worn one, and I never will. Hell will freeze over first. I have an exemption lanyard swinging defiantly around my neck, and no-one has ever questioned it.
I find it staggering how many people have been taken in by the Great Masks Con. Masks are not PPE, they are psy-op mind-control devices for terrified sheep who are content to let government propagandists do their thinking for them.
Throw the lanyard away
You know, those of us who wear them are on your side. And over the past year I’ve become very tired of people telling me what to do.
The official absurdity is manifest. If then, why not now?
Seems the enthusiasm for muzzles varies across the country.
On the evidence of what I see here in NW London I’d bet its largely Asian population will willingly restrict breathing and communication until ordered not to, young and old alike.
Asian ? USA or our definition?
Those identifying as and perceived to be British Asians; the ‘children of the Raj’. Last year I noticed a particularly early and ‘enthusiastic’ adoption of face masks in the population amongst whom I live. It continues.
Freedom to do as you like as long as the costs do not overwhelm the benefits is essential to a liberal society. So, yes please.
But I have a feeling within 6 weeks of the mask mandate removal we will be down far below 20% mask wearing. Yes, people are paranoid, but we are also social, and once you stand out from the crowd, people begin to want to move back into the mainstream. We saw it with outdoor wearing. We’ve seen it in America. It’s why the “Powers” are loathe to lose the role of masks as control agents to begin with.
Yes indeed – it will be ‘interesting’.
The issue is that the psy-op has been tremendously successful in using Fear and Pressure to convince people to wear useless masks.
The self -satisfied virtue-signalling of ‘Well, I don’t – they’re all morons’ (and yes, I sometimes indulge in the fruitless ranting, too) isn’t going to do the business. After all, it has had little effect up to now, so the question is how de-programming can be achieved.
You may well be right, that the gradual growth of bare faces will be strong enough to reverse the social pressure element. Let’s hope so.
But there are those for whom the main motivation is Fear – genuine Fear. It will be interesting to see how this deprogramming works out when the two impulses are in conflict rather than alignment.
“as the costs do not overwhelm the benefits” Well yes, but a lot depends on who is calculating the costs and the benefits, as we have seen. As Mark was saying the other day, draconian restriction of freedom should in general be restricted to those crimes that have been seen as morally wrong and meriting punishment since time immemorial – murder, rape, assault, theft. Once you start to move away from those, you need to be careful what you consider justifiable restrictions of freedom.
The disclaimers on packs of masks actually spell out just how useless they are. The small-print is always words to the effect of “These masks are not medical devices and are unsuitable use as PPE”. Just a shame that sheep can’t read.
There is no legal comulsion to wear one now, there never was. Everyone is exempt, the Government would never pass a law to restrict everyones breathing!
And it won’t stop companies mandating masks for employees, so I see very little changing.
That is a major problem – although it would weaken their case in law, I think.
Yes they would
Always interests me what would have happened if millions of people like us had exempted themselves and not worn one. Do you think the government would have changed the rules so you had to have a doctor’s certificate to be exempt or just made it mandatory like in other countries?
A few breadcrumbs now to corral the peasants for another month.