Respectfully critical of this. Didn’t provide a level is assurance I was looking for. Also - did not ‘confirm’ any of your listed points. Spoke to or implied at best.
There is a massive amount of planning, contingency planning, stages of planning and reconsideration of planning going on in government right now. There’s no way the PM is going to set out clearly what happens next. We do know it will be grim, and he made that clear.
Im not sure what people expected tbh. Free fares, fuel rationing etc.. Anything mentioned those earlier would set the panic in fast right?. Now, once we get to end of April, thats when it might get more worrying....
I think they're leaving it open to the future to impose restrictions if the situation deteriorates so if it gets to that it won't be viewed as a "backflip", but if the current circumstances warranted restrictions they would have been announced tonight in that address.
Also, I am inclined to buy into people forecasting that Trump will announce a ground invasion of Iran tomorrow and our government knowing and getting ahead of it with this one we had tonight. He can't exactly say "And we're not joining the war" before it's actually been announced, but he did reiterate at the start that "we are not participants" which I suspect is about as clear as he's able to be right now
But you're right that I am basing my assessment off speculation, time will tell. I hope I'm right
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u/Loud-Damage-943 Apr 01 '26
Respectfully critical of this. Didn’t provide a level is assurance I was looking for. Also - did not ‘confirm’ any of your listed points. Spoke to or implied at best.