Xmas cancelled?

Will Christmas be less enjoyable than usual? Yes. Will it be cancelled? Obviously not

The police won't be raiding houses to collect and destroy all your Christmas CDs and DVDs.
There isn't gonna be any rationing where advent calendars only go from the 23rd to the 25th.
All the shite BBC and ITV Christmas specials and Christmas films will still be aired on non stop repeat for a solid month.
The boxing day, mid holiday and New Year's day games will all go ahead.
The queen will inspire us all to pull together despite how tough life is (for added comedic affect she'll say this in front of a solid gold piano, surrounded by priceless artworks from her mansion in central London).
You'll still be able to open presents under a tree and stockings in bed.
You can still read and play board games and cards and relax on the sofa.
The tinsel and baubles to decorate the house and gaudy tat from last years Poundland run won't have vanished.
The whole family can laugh watching dad frustratingly untangle the fairy lights that he swore he wrapped up neatly last year.
Maybe you can't have all the aunts and uncles and grans over for dinner but you can still cook a mountain of food with the immediate family and chuck it all in the freezer for the next month.

It won't be perfect but it's hardly gonna be Christmas in a prison cell. Also here's a thought, you're basing Christmas being cancelled on a 17 day lockdown that is being implemented 64 days before Christmas Day. Without this lockdown there is the possibility numbers start spiking and quickly, especially with winter coming and seasonal illnesses rising. If this spike happened in the first week of December then I imagine Christmas will be much less enjoyable.
With the current situation if we see a heavy decrease in the hospitalisations and number of cases because of this lockdown then it will be safer to open up more businesses and loosen restrictions by the time Christmas comes around.

Will Christmas be less enjoyable than usual? Yes. Will it be cancelled? Obviously not

The police won't be raiding houses to collect and destroy all your Christmas CDs and DVDs.
There isn't gonna be any rationing where advent calendars only go from the 23rd to the 25th.
All the shite BBC and ITV Christmas specials and Christmas films will still be aired on non stop repeat for a solid month.
The boxing day, mid holiday and New Year's day games will all go ahead.
The queen will inspire us all to pull together despite how tough life is (for added comedic affect she'll say this in front of a solid gold piano, surrounded by priceless artworks from her mansion in central London).
You'll still be able to open presents under a tree and stockings in bed.
You can still read and play board games and cards and relax on the sofa.
The tinsel and baubles to decorate the house and gaudy tat from last years Poundland run won't have vanished.
The whole family can laugh watching dad frustratingly untangle the fairy lights that he swore he wrapped up neatly last year.
Maybe you can't have all the aunts and uncles and grans over for dinner but you can still cook a mountain of food with the immediate family and chuck it all in the freezer for the next month.

It won't be perfect but it's hardly gonna be Christmas in a prison cell. Also here's a thought, you're basing Christmas being cancelled on a 17 day lockdown that is being implemented 64 days before Christmas Day. Without this lockdown there is the possibility numbers start spiking and quickly, especially with winter coming and seasonal illnesses rising. If this spike happened in the first week of December then I imagine Christmas will be much less enjoyable.
With the current situation if we see a heavy decrease in the hospitalisations and number of cases because of this lockdown then it will be safer to open up more businesses and loosen restrictions by the time Christmas comes around.

Fair points but you are assuming come December we will be out of all restrictions! But chances are when restrictions lifted in 17 days we then have to sweat it out to see if infections don't rise so that restrictions or lockdown is not implemented again before xmas/new year something WG have said could happen.. WG and others have made it clear forget xmas as you know it and have an electronic one? Thats ok if that's what you like but isnt xmas about families ect? Ok this is all assumptions but I am not optimistic that there wont be restrictions/lockdown at xmas/new year... personally I don't care so I have no axe to grind on this

Will Christmas be less enjoyable than usual? Yes. Will it be cancelled? Obviously not

The police won't be raiding houses to collect and destroy all your Christmas CDs and DVDs.
There isn't gonna be any rationing where advent calendars only go from the 23rd to the 25th.
All the shite BBC and ITV Christmas specials and Christmas films will still be aired on non stop repeat for a solid month.
The boxing day, mid holiday and New Year's day games will all go ahead.
The queen will inspire us all to pull together despite how tough life is (for added comedic affect she'll say this in front of a solid gold piano, surrounded by priceless artworks from her mansion in central London).
You'll still be able to open presents under a tree and stockings in bed.
You can still read and play board games and cards and relax on the sofa.
The tinsel and baubles to decorate the house and gaudy tat from last years Poundland run won't have vanished.
The whole family can laugh watching dad frustratingly untangle the fairy lights that he swore he wrapped up neatly last year.
Maybe you can't have all the aunts and uncles and grans over for dinner but you can still cook a mountain of food with the immediate family and chuck it all in the freezer for the next month.

It won't be perfect but it's hardly gonna be Christmas in a prison cell. Also here's a thought, you're basing Christmas being cancelled on a 17 day lockdown that is being implemented 64 days before Christmas Day. Without this lockdown there is the possibility numbers start spiking and quickly, especially with winter coming and seasonal illnesses rising. If this spike happened in the first week of December then I imagine Christmas will be much less enjoyable.
With the current situation if we see a heavy decrease in the hospitalisations and number of cases because of this lockdown then it will be safer to open up more businesses and loosen restrictions by the time Christmas comes around.

Unfortunately I think it'll be the opposite. The 17 day lockdown may see a slight decrease in hospitalisations and cases but if the lockdown is eased then cases will inevitably rise again and even more quickly due to the cold weather.

We have already seen that when the local lockdowns haven't worked to the satisfaction of the WAG they won't hesitate to introduce a harsher lockdown like the one we are currently in. So as soon as the infections start rising again which is 100% guaranteed they will if lockdown is eased and hospitalisations rise as they inevitably will then the WAG will revert to type and lock down the country again.

I would be absolutely amazed if we are not under a lockdown at Christmas that's not at the very least as restrictive as the one we are today. As Adolf Drakeford said yesterday they have no interest in saving Christmas.