Is anyone still listening to the rules over there? Genuine question. From what I hear hardly anyone (North or South) is wearing a mask out and about apart from when they have to, and even then it's far from 100%.
This was inevitable from way back when the Cummings Barnard Castle thing happened and the entire government lied to everyone to protect one man and we all knew they were doing it, and they knew we knew. 'We're all in this together' died on that day. There are a number of smaller issues such as dreadful communication and the number of u-turns they've made making people think well I think this rule is stupid and they might repeal it anyway so why bother?
The biggest problem is still the Test and Trace not being up to scratch. It's been the case for months now so people seem to have forgotten about it but it still isn't fixed. You can't expect it to be fixed either when the quality control in place is so paper thin that it took them days to realise that copy and pasting into an Excel spreadsheet that didn't have enough rows meant a load of the data got lost.
Utter nonsense. England doesn't actually realise what a basket case it has become because Trump is over the other side of the pond making everyone else look vaguely sane.