Life & CultureNewsLife & Culture / NewsMemes about lockdown ending on June 21 for people who haven’t lost hopeNot me thenShareLink copied ✔️February 23, 2021February 23, 2021TextMae Williams Yesterday (February 22), Boris Johnson laid out the government’s plan to ease England out of its – *checks notes* – third lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis. The prime minister offered his ‘roadmap’ of tentative dates for reopening the economy and restarting our lives. Highlights go as follows: on March 8, schools will reopen; on March 29, you can meet six mates outside; by April 12, you can get a haircut, return to the gym, go shopping, and – importantly – drink with six of your pals in a beer garden (no meal required); on May 17, you can socialise indoors; then, by June 21, all limits on social contact will be lifted and you can finally (finally) go clubbing again. If, unlike me, you are an optimist, you are probably rejoicing about nightclubs! festivals! pints in the pub with 30 of my work colleagues who I secretly hate and have nothing to talk to about! However, if, like me, you have lockdown Stockholm Syndrome and don’t believe a word that comes out of BoJo’s mouth, you likely have no faith that any of these promises will come true. Either way, you probably like memes. So, here’s some about lockdown (probably not) ending on June 21. my plans from june 21 pic.twitter.com/htfhcURJJD— 🐽alim kheraj (@alimkheraj) February 22, 2021june 21st v june 22nd pic.twitter.com/npg8Q1FrqG— Stan Account (@tristandross) February 23, 2021My Overdraft hearing that clubs are reopening June 21 pic.twitter.com/YduE4vM9T8— Liam 🌹 (@LiamGaughan98) February 22, 2021Imagine the collective chaos of every gay club in the country when UK Hun comes on for the first time omg. I’m giddy at the mere prospect— jack rem x (@jackremmington) February 22, 202110:30am, June 21, 2021 pic.twitter.com/6wW65JYnK9— Jonny Mackley (@JonnyMackley) February 22, 2021june 21 i will not leave the threshold of the club bathroom for fear i have not informed every woman who enters how STUNNING they are— Anna Cafolla (@AnnaCafolla) February 22, 2021Soon. pic.twitter.com/m3y1Vfpadg— Dipo Faloyin (@DipoFaloyin) February 22, 2021giving us 4 months notice to get hot is the best thing this government has ever done— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) February 22, 2021Bartender on June 21st: And would you like to make that a double?Me: pic.twitter.com/h786qSWHBr— jack rem x (@jackremmington) February 22, 2021BREAKING: Nightclubs are set to open from June 21 pic.twitter.com/eAjUFjxJgg— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) February 22, 2021Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREIs Substack still a space for writers and readers?‘It’s self-consciously cool’: Inside the chess club boomWoke is back – or is it?What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protestsHow is AI changing sex work? Where have all the vegans gone?Could ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novelChris Kraus selects: What to do, read and watch this monthWe asked young Americans how their job search is going