I realised this week that we are in a lockdown. It may sound like I am a little late to the party, not that we are allowed parties, but I think it’s an important point.

You can often hear me on talkRADIO getting stuck into the debate about lockdowns. Some people think we shouldn’t be in one and other think we should. While that debate is perfectly valid it is also worth remembering we are in one whether you think it’s right or not.

It’s like being lost in a car. You can sit there in the passenger seat bringing up how you think we should have taken a left turn miles back but that won’t help you in the situation you currently find yourself in.

It would do us good to remember that, regardless of being for or against lockdowns, we all want it to last for the shortest possible time and people breaking the lockdown rules might be making it go on for longer.

There are two types of people who break the lockdown rules. The first group are the ones who already have their phones out to film the altercation they are about to start. Those are the “freedom warriors” who will claim that the government can’t tell them what to do, after they have driven in a car, with an MOT, under the speed limit, on the correct side of the road while wearing clothes, and yet don’t see the restrictions we live under all the time.

Then we have the second group. There’s a bunch of people who break the rules and come up with a excuse. Take for example the house party that police officers were called to in Basingstoke. When the cops turned up the partiers claimed that they hadn’t heard of the pandemic.

Let’s forget the maxim that ignorance is no excuse for the law and just imagine how disturbed those people would be. Since last March they must have been shocked to see the roads so quiet. When we all took part in Clap for Carers they must have thought they were getting a round of applause just for walking the dog.

My favourite excuse was the man from Luton who drove to Devizes and claimed he was going to the McDonald’s. A great excuse if it wasn’t for the fact that there isn’t a McDonald’s in Devizes and there are several in Luton.

If you were a passenger in his car you could tell him you should have turned left in Luton and found a local McDonald’s or you could tell him the quickest way back. What would you choose?