Banning Easter eggs a step too far

[VivienScott]

I’ve just read that some officials are cracking down on shops selling Easter eggs as it’s non-essential. Isn’t this all going a bit far now? Easter eggs aren’t essential but a chocolate bar is? Feels like some people are letting a minuscule bit of power go straight to their heads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52090441

I hope people don't start to panic buy because of this.

A chocolate egg is all my kids have to look forward to at the moment. Taking that away from children would be pure nasty.

I agree with the previous poster I wouldn’t shop in a supermarket again now or when this is all over, if I had snotty shop assistants telling me what I could and couldn’t buy. My own government has NOT given a list of what is essential food and drink wise, so Mary on till 5 certainly isn’t going to

Totally agree. And I’d tell all my friends and probably FB and tweet it as well. This has really produced some little dictators. How dare they?

If you are not making a special trip for them and buying them for people who live in your same household I don’t see the problem.

If you are delivering as gifts to another household or are planning a get together session to hand them over then yes, I have problem with it.

Unless the police are suddenly having to deal with a load of "Choc'd and Disorderly" calls, they should probably leave Easter the fuck alone.

And worry about the heavy alcohol sales, zero limits on booze, WOMEN LOCKED WITH THEIR ABUSERS AND ACTUAL DOMESTIC MURDERS.

Imagine banning an already produced food source when we're heading towards a shortage so concerning there's talk of rationing. Barking.

And there's still people who say we don't need to worry about an abuse of our current 'state of emergency'.

Exactly. Well put.

I had my first shopping trip in 2 weeks today.
I bought a few more treats than I normally would - including Easter eggs.
The whole country is struggling with a horrific, difficult situation and we don't know when it's going to end. So having some treats to keep everyone's spirits up is important. As far as I'm concerned the Easter eggs are no less essential than anything else I bought today.

Here's some work for that obviously bored cop to dig into, and here's some more. 4 domestic murders, 4 women murdered during lockin, whilst he confiscates Easter eggs. Hop to it, lovely.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167143/Husband-69-accused-Britains-self-isolation-murder.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167175/Father-wife-daughter-revealed-victims-fatal-Hemel-Hempstead-house-fire.html

I ordered one with my shopping of 79 other items so we won’t have to shop again for a month. I ordered a more expensive one because it is my birthday at Easter and I won’t be have anything for that I thought DH and I could make a nice meal, wine, a DVD and shared a Dairy Free Salted Carmel egg. 77 things arrived. No bacon, no plain flour and no EGG ☹️Maybe that’s why.it will have to be. Pasce egg instead.

I suppose perhaps they thinking people shopping might take longer by buying a few eggs but it would be less than 5 minutes wouldn’t it. I think it is a bit extreme. Does that mean you can’t buy a birthday 🎂 cake either?

Well its all gone fucking nuts hasn't it? Soon the joy suckers will have us on bread and water only.

I feel sad every time I see Easter eggs in the shops
I love Easter ,the feeling of renewal, the big family lunch,the chocolate! And the religious aspect
It won't be like that this year
I totally get that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things
But yes please let people have their eggs

Thank goodness more people are starting to realise what is actually going on. I was shouted down on a thread on Friday where I suggested that the waving through of a law that effectively turned us into a police state was quite worrying.
Since then we’ve got police setting up road blocks demanding to know where people are going AND deciding whether it’s ‘essential’ or not. It’s absolutely unbelievable that people seem to be nodding away and agreeing they should! And we have these laws for TWO years albeit with review periods. Within seconds of it becoming law, we had police setting up
road blocks decreeing that you can’t drive to dog walk or exercise (NOT what the guidance said) and then when it needed clarifying because of their actions, they then get to decide what is local(?); they were moving on older folk who were out for their exercise just walking through a deserted town centre who dared to sit on a bench for a minute; policing what you can and can’t buy from a shop ..... it’s disgraceful.
This is what they think is the best use of their resources? Not checking up on the thousands of children on protection plans or in households with known criminal activity; not supporting known domestic violence victims; not supporting community nurses who are having to provide care to drug addicted patients as there is no services; not supporting isolated OAPs with no family support ....nope - apparently they haven’t the resources for that

Considering how few police there are in our county (especially if you think how many are on shift at one time), there do seem to be a lot of them about.

Police police by consent.

Warrington Police
@PoliceWarr
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Mar 29
Overnight 6 people have been summonsed for offences relating to the new corona virus legislation to protect the public:

These included;

Out for a drive due to boredom

Returning from parties

Multiple people from the same household going to the shops for non-essential items

I wonder how the bottom one will go down when the relevant leglisation is looked at in law.

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-police-turning-parts-of-uk-into-dystopia-after-prosecuting-people-driving-due-to-boredom-and-shoppers-11965903

Selfish chocolate egg eating bastards. Honestly, can people not understand The Rules.?

@Noname99 👏👏👏👏

We need some joy - and the things are already in the shops.

Does that mean you can’t buy a birthday 🎂 cake either

Well I made sure I bought my mum's birthday cards (birthday end of April) last weekend - obviously subconsciously predicted the "essential item police action". Though whether the post office will deliver, who knows?

I worked in an inner city police station in the 80s. We had problems with prostitution, drugs, petty crime etc. A neighbouring station had the same problems. They had a reputation for having poor relationships with residents, we had the opposite. I think it was just chance that we had a series of senior officers with one attitude and they had the opposite.

The riots came and they had a terrible time and were fire bombed. We thanked our lucky stars that we didn't seem to be having a problem and imagine how pleased we were one fine day when a delegation of locals, from community groups, churches, mosques gurdwaras and synagogues, arrived at the station with a huge flower display and a card thanking us for all we did.

The police need good relationships with the public, they would do well to remember it.

Not good. The abuse of power doesn't surprise me, but people won't tolerate this for long, surely? It's there, it needs eating, why not let people buy it. Things are not so strict here in the US, there would be social disorder if they tried to tell people they couldn't buy chocolate or booze. I saw a clip where a couple was stopped from buying 522 cans of mountain dew. Look down your nose all you want at them, but to that couple, it was the only liquid they drink. You might as well say no water for them.

Cologne course you can't buy a birthday cake. You must shop for 'essential' groceries only. And don't think fecking even think about buying flour and eggs to bake one either... if you were previously a cake buyer not baker (btw you are a lazy moo), it's exploiting the home bakers to buy flour.

I have just been to Asda.

Got Easter eggs, hot cross buns (as I really fancied them after a thread yesterday), biscuits and hair dye! along with my food shop. No staff complained. No police waiting outside. Nobody frowning at me or my trolley.

Nobody trying to self impose their own personal view of what I should be allowed to buy.

Nice and quiet. Some things out of stock. But got most. Quite a relaxed shopping g trip.

I wont be going back for at least 2 weeks.

Bowerbird, happy birthday and I am so sorry you didn't get your egg. I hope when this is all over someone can get you a giant egg.

HAIR DYE! Fucking hair dye!!!!!!!????

You would do well to consider your vanity and your fecking grey roots are literally killing my granny! shits

I bought bedding plants at the supermarket alongside the essentials needed. They're just going to die on the shelves otherwise and how does that help anyone?

Perhaps a shareholder in Easter eggs is disappointed that people didn't panic buy them, so they're trying to spark panic buying, by spreading fake news.

By the way, everybody, do bear in mind that it's very soon 1st April. Social media is going to have a field day with scaremongering!

My neighbours are fucked then. It appears from the recycling that they have already eaten theirs so I imagine will be looking for replacements for the kids.