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Kit Malthouse wants people to call the police if they see more than 6 people eating supper next door

142 replies

Jourdain11 · 14/09/2020 12:07

Is it not dangerous to encourage people to behave like vigilantes?! I mean, okay, call the police if there's a massive house party - but if there were a group of people next door I'd personally want to give my neighbours the benefit of the doubt.

This is just encouraging snoopers and also is going to result in a massive waste of police time! I have a friend who is a police officer and she said during lockdown, the phone was ringing off the hook with important issues such as "I've seen Mrs James going out of her front door three times today"....

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RepeatSwan · 14/09/2020 16:39

@MaxNormal

Given that Kit Malthouse was on my TV this morning talking about how he plans to vote for a bill that breaks international law, he can take a fuck to himself, the hypocritical cunt.
Is hard not to be livid about what this shower is doing to the government
RepeatSwan · 14/09/2020 16:40

Sorry I mean to the country!

ProfessorSlocombe · 14/09/2020 16:40

Is hard not to be livid about what this shower is doing to the government

Hmm

It seems many people are really trying their best to give it a go though.

MaxNormal · 14/09/2020 16:43

@RepeatSwan indeed. I can't believe there isn't more outrage at this.

RepeatSwan · 14/09/2020 16:46

[quote MaxNormal]@RepeatSwan indeed. I can't believe there isn't more outrage at this.[/quote]
I feel like we are all a bit cowed, collectively.

ProfessorSlocombe · 14/09/2020 16:47

I feel like we are all a bit cowed, collectively.

Speak for yourself.

shesgonebatshitagain · 14/09/2020 16:48

@MaxNormal

Given that Kit Malthouse was on my TV this morning talking about how he plans to vote for a bill that breaks international law, he can take a fuck to himself, the hypocritical cunt.
I know. The blatant hypocrisy they parade under the electorates noses is evidence of the contempt in which we are held by them.
Ponoka7 · 14/09/2020 17:00

When asked why children were counted in England but not in Wales or Scotland, he said he didn't know and hadn't read the data. When Diane Abbott said similar, she was torn to threads. It's unbelievable how untouchable this government has become.

DysonFury · 14/09/2020 17:11

My neighbours are vile noisy scummy fuckers who will repeatedly break the rules (again). My finger is poised above the telephone ready for action.

MinnieMountain · 14/09/2020 17:15

@SeaDreaming either. But I'm a supper person who only drinks coffee Grin

SeaDreaming · 14/09/2020 17:30

[quote MinnieMountain]@SeaDreaming either. But I'm a supper person who only drinks coffee Grin[/quote]
Then we are natural nemeses, I'm afraid .
I'm having tea with my tea later Smile

Pepperwort · 14/09/2020 17:33

The government have legitimised rule-breaking in specific and limited ways. Complete arseholes.

veryvery · 14/09/2020 17:48

I think the new rules might just be a journalist's dream! They'll be camped out looking to see if MPs & advisors break them....

Brahumbug · 14/09/2020 18:34

When do we all get measured up for our Gestapo uniforms?

Monkeynuts18 · 14/09/2020 18:49

When asked why children were counted in England but not in Wales or Scotland, he said he didn't know and hadn't read the data. When Diane Abbott said similar, she was torn to threads. It's unbelievable how untouchable this government has become.

I suspect that’s also partly to do with how we treat black women vs white men.

The whole ‘support bubble’ mechanism is still in place isn’t it? So it’s perfectly possible that you could see your neighbours having a gathering of 7 people (or ‘eating supper’) and they could all be in a bubble and therefore within the law.

As far as I can tell this new law is mainly aimed at students and their freshers’ week parties. We live a few doors down from a student house and they regularly have parties. I definitely won’t be reporting them.

malificent7 · 14/09/2020 18:51

Yanbu. If The government were stricter back in March the outcome would be better.

Original poster
Jourdain11 · 14/09/2020 23:09

As far as I can tell this new law is mainly aimed at students and their freshers’ week parties.

Good point. Poor students! I feel sorry for them.

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IncandescentSilver · 14/09/2020 23:15

I'd like to see some proper discussion about the long term social harm that all these I'll thought out, panic-led restrictions are going to do to peoples' social skills.

At the most basic level, the birth rate is going to go down. I certainly won't be contributing to producing any babies any time soon - my boyfriend "got bored" during lockdown and started seei g someine more local instead who wasn't banned by the Scottish rule of not travelling more than 5 miles!

DollyDoneMore · 14/09/2020 23:27

I will not act the cunt and report my neighbours for breaking the rules.

Neither will I act the cunt by breaking the rules.

If we all agree to not act the cunt, we’d get through this a lot quicker.

NoMoreReluctantCustodians · 14/09/2020 23:30

I always used to think that the Stasi would never have got a hold in the UK because we wouldnt spy on each other like that. Clearly I was very wrong Sad

stretchedmarks · 14/09/2020 23:46

After the huge volume of posts I saw at the beginning of this crisis with Mumsnet users being hysterical over their neighbours antics, I can definitely see plenty of complaints being made.

It's utterly pathetic. Yes, report a house party of 50 people, but the idea of someone reporting Angela because she and her family went to visit Sandra, who lives alone and is 90, because there were 7 of them is just... grim. Until Covid, I had no idea of how many curtain twitchers exist in society. It makes me cringe even thinking about it. Even moreso because half these people wouldn't report a domestic abuse situation because they'd be more worried about whether the abuser caught on it was them and what he/she would do to them.

I despair.

Mistymonday · 15/09/2020 00:19

Does anyone live next door to Dominic Cummings? Get your binoculars out...

notanoctopus · 15/09/2020 00:26

If someone was massively taking the piss, then I might. If someone was bending rules a bit then no.

VanGoghsDog · 15/09/2020 00:30

@bathorshower

It's nuts - we get on well with our neighbours, but I don't know them well enough to know exactly what's going on in their lives. They could be in a bubble with the hypothetical extra people in the garden. They could be offering them support because they are vulnerable people. They could be working from home, and have colleagues round for a meeting (we have done this). The list goes on....
They could be - but none of those things are allowed in the current rules.

Six people, end of story.

Support bubble is for a single person household with another household. One. You can't keep swapping it around. So unless the second household had six+ people in it, you'd not see more than six if bubbles were together anyway. But if the household was, say, eight, the single person household bubble could still visit them. That's pretty much the only exemption to the rule of six.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 15/09/2020 00:38

Anyone want to hazard a guess on which MP or advisor from which party will break the rule of 6 first?

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