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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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Saz12 · 15/09/2020 10:25

And you’re work in the office with 10 colleagues keeps transport/ car parks/ oil refineries/ sandwich van going.
Your BBQ just replaces what you’d have spent in food anyway.

Tootletum · 15/09/2020 10:26

@katy1213 as you've probably seen, the Australian police can get a warrant for a Facebook post, so it's not too big a stretch. Don't forget these are all now criminal offences in law... Yep, dinner party can actually result in you losing your job.

Tootletum · 15/09/2020 10:29

@IncandescentSilver Nailed it!

SerendipityJane · 15/09/2020 10:45

Such a clash between what’s right for an individual v society!

Not really. Just get rid of the idea of the individual, and insist society always comes first. Been tried a few times before.

We've done the hard bit, and got rid of individual rights. Just need to start ramping up the state society.

OpenlyGayExOlympicFencer · 15/09/2020 10:46

Kit Malthouse can go and fuck himself, along with the rest of the inadequate, bullshitting government he's a member of.

FarTooSkinny · 15/09/2020 10:49

I have formed a local group to check on my neighbours called the Society for Total Adherence to Self Isolation. STASI for short

listsandbudgets · 15/09/2020 10:51

I'll be calling the police every flipping day then - our neighbours have 5 children and her mother lives with them... that makes 8.

What number do I call?

MinnieMountain · 15/09/2020 12:58

I mentioned this to a friend who grew up in communist Romania today as she'd somehow missed the reporting one's neighbours bit.

She said it was just like this. Anonymous reporting for the slightest deviation, anyone could do it. At least we can't be hauled off to labour camps Hmm

VanGoghsDog · 15/09/2020 17:39

[quote rosiejaune]@VanGoghsDog

"Support bubble is for a single person household with another household."

No, it's for a household with a single adult in it. Which could be one person, or it could be 10, depending on how many children that person has.

Plus however many people are in the other household (which could be over 6 already anyway).[/quote]
Yes, sorry, a single adult household (any number of under 18's) plus any size second household.

VanGoghsDog · 15/09/2020 17:41

@listsandbudgets

I'll be calling the police every flipping day then - our neighbours have 5 children and her mother lives with them... that makes 8.

What number do I call?

If the mother lives with them then they are one household. Noone is suggesting that current households have to split up.
SerendipityJane · 15/09/2020 17:45

At least we can't be hauled off to labour camps

Oh, come on. You didn't really believe all that guff about "lorry parks" did you ?

PhilCornwall1 · 15/09/2020 17:47

@SerendipityJane

At least we can't be hauled off to labour camps

Oh, come on. You didn't really believe all that guff about "lorry parks" did you ?

Those pop up hospitals aren't really what you think they are!
SerendipityJane · 15/09/2020 17:52

Those pop up hospitals aren't really what you think they are!

Now you're thinking ....

Smile
pigsDOfly · 15/09/2020 23:12

Absolute madness.

Walking the dog earlier I passed a group of, around, 12 kids - early teens - near a sporting bit of the open space I walked through - all crowded together, no social distancing - together with 2 adults both in some sort of uniform type sports wear.

I was a bit taken aback at first then realised that it was all okay because it was clearly an organised sporting event; some sort of training club by the look of it.

Earlier, I'd watched the news with a reporter talking to people in a park about the 'rule of 6'.

One couple, it seemed, hadn't realised that if they had a barbecue in their garden with 4 other adults and their 2 young children were asleep in their beds in the house that they would be breaking the law.

They looked quite puzzled as to how the children, who weren't even at the barbecue, could be included as the number of people at the barbecue. Of course had they been in Wales, the children wouldn't have been counted.

Perhaps if they'd put on their running gear and all run in and out of the flowerbeds while eating the barbecue they could have claimed it as an organised sporting event. Or maybe they could have had a few prayers while the sausages are cooking and claimed it was an act of worship.

Although, that wouldn't work obviously because sporting events and acts of worship are only safe because they're not held in private gardens but in sporting venues, or places of worship, which are not private spaces. Unless it's an organised shoot held on private land, where Covid doesn't spread, apparently.

PhilCornwall1 · 16/09/2020 04:37

@pigsDOfly

Absolute madness.

Walking the dog earlier I passed a group of, around, 12 kids - early teens - near a sporting bit of the open space I walked through - all crowded together, no social distancing - together with 2 adults both in some sort of uniform type sports wear.

I was a bit taken aback at first then realised that it was all okay because it was clearly an organised sporting event; some sort of training club by the look of it.

Earlier, I'd watched the news with a reporter talking to people in a park about the 'rule of 6'.

One couple, it seemed, hadn't realised that if they had a barbecue in their garden with 4 other adults and their 2 young children were asleep in their beds in the house that they would be breaking the law.

They looked quite puzzled as to how the children, who weren't even at the barbecue, could be included as the number of people at the barbecue. Of course had they been in Wales, the children wouldn't have been counted.

Perhaps if they'd put on their running gear and all run in and out of the flowerbeds while eating the barbecue they could have claimed it as an organised sporting event. Or maybe they could have had a few prayers while the sausages are cooking and claimed it was an act of worship.

Although, that wouldn't work obviously because sporting events and acts of worship are only safe because they're not held in private gardens but in sporting venues, or places of worship, which are not private spaces. Unless it's an organised shoot held on private land, where Covid doesn't spread, apparently.

It avoids Political Protests as well. I've never heard of such a clever virus.

So I'll have a large gathering at home and wave banners about some old woke shit and be exempt the "rule of six".

SerendipityJane · 16/09/2020 10:53

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Kit Malthouse wants people to call the police if they see more than 6 people eating supper next door
Ohyeahs · 16/09/2020 10:59

So does Mumsnet

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