Police tell family they’re not allowed in front garden

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Bloody ridiculous

Video and story here

twitter.com/syptweet/status/1248294700827709440

Vegetable well said!

@MarginalGain I posted that and was living in social housing too. Those most affected by shitty underclass types are their neighbours. It is really easy for middle class privileged types to defend them, they don't have to live next to them.

Glad the coppers are dealing with these pop-guzzling, chain smoking, non-fence owning rule breakers. Clearly the true criminals of our time.

And the completely unnecessary top ups of electricity! Shame on him, can't have people just running around making sure the lights stay on. He and his family can read the Bible by candle as god and nature intended.

I can see that hair shirts may prove to be one of the few boom markets if this keeps up.

It's bad that people are dying, but British police are supposed to enforce laws, not 'good intentions'. We do have a 'way of life' and it doesn't involve the police doing whatever they feel like because they think it's justified.

Only hair shirts for other people though, obv.

Whilst it appears that she was wrong, there may be more to this than we know. We don't really know the full story - only the video that he's taken, which won't have been recorded from the very start of the conversation, which may have been going on for a while.

@MarginalGain I posted that and was living in social housing too. Those most affected by shitty underclass types are their neighbours. It is really easy for middle class privileged types to defend them, they don't have to live next to them.

You have no knowledge of these people, other than that the police treated them shoddily and that they have cigarette butts hanging around.

You are simply drawing inferences, i.e. stereotyping.

The fact that you live in social housing does not give you any kind of special rights.

Just follow the rules. Don't bend the rules for your convenience.

... just follow the rules, don't make them up to suit your Stasti-esq need to dictate & dominate.

Christ, if I was only allowed to combine electric key top ups with food shopping, I would be living on pot noodles, crisps, tinned soup and a shed-load of booze (if my corner shop is anything to go by).

Seemingly there are lots of "over exuberant" officers around

"we are not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets. This message was sent with good intentions by an over exuberant officer who has been spoken to ..."

^ that was from Cambridgeshire Police. Somehow I'm not reassured.

I suspect that there may be a connection between the tendency to scold and a complete unfamiliarity with the kind of living situation where electronic key top ups are required. I could be wrong, of course, but it's all coming across a bit classist.

What if they check your bags, which they shouldn't be doing, and find that you've bought something they deem unnecessary? Are they going to try to make you take it back to the shop? Cause that would definitely be in the spirit of minimizing exposure.

but if no one buys the easter eggs and the fancy coffee then what happens to it?

What happens to the people employed to make them as well?

What happens to the people employed to make them as well?

This exactly.

So that's Cadburys out of business then...

How can someone who is upholding the law not understand it? Ignorance of the law is no excuse, is a term often bandied about towards those breaking it, it should go doubly for those upholding it. It's out there in black and white for everyone to see what their responsibilities are. It's not complicated and it's certainly not a secret.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the place where a person is living includes the premises
where they live together with any garden, yard, passage, stair, garage, outhouse or other
appurtenance of such premises.

As a matter of urgency, there should be a long, mandatory-attendance police conference, headed by either Pritti Patel or Cressida Dick, in which the lockdown guidelines and the limits of the police's powers to enforce them are made very very crystal-as-all-get-out clear. Too many of them are clearly getting their ideas from Mumsnet Facebook, where they're not just getting a hard-on over inventing their own.

I was mostly struck by the fact that the officer seemed to suggest he couldn't go to the corner shop and Asda in any one day.

Both would be essential journeys and who gives a fuck if he happened to pick up a couple of bottles of pop when he topped up?

Today I have driven to one large supermarket and bought only beer and then walked to another where I bought everything else I needed. I wasn't to know that the Tesco Extra had been picked clean and our local Coop had been well restocked.

So shoot me too!

Yes, yes, let's search for excuses for the unlawful conduct of the poor little police officer.

You conveniently ignored the bit where I said the officer was in the wrong, and that SYP conformed that.

That too, if you arrive at the shop ready to get everything in one go and be stocked up for a week or two and find that there's no bread, rice, pasta, or any other staple then you're going to have to go somewhere else. That's not an unneeded trip, it's just unfortunate.

Is this meant to be some kind of excuse of police overreach?

No, it is an example of police overreach and how they target people known to them, often making up the rules as they go along.

“ As a matter of urgency, there should be a long, mandatory-attendance police conference, headed by either Pritti Patel or Cressida Dick”

It needs to be Priti Patel. Cressida Dick is really not the person I’d trust with this.

"over exuberant police"

And we wonder why there have been so many miscarriages of justice in the past.

Well, I wish they'd come here and tell my damn neighbours to stop strolling on into my front garden to talk to my children (neighbours are adults by the way, not dc's friends, and I'm pretty sure they never strolled over for a chat before...)

It's made the Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8207393/Sales-Easter-eggs-wine-barbecues-paddling-pools-soar-ahead-four-day-break.html

Cambridge Police
@CambridgeCops
1/2 For clarification, the force position, in line with national guidance, is that we are not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets. This message was sent with good intentions by an over exuberant officer who has been spoken to since this tweet was published.