'Snitch on your neighbours '

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Lots of sound bites in today's MSM from the policing minister suggesting pretty clearly that if you see your neighbours in groups of more than 6, ring the police.

The government are not even trying to hide their blatant tactics anymore to create divisions and animosity so that we stop focusing on the fact that they are a complete fuck up. There is already so much negativity out there. When I venture out, I'm more intimidated by somebody saying something to me about me unknowingly breaching a rule than I am of covid itself!

Will you snitch on your neighbour? I certainly won't be.

Probably not for 7 people, but if I see any parties then yes. I don't want another lock down thanks. 😆

I live in a village where this will be common place. In fact I expect a wicker man to be hastily erected on the common for the rule breakers.

Absolutely not, who does that?!

There won't be another lockdown. This is exactly what they want people to think - to encourage the snitching!

@HoneyBee03

Absolutely not, who does that?!

Half of posters here, apparently. I'm not in that half. Although, to be fair, I can't see my neighbours without binoculars!

If they were having a massive party then yes. But they are reasonable families and I’m sure they will make reasonable decisions even if they end up bending the rules slightly on occasion.

No. The society we are being asked to create is not unknown to us, we have seen it before and where these things can lead. No, we will not be participating.

I wouldn’t - it’s ruling by fear, and making everybody more individualist then they already are. We should be trying to help each other at the moment, not actively becoming more divided. If my next door neighbours wants a couple of family members / friends round because they’re feeling lonely, or feel like they need to connect with people other than those in their family then they can do so without fearing my involvement.

The conservatives have completely lost the plot

@Emeeno1 that statement is so true, and it’s scary Mary.

Can i snitch on the government for their blatant breaking of international law then?

Would you ignore your neighbours breaching other laws which might cause harm to others?

drink driving? committing assault?

Why do people think they are exempt from this? It’s ridiculous

Definitely not - I am really concerned that this has even been suggested by the Government

We are going to have a breakdown of law and order by the Government suggesting they can break the law on a “specific and limited basis” and a break down of social cohesion and community by them encouraging the public to spy on each other and take on ill defined roles of “Covid monitors” which will just cause further disruption and the police will be have to deal with that too when there ends up being public fights over that

In the interim, changes to the law which seriously affect all of our human rights are just waived through without proper discussion and debate in parliament. These are really worrying times - am more worried about this than Brexit which I never thought I would be

No I wouldn't and I would rethink my friendships with people who are happy to do that.
It's pathetic

I wouldn't if people were just having a quiet family gathering or something (I probably wouldn't notice anyway tbh) but someone on my street did have a massive loud party late into the night recently. If that happened again, I would be very tempted, both because of the lockdown rules and partly because I'm annoyed they have loud parties and disrupt everyone's sleep (tends to be weeknights, too).

Depending on what was going on, and his sure I was if the circumstances, I would.

Unless we all take steps now, the current rises could lead to big problems in only a few weeks.

We really need low transmission in order to have any semblance of normality, and the actions of rule breakers affect us all

If this government told me to tie my laces up to prevent me falling over I would start to leave them flapping about. They are lying, thieving, hypocritical bastards, the lot of them.

I wouldn't piss on any of them if they were on fire. I am now suspicius of every single thing they do, because I simply do not believe they have anyone's interests at heart but themselves. I also do not believe for a single second that any of them are following the rules themselves. Yet they are not snitching on each other...

I don't much take an interest in anything my neighbours do but, should I notice any 'rule breaking', there's no way I'd report it.

No I wouldn't as I think it's a ridiculous 'rule'. In fact my 88 year old neighbour is away in Cornwall with family for a surprise 60th for her daughter (rearranged weeks ago after cancelling due to lockdown), and there are, shock-horror, 8 of them!

Beebityboo I'd say we live in the same village but having lived in more than one I'm aware it's the mentality of many

It's ridiculous, I've currently got acute bronchitis, I could really do with help wrangling 5dc on the school run, my Auntie would happily help me but can't as we'll be 7 people . She can't go on her own unless it's an emergency as school are saying only 1 parent/caterer on site atm (she'd wait over the road for me) & when I checked this morning they won't count what I have as an emergency as I could be d for another week or so. Dh can't help as his work are short staffed because other staff are having to isolate (normally they wouldn't have an issue).

someone on my street did have a massive loud party late into the night recently. If that happened again, I would be very tempted, both because of the lockdown rules and partly because I'm annoyed they have loud parties and disrupt everyone's sleep (tends to be weeknights, too)

A silver lining to all this has been the absence of late night loud music, and of drunken people screeching (at the party or on the street waiting for a cab, with no thought that they're right by bedroom windows)

• be bad, not be d

figgy - drink driving has proven and serious risks attached. Having 6 people into your house rather than 7 does not.

This is from The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine -
"At Oxford University's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, we have spent years trawling through the scientific evidence on the effects of measures such as distancing on respiratory viral spread. We are not aware of any study pointing to the number six. If it's made up, why not five or seven?””

No. I wouldn't. I think people who snitch on their neighbours in this sort of way are wankers.

The fact that the government appears to be encouraging it just provides further proof, if any were really needed, that we are being governed by wankers.

@MaxNormal don’t even get me started It takes the meaning of hypocrisy to whole new levels.

As the daughter of a man who grew up in Nazi Germany, I'd rather eat my dog's faeces than snitch on anyone. I know how this movie ends. Divide and rule: It's such a blatant MO, governments don't even attempt to hide their motive now.

Here's an idea: Sort the testing out instead of suggesting we ring our Community Gestapo Goon if we see a group of 8 crying over their dead nana.

Nope I wont.