'Snitch on your neighbours '

[Namechanger20183110]

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.

Well at least it’s easy to see who the Marshalls will be. The one’s calling people idiots. It makes me laugh at the level of their immaturity.

I full expect our neighbour to snitch on us when we have our in laws over on New Years. He already hates us due to our kids being normal kids, this will just be the icing on the cake for him. Really can't stand him!

Would I report my neighbours.... yes on one side as they give no fucks and host drug filled parties for hours on end could be the only way to get them dealt with.

The other side? No because they are not nob heads in general.

Yeah, cuz the neighbours are never going to know it was you hmm.

Bit odd. How would they know?

No I won't be snitching. I will be keeping an eye on elderly neighbours and those with small children, picking up groceries and medication etc.

Screw you Boris, your incompetent team and stupid rules.

No but I would have no qualms reporting domestic violence , child abuse, or drink driving.

@TheVanguardSix

Yes I would. Anonymously of course.

I bet you just said 'fuck it' and pulled the net curtains down this summer. Not even an NHS rainbow drawn by the cat to block your view.

I work for the NHS.

@BillywilliamV

If my neighbours decided to stage Glastonbury in the neighbouring field, my only beef would honestly be with the noise!

I'd more pissed off I hadn't been invited 🤣 ......joke BTW just to clarify for the MN police

No

And the comparisons with assault, DV, drink driving where someone’s well-being and life is at immediate risk of harm (instead of a virus which they may or may not get and may or may not cause them harm) is just stupid.

Perhaps we should change our own perspective and values??

Perhaps we should change our expectations of our government. Another major difference between Scandanavian countries and the UK is levels of corruption, which are far lower there and, thus, the level of trust in the government is far higher. See economics.mit.edu/files/5726

If our government were more trustworthy then people would have greater faith in what they were asking us to do.

Instead of an open and transparent society, we have shadowy deals going on under cover. Instead of all levels of society being asked to abide by the same rules, we have very public examples of where money/power mean the rules do not apply to you. Instead of a government trying very hard to do the right thing, we have one trying very hard to avouid being held accountable. Instead of rules that are clear, understandable and well communicated we have this mix of rules that make sense to no one unless viewed through the lens of a government trying to keep people confused.

I certainly don't feel defiant, I feel despair. How can we have got to this?

Probably everyone here has broken the speed limit, and knows that their neighbour also breaks the speed limit. We know speed can kill, but when our neighbour speeds into our road do we call the police? No. Because there is a social contract of live and let live which helps to maintain a society. Societies which seek to break this always lead to some level of scapegoating. It is where we are heading.

I don’t see how hosting a large party is much different from drink driving. Both are putting other people’s lives at risk.

@halcyondays

I don’t see how hosting a large party is much different from drink driving. Both are putting other people’s lives at risk.

If you cannot see the difference then I honestly don’t know what to say to you.

There's no way I'd tell tales on anyone. However I wouldn't need to as a resident in our block of flatshas self appointed themselves the community covid warden.

They're SM pages are normally filled with anti governments and anti establishment posts and now we're never to trust them. I just find it odd that this is the one thing they've decided the government is telling the absolute truth about everyone must follow every rule to a tee.

My neighbours will LOVE hearing this, they stand in judgement of all, watching and criticising absolutely everything anyone does in our small road, even frothing about the 'immorality' of my daughter's online shopping earlier in lockdown.

We've always known that if we'd ever had a minor lockdown infraction that they'd likely be straight on the phone to the police, now it's a certainty! Horrible toxic judgemental people being encouraged to be bigger busybodies by 'the law'.

Years ago many people would have driven after a few drinks, it was socially acceptable, it was only after extensive campaigning TV ads and so on that attitudes changed. Many people would have thought the risk of harming others was low as they had done it regularly with no ill effects. But the overall effect was that lives were lost needlessly. And holding a large party with no social distancing is putting lives at risk just for a bit of fun.

The point is though, people aren't just going to report large parties. They are going to be reporting the neighbour across the road who they believe has an extra person in the house.

If it's like before they won't bother thinking there might be a good reason for this, they'll just get a kick out of doing it in the same way they got a kick out of monitoring how many times people left the house and how long for.

I can’t see that many people would report a neighbour for an extra person or two, it would be a very small minority.

Yes, precisely pinksparkly. It's not like there's any evidential basis at all for the choice of 6, either. But having 7 people in your garden, all socially distancing from each other, wouldn't be any more or less legal than a 100 person indoor rave where everyone is right in each other's faces. Which is also why the drink driving analogy doesn't work.

Imagine snitching on your neighbours for having extra people in their house above 6🤣🤣. Just wow, what a time to be alive.

There are large fines given to organisers of large parties but not to those having one extra person in the house so the law does treat them very differently.

Parties - yes I would.
Auntie Mabel and Uncle Les coming to lunch - no.

@halcyondays

There are large fines given to organisers of large parties but not to those having one extra person in the house so the law does treat them very differently.

But they are both still equally illegal.

No way. I personally will respect the rule of 6 and strongly encourage 17 year old DS to do so, but I am not acting as an unpaid police officer for a government I have no respect for and despise.

Of course I'm not going to snitch on my neighbours. Anyway, what's the point? Dominic Cummings, backed by the PM told us that the rules aren't that important, we should do whatever we need to for ourselves and our family.
Anyway, I'm sure Knacker of the Yard has bigger fish to fry than my NDN having more than 4 visitors in their backyard pub.🤷‍♀️

For example, I know of a conspiracy to break international law that's currently happening.