The Sin Bin • Re: coronavirus and sport ?
Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:
Surely it is now Comrade Johnson with the nationalised railways, support for the NHS, paying people to be off work and now a Police state much like a favourite Conservative argument against Corbyn Venezuela.
We have cases of the Police warning a shop that the sale of Easter Eggs is not considered essential, dyeing lakes black and sending up drones to spy on people who are walking their dog at least half a mile from the next family. The problem is that essential was never defined leaving each force to decide their own definitions.
In practice you can't come up with an exhaustive list of what is essential. There needs to be some discretion and the exercise of common sense when you undertake enforcement activity.
What you see with that Derbyshire police drone stuff and that other clip that went viral of the officer who issued a ticket for "criminal damage" to a woman who was marking lines with chalk in the pavement at 2m distances for people queuing to come in to her shop, that some enforcers aren't exercising their powers in the public interest.
Statistics: Posted by sally cinnamon — Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:02 pm