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A friend of mine lives in a block of apartments and, during first lockdown, there was a disturbance in one of the flats below. It turned out the single resident
by dazc 5y ago
A friend of mine lives in a block of apartments and, during first lockdown, there was a disturbance in one of the flats below. It turned out the single resident had her family staying over at the weekend (2 adults and 3 kids) and they had travelled 250 miles to be there.
When we complained about the noise we were threatened with violence and told in no uncertain terms where to go. This was reported to the police and they did nothing.
Let's not pretend that we were living in a Police state at the the time. Yes, I would expect better from the PM and his ministers but the rules were barely enforced anywhere, save your can of pop example and few other isolated cases.
- antihero 5y agoWell don't be a narc then.
- ngcc_hk 5y agoBut as one of the poster said one has to compare like with like. Covered the whole uk is hard. But it seems they are good in policing the park. But not the garden of pm. Anyway he is way down in popularity. It is not because of a party (unless it is criminal office which has to wait for … no multi-dept cross enquiry I hope) … more at play in politics.
- ralferoo 5y agoI lived next to Hyde Park at the time. On numerous occasions whilst doing my daily run, I witnessed excessive policing. For instance, a group of 4 police officers moving on a student who was on her own sat on the grass studying, 15m away from anyone else in every direction. Two police officers moving along two grannies who'd just sat down at opposite ends of a bench, and clearly needing a rest. Mounted police and police in cars were everywhere in Hyde Park harassing anyone who dared sit down, so I can only assume they were all so busy in the park that they didn't have time left over to pop round to Downing Street to check on things there. And yet it's really interesting that at the time the rules the government were saying we had to follow, weren't actually law. The official TV daily briefings said repeatedly that we could only have an hour outside for exercise, and only once per day, something that was simply a lie. The law stated only that one of the reasons for being outside was for exercise, and gave no time or frequency restrictions (except for in Wales, but the government advice in the briefings made out this was for the whole of the UK). They made the laws, they could have had any restrictions they wanted in them, but to pass one set of laws and then to misrepresent them to the public by imposing additional restrictions is pretty egregious, especially as it transpires that they weren't even following the rules or law themselves.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoI don't think the police knew how to enforce the rules... so there was a lot of inconsistency.