I 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 office

I 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.