chrisp65 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 34 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Another day, another example of power-hungry plod making up his own law. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-police-chief-issues-lockdown-21838760 I'd love to know what they're intending to do when they've looked through people's trolleys. Perhaps the government could issue a list of approved items we're allowed to buy. You called it out from the start, the police, some of the police, cannot help themselves when given a little bit of power. The very fact he originally thought he could rifle through shopping deciding what was essential. What an absolute arse. I know it’s flippant, but there’s a weirdly large portion of this country that are just little hitlers in waiting. Waiting to get an armband and an ounce of power over others. Edited April 9, 2020 by chrisp65 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ml1dch Posted April 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Easter miracle, bed blocking bastard Johnson is alive. Does that mean we're allowed to call him rude words again without people swooning like a Victorian countess who's caught a touch of the vapors? 5 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Home Secretary has already said it is not appropriate for plod to inspect people's shopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 9, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 9, 2020 27 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Must have been the claps. I don't think they put you in intensive care for that do they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Xela said: Home Secretary has already said it is not appropriate for plod to inspect people's shopping. Blimey, she's woken up? She's been missing for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 46 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: In case anyne would like to hear the power-mad dipshit say this in his own words, here he is: He's trying to claim now that he didn't say this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, Rodders said: BJ out of intensive care now. Excellent. We can go back to calling him a useless prick now. Edit: Just caught up with the thread and @ml1dch's post. Edited April 9, 2020 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 9, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 9, 2020 35 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Must have been the claps. Nah it’s because he has strength of character and is a fighter of course. Everyone else with the virus just gives up because they don’t have the fortitude to deal with it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Blimey, she's woken up? She's been missing for weeks. Priti Vacant. Quote Priti Patel accused of avoiding MPs’ scrutiny during national crisis Home secretary failed to reply to repeated requests to give evidence amid Covid-19 crisis The home secretary, Priti Patel, has been accused by an influential group of MPs of avoiding scrutiny at a time of national emergency, a tranche of correspondence has revealed. Yvette Cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee, has written to Patel six times – most recently in a letter issued on Wednesday – in an attempt to fix a date for the home secretary to give evidence in public to the committee, but a date for a hearing has not been confirmed. After repeatedly ignoring correspondence from Cooper, Patel replied to the committee chair on Tuesday telling her she was “disappointed at the increasingly adversarial tone of our exchanges” and declining an invitation to give evidence remotely on 15 April. She reluctantly agreed to appear before the MPs at the end of the month, but did not set a date. Grauniad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 36 minutes ago, blandy said: Only shops that sell food, drink, DIY maintenance stuff and other things deemed essential are allowed to open. IF you go for some food, and see, I dunno, a pot plant, or some scissors, or some flowers or something then why prevent the shop selling that to you - why deprive them the profit, why deprive a wife or husband a birthday present - in essence some jobsworth deciding "you can't sell scissors, but you can sell cutlery is too far. I get people going out solely for [flowers] should not be, and if that's your point, I agree. Tbh, I’m confused by the whole thing. Non essential shops are all closed, what is open that police are saying you shouldn’t be buying? If I got to Sainsbury’s buy food, beer and wine, will I get into trouble for the alcohol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: And the relevancy is? We're not talking about 'all parties' It's shallow whataboutism at best. Good news Boris is out of intensive care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 11 minutes ago, snowychap said: He's trying to claim now that he didn't say this. Looks like someone received an angry telephone call 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 9, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2020 46 minutes ago, ml1dch said: Does that mean we're allowed to call him rude words again without people swooning like a Victorian countess who's caught a touch of the vapors? He's a Beatles fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Genie said: Tbh, I’m confused by the whole thing. Non essential shops are all closed, what is open that police are saying you shouldn’t be buying? If I got to Sainsbury’s buy food, beer and wine, will I get into trouble for the alcohol? No. Or at least you shouldn't. It's about having a reasonable excuse and the list in the regulations is not exhaustive. If you're off to the supermarket on a booze run and the only thing you pick up with your 6 bottles of Pinot Noir is some olives and a pack of Fro sourdough crackers then plod might have a case to suggest to you that your excuse wasn't, actually, reasonable. Edited April 9, 2020 by snowychap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, PaulC said: Good news Boris is out of intensive care It is. Not sure why you quoted my post to say that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Genie said: I don’t understand this issue of buying non essential items from the shop. Why don’t they tell the shops to take them off the shelves, or close the isles of we’re not allowed to buy them. Not sure it's so much that really. If you are in the supermarket/shop for your food, bog roll & paracetamol and end up buying a plant, a bottle of wine & some other random things i don't think anyone really cares but when people are going out specifically just to buy the plant/tin of paint/picture frame, bottle of wine etc it isn't really an essential trip is it. Tabloids are full of pictures of people with trollies full of just compost, plants, home decorating stuff. I know people still need to do stuff during the time off but it isn't a gigantic bank holiday and some/lots of people are taking the piss Guess the moral of the story is if you are going out to buy some needless shit buy some food too... Edited April 9, 2020 by LakotaDakota 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, snowychap said: No. Or at least you shouldn't. It's about having a reasonable excuse and he list in the regulations is not exhaustive. If you're off to the supermarket on a booze run and the only thing you pick up with your 6 bottles of Pinot Noir is some olives and a pack of Fro sourdough crackers then plod might have a case to suggest to you that your excuse wasn't, actually, reasonable. It would be interesting to see the court case where they argue olives and crackers don’t count as essential food. I guess they’d need to search the house. If you already had beans and chips then the olives would be frivolous. Empty cupboard, and those olives are essential. Or perhaps they’d base it on ethnic background. He’s from Maesteg, those olives are nothing more than an affectation. Ah yes, but his family are Italian immigrants... Anyway, for those that missed it, there was a food related item on R4 earlier. About making use of the stuff already in your cupboard to minimise those shopping trips. The examples of stuff you might already have in the cupboard? Falafel and dried rose petals. I can’t think how they could have made it more radio 4, fair play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: It is. Not sure why you quoted my post to say that though. Because I didn’t look through the thread just saw your reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: Not sure it's so much that really. If you are in the supermarket/shop for your food, bog roll & paracetamol and end up buying a plant, a bottle of wine & some other random things i don't think anyone really cares but when people are going out specifically just to buy the plant/tin of paint/picture frame, bottle of wine etc it isn't really an essential trip is it I won't lie, I finished work and went to get a couple of bottles of wine from the off licence, which isn't obviously essential but what is essential in an off licence? Good news about Boris anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Makes me laugh on Boris’s Wikipedia. Kids, 5 or 6. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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