As some point you have to believe when governments around the Western World all act the same way, it’s not a coincidence, it’s a coordinated decision.
Look at Covid, nearly every Western Country acted the same, some more harsh than others, but only Sweden actually did something different.
Defunding or making the police back off criminals is not only happen around many parts of the US, now it’s happening in the UK, IMO, this is not by accident.
What’s probably going to happen is brick and mortar stores will close or mostly close. Those that remain will look like stores of the early nineteen hundreds where you approach a counter, pay for the item and someone or something goes to the back and gets it. There will probably be an airlock that requires the other door to be closed before the next door can be opened. Someone will actively push a button to open one or both doors.
It’s worth noting that the UK is currently governed by the Tories, Britain’s “conservative” party. Should the radical Labour Party win the next election, things will get worse, much worse.
And most polls do predict a Labour win.
A FREEPORT elsewhere suggested this is a way to shut down brick and mortar stores... we would all be stuck purchasing online where 1. they can use our purchases for social credit scoring, 2. prohibit some people from buying, as they now try to prohibit “deplorables” from having bank accounts, and 3. turn us into a cashless society.
More and more I feel like emigrating. We are going down a darker and darker path.
On the road to owning nothing and you WILL be happy you little pieces of dung.
Businesses will start throwing in the towel because they are losing their a**, and then we will beg government to save us.
Then come the human control pounds—you’re a stray in need of caring
You’re sick? Well you need euthanizing. Canada is already on it.
The rest? We will give you an allowance and you can get said amount of things online and that are approved and then delivered to your door.
Bathe on approved days, go to an outdoor park on your approved day, we will feed you a proper diet.
You will sit safely with your computer all day and with with complete supervision
Admittance to store by certified cell phone app only.
We may disable your cell phone for what we feel is just cause. Just cause includes shoplifting or vandalism. All cases to be further adjudicated by arbitration.
It is apparently worse than this in the UK. According to YouTuber ‘History Debunked’, police are no longer investigating home burglaries. Homeowners report the crime and are given a crime report number to file with their insurance and that’s it. All handled by phone.
Constables have their hands full investigating crimes committed against gay/trans flags being burnt in people’s back yards/gardens and social media posts that bother some people.
Model 675JL might only be lawfully sold at John Lewis under UK law.
Ryobi 332HD might only be lawfully sold at Home Depot under US law.
Canon 123BB might only be lawfully sold at a big box retailer under US law.
If people try to sell certain models outside the system, they might considers felons under national law.
Detroit is what happens when crime gets too bad.
One black man I heard said he came from Destroyt.
old fashioned hard-to-remove price gun stickers
Waitrose
Salisbury
SKU 1003
They are easy to apply and could be made very hard to remove.
They might reduce the need to place lots of merchandise in locked containers.
Ink labeling guns could also identify products as say Walgreens and make it hard to fence items.
absolutely close the stores , or put bars on the windows and make the entrances have a turnstyle gate while you must look straight into a camera for a photo op..maybe have to show your license...OR conversely, leave the door open but have a guard with a shotgun up on a high ladder.....
“Close all the stores and let the woke idiots figure it out themselves”
As you know from living in Chicago, Dem voters are not fast studies, even when shot, robbed and raped they will elect a “Brandon”. May be when they can’t get food…….but don’t bet on it.
British spokesman: “We got the idea from watching American television news reports.”
Except for right side steering wheels for the getaway SUVs waiting outside it’s pretty much identical over here.