Posted on 01/11/2021 10:26:55 AM PST by george76
And no talking in supermarkets..
The British government has reportedly discussed upping COVID restrictions even further by only allowing people to leave their homes once per week.
Claiming that the National Health service is at breaking point, the government is said to be considering implementing stricter rules, including compulsory mask-wearing outdoors, and banning so called ‘extended bubbles’, where people are allowed to meet one person from another household.
Most chilling, however, is the revelation that cabinet ministers have privately debated preventing people from talking to each other in the street and in supermarkets, and even preventing people from leaving home more than once per week, and introducing curfews.
Speaking to reporters, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said “We’re reviewing all the restrictions,” adding “I am worried about supermarkets and people actually wearing masks and following the one-way system, and making sure when it’s at capacity they wait outside the supermarket.”
“I’m worried about some of the pictures I’ve seen of social interactions in parks, if you have to exercise you can go out for exercise only,” Zahawi said.
A Government source also told the Daily Telegraph that the current rule allowing people to meet up with one person from another house to exercise is “being used as an excuse for people to go for a coffee in the park with their friends” and will likely be scrapped.
The source added that the government is discussing “making sure people aren’t using their own creativeness to interpret the rules how they want to.”
The report suggests that enforcement of the rules will be upped even more, with on the spot fines, potentially being upped from £200 to £500.
The revelations come after a weekend where police were seen cracking down on people in the streets of Britain.
Video emerged of policing arresting people who were walking, sitting on benches and drinking coffee outside.
After the footage went viral, police claimed, without any evidence, that the whole thing was staged by ‘anti-lockdown protesters’:
In addition, two women were interrogated and fined by police for going on a walk in a remote area 5 miles from where they lived despite this not being illegal under coronavirus laws. Police told the women that hot drinks they were carrying constituted a “picnic”.
Video also emerged of police officers themselves sitting down in a cafe drinking coffee, with the person filming them questioning why they were not following the rules:
In a separate incident, a couple with a baby and a pushchair were grilled by COVID police in Birmingham city centre merely for walking on the street. The report noted that the Police Community Support Officers then began quizzing people who had arrived at a pharmacy to pick up prescription drugs.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, a family was arrested after police entered their home acting on a tip off from a neighbor that there were “too many people inside.”
One local police force even angrily tweeted about “2 reports of snowballs being thrown” in violation of coronavirus lockdown rules.
Last week, we reported on the announcement by police of the adoption of a new ‘hardline’ lockdown policy to stop and question people if they are out in the street, and to issue on the spot fines if they cannot provide a reasonable excuse for being out of their houses.
Police also said they would specifically target ‘anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine protesters’, saying that “we now have a hardcore element who are against the rules.”
Police are also demanding new powers to force entry into the homes of suspected lockdown violators.
The government has been criticised for implementing a third lockdown, wherein everyone is restricted to gathering in parks and going to the supermarket only.
Critics say it forces people into the same spaces, rather than allowing people to spread out naturally.
Reports emerged at the weekend that restrictions were due to stay in place until at least March 23, yet the government has not given any official timeline for how long the lockdown will last, or any indications of when restrictions will be tightened or relieved.
Meanwhile, in Wuhan…
Hose them down, then back to their cages.
A high school buddy of mine lives in Costa Rica(and has for many years) told me while back he got to drive to town once a week for 2 hours to get essentials. Otherwise, stay home. Not sure of the current restrictions there.
The U.K. population appears to be in the state that our new congressCRITTERS envy.
However, hopefully, we still have the backbone to make our “leaders” worry about us. Very much worry. Afraid to leave their homes worry. Sweat worry.
Time to go full Gandhi; they can’t arrest everyone in a peaceful protest; there’s no room.
Incredible. I saw the video of the family in Scotland where the neighbors had alerted authorities to the terrifying fact that their neighbors had visitors in the house (other family, IIRC). They dragged the man outside and shoved him face down in the snow and one or two of them held him there while the other two fought with the older woman in the house (probably his wife) and a couple of other family members (teenagers, they looked like).
I think they arrested all of them.
That’s what Biden would love to see happen here. Total control. The poor Brits...their problem was that they’re too polite and didn’t fight back in time, and now the state’s power is so consolidated that I don’t know what they’ll do. A lesson for us?
Somewhere in Hell, Hitler is smiling.
The tyranny is almost total and the people have no means to resist. This much thuggery should be met with extreme violence, but it won’t.
And you do know that these powers are here to stay?
And of course there will be another strain, another new virus, or another new crisis, emergency, whatever that will perpetually demand curtailment of the free movement of people, free speech, the ability to assemble... All for the environment, national security, or public safety of course.
Government and the corporate slave masters finally have what they wanted for a long time.
Total control.
The fact that a government thinks it can do this is... distressing.
The fact that the Brits are allowing them to do this, is even more so.
We need to end our ‘special relationship’ with the UK. They’re not sort of country we should associate with.
I rarely get out more than once a week...health not so good.
But I would like to retain the ability/chance to get out whenever I wish.
This covid mess is getting the masses used to onerous restrictions on their liberty. :-(
FauXi’s ‘rona sat on a wall
FauXi’s ‘rona had a great fall
All of the lockdowns
And mask up charades
Couldn’t rebottle the ‘rona I’m ‘fraid.
UK Police Boast About Fining Person Eating A Kebab, Alone, In A Car..
The Covid crackdown is now in full force..
https://summit.news/2021/01/11/uk-police-boast-about-fining-person-eating-a-kebab-alone-in-a-car/
... and so is Stalin.
Tyrants love their new found power.. they will never give it without a push back from us.
This may fuel Scottish independence but their leaders are not much better. However they might be contrarian just out of disgust for the English.
I predict that soon people will be told to surrender their dogs because walking them will be illegal.
instead of having to build more prisons/gaols...now UK and soon probably USA will simply imprison their subjects/citizens in their own private homes
much cheaper and easy, too
gotta hand it to these commie/nazi leftists... they can be rather clever at times
Absolutely hilarious! The Nazis did nothing as severe as this during the years they occupied France before the Normandy invasion. If they had, they’d have been rightfully denounced as utterly oppressive conquerors. Churchill must be spinning in his grave.
Rather than end our relationship, I suspect that a Biden/Harris Administration would love to do the same thing for those of us that they haven't locked up or killed as their defined Domestic Terrorists.
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