COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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I think our refuse collectors deserve their money, they’ve been here every week and on time, not missed any of the four bins since it began.
The comment was about working from home. Refuse collectors working from home was a bit of a joke.

As a matter of interest, our council cancelled all green bin collections... as of last Monday. Having told us the last collection would be the Thursday prior, so everyone went out, mowed the lawn, cut the hedge, weeded the garden etc so we could get the bin collected before the cut off. And then they didn't collect it and are now refusing to collect it. So we all have green bins crammed to the lids and no collections on the horizon. Genius.
 
I do think we need to be careful about these alleged ‘crimes’ and the range of powers we are happy to give to the police. Breaking up parties or groups of people is one thing but a lot of the other stuff seems a bit over zealous. For example, the Northampton chief constable is talking about going through peoples shopping to check they’ve only bought ‘essentials’ whatever they are. Presumably they’ll then confiscate what they don’t think is essential, with no refund and no right of appeal?
5 forces have now got forms to report people on line who, according to the reporter, are ‘flouting the rules’.
It’s very easy to give power to the state and its institutions but often more difficult to take them back and we might just need to be careful what we wish for..

Sorry to disagree with some of your post like a lot of what you put on.
But we have had in spain looking in bags road blocks stop and search since day one and now been at it four weeks and just been informed it could be another four.
We have all been sent a police phone number to grass people who flout the lockdown.
Without these police measures and leaving it to the dickheads we may have nobody to complain to
 
Unless they're sending one of those bomb disposal robots to do it, how are they going to maul through people's shopping in a safe manner?
 
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