T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
The lack of opposition doesn't make someones opinion, legislation
Don't ride in groups or we will be stopped cycling completely.
- Thread starter ozboz
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I welcome the fact that there is quite a big disparity between the official advice and what is legal. This gives plenty of flexibility in an ever changing situation and shows that largely the population is following the advice very well. I would not want draconian laws added to the statute that may never get rescinded, I much prefer the 'by consent' approach that we have now.
BigMeatball
Senior Member
Both north and south, although the majority from the north.
Information comes from what they see day to day and what they read in the local news (which seems to be a tad more reliable than the big national one).
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I wasn't quite sure what to make of the "this isn't a request, it's an instruction" comment. What power do they believe they have to issue "instructions" via press release? It's strong words with no teeth which further adds to the "rules vs law" debate, and subsequent confusion or belligerence.
When I want something to happen at work first I hint, then I tell then I enforce. This is actually part of Management Trainning.
Gove hinted keep it reasonable, Hancock told don't push the boundries the next stage seems obvious, the lack of an Opposition makes it easy
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Yup. Nobody would have mentioned 1hr if it wasn't for Goves opinion, but that's taken off on a tangent of it's own.
The legislation allows excercise outdoors with no time limit or geofence.
Michael Goves opinion does not change this,
Matt Hancocks opinion does not change this,
Kier Starmers opinion does not change this,
The lack of opposition govt is highly irrelevant. The Coronavirus 2020 legislation changes when it changes regardless of how many seats Labour have.
The CURRENT legislation what makes you think they can't introduce more?
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I have said multiple times that exercise will be banned, and to do that legislation will have to change.
I even said it in the quoted post above 💁💁
- Location
- London
ok, reason i asked is because i know a fair few northern italians have a very negative view of the south in general. and many in the north,initially at least, didn't cover themselves in glory.
anyways, i still favour the brit approach - i was in central london two days ago, cycling down the mall saw a police car very very slowly cruising Saint james park, even across the grass, they were clearly asking/advising/telling some folks, but only a minority, to go home. rest, the vast majority, they left to themselves as they were clearly being sensible. park wasn't crowded.
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- Location
- London
Disagree - I don't think exercise will be banned at all.
I very much doubt that the police would welcome such a move.
Certain places may be closed for a while if they become too crowded.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
"We will have no choice but to close the parks". British passive-aggressiveness, literally!
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Yes, there's the whole polentoni/terroni thing that can rear its ugly head now and again.
matticus
Guru
A north-south divide you say? How European!
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- Location
- London
Not passive aggressive at all.
Perfectly reasonable.
Much prefer to having a machine gun pointed at me - bbc may not have done italians any favours by, for some reason, in the early days, choosing to continue to use the same bits of film of machine gun armed italian carabinieri on the edge of the squares in front of st peters and milan cathedral.
I will be crusing through a park or two on the bike later - don't recall ever seeing so many folk in crystal palace park as I did the other day but it's a very big park and everyone i saw was being sensible. My circuit round dulwich park circle was getting a bit cramped - not because folk were being nits but because so many folk had ended up there.
So I left and that's how I ended up in central london - one of the best places at the mo I would imagine (I won't go if it changes) to maintain distance in the country. I seemed to notice more police cars than I would normally but none of them bothered me.
- Location
- London
anyone who knows Italy know that it operates in "reverse" in Italy. Not unknown for northerners to call the south Africa. Have had to point this out to one or two southerners who have displayed their own racism.
