Well, I Think They're Knobs

A certificate!? Now you're just showing off.

 

I was obviously well know in Hammersmith at the time, as they asked for my signature, and made sure it was a genuine autograph by asking for my licence as well. (I also made a large donation to their beer fund a couple of months later)

 

The rule is absolutely clear. Only politicians, the police, the media, and some people on social media are confused.

The law does not prohibit travelling by car, van, lorry, bicycle, skateboard, skis, roller skates, public transport, or, indeed, motorcycle, to exercise, or shop, or buy a takeaway or, well... to do anything.

Similarly it does not say that you cannot do these things more than once a day, or for more than an hour, or while carrying a drink or a packet of crisps or a pork pie.

I have no problem with people who want to follow the guidance, but they should not try to make others believe that it's the law.

 

I agree with this statement. In my mind it is the media leading the charge and winding the other idiots up.

 

I don't have a problem with Johnson cycling 7 miles away from Downing Street. The further, the better. It's the fact that he went back again that bothers me...

 

Isn't it always?

DS

 

Yep, the media have a lot to answer for ...

 

I guess what I should have said is that it’s confusing that the Guidance and what is set in law is quite different. So either the guidance needs to reflect what can be policed by law or the law needs refining to back up the guidance.

 

I'm pretty sure that the confusion is intentional.

Look at that line from the gov.uk guidance web page:
"You should follow this guidance immediately. This is the law."

They could have written something like:
The government recommends that you follow this guidance.
The current legislation can be found here.

Even if people look for information they are faced with what looks like a calculated deception. I wonder if the behavioural scientists in SAGE's SPI-B group had anything to do with that.

 

We have a very nice gym which we work hard to keep open, plus if you walk round each deck and up or down all the stairways you cover about 6 miles. I would be ever so slim if I did that every day

 

An awful lot of people get very confused over the difference between should and must in legislation as it is. The police seem to have great difficulty doing this, perhaps they use wikipedia to get definitions.