Covid Marshals

[Bald Rick]

I see that our Dear Leader is going to put “Covid Marshals” on to the streets to patrol and break up gatherings of more than six and other antisocial activities.

Fine in principle but then I read that these guys n gals are going to be funded from local authority budgets (most are bust or borderline bust) and that they will have no powers to actually enforce the law.

You really cannot make this stuff up

 

[Old Boar]

Fine in priciple, but stick a high vis jacket on someone and give them a bit of power, and they go overboard. Look at what happened when the new rules came out with the police - arresting people sitting alone in a park, telling us that our shopping trollies would be searched for non essential items etc.
I would not like to be a "covid marchal" who tries to break up a group of 10 lads outside a pub!

 

[Ley253]

Animated punch bags! Thats all they will be.

 

[Goweresque]

Let me guess, groups of more than 6 not too dangerous looking middle class types will get fines, groups of diverse stabby types will be left well alone.............

 

[Bald Rick]

Animated punch bags! Thats all they will be.

 

[7610 super q]

Local authority budgets under pressure ? My arse.

£95,000 pay-off for Pembrokeshire council boss

A PAY-OFF of £95,000 will be made as part of a settlement agreement made by Pembrokeshire County Council and its departing chief executive.

www.westerntelegraph.co.uk

 

[uztrac]

The Third Reich started in a similar way,with authorized gangs patroling the streets back in the late 1930's.

 

[czechmate]

The Third Reich started in a similar way,with authorized gangs patroling the streets back in the late 1930's.

And have traffic wardens started executing Jews yet?

 

[Muck Spreader]

The Third Reich started in a similar way,with authorized gangs patroling the streets back in the late 1930's.

Well, its happening in the US.

 

[Hindsight]

Well, its happening in the US.
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Funny old world. If that picture was taken in downtown Mogadishu the Americans would be sending Black Hawks in with Apache support helicopters.

 

[kiwi pom]

Can't win either way. If he does nothing he's blamed for not controlling the virus, if he tries to keep people isolated, the only real way to be effective, he's blamed for destroying the economy and taking away peoples rights.

What choice does he have?

 

[Henarar]

Are they going to have corvid bounty killers as well

 

[Hindsight]

Are they going to have corvid bounty killers as well

Give Rick Deckard a call. He'll sort out these replicants.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Are they going to have corvid bounty killers as well

I think quite a few farmers do that already.

 

[Bald Rick]

Can't win either way. If he does nothing he's blamed for not controlling the virus, if he tries to keep people isolated, the only real way to be effective, he's blamed for destroying the economy and taking away peoples rights.

What choice does he have?

My point was that these marshals are going to be sent in to the streets with no actual powers behind them other than one of persuasion.
Good luck with breaking up a gang of drunken youngsters

 

[Hindsight]

My point was that these marshals are going to be sent in to the streets with no actual powers behind them other than one of persuasion.
Good luck with breaking up a gang of drunken youngsters
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Or even disgruntled middle class 60 year olds!!

 

[betweenthelines]

My point was that these marshals are going to be sent in to the streets with no actual powers behind them other than one of persuasion.
Good luck with breaking up a gang of drunken youngsters

Just like Special Constables then

 

[Bald Rick]

Just like Special Constables then

SC have powers of arrest though and when in uniform are basically plods.
Covid marshals could be anyone from bouncers fancying a fisticuff to nannies wanting to put you on the naughty step.