Oh, FFS!

March 30, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General Rants, misanthropy 15

Fucking Hell!

Police have been warning shopkeepers not to sell Easter eggs as ‘overzealous’ enforcement during the coronavirus lockdown continues today.

Officers in several parts of the country have shocked retailers by trying to stop them from selling they consider non-essential, including chocolate gifts, even though there is no official guidance from the Government.

These include Easter eggs, which would usually be flying off the shelves with Easter Sunday less than a fortnight away, according to The Times.

Christ on a bike, these arseholes are enjoying every minute of this. Robert Peel will be spinning in his grave.

15 Comments

  1. The stupidity of these kinds of actions almost belies belief. Aside from the obvious point of the almost instantaneous damage to the Police’s reputation at a time of national emergency, and the sheer ridiculousness of the intervention (people will mostly be shopping for other items anyway) there is the small matter of the precedent this creates

    Who are the Police to be dictating what food is acceptable and what is not? Are Easter Eggs unacceptable but bars of chocolate ok? Where is the line? How about all those other non-essential food selections, like Quinoia, wines, artisan breads?

    What about sugar? Nobody needs that. What about donuts? How will the eejits of the UK police continue to function without stuffing donuts into their faces?

    Where is the line?

  2. I’m treating this one with a pinch of salt until a bit more info comes out. I don’t think that it passes the sniff test to be honest.

  4. Where else but the Daily Wail could you get such overblown scaremongering hype. They’re becoming as bad as the bloody Guardian. Its a bad time for news on anything except the so called pandemic – everyone is at home, the streets are near dead and as a result crime has dropped to an all time low. So take a non story and twist it, hyper sensationalize until it becomes click bait. Here’s some proper scary news for you.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpq_KvSKVD8&feature=emb_logo

    • I disagree with this, the Police are not useless, they would be a very effective force in a combative situation – after seeing Plod mince around in makeup at gay pride events, the enemy would all die laughing.

  6. Well there goes all the Easter egg hunts the parents have planned to amuse the kids with during this enforced long holiday!!! If they are on the shelves why not sell them before they go beyond their sell by date and therefore wasted.

    I work in a care home, we have one more delivery slot this week then nothing. Can only order 80 items, half what is usually purchased. No different rules despite being a home for vulnerable people. Can’t order any cheese which they all eat a lot of. The manager is going to have to start rationing food. We are having to buy food for them with our shopping, if we can get it. One carer picked up bake beans and spaghetti hoops to be told she can only have one type as they are the same thing!!!!

    If The Coronavirus don’t get us starvation will!!

    • @Flamingo girl

      Yes, the retail rationing with no regard for mouths need fed is stupid and counter productive

      Why is care home buying retail? They should be using wholesale cash&carry eg Bookers, Makro

  7. Boris needs to order plod etc to back off, as MoS Comment said. If they don’t, they risk losing what little trust we have left in them. A society where vast majority detest plod and inter alia Gov will not prosper instead civil war may happen

    Plenty of Easter Eggs in Morrisons today

    Loads of 95% off 2.5kg potatoes again too – all destined for bin as customers not allowed in

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