Friday 23 October 2020

Regarding Lockdowns Here In The UK,

rules are getting more complicated and incomprehensible by the day,


the above photograph is of the officer leading the national police response to the pandemic, who admitted he did not know the lockdown rules, Owen Weatherill,(above), told MPs the new three-tier system was too confusing and the public needed simpler messages, the assistant chief constable proved his point by failing to clarify that households must not mix indoors in Tier Two areas, questioned on the issue, he could only reply: 'I have not got the regulations in front of me so I cannot give you a definitive answer on that, there are so many different variations – I am not conversant with every set of regulations.' In Great Britain ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not" and "ignorance of law excuses no one" respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of it’s content, I wonder if he knows that? And if that was not bad enough, another police chief also slipped up during the farcical session of the Commons home affairs committee, Lancashire Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said: 'The big one for me moving from Tier Two to Three is your household not mixing with others inside your household – not mixing or going out for a meal with people from another household.' Yvette Cooper, the Labour chairman of the committee, pointed out this was wrong because household mixing indoors is banned in both tiers, what brought this on was a post I made yesterday regarding a gyms interpretation of the law, on a serous note, going back to the article, if police chiefs are not sure of the law what chance has a beat officer got following his chiefs example, and what chance have we poor saps got of interpreting what senior police officers say, if they are incorrect themselves?


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