Police chiefs across the UK have imposed Asbo-style bans in city and town centres giving officers additional powers to break up Easter gatherings. This includes the power to confiscate items such as alcohol. Those who breach certain orders can be jailed for up to three months or fined up to £2,500. The Telegraph has the story.
Police chiefs have imposed Asbo-style bans in city and town centres across the UK giving officers extra powers to break up groups of Easter revellers.
The dispersal orders allow officers to require anyone aged over 10 engaged in or likely to participate in “anti-social behaviour” to be banned from an area for up to 48 hours.
They also get powers to confiscate items such as alcohol and anyone in breach of the order by refusing to leave or returning within 48 hours can be jailed for up to three months and/or fined up to £2,500.
The move follows large groups of people gathering in city centres this week to celebrate the easing of lockdown and enjoy the warm Spring weather, leaving police struggling to break them up and huge mounds of litter that council officers have had to clear up.
Manchester has issued a 48-hour disposal order for the entire city centre until Saturday 3pm after a rave saw major breaches of Covid regulations and social distancing being disregarded by hundreds of young people.
Warm weather, coupled with lockdown fatigue, has drawn people out of their homes this week, much to the disappointment of the Government which has urged people not to “blow it“.
Inspector Jonathan Shilvock, of Greater Manchester police’s city division, says:
This week we have seen an increase in antisocial behaviour as people gather in large groups and are hostile towards our officers who attempt to engage with them and explain the coronavirus legislation which remains firmly in place even with some of the restrictions now being lifted.
This type of irresponsible behaviour causes concern for local residents and has a negative impact within the community.
I would like to reassure the public that you will see an increased police presence in the area and our officers will be enforcing the dispersal order where appropriate and issuing fixed penalty notices for breaches of Covid legislation.
Dispersal orders have been imposed in many other areas across the country, including Leeds, Shrewsbury town centre and Nottingham.
Earlier this week, police chiefs warned that the “Rule of Six” is almost unenforceable, but today’s news contradicts reports that, because of this difficulty, officers will take a more “permissive” approach than in lockdown.
The Telegraph’s report is worth reading in full.
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It’s clear to me that Ed Miliband is a much more important scientist than Newton or Einstein and David Lammy is a much greater intellectual than Shakespeare or Orwell. So I fully support the complete destruction of anything resembling education in our schools and universities and its replacement by propagandising which someone like Goebbels would envy.
To quote one of my favourite YouTubers, “David Lammy has the IQ of a pull-along duck!”
Is it really as high as that? But then it might be a cunning shield of his actual agenda. Probably not the good of Britain!
But is of less use…
The Scottish education system used to be one of the best in the world but it has been going downhill for decades thanks to leftist teaching union influence, culminating in the SNP’s introduction of its “Curriculum for Excellence”, which it is anything but.
Perhaps they are worried that if they teach too much history then someone might learn from it
Teaching English and European history to people who are later supposed to accept their eternal white guilt because there was really no difference between the Empire and the mythological Nazis except that it was even worse would obviously be counterproductive.
If the goal is to create a suitably malleable mass of future voters, these must remain uneducated in anything beyond what we’d call political opinions they’re supposed to accept as dogmas which are beyond questioning.
What, MORE at the centre?!
It gives a whole new meaning to the line from Yeats: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”. If you overstuff the centre, everything at the increasingly remote edges will fall off the cliff.
I’m not sure Sir Keir Starmer is full of passionate intensity
In a marxo-fascist system the primary purpose of the education system is compliance training.
Students must unquestioningly accept the latest dogma. Independent thinking should be discouraged and, if necessary, penalized.
Educating the slaves beyond the basics is unnecessary. Adolph’s idea for the sub-aryan slave races was the minimum necessary for them to be able to perform simple manual labour for the master race.
Yep. Indoctrination not Education.
Time to end nationalised, statism, state owned education.
We are not smarter than our forbears.
I remember taking an exit high school exam (North America) from 1898. I did not score that well. I doubt today most 17 yr olds would have a prayer passing it.
Education deflation + grade inflation.
So, the story is basically Labour guys from Oxford recommends that Labour government use the opportunity to replace the curriculum with the Labour party manifesto because that’s more relevant to the world of today than mathematics or knowing about (doubtlessly ‘terribly white’) English monarchs of the past.
That’s basically the same story as the Essex police report just for education: Left-wing politicians extending their tentacles into all areas of society because they’re seriously convinced that their political opinions are really universal truths while everything else is as untrue and as it is evil.
The Civil Service is mostly OxBridge and have done their damnedest to run the country irrespective of government and electoral wishes. The Russians have recruited their spies from Oxford and Cambridge.
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”
George Orwell
The top maybe all Oxbridge but the rest seem to be dolts. WFH; 4 day week ; no progression except increments of salary. Why do there seem to be few capable CS?
Oxbridge is long lost, and can’t be trusted – they’d sell anything, especially to China.. “For those who are in, the things that are in are out”. JW, Cantab
Didn’t Brown sell our Gold for Euros?
Yes teaching that the Earth is flat was also once part of the curriculum.
I guess they will also be blocking X (see article in this edition) in the UK and websites such as The Daily Sceptic because only the elite have the right to exchange ideas and think.
Education Endless Marxist Propaganda
As a chemistry teacher 2000-2020 i was made to teach / indoctrinate global warming etc and carbon capture as fact for OCR exams. I was well known for my sceptisim in the science dept.
I wonder what method of “carbon” capture was taught? The energy equations must have been interesting or perhaps too difficult! The process will produce more emissions than it removes unless wind and solar are free and infinite. Never mind!
I wonder how many parents are thinking of home schooling or partnering up with other parents to do this.
If I had children of school going age, I would seriously consider it.
As a retired Headteacher, may I compliment you on a wonderful book. I am a ministerial appointment as a Director to CCEA, the N.Ireland curriculum and exam board. I have frequently bemoaned the absence of any professional debate around the topic of “What is education for” and this, again as you remark, means the latest government or public hobby horse becomes the central issue. Our children are not being taught to read and count yet at board level we are spending our time debating what is appropriate and what age is age appropriate for sex education. Our Dept of Education is pressing ahead despite CASS and despite me repeatedly contesting the “scientifically accurate ” mantra. I have regularly quoted your views!
The answer to this question (Which age ...) is extremely simple: Sex is by definition private and hence, the government has absolutely no business in this area. Not at 5, not at 10 and not at 15, just never. That some half-ossified UN perverts believe differently would warrant paying more attention to their hobbies than they’d probably like instead of forcing children into not-so-covert sexting with adults.
and implemented via the inspection process. https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/brownstone-look-whos-in-the-classroom
and 70 + articles entitled “What are we doing to our children?” as I opposed government restrictions on children and, indeed, on all of us-based on the evidence and the data eg the youngest person to die OF Covid in N.Ireland was 38 , yet we closed schools, harmed children and no one is responsible.
The harm from the useless lies we were fed daily on TV by the supposed “scientists” and clearly didn’t have a clue was a crime against humanity. Why there are no prosecutions is completely insane.
Basically, they’re planning to ditch education for concentrated brainwashing. We should be grateful that their intentions are so clear …. so those who have them can properly educate their children themselves.
They have broken Universities and now they have nearly broken schools with their hard left rubbish. Neither subject is important in the big picture. It is all a game to the fools.
Just when you thought our children couldn’t become less educated. along comes the Wendolene-lookalike with a further round of dumbing down.
If I had a school aged child I would pull him or her out of any British school so fast their little head would be spinning!. This country is going downhill so fast it is frightening.
and Dr Tate’s article in action. Rousseau. Implemented via the inspection process-this is how it is done.
https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/brownstone-look-whos-in-the-classroom