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Posted on 07/21/2008 9:26:41 AM PDT by ellery
HOMEOWNERS must let council inspectors in to check for DANCING BEARS after they were handed 1,043 powers to pry.
Armies of clipboard-touting officials can demand entry to check on everything from pot plants to fridges.
Details of the vast array of laws were quietly slipped out to MPs last Tuesday by the Home Office.
The list includes 430 new powers of entry brought in by Labour ministers – a year after a report said there were only 266.
The checks include whether POT PLANTS have pests or imported “passport” documents, or if HYPNOTISM is being practised illegally.
Inspectors can demand to know if homeowners are keeping RABBITS.
Brits must also reveal if their HEDGE is too high under the AntiSocial Behaviour Act, and whether their FRIDGE has the correct EU energy rating under little-known Energy Information Household Refrigerators and Freezers Regulations 2004.
Bureaucrats can also make a sweep for WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
Additionally, penpushers are embarking on a new council tax regime. It allows them to poke around a home and fine those who refuse access.
Invasion of privacy ... what the snoopers can ask In 2007 Gordon Brown promised a bonfire of petty rules – yet 16 more have become law since he became PM.
Tory spokesman Eric Pickles said: “The rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens are being eroded.
“We will cut unnecessary powers of the state to enter homes, starting with council tax inspectors’ rights of entry.”
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I bet a lot of them are now wishing they had not just stood by and let their government take away their guns.
So when does Britain officially get the title of Police State?
“Thought criminal!”
When they outlaw dancing bears, only outlaws will have dancing bears.
Who knew that Monty Python was actually a documentary?
Council inspectors? This is for folks who live in public housing? Doesn’t our HUD do something similar?
Anything with a title like that doesn't belong in a country where I live. Imagine the mischief that the nanny state, political correctors or the anti-gun types could make. The Bill of Rights does make a difference.
“Can we have your liver?”
Only a matter of time, now, I guess.
WHAT... THE...
UK Nanny State Ping.
The Brits were doing this crap in 1776 when we declared independence. The psychology of the country hasn’t changed in 230 years, it has simply reached the logical fruition of its underlying psychoses.
2nd Amendment bump! The Brits have become a complete and total nanny-state that the hard-core Communists of the old Soviet Union would envy. The next time I hear of anyone saying the SAS are hard-core special operations troops I am going to have to assume the SAS is made of foreigners because the nancyboys from England cannot possibly be that tough.
The Cat Inspector Van.
“The Brits were doing this crap in 1776 when we declared independence. The psychology of the country hasn’t changed in 230 years”
Yep. Nothing has changed. They believe the people exist to support the government.
I had a dear friend years ago who lived in Section 8 housing, and they did come and inspect. Her prep for their visit was to clean. I’m sure they checked for more than cleanliness, but I got the gist that they were checking you hadn’t trashed the place.
It's "for the chil'run".
Looking for vandalism, drugs and firearms. I can understand the need. If it’s part of the public housing regs and folks don’t like it, they can move.
I’ve never had any trouble whatsoever keeping them off my property.
Writs of Assitance writ large.
Everyone but the tax assessor, of course.
But NONE of those people has ever been inside my HOUSE uninvited.
Thanks for the ping!
Its a madhouse
Naw Mate... your Rights and Liberties are already GONE. Wake up and smell the police State.
Thank God for Texas.
No, I believe this applies to all homeowners. From everything I’ve read, “council inspectors” represent local government councils.
Here’s a link to the police “powers of entry” document: http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/operational-policing/powers-entry-premises-legislatio
HEDGEJUMPING!
Oh to be young again!
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
With every one of these type stories, I'm increasingly convinced that Great Britons are deeply sorry for their NEGLECT over the centuries to develop and adopt a constitution that defines and limits the powers of the various levels of their government.
They are now reaping the whirlwind of their shortsightedness.
I wonder if the homes of immigrants in immigrant neighborhoods will be subjected to this, or if the immigrants will be allowed to implement their own law.
One notes that Brits do not own 286 million private firearms as do we in the US...
BTTT!
Why is that then? If we had guns, would we blast the council snoopers when they knocked on our door?!
Yes solve our problem of invasion of privacy by getting sent down for a stretch in the slammer. There of course, your privacy is assured...
If the neighbours hedges are 30ft high and blocking out the sun, this means we can get them to trim it. Without resorting to a standoff at the OK Corral.
“The Brits were doing this crap in 1776 when we declared independence. The psychology of the country hasn’t changed in 230 years”
The man speaks as though with a first hand knowledge. I salute you Sir, for being the oldest man alive! 232 years old!
...The next time I hear of anyone saying the SAS are hard-core special operations troops I am going to have to assume the SAS is made of foreigners because the nancyboys from England cannot possibly be that tough...
You toss her! You toss her!!!!
FYI: Great Britain aka, the UK, Britain. Made up of different countries yeah? England yeah? Scotland yeah? Wales yeah? Northern Ireland yeah?
Why is it that Americans cannot understand the difference between the UK and England???!! Did you do basic geography? I, for instance, know that the state of Idaho isn’t the same thing as the USA. Ok, so the same thing applies in this case. Think of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as ‘states’ in a federation that makes up the geopolitical entity as a whole.
How can you have such a tiny grasp of what we are, and your knowledge is that poor that you hardly seem worthy to comment on the subject in a UK thread.
If you have more questions about geography and the simplicity of understanding the difference between England and the UK, please drop me a line, and I will literally S.P.E.L.L it out for ya!
Cos if did we would give those inspectors a bullet from each gun right?!!! I think it tackled idiot comments like this earlier, try and find it.
It will depend on how frightened of the immigrants the authorities are. In France, can you imagine this sort of petty checking in the "no go" zones?
The generally law-abiding, who live as independent, acculturated, and generally cooperative families don't have this gang protection and are easier targets. It happens here, too, although in different ways.
Based on your responses to me, and others, I can tell that it would be pointless to even try discuss the “rights of the individual” with you.
I hope you continue to enjoy the totalitarian police state which your country is becoming.
With “subjects” like you, I do not wonder that it has been so easy for your government to drive Great Britain to ever greater levels of collectivism, and to virtually destroy the rights of the individual.
“Their own Law” is a pretty good bet, I think.
The first word in the story is “homeowners”.
I do not think this is aimed at residents of public housing.
Did they consider city ordinances first, or just take this straight to the Queen?
decaff. try decaff. I grew up in England and know the diff. You sound like one of those techno nerds that has to be technically correct about any subject and is the type of person no one wants to invite to parties because of your poor social skills.
“The man speaks as though with a first hand knowledge. I salute you Sir, for being the oldest man alive! 232 years old!”
Unlike the Brits, we like to learn from history and plenty was written about it during the Revolutionary War period. First hand, maybe not, but first hand written accounts will do just fine.
“You toss her!”
It’s “you tosser!” Decorum prevents me from defining the term any further.
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...The Brits have become a complete and total nanny-state that the hard-core Communists of the old Soviet Union would envy. The next time I hear of anyone saying the SAS are hard-core special operations troops I am going to have to assume the SAS is made of foreigners because the nancyboys from England cannot possibly be that tough...
If you really grew up in the UK as you claim, then how come you made such a simple mistake? Im curious, because no American, or expat Brit it seems, knows the difference between the UK and England.
No, I don’t like the totalitarian state I live in. Yes, I wish the concerns of the people were of greater concern to the Government locked in their Ivory Towers.
I was trying to make a tongue in cheek joke. And asking why exactly having guns would stop council snoopers from coming into our houses. After all, this is a thread about about the subject isn’t it?
Take a joke, come on, I thought that the invasion of privacy and prison was quite good...
I that case, I salute you Sir, for having absolutely no sense of humour!
Bravo!
...Unlike the Brits, we like to learn from history...
Actually, you like to STEAL it, but thats another story altogether. Florence Nightingale, A Great American Patriot!!!
“I think it tackled idiot comments like this earlier, try and find it”
“tongue in cheek joke”, eh? I think not.
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