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Councils can now issue £500 on-the-spot fines for swearing, busking, begging, street preaching, feeding the birds, or not showing a dog poo bag - up from £100. #PSPOs
See our briefing here -
freedomineverydaylife.org/50…
ALT Respect Orders in force today. People can now be imprisoned, and given a criminal record, for nothing more than entering a particular area of town, asking for 50p, or feeding the birds.
Civil Injunction imprisonments included -
- two men for feeding the birds
- a woman for 18 months for calling 999
- a woman for 18 months for entering and attempting to sleep in the YMCA
- Several people for begging or for sleeping rough, including a woman for asking for 50p.
The Respect Order will not bring respect, nor will it bring order. It means prison for things that were otherwise perfectly legal. Read our briefing: freedomineverydaylife.org/re…
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For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️
Councils issued nearly 25,000 Community Protection orders last year, against dinosaurs, messy gardens, bunting and 'staring'. The on-the-spot fine is about to rise to £500.
There are people receiving legal orders in England and Wales today because a council officer didn’t like the wood stacked in their front garden. Others received legal orders restricting the lyrics of the music they play in their home, or the water fountain they have in their garden.
Criminalised for a water fountain freedomineverydaylife.substa…
At last, @ukhomeoffice has banned ‘payment per fine’ and other corrupt enforcement practices
This should end the racket of private companies incentivised to fine homeless people for begging, or people for swearing or feeding the birds
Important new guidance is result of a decade of campaigning - and recent victories in the Lords by @TimClementJone1 and @Fox_Claire
See our guide to the changes here -
freedomineverydaylife.org/ca…
The Community Protection Notice allows an official to stand on your doorstep and write out a law for you.
It means it’s a crime to do something that someone else doesn’t like.
Nearly 25,000 Community Protection Orders issued in past year - for offences such as messy gardens.
Councils are using criminal powers to order residents to silence their garden fountains or take down bunting.
This is criminalisation on the basis of taste.
Police get powers to raid homes and seize vehicles of electric car drivers, to enforce new pay-per-mile rules.
Why does every new policy come with powers for officials to enter your home and seize your property?
This is little more than another power grab by the state.
We are quoted in the Daily Mail today:
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
