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18 Feb, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Oh my goodness. I'm not sure where to start.

This is the Home Office, the government department responsible for law and order.

This tweet and video grossly misstate the law.

All gatherings are *not* illegal. There are a huge number gatherings which *are* legal...
Meeting up is not "against the law"

Some gatherings are prohibited but if you read the law itself there are many exceptions including where reasonably necessary for:
- Work
- Volunteering
- Accessing social services
- Assisting vulnerable people
- Suport groups
- Avoiding harm..
In case the Home Office has lost the link to the law, here it is legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374…
This video is ridiculous (The music! The footage! It's like something from The Simpsons) but aside from that, it is fear-mongering and legally illiterate. It could lead to people misunderstanding and not e.g. leaving home to access assist the vulnerable. It should be removed
I have no issue with the Home Office advertising that gatherings indoors for parties are currently illegal - but this isn't the way to do it.
Excellent
If the Home Office are interested in what the actual lockdown laws say, here are some links:
- Thread on current lockdown
- Thread on the 'house party' fixed penalty notices
- Hotel quarantine
And here is my YouTube video explaining the lockdown laws

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12 Feb
The hotel quarantine regulations have just arrived, coming into force 4am on Monday 15 Feb

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel)
(England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/150/…

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/150/…

Let's dive in...
First up is the new requirement to book tests on days 2 and 8 after arriving in the UK. The helpful explanatory memorandum is the third image.
Note that these are amendments to another regulation (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/568/…) so very difficult to follow. As per usual. Inexcusable that these have been published *zero* working days before they come into force and will not be scrutinised by Parliament at all before they do
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12 Feb
It’s Valentine’s Day this Sunday. In this thread I show that private meetings and sex between consenting adults who don’t live together has mostly been illegal in England for almost a year... 💔
... if you are in Leicester indoor meetings for dating/sex between people who don’t live together it has been illegal since 26 March 2020. In Manchester, it’s almost the entire time since 26 March.
I think that’s in this respect England has had the strictest regime in Europe and possibly the world. As I understand it, European states tend to allow meetings between two people who do not live together for any reason indoors.
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11 Feb
How odd - the woman at Crosby beach was not, in fact, given a Fixed Penalty Notice because the "on reflection" it was not proceeded with. Unclear when that decision was made though. I assume the "conversations on social media" is referring to my conversation with the force...
This was the exchange
"the fixed penalty notice has now been issued"

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11 Feb
The mandatory hotel quarantine guidance has been published gov.uk/guidance/booki…
Fees
You can apply for deferred payment if you can't afford the fees
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11 Feb
This guidance is stricter than law. The law permits exercise including with one other person not from household. That applies to children as much as it does for adults. There is no reason in law why any child (whether they have a garden or not) could not play in a playground. /1
Another crucial point is that children under 5 are not included in the limits for taking exercise with one other person. So there is no reason in law why two parents from different households could not be together exercising with their 4 children under 5 /2
Also included is "where exercise is being taken as part of providing informal childcare for a child aged 13 or under, one or more members of their linked childcare household" /3 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374…
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11 Feb
Still no sign of hotel quarantine regulations.

If tomorrow, no prospect of a parliamentary vote on them until *after* they are brought into force.

This is a law which will lead to the detention of potentially thousands of British adults and children - zero prior scrutiny.
This is a policy which has been on the cards not just for days, or weeks, but for months. Absolutely no justification for using the emergency procedure which requires "by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make the order without a draft being so laid and approved."
We currently only know the bare bones of the policy. We don't know key details:
- How will the charge work? Will it be means tested?
- What happens to disabled people who can't reasonably be detained?
- What about unaccompanied children?
- Who will guard hotels?
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