Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and used diapers have eyes;
Householders in a seaside town have been told to put their bins out at the front of their homes and not in an alleyway to the rear.They must also leave their rubbish out between set times to ensure it does not attract pests or miss the dust cart.
To enforce the new rules, a camera will be placed in a rubbish bag and left in an alleyway to blend in with the surroundings to catch offenders. Those filmed breaking the rules will be given a ticking off.
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More than 30 councils have already secretly fitted microchips to wheelie bins as the Government comes under increasing pressure to increase recycling rates.
Going to be fun to see how much the average Kipper will take before voting Conservative.
Going to be even more fun to see if their Conservatives have the stones to take that country in a more healthy direction.
So... anyone care to venture a guess as to how long it will be before the &10,000 pound gadget is inadvertently taken away as rubbish or smashed to bits by local citizens who now have a good reason to kick any miscellaneous bin bag they see lying around?
Ugly coinage of the week award: "envirocrimes."
"So... anyone care to venture a guess as to how long it will be before the &10,000 pound gadget is inadvertently taken away as rubbish or smashed to bits by local citizens who now have a good reason to kick any miscellaneous bin bag they see lying around?"
I hate to say it, but as a Canadian who has lived the UK for the past seven years or so, it never ceases to amaze me how utterly supine the British population is about all the myriad regulations, taxes and fees that their government(s) routinely impose on them.
Remember, this is a country where you still have to have a license to operate a TV in your home!*
Say what you will about the Americans, but their reaction would be to put things like this to a "proposition" ballot then promptly turf the buggers responsible out of office.
* Worse still, it's not enough to say you don't have a television in your home, you actually have to prove you don't by letting in the TV Licensing "inspectiors" to search your residence.
You can imagine how long these inspectors would last amongst shotgun-toting good ol' boys in Arkansas!
I don't have a television in my home and while the licencing agency has sent the threatening letter when, in the past we moved in, they never did come and inspect.
I also have a friend over here who does have a TV but refuses to pay the fee. He is up front about it whenever the authority threatens him and always invites them by so that he can explain why it violates his rights. They've yet to take him up on his invitation and have declined to prosecute him.
I suspect the license fee is only enforced against single mothers on welfare and elderly pensioners who don't pay because they can't afford it.
Next...cameras on toilets to make sure the guys put the seat down when they're done?
The rate of State creep in Britain is unbelievable.
May a Great Danelift his leg on said mini-cam.
Big brother gone mad !
This garbage tech links up with RFID tagging on the packaging Brits buy their consumables in...as they are swiped at the supermarket check out, this sends a record of the sale to a central data base tracking the containers...they know who bought it and where it is going and with the RFID in the package they will know where it is disposed of.
This tech was discussed in a RFID chipping seminar I went to some 3 years ago...is it interesting the surveillence tech companies are setting Britain up as public surveillence tech model?
If Brits bend over for this they deserve what's coming next.
The ultimate micro managed society...a bloody human anthill....JS Mill would weep!
Hey, Brits, those little cameras will be in your bathrooms soon enough to make sure you floss your teeth.
With every passing day it looks like Orwell knew the mind of the British well. They are on track in the direction of 1984, somewhat late, but with socialists, things must be cooked up before they are served. He was just slightly ahead of his time.
The problem with Britian is, it's never been able to take out the trash.
The population has deservedly evolved into a nation of rats.
Tony Blair's 3rd way:
The totalitarianism that talked pretty.
If I wanted to terrorize Canada, I would have planted the radio activated explosive devices in the black plastic and brown paper garbage bags dumped across the country.
People dump them, but no body chases after and arrests them, and no one picks up the dumped junk.
It's a freaking $5000 fine - why the hell no one is doing anything to enforce and collect that money? What's better - forcing people to dispose off properly or not going after those jerks, who can't wait till garbage and prefer to drive out in the country to dump a few bags and pieces of broken furniture on the roadside? Pisses me off.
They're going after the wrong garbage, it's the garbage they've allowed in through stupid immigration over the past two decades at least.
That's their biggest stinking mess.
This statement at the end of the article sounds like it was lifted right out of Orwell's 1984:
Ealing council in west London said the hidden cameras would catch people committing "major envirocrimes".
Double plus un-good Rob!
i tell people words will not be sufficent to maintain your freedom, it will happen here, re the garbage police in n.s.
How about capital punishment for litterbugs?
(Make that public executions, and televise it, (so we can watch them getting whacked while eating supper?)
What do "fly tippers" and "ticking off" mean? Why don't these people speak English? ;)
Pretty soon those cameras will be in their kitchens monitoring their meals making sure they were approved by the wheat germ inhaling heath freaks
How many of you remember radio licenses in Canada during WW11. Inspectors did come to check them out. We had a radio but no license, and when word went thru the apt that THEY were looking, we let them in. They never found the radio, but it is funny how they never looked under the sink, where my mother sat on a stool and washed dishes over and over again. My mother had a severe limp, from polio, so told the man, I have great difficulty standing up, without support. They left.
It was mandatory to make sure radios were played very low, but Dad never missed a HNC with Foster Hewitt. We eventually got a license, when we could afford it. We had some kind inspectors then, who failed to see or look very hard.
Bond --- James Bond
JJM said:
"it never ceases to amaze me how utterly supine the British population is about all the myriad regulations"
That's because we've given up and are laying down plans to move to Canada.