As Slade’s Noddy Holder explained, regarding his perennial Christmas hit, Merry Christmas, Everybody, Christmas cheer has for centuries been one of the few bright spots in even the darkest British winters. The winter of 1973 was a particularly grim one, with Britain wracked by terror, strikes and shortages. A three-day working week was imposed, electricity was rationed and even the telly cut off at 10.30pm.
“I think people wanted something to cheer them,” said Holder.
There’ll be no such Christmas cheer for the Brits, though, if the Plod have their way.
A police force in the UK has vowed to break up Christmas family gatherings that violate coronavirus ‘social distancing’ restrictions.
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said the force wouldn’t hesitate to intervene in situations where the rules were being broken.
This is the same West Midlands Police, remember, who knew full well for years that Muslim gangs were systematically raping and brutalising thousands of underage white girls, but declined to do anything about it.
“If we think there’s large groups of people gathering where they shouldn’t be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there’s flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce,” Jamieson remarked.
The West Midlands is currently under a Tier 2 lockdown, which means that it’s illegal for two separate households to mix indoors, although there appears to be widespread non-compliance across the country.
Will the rozzers apply the same zeal to breaking up Eid celebrations? Or will they decide that, like prosecuting rape gangs, it would be “racist”?
After all, we know that Victorian police turned a blind eye to large Muslim weddings during that state’s initial lockdown and that Eid gatherings were notable infection hotspots.
But there’ll be no ThoughtCrime tolerated when it comes to Christian festivals.
After BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire said she would break the rules to see her family at Christmas, she was forced to recant and apologize.
Perhaps a Christmas crackdown will be a bridge too far even for the Brits.
Respondents to the news vented their fury.
“Its almost as if the police and politicians are deliberately trying to provoke people. If they do try this at Xmas things will get very nasty very quickly,” said one.
“It is now the time to stand up against this tyranny!” added another.
Others pointed out that without a warrant, police wouldn’t legally be able to enter homes to enforce the rules.
Unless they do a “Dictator Dan” and change that law, too.
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