Would (will?) you snitch on your neighbours?

I’ll be too busy on my grouse shooting expeditions to be interested in what anyone else is doing........

No, I would not. I agree with PinkCakes and add to that list if I suspected terrorist activities.

I have to say that it's refreshing to see so many "nos".

No I wouldn't unless it was a wild rowdy party

well I am glad that I am not the only one to think of 1933 when Hitler began as Chancellor if I recall my history, and we all know what happened then...

so spying on neighbours, reporting them?? I don`t think I would,,, I have remember my history, how it all began and what it descended into... at the age of 9 years old, or thereabouts, I saw Belsen, on the Cinema... and I still see those pictures, the utter horror... and how it all began.

maybe people will be careful to obey the 'rules' in case neighbours 'snitch'. Maybe that's why priti patel said it!

No I wouldn’t. Like some others have commented it’s one rule for the powers that be and another for the British public.

I do not get the mentality behind it! 'GO TO WORK everyone! Eat out to help out! Don't work from home, we need the money! Get your kids back in school pronto, get the sports started again, go to the pub only until 10pm mind, covid doesn't hit you before 10:01pm, but DON'T invite poor isolated grandma round your house for tea and biscuits if you are already a family of six or you'll be heavily fined!'

I think this is being done to stop anyone rioting over the absolute balls up the Tories are making in this country. This isn't about safety, this is about keeping us all divided, compliant, easy to mould.
I hate my Country, and I go to bed scared and sad for my Grandchildren every single night.

Petty Patel needs her arse kicking

no i most definetly would not

No

I agree with PinkCakes I'd only report neighbours for the dreadful things she's mentioned. I know I could rely on them if I was ill or whatever so I wouldn't snitch.

100% NO! NO! NO!

What is the world coming to?
This whole pandemic can be managed by people behaving responsibly, if there are some who choose not- then I make sure I don't go anywhere near them!
Limiting households is another ridiculous measure. If everyone looked at themselves- we would be able to manage this naturally!

Yes, and did during lockdown. Have stopped speaking to my next door neighbours of 14 years as they had their daughter (a nurse!) and grandaughter visiting every week throughout. It's people not adhering to the rules that are the reason this is such a mess.

We all have to take responsibility for keeping ourselves and others safe (risk vs. cost). Clearly, there will be those who ignore that. It doesn't help that the most recent advice appears off centre given that we can sit in a bar with many others (and there's no way social distancing is observed in most such establishments) but only 6 at home. Irrespective, I would not snitch on a neighbour and if I was compelled (and I'd need a G&T or two before I did it), I'd have a quiet word. I think Ms Patel is way off key with her advice to snitch! BTW, I love the comments relating to Hyacinth!

No because I think it's the best steps down a slippery slope that leads to a police state with informants and that enatils. Horrible.
I would however speak privately to the people and remind them of the law -that would be enough to calm down many people

Typo - best should read first

Possibly, if it was a huge party of dozens of people in a small space that encroached on my space - actually, perhaps not, I'd not want to fall out with my neighbours, I have to live with them.

No certainly not; for starters I might have misunderstand the circumstances. I find the thought of a society where we are encouraged to spy on and report our neighbours for alleged misdemeanours quite terrifying.
My neighbours are highly unlikely to have the sort of of loud out of control going on til all hours disturbing the peace parties which might prompt me to make a complaint in normal times!

So most comments show that a noisy party of many people is more of a nuisance than a quiet party of many people! The point of no more than 6 is nothing to do with irritating noise, it’s to do with the health of us all.

No

Glad I don't live next door to you Missiseff!

No definitely not. I'm very live and let live. They pay their money and take their chance. We keep ourselves safe, what they do is up to them.

If the people in the house next but one to me, expensive car driving university students in an MHO, have another all day party like they had on Sunday with 30 attendees (at least) lasting from 11 am to 10 pm then yes I will. I hate the way these parties go from jolly talking to raucous shouting and hysterical laughter as they drink more and more alcohol.
However the family two doors down the other way have had regular visits from other family throughout lockdown and on and on , virtually every day and I consider that their business.

So it all depends.

No of course not. I am lucky enough to have my DSs & DGC close enough to see them regularly but some people have not. If they want a family get-together good for them.
Plus I have a neighbour next door who would do it like a shot! She is a nosy busy-body & recently contacted owners of house other side of her - who rent it out-that the (very nice) family renting it do not cut the grass enough & there (very well behaved) children make a noise in the garden! I rarely hear them & they are not what I call noisy.Unlike my neighbour who takes her phone into garden & has shouting phone calls as she is quite deaf!! I don't complain about her. Although it is tempting.
Live & let live I think.

Apparently one of my neighbours already snitched on another neighbour at the time when the lockdown was being eased- she reported someone 2 doors away from her (that she has never spoken to even though she moved in this time last year!)
The one that was snitched on apparently was seen saying goodbye to another woman leaving her house .
What the person that snitched was not aware of was that the woman leaving the house was in fact a social worker that had been called in on a crisis call. They both socially distanced in the back garden, both wearing masks.
I would say that the neighbour that did the reporting would have done better if she had reported the family on the other side of me who have continued coming and going throughout as well as having visitors inside the house even during lockdown !