The he UK is doomed

According to an article I just read, the car park of this school is also used for people attending a covid19 test centre. You really couldn't make it up.

If you suffer symptoms after the wedding please return to the wedding site for your free complimentary covid test. If you test positive you will be entitled to £500

I’m lost for words. It’s truly unbelievable.

biba
Your daughters are right, don’t come to the UK at this time. You’re safer in Switzerland.

I could weep. I haven't seen friends and family for months, I am sick and tired of being stuck at home, my life is dwindling away in lockdown as my future plans and hopes are thwarted and these bastards decide they can have a wedding. This is a slap in the face to everyone who has obeyed the rules, all of you who can't see your grandchildren, can't be with partners when they are ill, have had parents die alone in hospital, or wither away in care homes. The Police need to demand the guest list, the addresses of the caterers and all those who enable the event to take place, and fine them the maximum.

GillT57

According to an article I just read, the car park of this school is also used for people attending a covid19 test centre. You really couldn't make it up.

^If you suffer symptoms after the wedding please return to the wedding site for your free complimentary covid test. If you test positive you will be entitled to £500^

I suspect that notice is intended as a sick joke.

The government has just announced that there won't be a universal £500 pay out if people are forced to self-isolate.

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A lot of people have made some very stupid decisions during this pandemic, the wedding party and guests here among them. Using the fact that they’re Orthodox Jews to explain it is antisemitic and I’m reporting a lot of these posts.

I could not give a flying frog what religion they are, it’s just incomprehensible why they thought it was appropriate to hold a wedding party with 400 guests including religious leaders?

We gave two very dear friends who have had to cancel both of the weddings of offspring, now looking as if they will be cancelled for the second time due to continuing lockdowns and uncertainty.

Self entitled I’m all right Jacks

I am just soooo sad that many UK residents just think it's ok to cock a snook at the huge efforts & sacrifices ALL our frontline workers are making. Nuff said.

AND the many suffering /complying residents....none of us are comfortable with where we are now.

GrannyGravy13
Don't beleive a'virtual'would appeal to those hoping to meet the star of the attraction being non other than newly elected USA President Joe Biden.

This was not a stupid decision, it was a deliberate, pre-planned flouting of the rules, by the people who hired out the hall, (why?) and all the people who organised, conducted and attended the wedding, thus participating in a strictly forbidden mass gathering, which put their own lives and those of others at great risk.

These posts are not anti-semitic: they are stating and discussing known facts, as published on the BBC news website.

Please do not use this to put blame on all jewish orthodox communities.

I am a totally non-religious jewish atheist. However, my lovely eldest niece belongs to one of these communities in North West London. Usually a couple of times a year, my eldest daughter and myself visit her on a Sunday morning to catch with her and her children and g.children - my last link to my (many yeas my senior) brother!! Despite our many cultural differences we all really enjoy and look forward to these meet-ups. Obviously, has to be in her house, as she would not be able to eat or drink in our non-kosher homes.

Sadly, last April, her husband was taken ill, rushed to hospital in the Jewish volunteer ambulance, stayed five days before he died having never been able to be seen or see his family. We were, of course, unable to attend his funeral.

However, during the summer when rules were lifting, I made a provisional arrangement for us to visit her for a couple of hours. She was so excited and pleased, but then contacted me to say it would not be possible as with her, me, my daughter - if either of her adult children joined us with their children we would be over the six permitted for meeting indoors. So, yes, she was absolutely obeying the rules.

We speak on the telephone, but a present no idea when we will be able to see her and express, in person, our regrets for her husbands death. She, and her brother were the first two g.children for my parents, and were so deeply loved by them,.

I have just re-read every post and I cannot see any anti-semitism.

What I can see is a group of angry posters who whilst not seeing families and friends for months on end, and no sign of meeting up in the foreseeable future are outraged at a group of people knowingly holding an illegal wedding............

*MissAdventure

I'm not at all surprised by this.
These people are a law unto themselves, with their school still open here, very little mask wearing, and the women going around in large groups.

Today 11:28 GrannyGravy13

MissA I forgot there was a large community near you.

**Today 11:36 GrannyGravy13

I assume that they think they answer to a higher power than the Government.

It doesn’t bode well for integration within the local community?

Today 11:44 MissAdventure

They don't integrate anyway, preferring to keep very much to themselves.
(Although the women and children use the buses en masse; no masks, of course)*

These posts are antisemitic and disgusting and I hope MN takes them down. Frankly you both deserve a suspension for this kind of language.

I think we have to be able to say what news items are telling us ( verified items) and this very large wedding Party attendees were Jewish, just as some very large wedding parties broken up by police this year were Muslim and Hindu ( and probably Christian ones too.)
All pre planned and nothing crazy spur of the moment, tells you that some people ( of all faiths and none) will continue to flout laws just because they think they can.)
Disgraceful behaviour.

I have repeatedly posted that the race/religion of the wedding and it’s attendees is irrelevant. It’s the fact that someone thought it a good and acceptable idea to hold a wedding with 400 guests.

You are wrong,GrannyGravy to say race and religion don't matter. They don't in the discrimination manner, but knowledge of the back ground to the event, the group and their beliefs is part of the reason that this event went on regardless of lockdown. One report I saw suggested that the owners of the site, who are part of this group, have been accused before of allowing events to be run there during lockdown.

There are small ultra groups in most faiths, who cut themselves off, as far as possible, from mixing with 'non-believers' and believe that God is the great lawgiver, not man.

I am not suggesting that people in these groups hould be treated more or less leniently if they break the law, but, it is necessary to recognise these beliefs when making clear to these groups that they must follow the same rules governing other people and knowing the best way to ensure they are compliant in the future.

You must do as you think fit Amberspyglass, but from what I have read on this thread, you are the only one who sees anything posted as anti-semitic. This is an absolute slap in the face to those of us who have followed the rules. My comment, which was supposed to be in italics was ironic, sorry if I did not make that clear. As GG13 says, the race and religion of the attendees is irrelevant, unless the community involved consider it makes them exempt from the laws and guidance which the rest of us are trying so hard to follow. I think the reports that the windows were covered and that guests fled are a fair indication that they knew what they were doing was not permitted. I want to see the rabbi, the caterers, the parents of the bride and groom held responsible for this selfish action which will surely endanger life, if not lead to the deaths of others.

I understand what you are saying Monica but if I had cancelled one of my AC’s wedding due to Covid (as friends of ours have done) only to see this spread over all media outlets I would be enraged.

They are endangering themselves and all who they subsequently come in contact with, along with the overstretched NHS if they need to be hospitalised due to contracting Covid-19

M0nica makes the point I was trying to much more succinctly than me.

Amberspyglass is not the only poster who sees some of the posts on this thread as anti-semitic.

In my post of 11.36 I was trying to explain that Monica .

If it came across as anti-Semitic I apologise.

GillT57

I could weep. I haven't seen friends and family for months, I am sick and tired of being stuck at home, my life is dwindling away in lockdown as my future plans and hopes are thwarted and these bastards decide they can have a wedding. This is a slap in the face to everyone who has obeyed the rules, all of you who can't see your grandchildren, can't be with partners when they are ill, have had parents die alone in hospital, or wither away in care homes. The Police need to demand the guest list, the addresses of the caterers and all those who enable the event to take place, and fine them the maximum.

Absolutely right on every level. I am in the same boat as you and it makes me so sad and blazing angry at the selfishness and I'll-do-what-I-like attitude of people like these.
I have a friend living in Spain who is allowed 1 hour of exercise in her immediate area, can only shop at her nearest supermarket and chemist and has to obey a curfew. The police are on the streets every day asking people questions about why they are out to make sure those rules are kept.

I'm sure we'll be dealt with by HQ if we have crossed a line.

I agree with AmberSpyglass and growstuff, regarding the anti-semitism in some of these posts.