When it was in the newpapers that 82 different officials are entitled to enter your home, seventeen of them through both front and patio doors and four by any means necessary, it seemed like a good time to dig a moat, but the drought hosepipe ban stopped it from being flooded and now I've had to fill it in because I didn't seek prior planning permission. Is an Englishman's home his castle or not?
2006-08-08 00:42:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I think this number is misleadingly high. Very few people have a standing right to enter your property except in very specific circumstances, most of which do not apply to most people. Do you have a source for this so I can look at the list?
2006-08-08 01:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need a moat and as for the 82 different officials who can enter your home, you have not included the unofficial ones. Did you know that each year, numerous Brits. go on holidays leaving their front door open. Again many, many thousands allow bogus officials to enter without identification. Many more never lock their back door. No wonder it is a burglars paradise here. With a little common sense and some practical do-it-yourself security, we could make our homes a far safer place than they are at present. Who needs a moat, even The Tower of London has no water in theirs...............
2006-08-08 00:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Platobeenz, Come on now, leave the poor downtrodden, under-worked, overpaid officials alone. Be fair they're only doing their jobs. Think of all the effort they put in having to wait a full 30 years before they can collect their nice inflation-proof pensions. In fact I've taken umbrage with you and I'm going to have the Filler-in-of-Moats inspector sent round to see if you did that correctly. Be warned, a lengthy prison sentence beckons!
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2006-08-08 01:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by d.perrot@btinternet.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt know that, lets hope they don't all turn up at once.
Try filling you moat with bath water (second hand bathwater of course) and adding baby crocodiles and alligaters that are apparently growing in the sewers. This should enable you to hold them off long enough to put the Twiglets and Pringles out.
An Englishman's castle is his castle. Unless its made of sand - life's a beach....
2006-08-08 00:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by Ice Queen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Englishman's home is not his castle, and he can't defend it either! Seems rather pointless really to go to all the lengths we do every security, may as well just leave all doors open and let them all in!
2006-08-08 00:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that's just a turn of phrase. You can build a moat, but you'd need planning permission and your best bet for filling it is through a bore hole.
2006-08-08 00:45:50 · answer #6 · answered by neorapsta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's a castle without a moat? I mean, really!
2006-08-08 00:46:37 · answer #7 · answered by chicky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but a very weak castle !
even a journalist disguised as a butler entered the queen's house ...
lol
2006-08-08 00:47:26 · answer #8 · answered by Splishy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leaving Prescot the rampant TOAD in charge of UK plc
2006-08-08 00:52:54 · answer #9 · answered by Gordon R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but it seems like an immigrant's castle
2006-08-08 00:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by Jeff J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋