Police are doing a very difficult job, enforcing a brand new, vague set of rules, and risk their own health while doing it. So, no, I don’t care about your barbecue. You’re a dick for trying it on. You’re relying on everyone else staying home, so you, Cleverclogs, don’t have to.

And to all pointing out how they weren’t near anyone, perhaps you’d like to tell me how a couple of bobbies could stop the 2nd, 3rd, 10th or 100th group that decides its a good day for a beach party, if they haven’t stopped the 1st.

STAY HOME. It’s not a complicated instruction.

Oh, and spare me the some-people-don’t-have-gardens guff. Police cannot be asked to investigate who doesn’t have a garden and apply different rules. A beach barbecue is not an essential reason to be out. It’s pleasure. Pleasure is secondary to survival. NOT a difficult concept.