From: nickodell49@yahoo.ca 
  
 On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:38:00 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk 
  wrote: 
  
 >Assuming there is no power granted to the police by parliament to demand 
 >the details described below, how does one respectfully - but firmly - 
 >decline. 
 > 
 > 
 >https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/first-it-was-clarkson-now- 
 >its-vance-spare-a-thought-for-the-beleaguered-cotswolds 
 > 
 >quote 
 > 
 >€We have had the police knocking on every door,€ said a dog walker and 
 >resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. €They wanted the names 
 >of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know 
 >several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or 
 >Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will 
 >all be passed on to the American security people.€ 
 > 
 >unquote 
  
 Wouldn't it have been a lot quicker and less expensive for the police 
 to have sent a single officer or even a civilian worker around to the 
 local Electoral Registration Office for the full, unexpurgated 
 Electoral Roll and then get the coppers in the works canteen, instead 
 of endlessly and pointlessly scrolling through their phones over their 
 coffee and donuts, to purposefully scroll through Facebook, NextDoor 
 and the like? 
  
 Hark! Do I hear cries of GDPR? I'm not sure which is the more flagrant 
 breach of people's rights? To barefacedly demand information to which 
 they have no right or to go behind their backs and find it anyway? 
  
 Nick 
  
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