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  • Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

    Last year I added my name to a online petition about photography and the law.

    Reply - http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page17959

    Petition information - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/photographylaw/

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    Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

    Wouldn't it be nice if Policemen and women had to have compulsory training in UK law

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      Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

      I'm a bit against having a law to allow me take photos - ther is no law against it now and any new law is likely to be restrictive rather than liberating.

      I'm no lawyer but seem to remember from some long distant course that 'English Law is restrictive - not permissive". Basically, and I paraphrase, obviously the lawyer giving the seminar took two hours to say this - "if there is no law saying you can't do something, you can"

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        Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

        Just the response you would expect from a politician or governmental department; worded in very general terms, inprecise, non-specific, unhelpful and avoiding the issue!
        John

        "A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there � even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." ~ Robert Doisneau

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          Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

          Originally posted by Zuiko View Post
          Just the response you would expect from a politician or governmental department; worded in very general terms, imprecise, non-specific, unhelpful and avoiding the issue!
          +1

          How can you tell if a politician is lying? their lips are moving.

          Rod

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            Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

            Originally posted by Rod Souter View Post
            +1

            How can you tell if a politician is lying? their lips are moving.

            Rod
            But what defines an 'honest' politician? He/she stays bought

            Andrew

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            • #7
              Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

              Could this mean that in the near future, there will be designated areas where one can take photographs? ie. a signboard with camera allowed or best views.
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                Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                Originally posted by blu-by-u View Post
                Could this mean that in the near future, there will be designated areas where one can take photographs? ie. a signboard with camera allowed or best views.
                Just like smokers' areas outside pubs.....................We won't be welcome anywhere else other than in the privacy of our own homes!
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                  Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                  /irony on.
                  Oh come on - just because you were born here as was your parents, grandparents etc - it does not mean that you have to live here as well.

                  The government do not want people that are constantly criticizing and complaining and rabbiting on about loss of personal freedom to stay here.

                  Just get with the program and thank those kind politicians that are looking after us. Not
                  /irony off.
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                  • #10
                    Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                    Originally posted by benvendetta View Post
                    Just like smokers' areas outside pubs.....................We won't be welcome anywhere else other than in the privacy of our own homes!
                    Whilst I am absolutely against the invasion and restriction of our 'rights to photograph', I have to say I am all in favour of the restrictions placed on smokers.

                    The continual exposure (please excuse the pun) of people to DSLR sensors has an extremely low probability of causing them any form of harm.
                    John

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                    • #11
                      Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                      Originally posted by theMusicMan View Post
                      The continual exposure (please excuse the pun) of people to DSLR sensors has an extremely low probability of causing them any form of harm.
                      Ah but that depends on what exposure the sensors caught them doing and how many times and with whom
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                      • #12
                        Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                        Originally posted by skyman1 View Post
                        Ah but that depends on what exposure the sensors caught them doing and how many times and with whom
                        Ah, now we're getting to the heart of the matter. No wonder politicians want to ban photography! I mean, it seems they are (or were) all at it, from Jeremy Thorpe to Paddy Ashdown, John Major to John Prescott - the list could go on. In fact it might be quicker to list those who haven't dabbled where they shouldn't and, as far as those that have been indiscrete are concerned, the less photographers around to capture the sordid details the better!

                        I wonder who screwed Maggie? Oh, sorry, I forgot - she screwed all of us!
                        John

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                        • #13
                          Re: Government response to petition 'photographylaw'

                          I think Gordo is showing us that at screwing us, Maggie was a relative amateur.

                          He has closed down the country.
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