Now it’s the citizen snoopers: Councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours

David Derbyshire
UK Daily Mail
Saturday, Aug 30, 2008

Councils are recruiting ‘citizen snoopers’ to report litter louts, dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly.

The ‘environment volunteers’ will also be responsible for encouraging neighbours to cut down on waste.

The move comes as local authorities dish out £100 fines to householders who leave out too much rubbish or fail to follow recycling rules.

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It will fuel fears that Britain is lurching towards a Big Brother society, following the revelation this week that the Home Office is extending some police powers to council staff and private security guards.

Critics said the latest scheme could easily be abused and encourage a culture of bin spies and curtain twitchers.

Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Snooping on your neighbours to report recycling infringements sounds like something straight out of the East German Stasi’s copybook.

‘With council tax so high, the last thing people want to pay for is an army of busybodies peering through their net curtains at their neighbours as they put out their rubbish.’

Recruitment adverts appealing for the unpaid environmental volunteers have appeared across the country in recent months.

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9 Responses to “Now it’s the citizen snoopers: Councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours”

1. Peter Duffy Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

   F*ck’em!
   The only twitching will be done by the dying bodies of the Illuminati and their lap dog scum!

2. Mariella M. Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

   Since the Britons never experienced the Stasi and Gestapo first hand in their history they are in grave danger of repeating what the Germans went thru. Anyway, Britain has never been free. It is still being ruled by a parasitical, inbred royal family of necro-pedophiles and devil worshippers.

3. horrible Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

   they already have these fools here in the US. Nazi-esque city ordinance fools who are armed and get their jollies off by harassing someone whos grass is slightly too tall, or because they put trash out on the curb too soon

   our tax dollars at work.

4. Show must go on Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

   Agree with you MARIELLA M. 100%

5. andus Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 3:21 am

   This will cause violence in the community,i guarantee it,

6. vein Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 12:04 pm

   Within two years, the UK stasi will have the right and duty to enter neighbours’ homes numerous times a year to make a detailed report on the contents. This will include details of books, magazines, letters, etc. They will have the right to examine all computers, and remove any that defy on site inspection. Household members will be subject to in depth interviews.

   There is no book, play, film, or computer game that has ever tried to depict a future as bleak as that facing the residents of the UK.

   An evil from the deepest depths of hell is setting up home on our planet, and we are doing exactly zero to confront this. Meanwhile, notice how a new breed of troll has appeared over the recent period on most activist sites. Blair’s government propaganda minister, the putrid psychopathic racist John ‘Goebbels’ Reid, has been given hundreds of millions to recruit an army of trolls to spread Blair’s word across the internet.

   w ww.guardian.co.uk/w orld/2008/aug/26/alqaida.uksecurity

   (remove the spaces). Reid recruits his trolls from neo-nazi sites like ‘harrys place’, a site that serves the same purpose as the early gathering locations of the original nazis during their rise to power in pre-war Germany.

7. johnny boy Says:
   August 31st, 2008 at 8:16 pm

   As world war ll started Frank Capra a Hollywood director was commissioned by the U.S. government to produce a series of propaganda movies entitled “WHY WE FIGHT” This series of films were designed to enlighten the American people on the atrocities committed by Germany .This well made series on the most part was accurate and to the point.The point that was stressed in these movies was if we don’t stop Hitler the American way of life will be lost .Well the point of the matter is we did stop the German Nazi’s but we didn’t stop the American Nazi’s .

   to all you foul mouthed low lifes that are polluting this site with filth.Why happened,you guys ran out of toilet walls .

8. Hologram5 Says:
   September 1st, 2008 at 7:28 am

   Revolution is near my friends, we, the people, must take back what is ours by heritage and right.

9. JustBow Says:
   September 1st, 2008 at 8:02 am

   You’re all proving the reasoning behind us doing this. You’re a detriment to yourselves and a healthy society with your whimsical talk of violence. Revolution is a pathology. We are the cure.