6/6 🌱 A better model exists: @Right_2Roam says that Scotland’s approach encourages responsible access. Instead of treating the public as risks, let’s trust people as custodians of the countryside. 🔗

5/6 🏊 Wild swimming is criminalised in Salford and parts of Somerset. Camping on beaches outlawed. Imogen Radford from @outdoorswimming said: “The idea that wild swimming is antisocial blows my mind.” #WildSwimming #RightToRoam

4/6 🔥 Some councils ban all items posing a fire risk in the Peak District — including camping stoves, essential for safety. One walker said: “Carrying a stove is a safety requirement. These bans put young people at risk.” #OutdoorLearning #CountrysideRights

3/6 ❌ In Kent, notices threaten £1,000 fines for 12 activities, from shouting and swearing to using a catapult. In Elmbridge, dawn and dusk fishing is banned. In North East Lincolnshire, metal detecting needs a permit. https://t.co/m24Tfb9lD4 #FreedomToRoam

2/6 The @manifestoclub warns: “PSPOs were meant to target activities harming quality of life, but they’re now a blanket prohibition criminalising behaviour no reasonable person would consider antisocial.” https://t.co/NCWWyu5js5 #CivilLiberties #Countryside

1/6 🚫 From shouting in a field to stroking a pony — councils are banning everyday countryside activities under new 'Public Spaces Protection Orders'. The countryside is being turned into a “patchwork of prohibitions.”

The Manifesto Club have published my summary of our case. As it says, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner upheld our request for a review of our complaints about our latest investigation and charges. 10 questions for the police to answer. NJ https://t.co/3Htr0LsgW5

Man fined £100 for 'anti-social behaviour' in Devon. His crime? He was 'spotted drinking from an open can of lager'. Twice! This is hardly a harmful act. Police and council should focus on harmful and criminal acts, not someone 'spotted drinking'. https://t.co/hxAWrijo4S

Birmingham is planning a near-blanket ban on busking. All instruments and amplification will be classified as unauthorised ‘noise’. Our great cities are being colonised by joyless jobsworths, says Josie Appleton https://t.co/hsWnpRleUz

Cyclist fined £1,224 for riding bike in Grimsby town centre Around 3k people fined for this offence in past year alone Fining for profit leads to corruption and penalising non-offences https://t.co/WT9NNscvl9

@ukhomeoffice - is this 'anti-social'? 82-year-old fined for cycling in Grimsby town centre. He was fined £100. Under the Crime and Policing Bill he would be fined £500. How is this justice? https://t.co/zE2IcnQV8v

The casual tyranny of banning silent prayer: https://t.co/2Vq23kaduV

The most anodyne of everyday activities are now regulated, banned or criminalised by the state: https://t.co/jjXv5cLulg

A great piece by Josie Appleton ( @manifestoclub ) on how more and more everyday activities are regulated

I just donated to @manifestoclub campaign fighting against "Community 'Protection' [Policing] Notices" and "Public Space 'Protection' [Enforcement] Orders" made by unaccountable Local Authorities or Police. These draconian powers are v difficult to challenge legally, yet they

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🚨 A man was fined £500 for 'fly-tipping'—because an envelope blew out of his bin. 🚨 Others were fined when envelopes (placed in bins) mysteriously ended up on the floor of communal bin rooms. https://t.co/J3CEpjUdCs These are the results of 'payment per fine' enforcement

A man was fined £500 for 'fly tipping' when an envelope blew out of his bin People were fined when envelopes (placed in bins) miraculously ended up on the floor of other communal bin rooms These are the results of 'payment per fine' enforcement contracts signed by

@ukhomeoffice £500 fines for ‘idling’ and messy gardens: https://t.co/EJsHihieud @manifestoclub Slapping fines on the elderly is not a good look.