Brickbat: Merry Christmas

In Portsmouth, England, the local council has ordered residents living in council-owned housing to remove Christmas wreaths and other decorations from outside their front doors. The council's housing service sent letters warning that placing these items in communal areas violates tenancy agreements, as well as health and safety rules. Officials said hallways, doors, and shared spaces must remain clear to reduce fire risks and other hazards, and suggested residents decorate inside their homes or on private balconies instead. If residents do not take them down, staff will remove them and charge a $33 fee to retrieve them. A council spokesman acknowledged the rule is "frustrating" but said it is "designed to protect everyone."

Comments

[Sylvie1]

Heaven protect us from Christmas and Hannukah! Might cause the Muslims to start stabbing people, and how will we find non-Muslims enough to lay the blame on?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Luckily certain other faiths don't put up religious decorations or things could get sticky. But on the other hand, it's council housing so you get what you pay for.

[Medulla Oblongata]

But the call to prayer at 5AM will continue.

[mad.casual]

I'm sure they encouraged the removal of any rainbow flags from the exterior of buildings for everyone's safety too.

[MollyGodiva]

Fire safety is important. Putting up crap decorations is not an exception to the fire code.

[Azathoth!!]

Just go die somewhere.

[MollyGodiva]

That is much easier to do when religious nuts care more about decorations than people's lives.

[GroundTruth]

On an outside door? Just stop for a moment and think about how much heat it would take to ignite even the paint (probably some crap latex paint at this point), and then the door itself (either heavy wood or a modern steel construction to really show how absurd this is).

Sorry, but this is exactly what it looks like, a war on Christmas but the radical left.

[LIBtranslator]

They could put up asbestos swastikas--more in keeping with that government's idea of it's proper Christian role. In the Republican Solid South you can nail a cross to the door, but the fire codes draw the line at soaking it in gasoline and setting it alight.