WHAT is it with politicians thinking regulations will solve the problem?

Lloyd Russell-Moyle Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, states in The Argus that people should be obliged to wash their hands as they enter buildings “and there should be a regulation that every single person has to do it”.

He continues... “in every restaurant there should be a sink at the entrance”.

Well, where do you start with saying how daft that is?

Regulations will need to be enforced, would he suggest the use of a door supervisor maybe, perhaps even CCTV, monitored from a big brother type control centre that once a non hand washer tries to make their way to a table, they are met with a booming Robocop voice telling them they have 20 seconds to comply with the regulation.

Maybe the overstretched police force could have another pocket on their utility belts with hand sanitiser. A quick squirt and it saves while having to arrest the culprit and send them to the overstretched courts.

Maybe the council could have hand wash wardens giving out a PCN type fixed penalty notices to help pay towards all these management consultants they like to give our money to.

Can you imagine the mess a sink at an entrance would cause? Puddles of water, soap dripped everywhere, paper towels all over the place. Or even worse, high powered hand driers drowning out the conversation diners are trying to engage in.

Let’s be honest, washing hands is a suggestion being promoted to help calm the fears of the population that Armageddon is not about to arrive on their doorstep, because clean hands is the covid 19s nemesis.

If you pick up a shopping basket, push a door, use the handles on the bus to stop yourself falling over, petrol pumps and so forth, walk within two feet of another possible host human coughing you could possibly come into contact with this virus.

But what is one really to do other than go about their normal daily business. Lock themselves away for six months?

Here’s a suggestion, give Colonel Sanders at KFC a call and ask where he got all those wipes from he used to put in the boxes. Haven’t seen them for ages now, maybe there is a stockpile.

The restaurants could put them in a basket either at the entrance or on the tables. Trendy designed surgical type gloves, there’s another idea. Bio-degradable of course. Got to look good in this day and age.

But sinks at entrances, that’s a no.

Gordon White Portslade