Ah! The era of

unlimited officiousness...

Poppy seller told to undergo risk assessment

This is not surprising. More and more things in our society and cultures are becoming victims of the bureaucrats - people who are put in charge (or who take charge) of controlling things, whose only job is to make sure that there are more and more things that they can control. If there were a list of groups that contributes little to society, I would put them at the top is the list (And then someone would take control of the list, and design a bunch of rules as to who can or can't be on the list, and then make people apply for positions on the list, and then...)

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