in the vote but complained about the regulations being signed into law with no parliamentary scrutiny. how can we expect anyone to possibly adhere to the minutia of these regulations if they only appeared for the first time a quarter of an hour before they become law? at a quarter to midnight on a sunday evening, how would policeman be expected to be enforcing that? are they supposed to google the regulations while they're walking around on their beat? with labour abstaining, the regulations were approved overwhelmingly but ministers faced criticism in the lords, too. two ministers have suggested that people should inform on their neighbours. well, it's one thing to report on your neighbour if you see he is building a bomb factory. if he's holding a barbecue for seven people, are you really going to report him? my lords, i deplore any suggestion that we should become a nation of informers like the old east germany. where there was love, it puts in space. and that, my lords, is something i cannot apologise for. i cannot change it, i cannot find some form of words that transforms that simple fact or in any way changes the grim realities of how we have