"Why do we need permission?" "Because you do" That's the kind of answer a ten year old gives.

I could watch Liddle do this all day long.

Absolutely spot on! Keep on doing what your'e doing Rod. Your'e a sane voice in a sea of madness!

Just say with an air of authority: "Go away you dreary little man."

I really like Rod Liddle - gets to the point every time. Brilliant gentleman.

council don't own the land, we the people do

10 Pikey Families with Caravans and Transit vans would be there for weeks before they were moved on.

the police make there own laws and the council make there own rules its a fooking joke

I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the mud, in Vietnam, so fluorescent jacketed busy bodies could tell me to stop filming squirrels fighting in Westminster Gardens!

Governments bent Councils are bent Police are bent BBC are bent The list goes on

Classic example of what happens when one promotes people beyond the limits of their intelligence and then give them authority over every body else. A pretty common occurrence in the public sector.

Well said Rod....."you can't point your camera at their CCTV camera"???......heh heh,you would'nt believe it if it wasn't on CAMERA!!!!!

When that little dweeb came up to you in the park with NO identification why didnt you say Who are you??

This is UK today shameful

You're allowed to photograph ANYTHING you can see from a public space (provided you don't break indecency laws). That includes airports, army bases, police stations, houses, shops, banks, offices, schools, whatever. Permission isn't needed. You also don't need to provide id unless you're being arrested and charged with a named offence. You can't change the law to suit your personal preference. If you don't want someone looking through your window for some strange reason then stick up some curtains pal.

If these buildings are secret, why do they put them in the middle of busy cities?

0:05 - Tell the men in fluorescent jackets to piss off and summon the real police.

I thought this was a spoof at first Still can't believe that this sort of surveillance goes on from officials working for the general public Shame they aren't so quick when some poor person is getting mugged

Great video! Very informative and hilariously ironic.

rod lidle for prime minister

Once flew a microlight along the Humber Estuary around Immingham in 2008/2009, and shocked to witness a ship anchored at a jetty pumping black pollution into the Humber, took a photograph, and on landing, reported it to the Environmental Authorities. This was during the Blair era, and the cabinet people on security and defence were inventing laws as fast as they could think them up. Later received a severe ticking off from a man in charge at the docks, apparently John Reid or colleague in Blair's team made photographing ports and strategic sites illegal. When I raised this on a flying website to warn others, an Instructor mailed to reveal that the UK Civil Aviation Authority require all marine pollution incidents be reported to local Air Traffic and if possible, photographs taken as evidence...

Never give police or public officials your details. Filming & taking photo’s is not a crime. Under what law are you not allowed to film in a public place MR OFFICER?

the question they should be asking the police, is who do they work for, because if the corporation has a problem they can take civil action, the police should do their real job and fight crime, not represent a corporation where no crime has been committed

The Council in Bristol have just agreed to build a cafe on the Downs - they are a nightmare.

Is this why British fight in WW2 against Nazi?

The UK is becoming more and more like "V for Vendetta"

The amazing aspect of this is that the Government will not bring in harsh measures to deal with terrorists, but are willing to disrupt the lives of people going about their lawful business.

We are in danger of being overrun by jobsworths....

"are you choking mate" loved that i'm done 😂

Yellow vests? Wankers or tossers ? I can never remember,dammit.

Love this guy!why have I only now heard of him.lol

sad how England had become .

Excellent video..

This guy is Boris's long lost brother 😂😂😂😂

These councils make a phone call and the police are there in two minutes! The public never gets that kind of service. Some builders were stealing my stuff once and I went to the police station and they would not even send out an officer.

Love rod, need to see more off him on tv

If that jobsworth from the building had put his hand over my camera, I would very quickly forcefully remove it, accidentally causing him a great deal of pain. As well as that his arrogance probably would have earned him a load of abuse.

My local council tried to give me an FPN for dog fouling caught on CCTV, turned out it wasn't my dog, CCTV proved it but they insisted, finally I won against them then found out they were issuing FPNs to other dog owners for their fouling when they didn't see their dogs do it, they were following people walking their dogs to see if their dogs did foul to simply hand out FPN as a form of revenue generation, litter is the same, they find a man for feeding Bread to a horse on 'private land'.. They take advantage of the citizen not knowing the law or their guidelines.

It's quite simple. Everytime you are approached and questioned about CCTV cameras, simply ask them (as you are entitled) for the CCTV footage. This costs them time and money, and they will soon leave you alone.

I'm pretty sure an English person could do that Polish guy's job.

There is no reason to be stopped for filming as long as you do so in a public place. Nobody in that public place has the right to stop you.

People with too much power and too little accountability, treating the rest of us like serfs... Middlesbrough Borough Council AGM Footage. 14/5/14.

I never noticed the cutouts of Osama bin Laden popping up until now. Absolutely hilarious. Rod is a national treasure.

No right to privacy in public. If it can work for 'them', it can work for 'us'.

I remember disliking Rod Liddle when he looked like Kylo Ren. Now he looks like Tom Baker I'm warming to him.

beggers belief what on earth is going on with britain

Why do you say that these people have 'power'? They are all public servants, from the gardener in the local park right up to the latest tenant of Downing Street. The power all resides in the public. We hire these people to do what they are supposed to be doing, not to harass law-abiding members of the public going about their lawful business. It is all very well being civil and calling them 'sir' and such, but it is really the wrong way to deal with such wombles. As members of the public we require them to do the jobs we pay them to do and NO MORE. As soon as they step outside the remit we have given them, and that we pay them for, they cease to be public servants and become public nuisances. Next time one of these idiots approaches you for filming in a public place, no doubt claiming that it is the property of some council, they need to be told, in no uncertain terms, that councils own NOTHING. The central government owns NOTHING. Anything they think they own is public property. It is paid for from public funds, it is maintained from public funds, it is public property. There are NO laws in the UK that prevent photography, still or moving images, in any public place. It is a lawful activity and everyone has the right to partake of it. There are NO powers in the UK to prevent photography in any public place, and anything in or visible from any public place is fair game. If they don't want you to film their building the solution is very simple - get it out of public view. I suggest Groom Lake, Area 51 in the Nevada desert in the USA - that isn't visible from any public place (except Google Earth) and will serve their purpose. Not sure what the US government will say about that, but that isn't our problem, it is theirs. .

His first and only mistake is even acknowledging them, treat them like they aren't there.

Recently I photographed a Councils CCTV camera. Within 5 seconds a Jobsworth jumped out of his car. Asked me why I was taking photos. I told him he didn't need to know. "Show me your ID" he demanded. Jumped up jobsworth then radioed his colleague to tell them that someone was taking photos at a busy tourist attraction.

The problem is giving power to those who do not have the experience or brains to wield it properly.

Well done Rod. Thank you for exposing and showing us the hypocrisy and the "jumped up little apparatchiks" and jobsworths that surround us these days.

Rod Liddle is wonderful

Challenging power is becoming harder, but never more important.

When did " because you can't " become a definitive answer ??

Well done, Rod. The frustrations that arise as a result of the overreach of seemingly everyone is destroying not only the quality of life but the quality of our democracy. Now get back to work, peasant.

That's why today's auditors are doing a great job they are public buildings and places that we have paid for

This guy bought us all pizza when they made a documentary at my work place, really nice guy.

"account for yourself you scruffy little twat" LOOL! That had me going.

Keep those cameras rolling. It's for everyone's ultimate Freedom and Safety. Don't stop. From the US of A.

If we're not allowed to film in public, how come every tourist who visits UK isn't told the same thing. Police even pose for photos with tourists!!

To be honest as a film student 40 years ago we were taught that we could not use a tripod when filming in parks and streets.

The interviewer with Mike looks like Boris Johnson

Meanwhile millions of people carry cameras in their pockets. Crazy council logic 😔

Councils are supposed to work for us... Therefore we are the council..

This infuriates me!!! BRITAIN IS SUPPOSED TO BE A WONDERFUL , FREE AND BOLD COUNTRY. loved the pop up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This guy points out amazing issues I like him

Cannot these Council Workers/Police cite the actual Law or Regulation they are seeking to enforce.

THEY NEED A LAW TO ALLOW ALL FILMING ANYWHERE

And yet when a real crime takes place and you won't see any one but a mirage.

Police and security are used to people just folding to their demands. Don't fold. Assert yourself. Make the encounter as difficult as possible.

Sounds just like Frankie Howerd. That's a good thing. We Brits are just suckers for authority.

And then to add to the comedy, 'Hey presto!' along comes a PCSO.

"Account for yourself you scruffy little Twat" 😂😂😂😂

None of these people could give mr liddle a reason why he couldn't film.

This just made my morning even funnier with the pop up bin laden bin hanging about.

I film out on the streets of London a lot. I was going out to film today but the weather is being an arse! I very rarely get stopped by the police or anybody else for that matter. But if the police do question me ( and I'm not trespassing ) I tell them why I'm filming and also tell them all they have to do is ask me, and I will tell them anything else they want to know about me. Every time I have said this ( including outside Downing St ) they go away and leave me alone. If its a security guard I tell them to go away and mind their own business. That works too.

That silly little man with the glasses would have to be 'spoken to'... you have more patience than me..

The trouble is these council workers are not very bright. Small minded people clutching at every little bit of power given to them. The majority of law enforcement and “security” personnel are not very well trained or able to grasp the complexities of the law. They do not think about the purpose of their job or understand what their job entails and what they can and cannot do. Most newly recruited police constables have a degree these days yet they know less about the law than ever and have less common sense than ever.

"You've got to be careful". It would appear we're not careful enough.

The birth of auditing.

Everyone should stop paying the council tax ... they can't jail us all

Now this is a side of Boris Johnson I could live with. Well done Boris, great investigation mate!

Love the bin laden pop up every so often 😂

Behind you!

"what's your name" "Rod" 🤣😂😅😂😂

Osama bin laden in the back window was gold

I met Osama Bin Lid and told him religion would screw with your mind and drive you mad. The look on his face was incredible. That's his nickname forever more .. Bin Lid.

Never point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes - not then, not now.

Does anyone else notice how much us British say sorry before forwarding any kind of argument.

" Ya gotta be careful avent ya " They should print that in big letters on every piece of clothing the the little green/yellow men wear.

Start smashing council cameras

Love the guy in the window at 6.08 with the Osama mask

What a wonderful video. :)

There is no law against filming in the UK in a public space. If you are filming in public then there is "implied consent." In other words, politely tell the jobsworths to duck off.

Ahh we got a suspect on Queen's arse way, gesturing "Suck It " to the CCTV... Get em!

Next time get planning permission for the tripod, get permission from the council to film on public property and don’t film any council buildings or cctv cameras because you get accused of being a terrorist. Lol. It’s just crazy how far ppl are going.

PERMITS Councils love permits. You have to have permission for this ,that and the other. I own a small shop in Kettering . Three or four years ago I had to undertake some repairs to the shop's wooden floor because of dry rot. As work started, an official said I needed a permit to unload a van across the pavement, why? because you do. but there is no one near, you must have a permit, its £85 from the council, WHAT, ring the council or get it online, look, I just want to unload the van to do some repairs. You will need a permit. I rang the council and was told it's £95. I looked on line , it said £85, I asked how this could be, no one knew. I sent £85 and asked what did I get for this money and how long would it take. You will get a piece of paper and it could take up to two weeks! I unloaded the van that same day and never received the permit. Wonderful isn't it ! I now fight them over everything.

Bit of comical genius blurring of the face 😂🤣😂

This is really frightening and unsettling.

Anybody else notice Rod taking a quick little peek at the ladies attributes :-)