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"Should people be rewarded for snitching on their neighbours who break lockdown rules?" asked presenter Kate Garraway during Friday's show. Acknowledging that the UK is in "such a serious situation," Garraway added, "But should we incentivise people by giving them money?"
Viewers argued it was a "revolting proposition" and compared it to Nazi Germany and the East German Stasi's practices, with one Brit arguing that those who do snitch to the government "should be shunned by the communities in which they live."
Others criticized the show itself for "trying to stir things up,"accusing the hosts of inciting informers — though the hosts did not endorse the idea themselves.
Several viewers also pointed out that one of the hosts of 'Good Morning Britain', Piers Morgan, has come under fire recently for reportedly fleeing a strict UK lockdown to go on holiday to the Caribbean.
In September, UK Crime and Policing Minister Kit Malthouse encouraged Brits to report neighbours who were taking part in meetings of more than six people, and in April - at the very start of the Covid-19 pandemic - police revealed that nearly 200,000 calls had already been made reporting coronavirus rule breakers.
Comment: Question rephrased: "Should the UK employ Stasi tactics in order to catch and punish people for not taking the fake pandemic seriously enough in order to further erode any last vestiges of a sense of community not already wiped out by social distancing and mask wearing?"
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