Milano
Well-known member
This and the pint thing feel like a dead cat, what are they trying to sneak by under this noise?
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[Football] Pub Opening Hours
- Thread starter crodonilson
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Right wing rag prints false story and is jumped on by NSC trolls. Quelle surprise.
More anti-Labour Fake News.
Pubs could be forced to shut early in new Labour nanny state blow
Crackdown on drinking under consideration as ‘fun police’ Government sets out plan to improve health and tackle anti-social behaviourwww.telegraph.co.uk
Labour looking to tighten controls on pubs opening hours and potentially for them to close earlier to curb the national health emergency. Not sure what times but potentially last orders as a standard at 9pm instead of 11pm.
Surely this will be the death knell of many pubs, not a bad thing in many areas and probably more need for multi faith community centres than your standard pub.
Media !!!
You got to remember the media did its best for labour not win the election . They certainly didn’t help
This viscous still have their agenda.
Let’s judge after a few years and not believe all we read
It was on the BBC News website last week - or is the BBC too right wing for you too ?
It could just be the gutter press making shit up, they're well practiced.
independents tend to open when it best suits them and their locals. It's a very complex system but it works.
There is a piece in the Mail which I have seen online and the last paragraph states that a Health Department spokesperson insists this is categorically untrue.
I don't really want to get into an argument as to where the BBC sits on the political spectrum, but I will say that the news output very strongly represents the traditional press and frequently echoes their output without critique, even when the headlines they are reproducing are clearly highly dubious.
The Starmer government is open to criticism on a number of fronts, what I don't see them attempting to do is to micro manage the country in this way.
To be fair it's not the government suggesting the idea - it's Cambridge Uni. Bloody academics!
Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints
Cambridge University found serving beer in two-thirds of a pint glasses led to a 10% drop in drinking.
www.bbc.co.uk
I read that Labour are thinking of increasing the number of hours in a day to 25.
Stammer OUT!
Stammer OUT!
schmunk
Second time lucky?
One of our local pubs already closes at 9pm during the week, and the landlord is very keen.
This was however a problem when they advertised Euros screenings - he kicked us out at half-time...
This was however a problem when they advertised Euros screenings - he kicked us out at half-time...
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Experts? Pah!To be fair it's not the government suggesting the idea - it's Cambridge Uni. Bloody academics!
Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints
Cambridge University found serving beer in two-thirds of a pint glasses led to a 10% drop in drinking.www.bbc.co.uk
Why do we need a state to tell us? My mate's country pub shuts at 4 p.m. on a Sunday until noon Wednesday, because economically that works for him, fine. If you had a City Centre pub it'd be dead by 7.30-8 p.m., so shut. We really are becoming Zombies that stand around until told to step left, right or centre, make your own minds up and if your pub is shut, go to one that's open, or create your own pattern that works for you. I'm off to the park to swig a bottle of white lightening and chase the ducks.
This - to save pubs the govt. needs to up the tax on supermarket booze and cut it out altogether for the pub trade. It's cheap and easy to drink whatever and whenever you like these days. Back in the day when pubs shut at 11 (10 in Scotland when I lived there) we'd slurp down a quick one when last orders was called, then go home to bed, or to listen to a couple of LPs first. No thought of extra booze at home - too expensive.
Certainly drank less back in those days!
Nonsense! They'll just decimalise time - 10 new minutes in an hour, ten new hours in a day, etc. (One New Hour will be 2.4 old hours). Worked perfectly for currency after all - no surge in marginal price rises at all, so can't imagine that there would be any problems with time!
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
They're on the same page as brexit.
Just remember all you labour voters, this is what you signed up for....I don't know why you're so surprised that when you elect a clown, you get the circus to go with it
There's a fine line between logical expert and institutionalised fruit cake.
For the health argument, probably. Less so for the anti-social behaviour.
Well if you post a link I'll judge for myself. Also, something that shows someone said 9pm closing times would also help!!
Fact is this is apparently about one junior minister making a comment at a fringe meeting about the need to discuss opening hours and the whole thing gets conflated into the usual suspects jumping to conclusions.
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keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
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Will they? I quite often leave a drink or two before my mates because I've got to get the train home. I've never asked someone to buy me an extra pint in the round as I'll miss out otherwise
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
When this chap comes out with this on the back of the rumoured smoking in a pub garden thing, it’s a tad inevitable that it’s going to be jumped on no matter which way you think the media is leaning….
In a move to roll back the “continental-cafe style of drinking” introduced by Sir Tony Blair, a public health minister has said the Government is considering “tightening up the hours of operation” of bars and pubs. Andrew Gwynne said the idea was being examined by the Government as part of efforts to improve health and tackle anti-social behaviour.
….but the outrage by some on here who would have been pointing the finger at the Tories ..but can’t quite accept it the other way is amusing to say the least
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