Milano
Well-known member
This and the pint thing feel like a dead cat, what are they trying to sneak by under this noise?
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 !!!How about stop the shit coming out. Every day it's another "we're" stop this blah blah howabouts start actually doing shit, doing shit that will help us all. Not banning smoking in open places now this etc. What annoys people is in the scheme of things this should be so far from their thinking it would never appear.
It was on the BBC News website last week - or is the BBC too right wing for you too ?Right wing rag prints false story and is jumped on by NSC trolls. Quelle surprise.
It could just be the gutter press making shit up, they're well practiced.I reckon supermarkets selling lager at £1/can is more of an issue for the health of the nation than pubs staying open late. The turbo-drinking is much earlier anyway with the after-work crowd. Are we going to get a constant stream of inane policy proposals ? Thought and hoped we might actually see something useful once the last lot were booted out
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.It was on the BBC News website last week - or is the BBC too right wing for you too ?
To be fair it's not the government suggesting the idea - it's Cambridge Uni. Bloody academics!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.
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
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.I reckon supermarkets selling lager at £1/can is more of an issue for the health of the nation than pubs staying open late. The turbo-drinking is much earlier anyway with the after-work crowd. Are we going to get a constant stream of inane policy proposals ? Thought and hoped we might actually see something useful once the last lot were booted out
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!I read that Labour are thinking of increasing the number of hours in a day to 25.
Stammer OUT!
They're on the same page as brexit.Meaning people will drink the same amount just faster. Where do they find these idiot ideas from ?
There's a fine line between logical expert and institutionalised fruit cake.Experts? Pah!
For the health argument, probably. Less so for the anti-social behaviour.I reckon supermarkets selling lager at £1/can is more of an issue for the health of the nation than pubs staying open late.
Well if you post a link I'll judge for myself. Also, something that shows someone said 9pm closing times would also help!!It was on the BBC News website last week - or is the BBC too right wing for you too ?
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 otherwiseMeaning people will drink the same amount just faster. Where do they find these idiot ideas from ?
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….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.