Finally, some good news for pubs! The unpredictable weather has not stopped Brits from visiting shops and pubs this afternoon, as the Government’s lockdown was partially eased. BBC News has the story.
For the first time in months, pub gardens, shops and hairdressers have reopened in England, as rules were also eased in the rest of the UK.
Shoppers flocked to the High Street, with long queues seen outside some retailers. Other people took advantage of England’s gyms and zoos reopening.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged everyone to “behave responsibly”.
Northern Ireland’s “stay-at-home” order is ending and some rules are being eased in Scotland and Wales.
The PM had planned to have a celebratory pint to mark the measures easing, but that has been postponed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday. …
Scott Westlake, landlord of the Myrtle Tavern in Leeds, said the pub had received 5,000 bookings over the next month for his new outside eating and drinking area.
Mr Westlake said: “If the weather’s good, I think most people are optimistic and excited.
“Atmosphere, ambience, seeing your mates, I think they (customers) are looking forward to that more than anything – and they’ll sit in a blizzard for the first few days at least.”
Nicholas Hair, landlord and owner of the Kentish Belle pub in Bexleyheath, south-east London, said there was a “sense of celebration” in the early hours of Monday as it opened to midnight customers.
“I’m hoping that this is a sort of rebirth, and that we are reopen for the foreseeable,” he said.
It’s not been smooth sailing for all pubs, however. A pub in Coventry is currently being investigated by the local council because hundreds of people queued outside before it opened at midnight. BBC News reports:
Darren Lee, owner of the Oak Inn, said 260 customers were seated in groups of up to six at its outside tables – but 300 to 400 people were turned away.
He said crowds at the Gosford Street pub were “very well behaved” and police were satisfied with the situation.
However, Coventry City Council said it was investigating to see whether it followed rules.
BBC News’ report on the reopening of the hospitality industry is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Tesco has urged people to go to the pub, given how tough it has been for the hospitality industry over the past year.
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Pop into your local, except that you won’t be allowed inside. Be tracked, traced, poked, prodded, muzzled, distanced, frozen, and probably overcharged.
Freedom.
Not.
Kafkaesque
Meanwhile, Fuerher Fauci says, “Nein!” to indoor dining, even after the jab:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/04/11/fauci-its-still-not-ok-to-eat-or-drink-indoors-even-if-youre-vaccinated/
Not celebrating unless and until all of these places open fully and unconditionally on the same basis as 2019 and every last piece of coronapanic legislation and guidance is rescinded, never to be used again.
And those responsible punished by law.
what has happened to Bernician’s private prosecution – seems to have gone awfully quiet on that front which is a shame
Anyone would think we’d just defeated Nazi Germany when in reality the Nazi’s appear to have won and nobody noticed !!!
I won’t be freezing my tits off to help prop up businesses which are gearing up to allow Heir Johnson exclude me from wider ‘society’.
Numb to it all by now as it’s obvious once you land on planet Covid there’s no getting off. I’m sure i’ll be at the sharp end to begin with but the plebs with the passports will get theirs eventualy, i’m pretty damned sure about it.
I take it that headline is satire? But the way the vacc. celebration is going in these pages, I’m not sure.
I went to my local for lunch, indeed it was freezing despite the blankets provided. However, no nagging, no taking details, and though there was a laminated card with the track and trace baloney on the table, no mention of it by any staff. And a huge warm building a few feet away where we would have been more spread out than in a supermarket.
Exactly matches my experience at an independent city centre restaurant. They could not have cared less about track and trace. A good sign.
All about the control
Well, as long as “police are satisfied with the situation.”
Exactly – so sinister. WHO CARES WHAT THE F*****G POLICE THINK!!!
“Yeah we just check your phones are reigstered to Track and Terrorise by making a quick call to the police, then we just lock them in the ‘covid safe’ while you have the time of your life being filmed by our facial recognition enabled CCTV and surveilled by the Security and the Covid Police going from pub to pub, plus all the undercover police surveilling and checking no guys are hitting on women, and then once you’ve had your fun, speak to one of our oxygen-starved masked members of staff who will give you your phones back and then don’t forget to rate us online to confirm that everything, including the atmosphere has been sanitised”
…..”So if you want to just stand in the cubicle on your way in and I’ll give you a quick spray with the solution to make sure you and the family and all the guests are all nice and safe.”
Coventry City Council can go f*** themselves.
These jobsworths are going to be a problem. Most have been on full pay and pension and given power that makes them feel they are worthy. They will not give this up lightly.
In Ceredigion we have a Committee of ignorant nincompoops who call themselves “Gold Command” FFS! Talk about self agrandisement.
Pretty much said all of the collective comments being made here to a neighbour yesterday when he asked if I’d be going to the pub. He smiled and shook his head as if I was off my trolley. So I’m afraid it’s yet another brick in the wall in which me and my fellow man have parted ways.
‘BBC News has the story’?? If its come from the BBC I don’t believe a word of it…
And Tesco’s FFS? Don’t get me started. What’s going on at LS? Shouldn’t you at least include a disclaimer when publishing anything ‘put out’ by the BBC?
couldn’t agree more – the Tesco branding almost made me want to vomit.
“Excludes Scotland, NI and Wales”
Because the scum in charge there are even more fascist than the scum in charge of England
Like you wouldn’t believe – only with even fewer brain cells. Probably waiting for permission from Boris.