Sun-seekers flocked to Britain’s holiday hotspots for a scorching bank holiday weekend, with locals complaining they had to wait about two-hour to get served in pubs. The MailOnline has more.
Day-trippers have piled in to several picturesque seaside resorts across Britain today, with temperatures set to hit around 75F (24C) in parts of the country.
Sun-seekers basked in glorious sunshine and enjoyed clear blue skies on the packed beach on Lyme Regis, punts and kayaks filled the River Cam in Cambridge, and others took a cooling dip in the sea across the country on Blackpool Beach.
Droves of lockdown-weary Brits made the journey to Devon in a bid to enjoy the hot weather ahead of Bank Holiday Monday – which is set to see temperatures rise to a toasty 77F (25C).
Roughly 75,000 visitors are expected today at Brighton, with 50,000 at Bournemouth and 50,000 at Blackpool.
But 11 million daytrippers are clogging roads, RAC data showed, with traffic jams due on coastal routes including the A23 to Brighton, A31 to Dorset, A30 to Cornwall and M55 to Blackpool.
A local who visited The Imperial in Exeter said his family had to wait more than two hours for a round of drinks as the city’s beer gardens saw an influx of revellers to enjoy their time off in the sun.
The angry customer, whose order included an Abbot Ale, pint of Carlsberg shandy and a lime and soda, told Devon Live: “When (we) ordered at 2.55pm, we didn’t get our drinks until two hours later.
“It is absolutely ridiculous I’m sorry to say. It was full, basically the security were excellent, they weren’t letting people into the garden area until there was a table free.”
And Plymouth man was left fuming after “spending almost an hour and a half” in the queue for a KFC Drive-Thru in the city.
William Davies, a former restaurateur, went out with his wife and children to the grub from the popular fast food restaurant on Friday, but spent much of the evening stuck in the queue at KFC St Budeaux.
It comes ahead of a scorching June – tipped to be the hottest on record – as 88F (33C) ‘European heat pulses’ bake the country.
Forecasters at the Met Office warned people to slap on plenty of sun cream as UV light levels will be high or very high.
Becky Mitchell, a meteorologist from the Met Office, said: “We could potentially get to the hottest day of the year but definitely by tomorrow.”
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Why are pretty young women without many clothes on always used in conjunction with beach/sunshine articles? What about a hunky young man for a change?
Yes please!
What about a hunky young man for a change?
use pornhub.com for that.
I think Toby likes it.
Aaah, but does his missus know?!
Or what about a fat old man? It’s not just young good looking people who go to the beach.
What about skinny young men with psoriasis? It’s time the ASA got to grips with this issue. If not we may need to create a statutory body to deal with all beach-based inequality and oppression: Offbeach. One aspect of beach life that is clearly unequal is that some people are very strong swimmers and others struggle to do much more than doggy-paddle. Surely there is a case for attaching lead weights to the ankles of strong swimmers so as to create a level playing field, or beach, or ocean. A licensing system for sea swimming could be introduced and people would be assessed on their ability before being allocated suitable lead weights or float supports. Offbeach could oversee the licensing system which it is estimated would cost only £150million per annum.
I wasn’t at the beach but I’m the busy countryside
Went past a village pub,
garden full up, mask theatre compliance in the blazing sunshine 100%
FFS
I watched a bloke constantly pulling up and down his face panty to sip his drink, outside in the hot sunshine…with his un-napped missus…again, FFS!
On the way back from Saturday’s march a girl on the train did the same. Constantly taking her facenappy off and on between sipping her drink. The fact that she was laughing and joking with her friends, shouting and screaming in between the odd sneeze didn’t occur to her the muck she’d inhaling during the whole revolting episode.
PATHETIC!
FN WEARING, THAT IS.
Where I was it seemed like mainly just compliance with and acceptance of the new normal, like the anti terror theatre at airports
Many are not that worried about c19, just now go along with c19 theatre out of habit
It’s ingrained- the tactic of normalising it has worked and it will be almost impossible to galvanise opposition to it beyond a few purists like us – everyone else will think we’re fussing over nothing very much
Fuck masks
Is this in the South? I only ask because I live in North Yorkshire near the very busy holiday destination of Whitby, and most people outside aren’t wearing masks. Maybe if they get up to walk about? But not while they’re sitting eating and drinking.
Home Counties
But yes, masks off when sitting bit dutifully donned whenever moving around the pub, even outside
makes absolutely zero sense – why can people not see this?
And it’s freezing oop here.
Absolutely lovely today and it’s supposed to be hot all week! The place is jammed. Hardly anyone with a mask, life as it should be even if only for a while.
Speaking of Whitby, it occurs to me this is not the first time the government has suppressed the people and destroyed a culture
Yes indeed Susan, Cromwell was a good template for the Islamists destroying a culture. Strange how the destruction of history is repeating itself with statue toppling.
Mind you if “devout Catholic” Boris and his latest wee thing see around then we could be rid of them. No Catholic weddings in those days.
They are the true believers. Swallowed the stuff hook, line and sinker. Wouldn’t be surprised if they also had a religion.
I will counter that with a local pub whereby mask wearing was far and few between. People have sussed that wearing a mask when you walk between tables to/from toilet is not having any effect.
“You don’t get many of those to the pound” – Michel Barnier
Far quicker to parkup and order at the counter of a fast food place. At least you can escape if you don’t fancy the queue.
Best comment “Absolutely frightening with the new Indian variant the cases are soaring I’ve seen nobody with masks or social distancing on the beaches I’ve had to report a few people this morning to the local PCSO’s” though it may have been written tongue in cheek .
I wouldn’t bank on it. I’m seeing now what can only be described as OCD with their masks, sanitiser, drama passes, and distancing. It’s disturbing how these people’s minds must be now.
‘drama passes’ – I love that!
Well I understand there’s something like 353,000 so-called variants, so clearly this person isn’t that concerned about the other 352,999? that’s not very diverse of them is it? perhaps someone should report them!
Anyone who doesn’t enforce sun cream is a murderer. Sun cream must be enforced (even though it’s made out of toxic shite)
Who wants to wait two hours for a bloody drink or some crap food? Are people really that desperate now?
Never learned to cook?
Definitely not married to Mr Gum, if he has to wait for five minutes he’s off!! LOL
A man after my own heart!!
This has just come out – Dr Yeadon working with the Lib Dems to re-imagine the party and make it relevant and powerful and meaningful and rebellious against this tyranny. A real party of the people if you like, unlike Labour and Conservative which are provably evil. Lib Dems have long been associated with cannabis liberalisation, the prohibition of which is, in and of itself, a crime against humanity, because it prevents this amazing gift from God from being exploited to its massive potential in so many areas of life, including health, for which its properties are miraculous. Anyway that’s another story, but this from Yeadon exudes hope and that’s a great thing.
LiberalSpring
https://liberalspring.org/
Fuck the liberals bunch of band waggon jumping cunts.
No, sorry, the Liberal anti democracy Bugger Brexit posters lost any chance of even a protest vote from me ever again. Never. Ever. Over.
What was ‘anti-democracy’ about it? I though free speech was a basic tenet here.
Is failing to wear a mask ‘anti-democratic’ if a small majority support it?
Because we’d had a referendum. There was a result, i.e. to leave the EU. The Lib Dems where determined to cancel the vote result, i.e. if the electorate don’t vote the way we want them to, let’s make them vote again until they do.
Yep, the mendacious excuse for overturning the referendum result was that you can’t condone national self harm…they then went on to support lockdown policies that saw our GDP decline by 11% in one year, our schools shut down and our health service be reduced to a poorly functioning husk.
university fees U turn ???
I think you’re all completely missing the point. The point is you have a ready made political brand which is doing not a lot and in its current form has no chance of ever being elected. However, it has a ready made established presence with the people and media and some clout, albeit limited, within the current political system which would be near impossible to build from scratch without biblical levels of investment which even then could easily be forced into failure. Lib Dem is already part of the furniture, good to go. Think of it like buying a business. If you buy a pub, it has a customer base already, it has an image and maybe a reputation, but none of these things are fixed, they are merely products of whoever was in charge before, over time. Over the years a series of bad managers and bad decisions has seen it fall by the wayside, so no-one really cares about it any more. But the pub is in a great location, it’s a nice building and all it needs is a new lease of life and philosophy from a group of new people. Everything except the building, which is in a prime location, can be changed to suit the agreed vision of the new owners and the local people of what their pub should really be to introduce a needed better way of doing things for the community.
The way I understood what Yeadon was saying is that Lib Dem the brand can be taken over, or hijacked, if you like, by good people with good brains, vision and character. In other words, boot out all the useful idiots and career cocksucker politicians and fill the Lib Dem hierarchy up with people who are switched on and the real deal. We’ve never had that in this country. We have never had a political party that is not infested with Rothschild agents, Etonian scum, quintessential useful idiots exactly like Yuri Bezmenov describes and all the rest of the corporatised and establishment good for nothings that get served up to the electorate as democratic choice (illusion). Our choices generally range from dull political moron number one, dull political moron number two, or dull political moron number three. Oh and here’s another fucking moron for you to chew on, it’s a dull Green moron who believes that plant food (aka CO2) is about to cause the world to cave in on itself, and this fake belief underpins everything they do in life, inside and outside of politics.
Imagine a remoulded Lib Dem party full of (keeping it topical) Michael O Bernicia and the Peoples Union of Britain types, Mike Yeadons, Reiner Fuellmichs, Knutt Wittkowskis, Stefan Lankas, Nick Hudsons (I can’t acutally think of more than two Brits who I have any respect for so have to cite foreigners as examples of the type of characters I am alluding to) ……a party consisting of proven, road worn, super switched on critical thinkers who hate bullshit. It’s like people cannot imagine a world where they are not governed by a bunch of tie-wearing repugnant asswipes who are in complete thrall to the banking system/City Of London and the rest of the scum that really control this country. Because that is what we currently have in the UK and that is all we will ever have if people do not rub their eyes and see it for what it is.
All you saying “oh but they supported this and they did that”….you are missing the point, it is about switched on intelligent people with real grit taking over an established political party and sticking two fingers up at these criminal scumbags and their deviant nest political system. It’s about good people doing something to sort this hideous mess out. To me it seems like a realistic attempt at progress which has potential, if it was done right with the right people. If you want to start your new party tomorrow, believing you will make a change, go for it, but you will spend decades or maybe an eternity getting to the level of embeddedness which the Lib Dem party enjoys by default, sewn in.That is its strength.
Labour is a dead animal which is beyond repair. It is so tainted by Iraq and now by all this contrived nonsense over antisemitism and all the rest of it that it’s just a case of OK, fine, let this be the new version of the Labour party, let them prioritise Israel over everything, and see how far it gets them. Starmer is destined to be a huge failure, the British people can’t stand him (I would vote Con over Lab if forced to – there is at least some principle and consistency in their nastiness rather than Labour who are just snakey. The only resistance to convid came from the Con back benches for example), he obviously cares more about the Israel Lobby than the British electorate, so fuck him and his fuck his Labour party, leave them to their own devices and their inevitably doomed formula. Meanwhile, the British people need a party which genuinely has their best interests at heart and is not tainted by unresolvable divisive crap. Labour provably doesn’t care about the British people, if they did, many many hard questions would have been asked throughout the scamdemic. Labour is just a bunch of troughing middle to upper class corporatised bellends, ID politics obsessives and the ones from the lower classes who are generally quite irritating no glow career minded nobs. They wanted more lockdown and earlier, the whole rotten lot of them. Even now they still bang on about PPE and harder lockdowns and isn’t it tragic that people in their mid 80s whose immune systems have packed up aren’t still with us due to a nasty flu season? All while keeping schtum about all the blatant fraud over PCR tests and fake death tolls, quite happy to turn a blind eye to the destruction of freedom and of course the NHS itself and the genocidal jab rollout…..none of that matters to them even though it is costing us our entire country. They are TRAITORS. Give me a break, who is falling for their crap? Starmer has not posed one difficult question throughout covid – not even one testing question. He is a STOOGE working against the interests of the people of the UK. I have never once in my life been fooled by Labour , they have given us the Blairs and Starmers and Mandelsons and Straws and Blunketts and Campbells and Long-Baileys and Miliblands and Hodges and Burnhams and Rayners and Nandys and Greens and Ashworths all the rest of the no soul jokers they churn out like a sausage maker. I couldn’t hate them more if I tried.
Someone mentioned Brexit which is a big can of worms. Personally I would rather be in Europe, with the people, for the freedom to enjoy Europe, because I don’t like being trapped in the UK. We had the whole of Europe as an unrestricted stomping ground, now all we’ve got is this ultra conservative right wing Orwellian shithole and nothing else, no escape. We lost a lot of personal freedom and while I can see it is appealing in principle, in practice it just seems to be a whole lot of loss for no tangible gains, certainly nothing that eclipses the benefits. We sacrificed easy trade with the EU (the biggest market in the world)……so we can trade more with Australia. Riiight. Ummm, no I don’t see that as a sensbible move. We’ve gained fuck all and lost a whole load of freedom. That said the EU is also quite Nazified these days, especially Germany and Spain, so bollocks to them too.
A remoulded Lib Dem Party has minimal baggage for an established party and it does not breed hate and division in the same way the modern Labour party does, although maybe other people feel differently about that. For me, while I’m sure they have done a lot of bad things under tosser Clegg and nothing remarkable recently, Lib Dem under completely new and switched on people is viable and not tainted by past unforgivable activity.
Much as I like the idea, I don’t give it much chance of success – the deep-seated level of twattery ingrained in the “major” parties would be near-impossible to eradicate.
No the point is you boot out ALL the useful idiots, strip it down to no-one, and then re-build it (The Lib Dems) with people who are proven to be soulful – critical thinking – thick skinned – knowledgable – gutsy – straight talkers. Fill it with people who know only too well that the other parties ARE ALL FULL of vacuous cocksucker twats. Fill it with people who do a fine job of calling said twats out for their twattery and their indefensible decisions as opposed to cheering them on in some high on groupthink gangbang which is what we have right now. In other words, you have one party which is the antithesis of what we have now. You have a real opposition. That is the point. That a bunch of so called “lockdown sceptics” are so hostile to the idea shows how fucked we truly are in this corporatised shithole of a country.
Here is a great summary of what we have at the moment, and how we got there, from a Soviet defector. The UKSSR is like a modern day Soviet Union and that’s not a good thing.
Yuri Bezmenov – Ideological Subversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEefbbApuaE
Brits remind me of the girl at 1min 10 secs in this clip. 100% demoralised, all sense of hope (not surprisingly) vanished. People who dream and use their imagination are castigated and earmarked for expulsion so the masses can bask in the comfort of the unfair repressive fascist state.
Adam Curtis – Hypernormalisation (Soviet Union)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBDJltrCqQ0
Here are some of their tricks, which should sound familiar.
“Shapeshifting” an excerpt from HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ubluwNkqg
I just remebered Dolores Cahill. She would be a real asset too.
Fantastic post! You’re talking a lot of sense FCF, even though I disagree with your EU stance. Everything else, though, really good stuff. Not sure it could come to pass but it is totally worth exploring.
(I can’t uptick you on one of your posts as it won’t register).
I agree, fantastic post. It has given me a real lift. There is no opposition atm from the beyond-drippy toothless yellow-bellied Labour walkovers who are worse than the pathetic scumbag ‘I’m alright Jack with my fat pension’ Tories. The whole situation is beyond dire and makes me feel like screaming in frustration. This idea – should it take off – would be wonderful!!!!!!
Good for Mike Yeadon. He is one of my heroes in all this.
No thanks. After their anti Brexit stance I would never vote for them. I detest Clegg and he has sold his soul to Fakebook.
“The LibDems are the only mainstream party that voted against the Coronavirus Act and oppose a COVID ID scheme. ”
This may be true, but they have voted for lockdowns or not voted against most chances they’ve had, and have been pathetic as an “opposition” party.
Note however that they plan to lobby members in the hope to push the party towards supporting liberal democracy. It may be worth a try, and a similar initiative may be worth trying with Labour.
“ they have voted for lockdowns or not voted against most chances“
It grieves me to say it about this devious party – but so far, it is the only one to vote against renewal of the fascist regulations.
Yellow on the outside, red to the core. Just like the communist green party
Read the posts again. The whole point is you boot out the old guard first and replace the existing cobweb collectors with bright critical thinkers who are fundamentally and naturally opposed to the status quo. It’s not about peoples’ perception of what it is now it is about making root and branch change so we actually have something worth voting for but maintaining the familiarity of a ready made good to go political brand with real presence which is not tainted by being a bunch of war criminal sympathisers. .
LiberalSpring isn’t part of the Lib Dem Party. As far as I can make out it’s an independent group that’s been formed to put pressure on the Lib Dems to adopt ‘anti lockdown’ policies, on the grounds that they are the party most likely to do that.
As a one-time Corbyn/Labour supporter I have to say that I’d join any party that accepted their list of proposals (an indication of the extent to which my life has been restructured by this shitshow).
However I’m reluctant to support LiberalSpring at the moment (in spite of my huge admiration for Dr Yeadon) as I can find no information on their website about who’s behind this and how they’re currently funded.
A quick look at their privacy policy gave this
If you have any questions or concerns with respect to this policy or the Website you may contact us by email at: join@liberalspring.org or by post at: PCR Claims, Hudson House, 8 Albany Street, EH1 3QB .
And here is the website of PCR Claims
https://pcrclaims.co.uk/index.php
she’s got great tits, but her face is a mess.
They’re fake; can’t you tell?
Plumped up with left-over vaccine
Hahahahahaha well they should be utterly enormous then
I think the sudden shift in volume has caught retailers out – drove to/from London/Nottingham for the demo yesterday owing to the crap Network Rail service. On the way back I stopped at two services on the M1 and not a stale sandwich to be found. Can’t say I was too disappointed.
Network rail don’t run trains. They own and maintain the infrastructure. Just as you don’t expect to get on a bus run by the Highways Agency.
When I saw the phrase “Sudden shift in volume . . . ” I thought for a moment you were talking about those breasts ATL.
Is big breasts open of the many vaccine side-effects?
If the vaccine did that it might be worth taking, but instead you get a stroke and possibly CJD after two years.
Hotel and town full here too in Stratford. Overheard snippets of a conversation between a young woman guest and the waitress. “Median age of death 82” “Most of them with co-morbidities”. She was showing the waitress a photo of the march in London yesterday “Won’t see it reported in the media”
Joy oh joy, she was one of us! We ended up comparing notes with her. It was her belief that if things don’t open fully in June, there will be riots in the streets. I wish I shared her optimism.
Riots in the streets is just the excuse the government is wanting to tighten its grip.
Got a feeling something could be going down outside Parliament that day…
Most definintely – not just an inquiry but criminal prosecutions too.
Nuremberg 2.
International.
Ridiculous choice of image.
For the lunatics on Mablethorpe beach yesterday in high temperatures and blazing sunshine, YOU DONT HAVE TO WEAR A FRIGGIN MASK.
Brain dead doesn’t even start to describe these morons.
Met office forecast?
Come on Toby, you can not be serious (to quote some tennis player)
Way more accurate than what we’ve had churned out by Pantsdown etc!
If you have any sense find deserted beaches not the popular. Devon police are turning people away from Croyde Woolacombe and Saunton- do not waste your time coming
Under what power?
This photo was meant to go with comment.
Whitby,lovely.
For heaven’s sake – if the queues are so long then just go somewhere else! Alternatively, buy something in the supermarket or M&S. It’s not difficult!!!
I am worn out after walking miles through London on Saturday waving my copy of ‘A State Of Fear’ in everybody’s face to now be frolicking on beaches. Anyway attending another super spreader event will probably kill me.
Had a brilliant afternoon yesterday at local car boot sale hardly a mask to be seen and no one getting in a tizzy over social distending the chuffing SAGE lot need to be shown what the public think of them unthinking puritanical idiots!! is my take on them