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- Drinking outside common in this area. Enforcement will be hard, especially as customers are used to doing it. So you'd need v good reasons to do it. What are they?
- A drink at the end of a hard day is relaxing & enjoyable.
- Socialising outside to be encouraged not discouraged
- A drink at the end of a hard day is relaxing & enjoyable.
- Socialising outside to be encouraged not discouraged
We are becoming more paternalistic & nannying as a country. This is to be resisted, & we must not allow the unique and exceptional nature of the lockdown period to justify intrusions into liberties & freedoms in "normal" times.
So... This is the worst possible policy, announced at the worst time (troubling about direction of travel, sense of misusing current climate), with nebulous or absent justifications, rowing against both freedom & common sense at a time when being outside is good.
I am sure that it is only a matter of time before the usual suspect public health zealots, a vast army paid (by us) to do nothing other than nanny in just this style, have a go at this thread. So let me prebut this by saying, push off.
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Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies.
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Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies.
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The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
CS Lewis
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CS Lewis
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At a time of social distancing requirements, many pubs CAN'T open without outdoor drinking.
This is so obvious a point one's driven to wonder, hopefully without sounding too tin foil hatted- is this policy MEANT to drive them out of business- whoops, what an accidental outcome?
This is so obvious a point one's driven to wonder, hopefully without sounding too tin foil hatted- is this policy MEANT to drive them out of business- whoops, what an accidental outcome?
After all, if they can *in theory* re-open, even if this restriction means they can't, one assumes they lose access to government support.
Those wishing our city centres to lose pubs can stand back and say "well, not our fault... they were allowed to reopen, weren't they?"
Those wishing our city centres to lose pubs can stand back and say "well, not our fault... they were allowed to reopen, weren't they?"
