edit: context:
From The Independent:
Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, public health minister Andrew Gwynne said the government is considering “tightening up the hours of operation” of bars and pubs as part of an attempt to improve health and combat anti-social behaviour.
But a Department for Health spokesman said: “This is categorically untrue.”
Drinking at the pub is anti social now? I guess people should just stay home and watch Christian porn.
Drinking at the pub is anti social now?
No, that’s the unhealthy bit (although I’d bet it is unhealthier to stay at home and hammer down a couple of bottles of White Lightning from Bargain Booze). The anti-social part is leaving the pub shouting and causing fights, which happened much more often with less flexible opening hours as everyone would grab three (or four if you were pushing it) pints of Wife Beater before lasties, chug the lot and get binned out onto the streets at the same time as everyone else, causing mayhem. I remember it well (or vaguely depending on how many pints I’d drunk) and the current system is less “fun” but definitely reduces the impact on the neighbourhood.
I guess people should just stay home and watch Christian porn.
We can multitask.
Fair enough!
Christian porn
Those Christians, they love a bit of it!
Why is the foot on a drink coaster
Why is there floor cress in tiny porcelain carrier bags?
If you can’t get drunk and set a Holiday Inn on fire what else are you supposed to do on a Wednesday evening?
With those options removed? Fentanyl?
So either the minister or the spokesperson is wrong. Very helpful of them.
He’s a junior minister in charge of public health and prevention. If the Department of Health say they aren’t doing it then they likely aren’t - it’s within his remit to consider such options, amongst other things, but it isn’t policy.
Seems like another messaging blunder - they need to sort that out ASAP as it is just handing free ammunition to the Tory press.
trying to wean europeans off their endemic alcoholism is whatever, i doubt you’ll achieve much, and this is probably not the way to do it, but at least it’s not a terrible idea in theory.
but i love this british practice of labelling socializing as “anti-social behavior”.
reminds me of another british article where residents were worried that teenagers would congregate in parks and stand around and talk to each other, and how this anti-social behavior must be stopped.
Their idea of society is the profitable (for them) alienated nightmare world we currently inhabit. Anything that threatens to change that, like plebs hanging out and talking to one another, is necessarily “antisocial”
but at least it’s not a terrible idea in theory.
Anything done under the auspice of combating anti-social-behaviours the way the dismal isles understand is unequivocally bad
