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[gozzie2] 27/11/2020 22:59

Tim.It doesn't apply to Manchester anyway we have no choice .Bolton has hardly had the pubs open in months .My mate has been looking to break the rules and find a tier 2 area to at least have a pint. He can't find one near enough ,but I will guarantee anyone close to Cornwall will be travelling to there next week .

[tim 3] 27/11/2020 22:18

Gozzie According to the mail you must leave when the meal is finished even if you have not finished your drinks! with silly rules like that not sure I would go for a meal even if I could.They might as well just leave them shut there is nothing relaxed about going out with all these rules attached.

[cassini] 27/11/2020 21:24

Never heard a peep from Biden and his chums about the selling out of American manufacturing jobs to China. I think I remember Obama telling people these jobs were 'never coming back'. Not if you're in on the deal they're not, no.

Back to corporate cronyism, career politicians, the undermining of Main Street America and favours for cash with the dems. What was that Genesis album called? Selling England By The Pound...

[luderitz] 27/11/2020 21:13

Happy Christmas everyone.

[gozzie2] 27/11/2020 19:49

Tier 2 pub rules: Drinkers MUST leave after finishing meals & can't stay for another round, No10 confirmshTTps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13317400/pubs-tier-2-drink-up/

[gozzie2] 27/11/2020 19:03

This is absolute nonsense Wales have opened up its spiked up again .These are not lockdowns .Its a certainty that we will be in this so called lockdown until march after the spike we have at Xmas when they open up.Don't play boardgames now they say .Monopoly is finished and they said China was too harsh lol .What a load of id1ots the west are .

[johnwise] 27/11/2020 17:24

Communist China mission completed --The Destruction of British Economy

SAGE's Christmas warning: Covid cases could 'easily DOUBLE' over a few days if restrictions are eased between December 23 and 27, advisers claim

[the grumpy old men] 27/11/2020 09:20

TOP NEWS: Majority Of Wetherspoon Pubs To Remain Shut On Restrictions

Fri, 27th Nov 2020 08:43
Alliance News

(Alliance News) - JD Wetherspoon PLC expressed dissatisfaction with the new Covid-19 regulations on Friday, stating that 366 of its 870 pubs will remain closed under new restrictions which will see cities across England placed under different tiers starting next week.

The FTSE 250-listed pub owner said only thirteen of its pubs were in areas classified as Tier One, adding that there are 51 pubs in Wales where the regulations equate to Tier One in England.

According to post-lockdown rules set out by the UK government, in Tier One, the rule of six applies indoors and outdoors, but in Tier Two there will be a ban on households mixing indoors, and pubs and restaurants will only be able to sell alcohol with a "substantial meal". Tier Three measures mean a ban on households mixing, except in limited circumstances such as in parks.

For Wetherspoon, Tier Two affects 435 pubs. This tier includes 17 pubs in Scotland where the regulations approximate to Tier Two in England, the pub chain said.

It highlighted that due to the new restrictions, 366 pubs which will remain closed. Of these, 315 are in Tier Three in England and 51 are in Northern Ireland and Scotland. These 51 pubs have similar restrictions to Tier Three in England.

"It is very disappointing that yet another raft of regulations has been introduced, which has effectively closed half our pubs. In reality, the government has extended a form of lockdown, by stealth, in large swathes of the country. There has been no evidence of widespread transmission of the coronavirus in pubs, as the Test and Trace system has evidenced," Wetherspoon Chair Tim Martin complained.

In October, the pub owner said it suffered severe losses in its financial year ended July 26 due to the Covid-19 lockdown which lasted around three months, with Martin stating at the time he believed the restrictions was was full of "ill-thought-out regulations" and not based on science. For financial 2020, JD Wetherspoon posted a pretax loss of GBP34.1 million, swinging from a profit of GBP102.5 million a year prior. Revenue fell 31% to GBP1.26 billion from GBP1.82 billion, with like-for-like sales down 30%.

Shares in Wetherspoon were trading 3.3% lower at 1,097.59 pence each on Friday morning in London.

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[luderitz] 26/11/2020 20:47

Absolutely .. please keep up KM.

[gozzie2] 26/11/2020 20:43

Not allowed more than one of us .

[kiwimonk] 26/11/2020 20:41

Are you posters all sitting outside with your bottle of meths to keep you warm?!Fantastic!! Brilliant to see this happen in glorious slow motion!

[gozzie2] 26/11/2020 20:35

Give me some evens Luderitz il take it lol .

[gozzie2] 26/11/2020 20:33

Get these id1ots out the red wall is lost already lol .Starmer for PM .

[luderitz] 26/11/2020 20:33

Certainly looking like that.

[gozzie2] 26/11/2020 20:28

Absolute certainty this is carrying on until March. 5 days of Xmas mixing in homes and it will spike up Jan and Feb .

[konradpuss] 26/11/2020 20:27

Oh! Ignoble could you find a job in that fantasy cabinet for Steve Baker and Sir Graham Brady?

[ignoble] 26/11/2020 20:19

Love him or hate him...
Would love Farage to be PM..

Can't do any worse... Be ruddy entertaining too....

Tim Martin as Deputy... Pubs would never shut even if The Plague returned.

[ignoble] 26/11/2020 20:16

London Pride... A favourite of mine for many years...

[ignoble] 26/11/2020 20:14

I wish that I was 20 years younger

When all this Cronies Virus is over, I would move to another Country... And then another and so on
Life is too short to be bullied by all this Political Twaddle

[konradpuss] 26/11/2020 20:14

Ignoble, agreed. Looking forward to a visit to our local 'Spoons' in Putney by the river Thames next week.

A burger and a pint of London Pride if they have any!