{"id":24659,"date":"2020-09-27T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24659"},"modified":"2023-10-15T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:56:55","slug":"this-is-the-problem-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24659","title":{"rendered":"THIS Is The Problem – Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There\u2019s a news article in The Telegraph about pubs asking for a 20 minute \u2018drinking up time\u2019<\/a> following the newly introduced 10pm curfew. A quote in it from a supposed \u2018industry expert\u2019 made me shake my head in disbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Nicholls, CEO of industry group UK Hospitality, told The Telegraph: \u201cA staggered closing time would be beneficial in reducing transmissions. A hard 10pm curfew was always going to lead to pinch point of customers leaving pubs en masse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Erm, excuse me Ms Nicholls, but what precisely do you think customers who are stupid enough to go out drinking in the first place, and who get kicked out of a pub at 9pm are going to do? You know, when other pubs are still open until 9.30pm or 10pm? Or what will they do at twenty past ten, after a \u2018drinking up\u2019 period?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riiiight. In your world, they\u2019re going to catch the bus home so there\u2019s fewer people trying to use public transport at each of the other staggered closing times. It all makes sense, now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another \u2018industry expert\u2019 is at it again in a story a day later in the Evening Standard<\/a>. This time, it\u2019s about the government being under pressure to \u2018review\u2019 the curfew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emma McClarkin, CEO of the British Beer and Pub Association… [said] \u201cThe curfew has been another devastating blow to the beer and pub sector. We have invested millions in creating safe socialising environments and had been slowly winning back the confidence of our customers and rebuilding our trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is on the day the global death toll went above 1 million. I can\u2019t be the only person out here who thinks \u2018f**k the hospitality sector\u2019 if they use logic like this. Those twats dancing in the streets and storming off-licences at five past<\/strong> ten were behaving exactly like that inside pubs at five minutes to<\/strong>. How the hell is that part of a \u2018safe socialising environment\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that both of these clowns are from the same gender can pass for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, in the real world – a world of people who are<\/strong> stupid enough to go out drinking right now – they don\u2019t give a f**k about \u2018reducing transmissions\u2019. If the pub they\u2019re in closes while others are still open, they will head for those. And if they\u2019re kicked out of anywhere before they\u2019re properly tanked up, they\u2019ll still end up creating far worse \u2018pinch points\u2019 in local shops, and getting into situations that usually arise when drunken British prats interact with other drunken British prats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolutely none of those shown in the photos and videos are socially distancing or even wearing masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the previous two blog articles with this title have shown, ignorance and stupidity is the problem. And if it is caused by a \u2018minority\u2019, as Johnson and his troupe keeps claiming, it\u2019s a f**king huge<\/strong> minority. Frankly, I think it is a considerable majority involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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