Helloooo Tier 5

[Badboybez]

Agreed. I’m going to start drinking much more often this year I think

As I said to someone else today in another thread.

 

[Arawn1975!]

Alcohol takeaways to be banned in England until mid-February!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alcohol-takeaways-banned-deliveries-england-b1782270.html?amp

 

[Badboybez]

Alcohol takeaways to be banned in England until mid-February!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alcohol-takeaways-banned-deliveries-england-b1782270.html?amp

Afraid that is fake news mate.
Below is an extract from the latest lockdown rules on the government website, together with a link to the full info for anyone that is interested.

Businesses and venues which can remain open

Other businesses and venues are permitted to stay open, following COVID-19 secure guidelines. Businesses providing essential goods and services can stay open. The full list of these businesses can be found in the guidelines but includes:

· essential retail such as food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nationa...ty-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

 

[Arawn1975!]

Sorry not fake news! I live in a rural area and our local pubs and such have been doing takeaway/click&collect which has now been banned!

 

[andipandi]

You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary.

So you cant even stand on the pavement outside your home?

 

[Badboybez]

Sorry not fake news! I live in a rural area and our local pubs and such have been doing takeaway/click&collect which has now been banned!

Maybe I was wrong to call it "fake news" but that is the papers hyping things up a treat by intimating a ban on booze.....................

Okay, look if you want booze then you buy it from your local shop, or once a week with your normal weekly shop supermarket.

 

[Badboybez]

You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary.

So you cant even stand on the pavement outside your home?

With the weather at the moment I don't particularly want to go outside.

 

[Arawn1975!]

Maybe I was wrong to call it "fake news" but that is the papers hyping things up a treat by intimating a ban on booze.....................

Okay, look if you want booze then you buy it from your local shop, or once a week with your normal weekly shop supermarket.

Yeah I see your point!
I’m wondering how many pubs are going to get a rebate on their off licence if they’re not being allowed to sell?

 

[Badboybez]

Yeah I see your point!
I’m wondering how many pubs are going to get a rebate on their off licence if they’re not being allowed to sell?

Unless the laws have changed in the last 10 years or so pubs had two choices when applying for a licence for a pub, or renewing an existing licence.
They could apply for a licence "to sell intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises" or a licence to "to sell intoxicating liquor for consumption on, or off the premises"

Either way the landlord of your local pub was / is wrong, probably, I say probably because as I said in recent years the licencing laws may have changed.

But as I understand the licencing laws in the way I explained.
If under the previous rules of restrictions, if he was selling takeaway alcohol he was breaking the law if he did not have an "off the premises" licence.

If he indeed has an "off the premises" licence then he should in theory be able to trade as he is acting as an off licence where you can buy alcohol, and drink it at home.

 

[Badboybez]

Yeah I see your point!
I’m wondering how many pubs are going to get a rebate on their off licence if they’re not being allowed to sell?

Don't get me wrong, I think pubs / landlords have got the shit end of the stick several times this year in many ways.
Do this, and you can reopen, nope shut down again sorry you have spent that money, hey you can open again but you you have to spend more money on this & that, great you can open again,oh fuck you have to close again.....................

I doubt my nearest local will stand much more of this, and may well not re open.

It's a fucking shame, and a shambles that many of the small pubs, both town, and villages will be lost forever, when they are part of the British heritage.