Pubs across UK won’t re-open until Christmas

[tanglewood]

If they are to be closed until xmas, can you imagine trying to even get into one.

 

[Mawsley]

If they are to be closed until xmas, can you imagine trying to even get into one.

Yes. I still remember being 15

 

[Crewella]

Yes. I still remember being 15

Piling on loads of slap and hanging out with older boys not work for you then?

 

[Lord Grim]

Is it just me that fails to see the societal distancing difference between a pub and a school?
One is a place where loads of people get too close together, talk bollocks and act like idiots, the other is a pub.
Of course education is paramount, but as business has recently discovered: Most of it can be done remotely.
Keep the pubs closed by all means, but don’t be lazy and and send the kids back to school, that’s just another window for Mr Corona to sneak through.

 

[Mawsley]

Piling on loads of slap and hanging out with older boys not work for you then?

You know my formative years well.

And no, it really didn't work out well for me mentally

 

[Crewella]

You know my formative years well.

And no, it really didn't work out well for me mentally

Me neither, come to think of it.

 

[Badboybez]

Pubs across the UK could remain closed until Christmas under coronavirus lockdown measures, landlords have warned. Cabinet secretary Michael Gove this weekend said that pubs and restaurants will be ‘among the last’ to see lockdown restrictions lifted in a bid to prevent a second wave of the virus hitting Britons later this year. Following the announcement, Frank Maguire from Truman’s brewery in London, told The Sun: ‘Things are looking pretty dire. At this rate it seems unlikely we will be open again before Christmas.’ He told the newspaper it would be a major blow to the industry to close for so long, particularly with the loss of football matches this summer which are ‘worth millions to the industry’.
When asked about what the country will look like when social distancing rules start to be lifted, Mr Gove told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday: ‘We have stressed that the reporting in today’s newspapers that schools will reopen on May 11, that is not true, we have not made that decision. ‘The other inference that I draw from your question, which is that areas of hospitality will be among the last to exit the lockdown – yes, that is true, they will be among the last.’ For all the latest news and updates on Coronavirus, click here. For our Coronavirus live blog click here. Today Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden attempted to steer away from any set dates for lockdown to ease and called the reports pubs will stay shut until Christmas ‘pure speculation’. But he warned that easing up on restrictions too early could mean ‘even more draconian measures’ further down the line. Mr Dowden told the BBC: ‘We’re all desperate to end this lockdown. ‘But we need to do it in a sensible way because the worst thing we could possibly do is to prematurely ease the restrictions and then find a second peak, and have to go right back to square one again with potentially even more draconian measures.’
In Ireland, health minister Simon Harris yesterday warned places where people ‘can’t safely social distance’ will likely have to stay closed until coronavirus is no longer a threat. Mr Harris said that he did not see ‘how people can be in packed pubs again as long as this virus is still with us’. He told the Irish Independent: ‘I’d like to see a situation whereby our schools could come back or at least could come partially back. ‘What’s not going to come back quickly are scenarios in which we can’t safely socially distance. ‘So I can’t see how people can be in packed pubs again as long as this virus is still with us and we don’t have a vaccine or an effective treatment.’


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Thanks for the heads up mate, don't particularly agree with their ideas, for various reasons though.

 

[Badboybez]

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Bring it on.

 

[Badboybez]

Tiny crafty beer one round the corner from my house is a converted station ticket office and are open for off sales only, selling through the ticket window with strict distancing and contactless payment only.

I admire anyone, publican, or another small business doing what they can to keep things ticking over, but I struggles to see why people would use the "pub takeaway service".
None of the pubs in my town offer this service, but even if the ones I regularly used to use did offer it I doubt I would use it, apart from maybe one day a week.
Because for me, the main point of going to the pub is to have a chat with your mates, if you can't do that you amy as well just pick up a few beers with your shopping.
But it is commendable of the place you are describing to try to keep their business going, and keep their "regulars" served.

 

[andipandi]

my new pub is morrisons craft beer and cheap rum .. i just fall down at home rather than half way there ...
woods 57% £20 .. wtf ...
a couple of beers and a couple of woods you sleeping on the stairs

If you choose from the 4 for £6 you cant go wrong, problem is finding the stuff still on the shelf.

I admire anyone, publican, or another small business doing what they can to keep things ticking over, but I struggles to see why people would use the "pub takeaway service".

My eldest Daughter has found a local bar that sells one she likes (i've never heard of it), 2 pints, in your own bottle, for £3, seems like a bargain really