Posted on 10/08/2025 6:25:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder.
Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector.
Keir Starmer is preparing to throw his weight behind the plan, which has been drawn up by leaders of the alcohol and hospitality industries and rubber-stamped by the Treasury.
Critics are warning that the planned liberalisation of the alcohol licensing regime in England and Wales will erode local councils’ right to decide on opening hours, hand the drink industry unprecedented power and limit the ability of people affected by late night openings to object.
The plans amount to “a charter for chaos” that will lead to more drink-related aggression, greater violence against women and even more deaths from alcohol, health experts claim. They would “allow an open all hours free-for-all in the availability of alcohol”, said Dr Katherine Severi, the chief executive of the Institute of Alcohol Studies thinktank.
But Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality, said that “a new and improved licensing system that is fit for the 21st century will be a boost to the nation’s pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels”.
Nick Mackenzie, the chief executive of Greene King, agreed, adding that existing licensing regulations “provide a clear example of how well-intentioned legislation can inhibit economic growth, with excessive restrictions often limiting premises’ ability to respond to changing circumstances and customer demand”.
Local authorities and police and crime commissioners fear that extended late night opening will lead to more noise, nuisance and antisocial behaviour blighting the lives of residents who live near licensed premises.
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Another thing for the Mahometans to riot over.
More boozed up people running around engaging in late night mischief - that’s the key to solving Britain’s problems per Labour.
Perhaps. But it appears that it is up to a bureaucrat in London to decide on what is the law of the land.
When we visited UK, we were surprised of the level of public drunkenness. It is kind of scary to get out at the evening, seeing all those drunks!
So labor solution is to increase supply!
Genuine!
The poor blokes who still have to get up early to go to work will face late night/early morning noise from pub carousing and then muslim calls to prayer from mosques very, very early in the mornings.
At least it's still Britain.
I thot this was the Bee. Like if the bars stay open then more people will get lucky and there will be more babies.
Starmer wants to keep the herd too drunk to stampede.
Starmer wants to keep the herd too drunk to stampede.
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It looks to me that this is intentional. Drunks can be managed easy.
They do not complain, and all the life problems can be solved by good dose of ethyl alcohol!
Tzars and communists used similar solutions.
Life was unbearable, but it could be drowned in vodka.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
~ C. S. Lewis
(1898-1963), British novelist
“God in the Dock” (1948)
According to Jeremy Clarkson, 3/4ths of all English public houses have gone out of business during and after the Coronapanic.
Nowhere in this entire stream of info is there given any idea about the proposed opening and closing times for the UK pubs. What gives here?
MUSLIMS DO NOT DRINK
Drinking alcohol should not be encouraged. Good grief they drink enough over there
I don’t think the Moslems will like that.
Lol.
Drunker men make drunken mobs make REVOLUTION.
If just for the heave ho fun of it all.
OOPS.
Throughout the entire article, there is no mention of operating hours!
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