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Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth
The Guardian ^ | Wed 8 Oct 2025 | Denis Campbell

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: populationgrowth
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1 posted on 10/08/2025 6:25:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Another thing for the Mahometans to riot over.


2 posted on 10/08/2025 6:28:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MinorityRepublican

More boozed up people running around engaging in late night mischief - that’s the key to solving Britain’s problems per Labour.


3 posted on 10/08/2025 6:29:20 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: MinorityRepublican
You know a country is in decline when it boosts its GDP with liquor, whores, and gambling.

4 posted on 10/08/2025 6:29:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Republican Wildcat
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.

5 posted on 10/08/2025 6:31:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

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!


6 posted on 10/08/2025 6:46:27 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


7 posted on 10/08/2025 6:50:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: AZJeep
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!

At least it's still Britain.

8 posted on 10/08/2025 6:50:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I thot this was the Bee. Like if the bars stay open then more people will get lucky and there will be more babies.


9 posted on 10/08/2025 7:26:19 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer wants to keep the herd too drunk to stampede.


10 posted on 10/08/2025 7:36:24 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

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!


11 posted on 10/08/2025 7:48:53 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: AZJeep

Tzars and communists used similar solutions.
Life was unbearable, but it could be drowned in vodka.


12 posted on 10/08/2025 7:51:50 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“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)


13 posted on 10/08/2025 8:41:44 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

According to Jeremy Clarkson, 3/4ths of all English public houses have gone out of business during and after the Coronapanic.


14 posted on 10/08/2025 8:55:38 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

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?


15 posted on 10/08/2025 9:15:29 PM PDT by szweig (HYHEY Have You Had Enough Yet??!?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

MUSLIMS DO NOT DRINK


16 posted on 10/08/2025 9:17:58 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Drinking alcohol should not be encouraged. Good grief they drink enough over there


17 posted on 10/08/2025 9:24:10 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t think the Moslems will like that.


18 posted on 10/08/2025 10:04:59 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lol.

Drunker men make drunken mobs make REVOLUTION.

If just for the heave ho fun of it all.

OOPS.


19 posted on 10/08/2025 11:58:13 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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Throughout the entire article, there is no mention of operating hours!


20 posted on 10/09/2025 3:07:15 AM PDT by bennowens
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