tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6478621230436441835..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Pubs Are Safe In Their Hands ... Hey, Don't Laugh!Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-61619547078164483002010-02-25T18:19:18.707+00:002010-02-25T18:19:18.707+00:00Anon @ 12:43 - Do you know how to contact the land...Anon @ 12:43 - Do you know how to contact the landlady you mentioned?<br /><br />Please <a href="mailto:dickpuddlecote@live.co.uk" rel="nofollow">e-mail</a> me if you do.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-49705078599920447262010-02-25T12:43:48.194+00:002010-02-25T12:43:48.194+00:00Gillian Merron is a liar.
I know for a fact that ...Gillian Merron is a <b>liar.</b><br /><br />I know for a fact that one of her Lincoln constituants, the landlady of a community pub, spoke to Merron at one of her surgeries. At the end of the session, during which the landlady had spelled out in detail the effect of the ban on her trade (an immediate post-ban drop of 40%), both she and the Moron were in tears. <br /><br />The landlady was subsequently forced out of business. <br /><br />xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-84947070321355631092010-02-25T12:26:12.971+00:002010-02-25T12:26:12.971+00:00Public health minister describes ban as "trem...Public health minister describes ban as "tremendous success" in health committee debate<br /><br />The smoking ban has not caused pubs to close, according to public health minister Gillian Merron MP. <br /><br />Despite figures showing around 40 pubs a week are currently closing Merron said the ban was not a factor in this. <br /><br />She was speaking today at a meeting of the health committee in Westminster as it looked at ways the government is tackling health issues. <br /><br />Merron said: “The pub trade does have challenges and I am aware of that but it isn’t the case that the ban had led to pub closures.”<br /><br />Dubious DerekAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-12151035776104386272010-02-25T11:43:23.821+00:002010-02-25T11:43:23.821+00:00Now to get post notification working.Now to get post notification working.Furor Teutonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856575077967523322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-1673545635219593232010-02-25T11:41:10.019+00:002010-02-25T11:41:10.019+00:00Junican said...
you have to accept that the cost...<i> Junican said... <br /> you have to accept that the cost of ‘a pint’ must be higher than it is from the supermarket. That is a fact.</i><br /><br />I don't know what the price difference there is, but I suspect similar to here, where; <br /><br />Pub beer = €2,50 to €3 >< for 0,4 Liter. Supermerket = 2,5 to 3 LITERS for the same price, and for every half Liter bottle, you take back, you get 8 cents back from that. I do not drink spirits in pubs, but the price of a shot is about €3. You can get a full bloody Liter bottle in the supermarket for between €10 and €15.<br /><br />Then you can take it home, select your own company, smoke as much of, and WHAT you bloody LIKE, not have to shout to make yourself heard above the idiot titilaters (Fruit machines... which are becoming more and more like bastarding duke boxes these days, but that is ANOTHER discussion), the toilet floor is not full of other peoples, or even your OWN piss, you are not forced to have the OTHER idiot titilater (Sport) blaring at you from the T.V.<br /><br />And pub owners turn around and ask "where have all the customers gone?" (???)<br /><br />No matter WHAT "overheads" the have, they can NEVER justify trhe actual price differences we see between the two.Furor Teutonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856575077967523322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-26116171392245046622010-02-25T09:55:29.817+00:002010-02-25T09:55:29.817+00:00Pubs were the moot for the white working class.
Th...Pubs were the moot for the white working class.<br />Thats why they are trying to destroy them.<br />It has to be so simply because the smoking ban has done such a good job of wrecking the late great british pub.<br />They dont want people going down pubs and smoking ,they want to sit in their boring little wine bars and gloat at the smokers standing out in the cold.<br />The smoking ban was a viscious spitefull act of class hatred.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-49652496438611322752010-02-25T09:26:13.578+00:002010-02-25T09:26:13.578+00:00I think the bottom line here is that pubs cater ma...I think the bottom line here is that pubs cater mainly for the white working class, a minority group despised by New Labour and feared by the Tories. Furthermore, our Westminster masters certainly don't want large numbers of the great unwashed freely associating and discussing the issues of the day. It makes far more sense to make people stay at home so that the brightest can have their opinions moulded by the BBC, and the rest can be lobotomised by the other media channels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-47839305658081413242010-02-25T09:20:49.686+00:002010-02-25T09:20:49.686+00:00Don't get me started on the Conservatives'...Don't get me started on the Conservatives' plans for supermarket beer. Talk about dealing with the symptoms and not the problems.<br /><br />Geeeeeesh.Letters From A Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612766550608940053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-37780958713202557672010-02-25T04:45:52.524+00:002010-02-25T04:45:52.524+00:00Dick.
What we have to realise is that all this ho...Dick.<br /><br />What we have to realise is that all this hot air issued forth by various politicians is precisely that – hot air. <br /><br />The REAL problem for pubs is that the owners (of the premises or the business or both) are PROHIBITTED from offering the services that they might wish to offer. Eg, smoking areas. That is the real problem. In this respect, the fact that we smokers, as individuals, are annoyed about not being allowed to smoke in pubs is not the important thing.<br /><br />In the same way, the cost of ‘a pint’ in the pub is not really comparable to the cost of ‘a pint’ when bought in a supermarket. The reason is that pubs have huge overheads, and, if you wish to enjoy the facilities of your local pub, you have to accept that the cost of ‘a pint’ must be higher than it is from the supermarket. That is a fact. <br /><br />I find it incomprehensible that politicians can spout the nonsense that they do. It can only be that they have not really thought beforehand about what they are going to say – or that they are simply stupid. <br /><br />I do not really think that they are stupid. The probability is that they just think of some sort of ‘extended sound bite’ which fits the bill at the time. Unfortunately, this same thought process seems to be the way in which they approach all matters that come before them in the House of Commons. Is it, therefore, any wonder that this quango NICE is emboldened to try to bend the school curriculum to their way of thinking – that teaching about smoking is more important than teaching about maths, for example. (I say this in the sense that there are only so many hours in the day for teaching, and whether these hours should be spent teaching maths or teaching ephemeral smoking theories as though they were facts – or ‘climate change’ or ‘sex’).<br /><br />My daughter has recently finished her university course and is now teaching science (among other things). She tells me that the only real problem that she has in teaching the children science appropriate for their age (plant roots, volumes of liquids, heat and its conservation, etc) is that, in some classes, a FEW children are totally undisciplined, and that those few spoil it for the rest. The important thing (she tells me) is that, in some classes, there are simply TOO MANY badly behaved kids. In other words, that there is a ‘tipping point’ at which chaos ensues. And so we see something that politicians cannot cope with in their minds – the difference between POSSIBLE and PROBABLE. <br /><br />It is POSSIBLE that passive smoking may make someone ill, but is it PROBABLE?<br /><br />The same thought occurs as regards these ‘full body scanners’ in airports. Just because some remote airport in Nigeria failed to spot that this passenger had A SIRINGE in his hand luggage (along with explosive material in his underpants), we all have to ‘expose our nakedness’. The idea bothers me a little, but not a lot if it is necessary for our general safety. But, if I was a muslim woman, it would bother me enormously – as it should Christian women. I could reasonably see myself, if I was a devoted Christian or Muslim women saying, “Erm………No. No one is going to see me naked, remote or not.” The potential for agro is enormous. But why should these devices be introduced? The answer is: that it is remotely POSSIBLE that a person might……..” This is precisely what the terrorists want. They must be laughing their socks off.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-14127563988562558232010-02-24T22:57:12.641+00:002010-02-24T22:57:12.641+00:00Did they ask the Chair and Chairpersons from ASH a...Did they ask the Chair and Chairpersons from ASH and Alchohol Concern for permission to speak first ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-89423917903919703152010-02-24T22:09:03.824+00:002010-02-24T22:09:03.824+00:00Dick, you really have made my day with that! Brill...Dick, you really have made my day with that! Brilliant post.Lawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11586279064613712395noreply@blogger.com