When Will the Peasants Revolt?

Obnoxious pettifogging bureaucrats seek to boss us about.

Britons could be told to wear masks when they return to beer gardens next week despite being outside, as the country enters the next stage of lockdown easing.

Given that there is nothing in the law requiring masks to be worn outside, the appropriate response involves telling the pecksniffs where to put their instructions. Thing is, how many will do so?

But despite restrictions being lifted on Monday, customers may be forced to wear face masks when they return to beer gardens.

How? There is no law mandating this.

Yet according to the Daily Telegraph, pub landlords are being given contradictory instructions by councils who are insisting masks must be worn by customers unless they are eating or drinking.

Since when did councils get the power to override the law?

The newspaper reports that councils have set up enforcement teams to patrol pubs for rule-breakers and that some publicans fear they may be fined.

Firstly, these officials do not have the power to fine anyone. Only a court may do that. Given that no law will have been broken, the courts will not issue fines – you need a law to be broken for that to happen. So, the appropriate way to deal with this is to advise the officials that you will happily see them in court as you will not comply and will not pay and if enough people do this, the whole thing falls apart. They do not have the power to enforce a law that does not exist. Unfortunately, local councils are filled with petty little officials with delusions of grandeur – wannabe commissars who delight in a whiff of power over the proletariat.

When questioned as to whether a mistake had been made by one landlady, the council reportedly insisted masks must be worn in beer gardens unless eating or drinking.

What, precisely, does this moronic council think people are doing in pubs?

Both industry bodies UK Hospitality and the British Beer and Pub Association said they were aware of ‘inconsistencies’ in some guidance being given to pub owners.

Guidance is not the same thing as the law. The law only mandates face masks indoors, not outside – yes, I know some window-lickers are to be seen wearing them outside, but that’s up to them. Much like the people on their own driving their cars all masked up. I have not worn a mask and do not intend to start. Nor have I taken any notice of the antisocial distancing or the idiotic bubbles and rule of six. When I have wanted to visit someone (usually family) I have gone into the house and mixed as normal in defiance of the rules – and, no, we didn’t leave the windows open in the middle of the damned winter. The risks of this disease are low – especially as we get into the summer months. It’s time we started behaving like adults rather than frit little children.

Personally, the idea of going to the pub has lost its appeal, so I won’t be bothering, frankly. I feel much like the smokers of a decade or so ago. It has ceased to be a pleasurable experience. Indeed, mixing with others is also increasingly becoming an experience to avoid. Perhaps I should retire to the hills and become a hermit.

15 Comments

  1. Won’t catch me wearing a mask outdoors, nor outside a pub. Won’t be going anywhere near a pub until they return to something like normal. As you say, it’s not a pleasurable experience anymore.

  2. Our increased council tax is paying for these scumbags. When landlords realise that many people will NOT spend their hard-earned cash to be abused like this, and pub income plummets, perhaps they will observe the law rather than the ravings of lunatics.

  3. Seem to recall thatvthe regs allow for officials to issue fines, rather than just police.

    Not that it matters wouldn’t attend any place that applies restrictions. And I don’t see how you could turn a profit with restrictions.

    • A FPN is not a fine. It’s an admission of guilt and saves going to court. Only the courts can issue fines.

      From what I can tell very few covid fines have been issued or upheld by the courts. Hence, don’t pay. Let them take you to court.

  4. The problem, as ever, is that the Local Authority is insulated against the results and consequences of their bureaucratic decisions.
    Consider town centre parking as an example. Most councils saw the motorist as a cash cow and pandered to the green lobby by making visiting their twins by car as difficult and costly as possible (even though in most small towns there is no practical alternative). The result can be seen on every high street in the country, a parade of vacant shops, pawnbrokers, tattoo emporia, charity shops, bookies, and oddly and most recently, Turkish hairdressers.
    So it was with the smoking ban. The government and councils cared not for their communities and added thousands of boarded-up pubs to the desolation.
    Now the same failed ideology of control and health-fascism drives the covid response. And it will have the same economic and social consequences.
    Why do the left and their fellow travellers insist on repeating the same failed experiment? And, I suppose even more prescient, why do we let them?

    • “…Why do the left and their fellow travellers insist on repeating the same failed experiment?..”

      As such repetition has been often stated to be the very definition of insanity, I presume the answer to your question must be “Because they’re insane.”

  5. Semantic point, but the term ‘delusions of grandeur’ is inappropriate for council jobsworths – the correct term is ‘delusions of adequacy’.

  6. Since when did councils get the power to override the law?

    Decades, centuries ago: Councils – with police input – issue, renew and revoke licenses

    Obnoxious pettifogging Gov’ts breaking their own laws and bribing people

    “Norway’s PM is fined £1,700 for breaking her own COVID-19 restrictions with 60th birthday dinner at a ski resort”
    MailOnline reports another case of Covid hypocrisy, this time the Norwegian Prime Minister who held a large family gathering to celebrate her 60th birthday party
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9452929/

    “Covid-battered Malta to pay tourists who visit this summer”
    Reuters reports that, in a desperate bid to revive the island’s tourism industry, Malta is planning to offer foreign visitors up to 200 Euros to stay for three days. Might just about cover the cost of the first PCR test on your return home
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malta-tourism-handout-idUSKBN2BW2KX

  7. Surely no-one (except for idiots who swallow all the government and BBC propaganda) can now be in any doubt that masks were never about the coronavirus. They were always about control – control of the unwashed masses.

  8. Pub owners need to employ some really intimidating bouncers to challenge these little Hitlers about how much authority they actually have. You know for a fact that they would run away at high speed. It is pretty self evident that our worthless police force cave in the second that they encounter determined opposition.

    I don’t have skin in this game, I haven’t been near a pub in years. Paying ten times the price for beer doesn’t really appeal to me.

    • That’s worrying stuff, Ripper.

      So the AstraZeneca vaccine is only 31% effective at stopping transmission of the virus. And the increases in deaths and the number of people admitted to hospital are dominated by people who have received two doses of the vaccine.

      Of course, all this information will be considered vaccine “misinformation” by the likes of the BBC and Grauniad. They will try to suppress it or silence or censor anyone who attempts to highlight it.

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