When the current lockdown ends, the rules will change according to where you live.You can only socialise inside with people you live with, or those in your support bubble if you live alone. Groups of up to six can meet outside, but social distancing must be adhered to.
In tier three, very high risk areas, you cannot mix with anyone outside your household either indoors or in pub gardens or private gardens. Hospitality venues - such as bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants - must stay closed, except for delivery and takeaway services. In tier one, medium level, people can meet inside or outside in groups of up to six. Most of England is in tier two or three, however, with only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and Isles of Scilly in tier one.
It's simply staggering how long you can take to eat a side salad . . .
On the one hand the statement is logical. What winds many people up is the type of person who insists on every ounce of detail like this being clarified, so we all end up with more and more specific restrictions. Are they really so incapable of using their own judgment?
Waitress/waiter: Have you finished with your meal sir? Me: No, no i havent... Can i get another drink please Waitress/waiter: But sir, there's only 1 chip left on your plate? Me: Yes i know... And im not finished, can i get another drink please Yea good luck enforcing that 🙄
I'm not listening to the government anymore all year we listen well im not interested anymore
Will Rishi be launching another 'Eat out to Spread out' Scheme then
Why are they in fucking pubs anyway?
Yep, because opening and shutting your fob to shove food in it immediately protects you from coronavirus whereas sitting in a corner with a drink is hazardous ☢️
Take 3 hours
Why are all the Nightingale hospitals sitting empty?......if there is a strain on the NHS then these should have kicked in by now!
Then why not let people go in for a drink for a two hour slot? Although how they are going to police any of this is beyond me.
East German laws and we stand for it🤷♂️
So the virus can’t get you after 10.0pm or when your eating?
Why don’t they do what they really want and close all the pubs ,is that what their Muslim masters have told them to do?
'Have you finished sir', 'nope' repeat.
Just keep a bowl of chips in the middle of the table 🙄😁
I can see some long waits for puddings
How fast are pubs going to serve? If it was me I’d be prepping very slowly
Just leave it on the table half eaten and say you haven’t finished. Aren’t you people getting tired of being treated like children? Stop watching the fake media, stop complying to this nonsense and things will return to normal. Oh wait! You’re all waiting for the magic vaccine 😂
What! This is getting ridiculous. I could say more but won’t.
REMEMBER BACK IN AUGUST WHEN THESE TWATS WERE ACTUALLY ENCOURAGING AND PAYING PEOPLE TO EAT & DRINK OUT 😂😂😂 come on people wake up the covid narrative changes faster than the weather 🤥 covid19
Doesn’t anybody find it odd absolutely none of these rules/restrictions \\ lockdowns appear to be making a blind bit of difference 🤥 at this stage the covid narrative is spread very thin and and too many are questioning things now there’s to many plot holes for them to fill
This virus is amazingly intelligent. It now knows when you've eaten your chicken and chips !!!!
What's a pub
Tier 2, lucky bastards, this will ruin an already struggling town in Derbyshire
I guess the salad garnish will be staying on the plate for several pints after the meal started then won’t it....
so have a starter and finish a bottle of wine half way through main. second bottle by dessert. then a double with that and another with coffee. seems fine
Lucky thay can sit down for a meal!! We are in Berwick upon Tweed T3 after lockdown! There is not need for us to be in this Tier its disgraceful
I heard someone has written a new guide, “Eating out for Dummies” it contains great ideas on how to make your meal last all night!
Generally best to leave the pub before the food arrives in Plymouth - pubs are for drinking not eating (nor for children)
Yeah I can see that getting enforced, not
Absolute idiocy. Who is making up this shit? Why? For what purpose? Is it really about health, making people leave the pub right after they finish their meal vs being ok there until they finish? Should they stop half way to use the toilet and come back and finish? Fuck off.
Watching Boris is like a Benny Hill reboot
Eat slowly 🤣
I can make a meal last quite a while.
well generally thats what you do in a restaurant
Just stop going on about it and get on with it. Maybe, just maybe we will see the light at the end of a very long tunnel then. If people complied in the first place, we wouldn’t be where we are now. Other countries that did follow rules, are out of it.
What if after the meal they need a jobbie
And yet again this government shows us how thick and stupid the rules are 🤔🖕
Why would you want to stay?
so ppl will leave a chip on their plate and say they are still eating! Observe the spirit of the rules, stop looking for ways around them. StayHomeStaySafe tistheseason 2b JollyCareful
Hands down - would rather stay at home, make a meal that tastes better that we can and eat at our leisure - and drink as much as we like without being kicked out!
Buy meal. Leave on table. Get smashed.
Take half hour to eat starter 1 hour for main and half hour for dessert, and time in between should take it to 2 and half hours, what a lot of piss just keep them shut as that’s obviously the main objective, to shut down permanently as many pubs as possible
Would rather stay at home, make a meal that tastes better and eat at ourselves leisure - and drink as much as we like!
Most pubs prefer this anyway so they can get the next set of diners in
Just leave a couple of chips on your plate.... So you ain't finished eating.... Then stay all night buying drinks. Simples.
Substantial meal, has he been up north, that just means a f**cking greggs. Pie and Peas, if it takes 2 hours to serve is that ok
The last 15 peas will take 3 hrs to eat and savour! That's one every 12 minutes...then there is ice cream order at 10pm for last orders! Never heard sych utter testicles from the looney scientists! Sir Percy 🧐
8.00pm meet at the 'Rose and Crown', fish and chips and 4 pints, 9.30 on to the 'Queens Head' curry and rice and another 4 pints, leave at 11.00pm, the future looks obese.
People are going to be eat a lot, really slowly.
I'm a slow eater....
Lol this is getting ridiculous now.
Pointless
EndUKLockdown1 More ill thought out legislation. Pubs and restaurants can just delay bringing you your food - and then you eat your pudding very slowly. Mindless micromanagement just prompts people to find loopholes.
The Summertime Pub idiots will be having very long meals to get pissed. Result spread Covid again but for Xmas this time. Lockdown 3 repeat of 2020 in 2021.
Have u timed me eating yet..can stretch for a loooooooong time
I hear more of what we have to do then what the people telling us what to do are doing! Weak controlling government......
That last chip is going to last a few pints.
Nooo, not fair
Ah go suck on you Hancock.
Ok, eat slower.
Move to the iow.
These were rules during easter not too long ago.
Your barred.
I can’t have a drink without a meal but my flatmate who is spending 6 weeks in the US will be allowed to quarantine in our flatshare when he’s back in January...
Because that will help............how exactly?
BBC are totally wank....come again....yes totally wank...
One pea at a time.
Is this the law. In the statutory instrument. Or just non-enforceable guidance? This government has an unfortunate and dictatorial propensity to confuse the two.
Does this mean you can't stay to have a cup of tea?
A pointless article BBC
I’ll ask the bar staff to leave my empty plate on the table!
Amazing that a virus has more brains than the government
What is Tier 2 our pubs are open from next Thursday and will be as normal by,9pm they will close as their business is done we don't have a problem here with crowded pubs so that is why we are in Tier 1
Like feck we will.
Is this a joke? Micromanaging every minute of our lives..this in insane.
It's nothing more than total dictatorship! We are being made fools of.Time to wake up and smell the beer .....!
Is that as individuals or a group? My daughter eats at a snails pace whilst I will finish in 5 mins. Am I to leave a 3yr old to pay the bill and find her own way home
me1issaa_
Same as the last tier 3 BBC. Slow day at the office for someone?
The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum!
Another ridiculous Conservatives rule. Go to work in an office, but don't dare enjoy a pint after a stressful day with the same group
Presumably without paying.
What a joke
🤡
Just make your last chip last.
The move is also likely to provoke anger amongst publicans, who have been advised that those wanting soft drinks or coffee do not need to eat a substantial meal. It has not been clarified why the virus is more likely to spread to over a glass of wine than a mug of cocoa.
A plate of chips can last for six pints, easily.
Pint for every chip please
Like how the media make a big deal on things like this to stir people up 🙄
Eat a chip every 4 mins. Make the meal last hours 😂😂
😂
The BBC are loving this. Boris, Vallance and half Whitty have ensured no more Tory governments after this one 😀😀😀
Hospitality might be safe inside but the problem starts outside when everyone has had a skinful social distancing goes out the window we've seen how people behave.. its upto everyone to do their bit. It's not some big conspiracy theory Get a grip!
This is getting ridiculously out of hand.
On your bike Mr Johnson.
What is the point in opening until 11pm after last orders at 10pm then.
DefundTheBBC
EndUKLockdown1 Why go
EndUKLockdown1 Who can drink 8 pints whilst scoffing a bag of pork scratchings, (oxford english dictionary literal translation of 'substanstial meal')
Oh for god sake how ridiculous. .
Well, the important is that you can leave pub after meal and not before it.
Order the all day breakfast
I can see this varying a lot in terms of whether it really happens... ‘Spoons could easily just say no meal on the order, no booze, but then I reckon posh pubs with proper table service are going to offer a table more drinks if they are running low half way through a meal?
Well I intend to use chopsticks to eat my soup so I’ll be alright
Pubs need to introduce a taster menu
I’ll have 4 Carvery dinners and 15 pints please bar man 😂👍🏻
These rules are blatantly ridiculous, but it's also a really sad indictment on so many people's lives that a life-or-death situation for many, so close to the biggest national holiday recognised within the country, is trivialised by this obsession with having to get back to pubs.
If only we could find a way to eat through a face mask! 🤣
This has to be only about control as customers if have covid already have exposed others too the virus and hospitality has no control of alcohol consumption prior too the visit, so consumption is as it should be down to the establishments discretionary opinion.
What the flying fuck is this shit?
Ofcourse they will! Gotta let your dinner go down first. 😂😂😂😂
Government treating ALL pubs and restaurants with contempt. Absolutely ridiculous .
Games
I'll have a bowl of soup and 12 pints please
I just cannot understand how having a civilised socially distant pint in a COVID secure environment is more dangerous than going to a busy shopping centre, going to a gym, being in a classroom with 30 other people or using the train/tube.
Small bites and big gulps.
Based on what Science?
I will have to eat slowly and wait a while to let my food go down before I order desert.
More whittyslaw
I do hope someone will be scrutinising what MPs are doing in the commons bar. Would be awfully embarrassing if they didn’t follow the rules
Simple...order the cheese board
Close all the Westminster bars down since they cant be trusted.
Probably one of the few times people will hope for slow service!
Taking your time and chewing your food properly will become a fine art
I can eat really really slowly.
What evidence do they have that sitting in a pub eating a meal & having a drink is less risky than sitting in said pub just drinking?
I don’t see what difference having a meal makes as to whether you may contract COVID or not.
Police that 😂😂😂😂😂
Always love a 5 hour meal..
Well as pubs are only open to serve meals.......
Lots of great replies but unfortunately 'project fear' was highly successful and most if England are not going out cos they are going to kill the elderly.
How ridiculous
Drink Quickly / Eat Slowly... Simples
Iv got it, pubs can offer all you can eat food? 'Are you Finnished sir?' 'No I'll be wanting another plate of chips please, oh bring me a pint aswell.'
They need to make the people stand on one leg next. Seems no end to stupidity people take, they plainly deserve this as they accept it and the business are a total disgrace to even care to apply it. But you get the government you deserve unfortunately
It used to be about nursing your pint, now it's going to be about nursing your plate!
🤣😂
Just don't eat it, buy cheapest thing and sit on it.
Does Boris honestly think there’s a endless queue of diners for these places. We rely on 2nd and 3rd drinks to make money
Jesus H this is a joke.
Who is going to police this situation, like most of this horse shit it’s completely unenforceable. You’d need a copper in every restaurant, it’s just fecking ridiculous 🤷♂️
Before everybody newly in Tier 2 gets their knickers in a twist over this, the North West were using their common sense to interpret it eight weeks ago
I’m surprised the shops aren’t selling 1 metre long Christmas ‘social distancing’ crackers .
EndUKLockdown1 You'll be surprised how long a meal can last, especially the salad & of course there will be plenty of drinks while you peruse the menu & cogitate on all the ordering possibilities.
Load of old rubbish
i’m sure certain big chains will find a way around this 🙄
We'll eat very slowly then!
What a load of rubbish
Slow eating contest
EndUKLockdown1 If pubs are high risk places to hang around in how does it make sense to spend up to 2 hours having a 'substantial meal' when you can't have a swift pint that takes less than half an hour?...😱
Sorry but I actually did laugh at loud reading this.
😂😂😂😂 I can't believe anyone is taking this stuff seriously.
WatchRatio
How will this ever be enforced? 'Your honour he was eating slowly and drinking quicker! I am certain of it.'
utter bolloxs !!! if your that stupid do not go to the pub
At least here in Amsterdam we can still get our weed in takeaway! 😂✌🏼🌿 Hope this goes away for us all. I want our life back! x
Wtf
I’ll have to start enjoying that chewy piece of meat 🙈
This is a terrible idea. People will leave a single chip on their plate, arguments ensue etc. Does no one think this stuff through?
A jacket potato is now going to take me at least 4 hours to eat in a pub... 😎
SaveFarmersFromModi
Why? If your going to catch your bullshite while eating, Seems that the Government is trying to: Demoralization Destabilization Crisis Normalization See: Yuri Bezmenov
no point in going then
It's like they're making it up as they go along .......oh!!! they are.. some of the rules just don't make any sense at all.
Seems sensible to me. They don't want people getting pissed up and 'forgetting' about social distancing but it still allows some part of the economy to function.
yehh right and just who will enforce when a meal has finished.....cloudCuckooLand Boris the buffoon.
Sensible
Or possibly stay home?
Good. They don't mean after last bite. They mean dickheads sat for hours after 2 take 5 hours on fish and chips and 14 pints 🍻
Eat slowly and sup quick
Sorry, you can only stay if you're willing to have a large petri dish of an infectious particulate recepticle in front of you from which you will occasionally graze. Them's the ruleZ 🤷♂️
So you can stay in pub as long as you have a soft drink so bring your own spirit eg vodka and slip it and you stay longer drinking soft drinks!
Who is enforcing this? nobody... they do not have the resources to enforce it. as the old saying goes, all mouth & no trousers!
I do not understand this. I doubt very much covid distinguishes whether you’re eating or drinking.
Utter horse💩 Pubs are being sold down the swanny when they contribute little to overall spread.
One pudding, 6 plates and 60 pints of lager please
Fish and chips now and I'll wait for a pudding to be served when it's ready at midnight.
If I get food stuck in my teeth does that qualify as still eating?
This is absolutely total cojones off the highest order . Johnson is just making this up as he sees fit !
Order extra chips and leave them
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