Pub ban for curfew-backing MP: he says it’s political but they say he ‘killed us’
Don’t shed any tears for Warrington South MP Andy Carter, who has been banned from 30 pubs, clubs and bars in his town after voting in a 10pm curfew for them.
He has retaliated to the ban by the local Pubwatch scheme, saying it had been used for political aims that brought it “into disrepute”.
But this is nonsense. His own colleague Victoria Atkins, minister for safeguarding, said in 2019 that “Pubwatch enables licensees to take collective action against troublemakers”, and what could make more trouble for local pubs than a Parliamentary decision that one local Pubwatch member said “absolutely killed us”?
He said people were angry and Mr Carter had shown “no support for the hospitality industry at a time when we need as much as we can get”.
Carter’s own claim that the hospitality industry had enjoyed a huge amount of government help is risible as he mentioned Eat Out to Help Out, Rishi Sunak’s scheme that has been proved to have accelerated the second wave of Covid-19.
Sunak has refused to rule out bringing the scheme back.
Who will take him up on it, I wonder?
Source: Lifetime pub ban for Warrington MP who backed 10pm curfew – BBC News
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