Labour split over plans to cut pub opening hours in Britain.

 

Angela Rayner

We've been told by Labour's obese Business Secretary, Angie Rayner, who has admitted to a weakness for raves, vaping and cocktails, that Britain now has the most working-class prime minister and working-class cabinet in a generation.

In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer-oid (KC), a former state prosecutor and Trotskyist, said he would be a light touch prime minister who didn't want to tell people how to lead their lives. He pledged to “tread more lightly” on the lives of voters. But in just over eleven weeks, we're now seeing how controlling, venal, inept and authoritarian, Starmer's Labour government is.

Labour appears to be mired in sleaze and in hock to wealthy capitalists and hedge fund dealers who circle Westminster handing out free clothing and hospitality to Labour cabinet ministers as well as the Prime Minister and his wife.  With his bans and proscriptions on dissenters, there's more than a touch of the Maximilian Robespierre about Comrade Starmer-oid.

The Labour government now wants to crack down on junk food advertising, to weigh people at work and ban people from smoking outside pubs and in pub beer gardens. As a record number of UK pubs close on a weekly basis, Labour is now considering closing pubs early and introducing minimum unit alcohol pricing that will increase the price of alcoholic drinks to control alcohol abuse. This will lead to further pub closures and job losses.

Labour's health minister, Andrew Gwynne, who has been a career Labour politician for most of his adult life, and who now represent Denton & Gorton, has said that Labour are "not the fun police" or a "super nanny", but the case for introducing such measures was both moral and economic. He said that Britain's poor health was "morally reprehensible" and that the NHS hasn't enough money to cope with rising demand.

On Tuesday, Labour's Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, vowed to "table an emergency resolution" to stop any motion aimed at closing pubs earlier. Speaking on the BBC Today programme, McFadden said that pubs were a great part of the British tradition and that Labour had no plans to change pub opening hours in that way. Emma McClarkin, the chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said that she welcomed Mr McFadden's move to deny the rumours and that it was a huge relief that the Idea of restricting pub opening hours, had been squashed.

Sir Keir Starmer-oid's squalid and sleazy Labour government, have said they want to grow the British economy but they don't seem to have much of an idea about how to do it. Labour's mixed and confusing messages over policy and endless talk of doom and gloom and tight and painful times that lie ahead, are undermining both business and consumer confidence and diminishing economic activity and putting jobs at risk.