The New Second Hand Smoke

The Telegraph- It’s closing time for free speech in British pubs

Not only will they have to seek expensive legal advice, but it may mean employing “banter bouncers” to eavesdrop on customers and eject them if they say anything a pink-haired barmaid (they/them) might object to. Lists of banned words will have to be displayed on walls – “mothers”, “breast-feeding”, “woman” – and regulars may be asked to undergo unconscious bias training.

23 Replies to “The New Second Hand Smoke”

  1. WTF??? This is Madness, Madness! Enoch Powell was correct. England, or should I say Britain, is done.
    Fought the Nazis, won the battle but lost the long game war. Same with us. Never send you sons and daughters to die on a foreign land.

  2. Not to worry. This problem will be solved when the Islamists take over Britian completely and ban alcohol…and single woman being in public… regardless of hair colour.

    1. Couldn’t find a reason now to go to the UK.
      I’d rather go back and visit the Maritimes & Newfoundland to hear an accent.
      I don’t see this ending well in my lifetime.

    2. Couldn’t find a reason now to go to the UK.
      I’d rather go back and visit the Maritimes & Newfoundland to hear an accent.
      I don’t see this ending well in my lifetime.

  3. Things are developing nicely on Air Strip One as though following an instruction manual.

  4. You want MY opinion? Of course you do (except those of you with terminal TDS) …

    https://thefarmersdogpub.com/

    I believe this is targeted at Jeremy Clarkson’s new Pub … so that he cannot film and broadcast “Clarkson’s Pub” on Apple TV+. He might say something unkind about the Labor Govt. hahahahaha ha ha ha … of course he will! It’s why we tune in

  5. Wow, this is pure Soviet Union schtick. Stalin encouraged “Denunciations” (Доносы
    Donosy). Turn in your relatives. Turn in your friends. Turn in your co-workers.

    On the other side, however is the age old passage. “Snitches get Stitches.”

  6. Dumb, unenforceable waste of money. While you are up to your ears in real crime. But then again all the DEI hires need to flesh out their days somehow.. Legal basket weaving for the perpetually challenged :)..

    You miss the point.. When the cold war ended.. When they stopped putting people in jail.. The huge government apparatus that used to have a job, didn’t anymore.. They needed a new reason to be, you..

    Slow and insidious.. Big government / deep state will not fire themselves.. But find a new target..

    1. Well … two-tier policing goes hand-in-hand with two-tier speech. Islam uber alles!!

  7. You know that free speech in Limey Land is completely screwed when you can freely speculate in your local pub that your king is a green knob-gobbler but you can’t even comment on facts that prove invaders are destroying your country.

    Britain: a completely stupid little country. It’s what Canada wants to be when it grows up.

  8. wtf good is it protecting feelings of the 2025 crowd if it results in
    their employer going out of business?
    like those famous union victories that got factories shut down isnt that right eaton automotive niagara region 1980s?

  9. I see 2 movie like comparisons happening here. 1 is from clockwork Orange and of course, the other is from 1984. Unfortunately, both are happening and neither one is any form of entertainment.

  10. You’d think that when the Limey gubmint goes after the Limey citizen in this most sacred of British institutions – the Pub- there would be hell to pay. But no.

  11. History repeats itself. The rebirth of rhyming slang will give us a more colourful language that only the locals will fully comprehend. Confusion to the Bow Street Runners.

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