Originally Posted by pandy

HMG's advice to the public to avoid pubs, restaurants, clubs and so on seems in comparison rather passive aggressive, and a complete abdication of responsibility. The licensed trade have been hung out to dry. If the government doesn't want people congregating in pubs, they should order their closure and to provide a package of aid to help those businesses, to help them to weather the crisis.


Quite so. At the moment it just looks like they are chucking small businesses off the cliff so that the multi-billion pound insurance industry doesn't have to pay out in claims.

Tim H.
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