English Border Pubs Bracing For 100,000 to Cross From Scotland and Wales on New Year’s Eve
English border pubs are expecting upwards of 100,000 Scottish and Welsh revellers to cross into England on New Year’s Eve amid mounting anger at Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford for cracking down on festivities. MailOnline has more.
On Monday, Boris Johnson confirmed England will not see additional Covid measures introduced before New Year’s Eve despite nightclubs closing and curbs being placed on large gatherings in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The restrictions on events in neighbouring nations are expected to prompt a flood of people crossing into England to celebrate on Friday December 31st.
Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney today admitted the Scottish government is powerless to stop Scots heading to England.
But he said he would “discourage” people from making the trip, arguing it is not in the “spirit of the rules that we are putting forward”.
Mr Swinney said there will be no policing of the border to stop people crossing and ultimately “people are free to make their own judgements”.
His comments came as Ms Sturgeon prepares to deliver a Covid update this afternoon after case numbers in Scotland reached record highs.
The festive period has seen daily cases in Scotland climb to more than 8,000, with a pandemic-high of 11,030 recorded on Boxing Day.
It remains unclear whether Ms Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, is planning to introduce further restrictions, stick with the ones she has already announced, or remove some of the existing curbs.
The regional differences on social gatherings are expected to see a surge in Scottish and Welsh revellers crossing into England on New Year’s Eve.
Greg Mulholland, at the Campaign for Pubs, said as many as 100,000 could cross the borders for a “normal” New Year’s Eve without table service-only or mask wearing requirements.
He told the Sun: “We need a more coordinated, common sense approach. It’s confusing for the many thousands of people who live near a border, and frustrating for publicans in Scotland and Wales.”
Social media was flooded with people saying they planned to head to England on Friday to bring in the New Year in the face of stringent restrictions on clubs and bars in their own nations.
Furious Tory MPs and hospitality bosses in Scotland and Wales yesterday demanded Ms Sturgeon and Mr Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, publish figures justifying their Covid crackdowns.
City centres in the principalities, including Northern Ireland, were pictured desolate and lifeless last night amid the introduction of new Covid restrictions for pubs and clubs, which included the rule of six and social distancing for thousands of venues.
Meanwhile revellers let their hair down in England after Health Secretary Sajid Javid confirmed no new rules would be put in place before the end of the year.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Former Labour MP Tom Harris says the absurd new Covid Rules in Scotland and Wales prove the Left just loves to boss everyone about.
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It’s not in the spirit of the rules says John Swinney.
Ahuh. So the rules have a spirit.
I wonder what kind of spirit that would be.
A demonic spirit?
Just sayin’.
I’m thinking malt spirit. Up yours Swinney.
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I think they’d be ‘resisters’ unless they were solid-state components rather than human beings.
Which is more predictable – solid-state components, or the twats in government?.
A mean spirit.
Desperate.
Justify your rules then, Swinney, prove beyond reasonable doubt that they are necessary.
Swinney’s ‘spirit of the rules’ statement was proof of Mark Twain’s dictum that it’s better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it.
How do they arrive at the figures of exactly 100.000?
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A Celtic invasion – and probably a welcome one for the recipient pubs.
Exactly what I was thinking – the pubs have taken a real beating this past 20 months so they will be happy! They will have to ensure they don’t run out of beer!!
Well the English ones will be but spare a thought for those just on the other side of the border 🙁
They should offer support (and extra supplies of booze) to the places south of the border.
He may have plans to post armed guards along the border. Or at least police taking number plates. At this stage nothing should surprise us.
Bristol will be lively, then. Those Bristol boys get on double well with the Cardiff boys!
Anyone for a drink in Bristol? 🙂
I live in Hereford. We’re expecting Monmouth to decamp to Ross on Wye, Cwmbran and Abergavenny to come to Hereford. Shrewsbury will be busy.
Chester will be swamped.
So metaphorically, Birnam Forest will come to Dunsinane?
Good. Then tell Johnson to go play with himself if he tries to impose more despotism in 2022. Revolt is the word
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, folks.
England does well.
Devolution is Hell.
This was completely predictable. Why are politicians and Civil Servants so thick?
And why do we keep re-electing these useless slobs?
Ohh I’m sure they knew this would happen as much as day follows night. But they simply ignore it in their push for useless NPIs.
They’re not thick: they’re hubristic.
Well, we’re not exactly spoilt for choice, any of us
If you tell me who else there is apart from tyrant Johnson I will vote for them
The Dung will be a happy man on New Year’s Eve, thinking of all the people he’s making miserable.
Who would be stupid enough to vote for a Tee Totaler?
“Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney today admitted the Scottish government is powerless to stop Scots heading to England.
But he said he would “discourage” people from making the trip, arguing it is not in the “spirit of the rules that we are putting forward”.”
But it’s certainly the case that the only reason these regimes are not closing the borders physically is because it is impossible for them to do so. If they could, they certainly would.
That’s just the kind of people they are. More fool the Scots and Welsh for electing them. Not that we have huge room to talk, but we have a little, as the behaviour of the regional governments versus the national government has shown, during this covid hysteria.
Personally I wish they would try and close the borders. It would show them up for the Communist dictators that they are. Scotland would be easy, there’s only 14 roads and 2 rail lines. The Welsh border is a lot more porous.
Could also rebuild the wall!!!
We don’t need no COVID restrictions
We don’t need no thought control
No dark regulations at the New Year
Hey! You! Sturgeon! Leave our pubs alone
All in all its just another kick in the balls
All in all its just another kick in the balls
Scotland did not elect a majority SNP government. The SNP had to do a deal with the Greens, which means the end of Scotland’s oil industry, to form a government.
Is it your impression that the Greens (or Labour, for that matter) are one jot less maniacally evil than the SNP on covid?
That’s 69% of Scottish voters, right there, voting for covid nutters.
Given that the economic case for independence in 2014 was predicated on oil revenues, what’s the answer to their money troubles next time?
Doris (or whomever) will rob the English taxpayer to bail them out, as usual.
Asking the English taxpayer to bail them out again. What else is there?
They shouldn’t have been able to do that. It’s hardly democratic.
The communist utopias of Scotland and Wales, not so utopian then – who would have thought… Maybe a wall will help? I hear a Roman bloke called Hadrian can offer some guidance on building techniques.
I’d prefer Antonine, and then annexation.
Sturgeon and Drakeford. Why don’t you build a wall, to keep your disease vectors from escaping?
Anyone else think this might be entirely the point? Start getting used to going into England for the things you want to do, eventually people will move over the border, then everyone can be more easily rounded up into central locations for whatever purpose.
Behave yourself.
Pleased though I am, that those poor, benighted folk from the two miserabilist, high security prison countries can enjoy themselves in England’s open prison, and provide welcome trade here, you can bet your bottom dollar that some creep or the other is “modelling” the possible effects, whilst another is plotting some restrictions, supposedly resulting from them.
It is Dante’s Nine Circles Of Hell, replayed in an endless loop.
It’s alright when people from one country go to another for a drink. But it’s something else when they emigrate to another country and bring their voting habits with them.
How about the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford? Or, more pertinently, how about his son, Jonathan Drakeford?
Mark Drakeford’s son, Jonathon, has been sentenced to more than eight and a half years behind bars in 2018 for a brutal rape and assault on a young lady.
Jonathan Drakeford:
Our characters are writ large upon our faces, for those that care to look and instinctively read other’s countenances. Look at Jonathan Drakeford, he has low-life thug and arrogant bully written all over him.
Then read his dad’s countenance, it has sire of low-life thug and arrogant bully written all over it. With Jonathon, the apple certainly did not fall far from the tree.
A picture says a thousand words. There has to be something radically wrong with people that vote for the likes of Mark Drakeford to rule their country.
Like father like son. Just a few more victims.
Humiliated his victim by forcing her to stand in a corner gagged with her own underwear.”
Humiliated his proles by forcing them to stay in their house and only leave if gagged with Chinese fabric
You’ve done that very well.
The consolation is that Jonathan won’t be following his father into politics.
Can you be sure of that, when Vaz is planning a comeback?
Would you bet on that
Excellent, politically incorrect point. I wish it was ok to point out more about these people’s faces. I give you Chris Witty. Don’t tell me that’s the face of a good man. Nicola Sturgeon: the bitter twisted pinched face of cruelty. Boris: sexual sloppiness written all over his dial. Van Tam: pure brutality. And, yes, Drakeford: the weak floppy face of the moral coward. You might see it, you might not, but that’s how I read it.
Not sure I agree with your ‘looks’ analysis. But Drakeford Snr will be a test of the Spitting Image caricature makers. How do you parody a mush like that?
“Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney today admitted the Scottish government is powerless to stop Scots heading to England.”
As much as the little tyrant would love to.
“Mr Swinney said there will be no policing of the border to stop people crossing and ultimately “people are free to make their own judgements”.”
A veiled threat if ever there was one.
“Furious Tory MPs and hospitality bosses in Scotland and Wales yesterday demanded Ms Sturgeon and Mr Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, publish figures justifying their Covid crackdowns.”
That would be novel.
“People are free to make their own judgments” Not since March 2020 they have very definitely NOT been free to make their own judgments.
Ah, so can I exercise my own judgement as a fully jabbed 75 Yr old to to NOT wear a useless insanitary mask on buses in shops o r anywhere else?
I have freinds and relatives coming over from Wales to celebrate the New Year in England … it was my turn to visit them this year but plans were changed due to the new restrictions imposed in Wales – they’ve all had enough of the Socialist Republic of Wales so they are coming over to celebrate the new year here in the South East and also (just as importantly) to spend their money – money that would have otherwise gone into the coffers of Welsh pubs, clubs, shops, restaurants and other businesses.
Hope you and they have a wonderful, free, fun time. Happy New year to you and them
“Stop Press: Former Labour MP Tom Harris says the absurd new Covid Rules in Scotland and Wales prove the Left just loves to boss everyone about.”
Yes, that’s clearly true.
There are authoritarians on both left and right, it’s a human character trait. But the left has authoritarianism built into its DNA, because the essence of the left is the idea that they are building a brave new world that will be better in every way. Those who resist are not just wrong, they are evil. Their speech can be suppressed because it is not just wrong but evil. and if they behave in ways the leftists dislike, they are not just foolish, but criminal – undermining the brave new world for everyone. And the tool for their authoritarianism is the state in the guiding hands of the leftists.
Here are some interesting thoughts from Thomas Sowell on Left vs Right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_EtIWmja-4&ab_channel=LevanRamishvili
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_INQFZd58Yw&ab_channel=LibertyPen
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-left-right-dichotomy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_EtIWmja-4&ab_channel=LevanRamishvili
Yes, that’s pretty spot on, regarding the idea of nature/nurture and the perfectibility of man. That is a split that pretty much follows left/right, because the idea that mankind can be built back better is necessary for the idea that a perfect society can be built, if we just give enough power to the right people (ie leftists).
Also note how apt this bit is for the basically leftist covid panic:
“I’ve often said that there are three questions that I think would destroy most of the arguments on the left.
The first is: compared to what?
The second is: at what cost?
And the third is: what hard evidence do you have?“
The longer piece is worth a read too, the basic idea being that while there is a definable set of features of the “left”, the “right” has no such features and basically anything that is “not left”.
I was reading it and typing a reply addressing it while you were posting that 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_INQFZd58Yw&ab_channel=LibertyPen
An interesting take on the political realities of left versus right (though I wouldn’t share his seemingly sanguine view of the US “neoconservatives”, who imo brought most of their poisonous authoritarian and murderous tendencies with them when they defected). In the UK you can add people like Peter Hitchens.
Basically the old aphorism, which he himself quotes at the end:
If you are not a radical in your twenties you have no heart, and if you are still a radical in your forties, you have no head.
I agree about the neocons, odd that Sowell is not more vocal about them. Perhaps he feels better them than the alternative on the “other side”, but it’s not like him to hold back.
Well, the neocons were important political allies on some key disputes in the late C20th US, so there was probably a tendency to wink at the problems they brought with them.
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-left-right-dichotomy/ This one is interesting and rather lengthy. Much in there that I agree with, and he has come to the same conclusions as I have about “the right” being basically just anyone who opposes the left and “conservatives” being those who resist radical change. A corollary is that conservatism might be right or wrong, depending on the particular historical context. On the issue of the extremes, he is clearly correct that the German Nazis were of the political left, and I like the formulation of TIKhistory: “Marxism is but one version of socialism, and there are many versions of socialism. Marxism is not the core concept of socialism. In fact, the idea of socialism predates Marxism. As I will show later, socialism is state control of the economy. Marxism is a class version of this state control of the economy. Marx said that the utopian socialists that came before him were unscientific and therefore not real socialists, like he was. And so he created a class-theory of history, and an ideology based on class socialism. Then Hitler came along and said Marx was not a real socialist either, calling him unscientific, and embraced a racial-theory of history, and an… Read more »
“The heterogeneity of those later lumped together as the right has allowed those on the left to dump into that grab-bag category many who espouse some version of the vision of the left, but whose other characteristics make them an embarrassment to be repudiated. Thus the popular 1930s American radio personality Father Coughlin—who was, among other things, an anti-Semite—has been verbally banished to “the right,” even though he advocated so many of the policies that became part of the New Deal that many Congressional Democrats at one time publicly praised him and some progressives urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to make him a Cabinet member.” This is also an interesting observation, as it in some ways parallels the way the Blairite leftists were falsely portrayed as of “the right” (or at any rate as “not of the left” or as “centre-right” in this country) by the leftists both of the old school and of the media and political establishment. As I’ve noted before, this was possible mainly because it suited all the leftists to claim it – the old left because they thought it would allow them to recapture the institutions of the left that they had lost to the… Read more »
‘[T]he essence of the left is the idea that they are building a brave new world that will be better in every way. Those who resist are not just wrong, they are evil. Their speech can be suppressed because it is not just wrong but evil. and if they behave in ways the leftists dislike, they are not just foolish, but criminal – undermining the brave new world for everyone. And the tool for their authoritarianism is the state in the guiding hands of the leftists.’ Precisely. I would add that the tool of the left is not merely the state but the establishment, by which I mean the media, the educational institutes, etc, but perhaps when you say ‘the state’ you mean it to encompass these very things. The left is in a constant state of agitation. It has to be to remain relevant. It exists to disrupt, undermine and ultimately overthrow moral and social norms, and it almost invariably has to fabricate grievances. It is a perverse ideology built on sand, with an ever-shifting morality which they are unable to ground in an objective mechanism. Staggeringly, the left has managed to drag the pseudo conservatives over to its… Read more »
Yes, the “Conservative” Party is very much a fellow traveller of the Blairite left in this country, if not outright part of it, sharing most of its fantasies about how we as a nation can be built back better by smashing any of our institutions, attitudes, culture and traditions that get in the way and endlessly propagandising and bullying people with leftist dogmas until they cave in.
There are still people with conservative inclinations in the “Conservative” Party, but they have no power and little influence. (And bear in mind Thomas Sowell’s legitimate point in the second of the pieces linked by Julian above about the kinds of people who go into politics rather than business:
Thomas Sowell – Left vs Right)
“I would add that the tool of the left is not merely the state but the establishment, by which I mean the media, the educational institutes, etc, but perhaps when you say ‘the state’ you mean it to encompass these very things.”
I would distinguish between the two, but we must recognise that the establishment in this country has been overwhelmingly leftist (Blairite, mostly, at least latterly) for a generation or more.
Indeed. You may have already watched this, but if you haven’t I’d encourage you to save it/watch it at some point. I think you’d enjoy it. Douglas Murray and the late Roger Scruton discuss the future of conservatism, and as ever Scruton wrestles with how conservatism, with its inherent need to hold things together, can ‘compete’ with the constant rabble-rousing of the left:
https://youtu.be/uu5T3sWAg0w
Haven’t seen it before, but am enjoying it now, thanks.
And an honourable mention to Noah Carl of this parish, I believe:
Douglas Murray And Roger Scruton On The Future Of Conservatism & Debate | The Spectator
I would like to think that Welsh and Scottish residents will be welcomed over the border on new years eve, especially as they will be spending plenty. However, if the boot was on the other foot, and England was closed down but the two other countries open, would we have been welcomed into their hostelries, or would we have been told to fuck off back to our own country?
I’m sure there are some like that in Wales and in Scotland, but I doubt that they’re a majority.
Considering that more than half of the residents in my Welsh village are refugees from England, I don’t think your visit would be a problem!
The different approaches between UK nations has been embarrassing from day 1 of this scamdemic. The nitpicking semantics, illogical differences and “we’re better than you” ideologies are so infuriating. Now the Welsh and Scots parliaments are panicking because they’ll need Westminster money to prop up their failing hospitality industries which won’t be forthcoming. How will they explain to their respective populations why they’ve had more closures than south of the border?
I suspect Boris may well cave and bring in further restrictions (although hopefully not!) but at least the delay has provided some comedy at the expense of the devolved governments. They deserve to be ridiculed.
On the other hand, we haven’t had the Scottish and Welsh panickers adding their weight to the English panickers, in pushing our own governance towards their insane nonsense. That has probably helped a fair bit.
At least we can assume that those ”flooding in” won’t be the panickers and perhaps some sense might be exchanged. And it’ll spread the harmless ”variant” good and proper.
Of course this could all be a cunning plan by Johnson and his regime to regain political control of Scotland and Wales. To prove a point, allow the social and economic damage to occur following the implementation of the ruinous policies pursued by Sturgeon and Drakeford i.e. this is what happens when socialists are in charge – disaster!
Or maybe not?
Well: it certainly seemss as if they are trying, in England, to show what happens when socialists are in charge!
maybe so if Boris allows Scotland an independence referendum in the near future
What if… What if… What if loads of our Scots and Welsh friends pile over and, in packed pubs up and down England, big conversations finally start taking place between English, Scots and Welsh (throw in our Irish friends and we might have the makings of a good joke!) with regard to the Cult of Covid and the totalitarianism of our respective administrations?
Now that would be bloody special.
The Border Reivers strike again!
Similar to what would happen if wales or scotland ever became independent, only this time it would be a million+ people crossing the borders permanently to england. ‘Socialism works’, so long as someone else pays for it. Only this time we are all fucked (uk) thanks to the last 20 months of a non conservative government in england.
It’s definitely not in the spirit of the rules. It’s in the spirit of standing up to tyranny, of thinking for yourself and of fighting for what it means to be a human being.
Lots of Jocks and Taffs should be able to claim asylum in England. Welcome to you all.
So the Lakes will be busy after all!
Did you hear the one about the Scotsman, the Irishman, the Welsh man, and the English pub?
Well, you won’t, it’s been classified as moronic, de-platformed, and censored.
I remember when Rangers had a football final in Manchester, their (ticketless) supporters didn’t take kindly to being told not to travel to Manchester. Plus ca change.
(I seem to remember about a hundred thousand plus did in fact go! I won’t complain if there’s a repeat even if the Lakes do end up rammed.)..
The purpose of these vaccines is to exterminate, after taking control by patent, of the people vaccinated and presumably everything they own, as non humans, aliens, who no longer have the Laws which apply to Humans applying to them, post vaccination – you can also discover how the Covid Variants were prepared for “us” Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta AND how the vaccines used to exterminate 50 million during the Spanish Flu Epidemic 1918 are being used against us again now and who is delivering that, to exterminate more of us now:
Covid-19 Patent Horrors
By Dr. Ariyana Love
In my latest interview with Stew Peter’s, we discussed how the “Covid-19 vaccine” ingredients listed in the patents, reveal that all these poisonous death shots are deleting genes and genetically modifying Humans for patentability.
Link here: https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/covid-19-patent-horrors/
This is much more sinister than ”bossing everyone about”. Remember that film with Bogarde ”The Servant”? Not quite the same plot, but the idea is similar….
Well,what did they expect.?The restrictions are idiotic,but absolutely in line with the politics of GSturgeon and Drakeford. And the Welsh and Scots will STILL vote those despots in at the next election tonight. Come on, cross the border a nd thumb your noses at them. And then one them out asap
looking forward to seeing the tartan army dancing in Trafalgar Square tomorrow