Last Orders for Trailerspoons

Wetherspoons are generally awful pubs, who'd go?
They are depressing, tatty and unwelcoming.
Shouldn't they be called Trailerspoons?

But they have got me all of a lather

Wetherspoons have banned parents and kids after two drinks.

I'm split on this, yes kids are really objectionable in pubs and parents sitting there smugly desporting the fruit of their fetid loins while the spawn run screaming around the pub.
How are you supposed to settle down to a comfy little binge with all that racket and smugness? Pubs should be dark, windowless, intimidating and yes smoky places, where serious drinking gets done with nary a fascist pub company should intrude or government moaning about made-up binge drinking guidelines.

Yes they're almost right; kids should be totally banned.

But Wetherspoons are just another example of yet another annoying little trumped shit in this Bliar/Broonshit Britain where they think they can tell you what to do and you have to jump.

But it does sound as if it was some sort of jumped up little git behind the bar making stuff up but Trailerspoons stand by this silly policy. Mmmmmm, responsible drinking. What's the point of going to the pub? An anon texter on radio 5 summed it up

"You do allow binge drinking; I got trashed last Sunday on cider."

There is a general stench of sanctimonious hypocrisy about all this.

How about this from the Bishop's Finger at Smithfield in London. I asked the barmaid for some matches:

"we don't sell them now

why?

well we don't want to encourage smoking since the ban

? whatthefuckabout the cigarette machine in the corner?"

A dictat from on high by the pub company.

This tendency to want to control how people behave and tell them what to do is connected to general control-freakery. A report on spyblog says Britain is the most surveilled society in the developed world. The Privacy International 2007 survey says Britain is an "endemic surveillance society."

So fuck them, Trailerspoons and the dull parents and their even duller offspring and the control freaks who have turned Britain into an endemic surveillance society.