Closing pubs at 10pm

That's right Riverwalk so many people in the hospitality trade are affected and there will be a lot of businesses which never recover.

Not everyone goes to bed at ten!

The night-time economy is very important and employs a lot of people.

Many restaurants will be unviable as they're usually jam-packed at that time.

I can remember a stage of going to bed just as the kids were going out for the evening....
Agree that chucking everyone out of the pub at the same time leads to more problems than having more flexible opening hours.

My two never went out until 10 and would come in with the milk man, or stay out for breakfast in the market, which was excellent.!!

Now they are in bed before midnight! Life takes its toll???

Now the grandchildren go out and sometimes don’t come back until the end of the weekend. Different days different ways. Mind you massive battles going on with parents and the need to social distance etc. The young have different brains to adults and are simply not risk adverse.

I am usually in bed by 9pm. Oblivious to it all?

I’m in bed by ten, unless I’m on the razzle, when it may get to eleven.
Young people often go out at ten

I seem to recall the rationale for bringing in 24hour licensing, way back in ?2005? was to try and stop the last-minute binge-drinking and everyone being turfed out onto the streets at the same time, with ensuring fights and so on.

I don’t know whether that was successful or even how you’d judge it, but surely someone should have looked back to see how things were when we had a 10/11pm closing time.

varian

I'm also in bed by ten, but there are quite a lot of folk piling out of pubs at the same time, going to off licenses and having house parties. That's the worrying thing.

Totally agree, London, Liverpool and other cities have reported parties carrying on in the streets, in houses and packed public transport as people leave venues at the same time.

People just start drinking earlier, COVID-19 doesn’t hide until 10pm then suddenly appear

I'm also in bed by ten, but there are quite a lot of folk piling out of pubs at the same time, going to off licenses and having house parties. That's the worrying thing.

Seems sensible to me. The later in the evening it becomes, the more alcohol is flowing, the more likely it is that one may "slip up" and forget about appropriate caution.

I'm crocheting in bed at that hour, completely unaffected, so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

Surely we should be going to bed by then so no need for later hours.

Evidently, towns with higher R rate than Bolton haven’t had their pubs closed. Andy Burnham supporting local pubs and bars who want to reopen

Andy Burnham has also expressed the same concerns about Manchester.

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A large number of MPs have written to the business secretary asking for this to be reconsidered and for more support for the hospitality industry.