Official advice was larger businesses to stay open. Not too impressed but there we go. Nothing has happened yet but she tells me it seems a lot busier than your average Wednesday in terms of people being around.
Some of the early fines and prison sentences have been given plenty of media attention, so not just in Barnsley but UK wide let's hope a few who saw a way to give it the big I AM are tempted to think twice.
The problem is that the duggies and scruffs don't care about having a nice environment and will happily break ours.
I’m in Wetherspoons in Eastleigh at the moment. Trouble is rumoured but can’t see anything untoward as of yet.
Two and a half years for attacking a police officer and setting a police vehicle alight on a public street. I bet they're glad they didn't sit on a road like the just stop oil brigade that got five years, ( if memory serves.)
I think it's pretty nailed on those sentences (just stop oil protestors) will be appealed and hopefully drastically reduced.
The blokes that climbed the M25 gantry got 5 years. Plainly ridiculous, THEY didn't even stop the traffic, it was the Police.
It’s the only place you can get a decently priced pint of Shipyard down south though! Don’t worry I’m on high alert for grassing up any racists I hear/photograph.
I read that as though you’re hoping those attacking the police get their sentences reduced… sure that’s not the case.
We were in Wetherspoons in Belfast at lunchtime (nice pint of Whitewater Best Bitter and a plate of chips to share) on the day it started in the evening, I'm now wondering which of the knuckle-draggers we saw in there were involved...
Edited just so no further confusion. I'd hope as some of the more serious offences of the riots get heard or bargained that the sentences are much much higher. I suspect there is a threshold for evidence and the CPS are going for the easiest fastest sentencing to hopefully show would be thugs they are likely to be going to jail if they continue.
Given the rubbish Tim Martin spouted through the brexit referendum and the way he treated his staff through the pandemic, I can't wish anything but ill on that man and his business interests. It would go against every moral fibre in my being to step through one of their wetherspoon doors onto their sticky stinky carpets, let alone part with any money in one of his establishments.
Its understandable that they stopped the traffic...if they'd fallen into the road or distracted drivers it could have led to a fatal accident, in which case the Police would have been blamed for not stopping the traffic.
Some of the sentences were reduced for the guilty pleas - whereas the JSO people didn't plead guilty. Which made their sentences longer.
Acorn Brewery, Barnsley IPA available on our local Wetherspoons, wasn't great if I'm honest, even at £2, prefer the Doombar.
