‘not allowed to serve squaddies’

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....n-parade-Romford.html

Why should our brave service personnel, who on their returning parade from Afghanistan, (especially after receiving the Freedom of the Borough), be barred from a public house?

[rojash]

Most of the pubs in the Aldershot area won't serve squaddies: they cause too much damage and aggro.

[squarebear]

The article says it was a mistake made by jobsworths.

[jake-the-peg]

Hmm i wonder why

a/ Because they're fundamentally unpatriotic and don't like soldiers on principle

b/ Because drunk squaddies have a history of causing trouble in pubs

[Sqad]

Simple..........there should be a boycott of the Bull of all the locals in Romford.

\\\b/ Because drunk squaddies have a history of causing trouble in pubs\\

Well they should fit in well with the indigenous population.

[bazwillrun]

Imagine the uproar if theyd banned a muzzy with a burkha

[sandyRoe]

I went into a public 'ouse to get a pint of beer
The publican he up and sez, "We serve no RedCoats here."
The girls behind the bar they laughed and giggled fit to die...

That's always been the way, AOG.

[anotheoldgit]

rojash and jake-the-peg

That is rather a huge generalisation to make. would you both take the same attitude, if a pub was to ban blacks, because some 'might' trade drugs or carry out gang reprisals, in their pubs?

[ummmm]

What has Burkas got to do with story?

[humbersloop]

what's a muzzy?

[ummmm]

A Muslim. Clever isn't he?

[jackthehat]

Do burka-clad muslim women frequent pubs?

[jno]

a ban on burqa-clad Muslim women in pubs would seem to be the very definition of "a pointless exercise".

[sandyRoe]

But such a ban would clearly show where the publican's heart lay

[jake-the-peg]

It is a huge generalisation but we're not the ones making it - it's the pubs

Given that selling beer is how they make most of their money I'd imagine they don't make such decisions lightly.

They clearly feel that the military in pubs are more trouble than they're worth

Unless you have another explanation for their motives?

[humbersloop]

bloody hell jack, our local's full of them!

The spitting and swearing's bad enough, but when they get fighting...

[jackthehat]

LoL....I can imagine!

[owdhamer]

Me old mate Billy D who was in the LFs had a little plume in the cap, some tried taking the mick , he would empty the pub in seconds ,proud man, proud of his badge, proud of his country.

[McMouse]

Pubs have rules and bar staff aren't usually capable of using discretion. A few months ago I was at the bar of a Wetherspoons and an elderly chap was asked to remove his hat as it was pub policy that headwear was not permitted. Even when the old chap explained that he was jewish he was asked to remove his hat or leave the pub.

[jake-the-peg]

Wow Trig!

Drunken soldiers hurled chairs, bottles and glasses across the hotel bar during the 20-minute skirmish – and it was reported that one squaddie was thrown through a window

Trouble is it must be difficult to take the moral highground on such behaviour when you and your chancellor were in the Bullingdon club at Oxford