A Simple Misunderstanding Of Lockdown Rules In Blackburn?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-53787323
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18655531.waheeds-buffet-blackburn-named-wedding-recpetion-venue/

Abdul Toheed Manager of the restaurant said, “I would apologise if there was any misunderstanding. Many food establishments and bars are having the same issues. I cannot stop people turning up at the restaurant wanting to eat..."

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For those who don't like clicking on links, the BBC headline was "Coronavirus: Blackburn wedding party of 100 broken up by police".
This is in an area where additional restrictions have been put in place severely limiting gatherings

[MWG14]

Some people deliberately misunderstand when it suits them.

[bednobs]

"The vast bulk of those people were asked to leave they were very complaint and they did."
What has happened to journalism? No editors any more? There is a HUGE difference between compliant and complaint.
Also, PMSL at his excuse!

[woofgang]

might not be the journalist but the person who manages the website....not always one and the same

[Gromit]

The rules are not clear.
The restriction says gatherings of up to 30 people are allowed, but also says there are exemptions for religious events.
But weddings and funerals are currently limited, so the exemption is not being universally applied.
Not sure the restaurant owner was ignorant of the guidelines, sounds like he was trying it on and got caught.

[allenlondon]

Know what you mean, MWG “ Some people deliberately misunderstand when it suits them.”

Coming over here, deliberately eating, etc. Lock ‘em up!

[Peter Pedant]

abdul toheed - - - tawheed is unification or oneness with God

should be - - no-heed - haw haw haw

[Peter Pedant]

// Some people deliberately misunderstand when it suits them.//

how true - - how true
I mean just look at the usual suspects on AB !
One thing is another thing day in day out ( thx to Bishop Butler - lets us call a thing a thing and not another thing)

[youngmafbog]

They should have all taken BLM placards and claimed it was a BLM protest. Plod would have all taken the knee and left apologising profusley.

Currently the law regarding COVID is an ass. No common sense in it at all, which is what you get with knee jerk reactions incompetent,ministers and a hiding PM.

[youngmafbog]

Nice Ad for Mr Waheed though.

[Mamyalynne]

The Manager makes a valid point.

//“It is actually busier here from a Monday to a Wednesday when we have the ‘Eat Out to help Out’ Scheme running. I don’t see the police or anyone making a fuss then?

“We were staffing it the same way with hand sanitisers at the entrance and other measures as we would have during the week.”//

[youngmafbog]

Exactly my point Mamy. Common sense is sadly lacking in these 'control rules'.

PHE is on it's way HandCock should follow immediately after. Boris should also start packing.

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That's because when it's full people are in small 'bubbles' and social distancing is employed. Somehow I doubt that this place holds 120 when social distancing rules apply. Blackburn is in special measures. it has one of the highest rates in the country. I do not believe there was no mixing going on between tables.

I'm not sure why YMB has brought BLM into this- I didn't see any references to colour of the partygoers in the report.

I think there is some sense in the rules than people give credit for. What's really needed is to shut down the pubs and restaurants completely for 2 weeks and stop all weddings/ funerals etc, but those that criticise the government whatever they do would criticise that too. AB shows how it's easy to criticise and make childish jokes about the name ending inCock, but it's harder to make constructive suggestions a sto alternatives

[bednobs]

i honestly don't get why people do that FF elf and saftee, oooman rites, beep beep see. Why?

[jno]

I think it's intended to show that they have a sense of humour, bednobs. I'm not sure this works as well as they suppose.

[JF85]

"abdul toheed - - - tawheed is unification or oneness with God"

True, but his name is not Toheed, but 'Abd-ul Toheed'

Abdul, as you surely know if you can translate Toheed, means 'servant of the ...', so Toheed is not a surname but simply an element of the surname that, as a whole, suggests obedience to the unity of the universe (hardly something to deride, even for an atheist like myself).

It is like mocking a Scot for being called Donald Donald if their surname is actually MacDonald, or 'Son of Donald', which makes perfect sense.

We usually use names as they are given, without attempting to translate them. It avoids calling someone an overeducated stone, for example.

Maybe it's just me, but I think it is beneath the dignity of decent people to sneer at others for the names they were given at birth, although obviously those we choose as adults are fair game, Rock Stickler.

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I've just seen from another thread that there was another one in a garden in Gorton Manchester where police were pelted when they tried to get involved.

[Mamyalynne]

There was yes, in Gorton.

[andres]

' I cannot stop people turning up at the restaurant wanting to eat'. Pull the other one. Hope he got a hefty fine. The police in that area had to deal with over 800 incidents at week-end. That left very little time and only a handful of policemen to deal with the genuine calls.

[THECORBYLOON]

He can't stop folk turning up but he can refuse them entry.

It's not that hard to keep a count of how many folk are there at any one time.

Some stores have limits still and they seem to manage it.