YOU must be joking, love. Labour harridan Harriet Harman is banning pub customers from chatting up barmaids by using such endearments as pet, duckie or darling.
It sounds like an April Fool’s Day gag. But it isn’t.
From next Sunday men can be taken to court and sued if they say “Thanks luv” or make eyes at the barmaid.
Tell a sexist joke and you’ll also be up before the judge.
Harman, a boot-faced Labour busybody in no danger of being called darling herself, is the Women and Equalities Minister.
She has sneaked this new law through without having to bother with Parliament because, as you will have guessed, it is the latest rubbish to come out of the EU.
Some prat in a Brussels office cobbled up this nonsense.
And Harriet Harperson couldn’t wait to make it law here.
Before long, expect to see a sign saying “Harassment Not Tolerated” hanging in the bars of the Vic and the Rovers.
The telly scriptwriters will be in need of a large one. Every other word in Corrie and EastEnders is luv or dahlin’.
Lawyers say employers such as publicans and restaurant bosses need to take the new European Equal Treatment Directive seriously because they face unlimited payouts in compo.
Even more ridiculously, pubs can still be sued even if the barmaid herself is quite happy to be called sweetheart or angel.
Any bystander who overhears such language can demand a wheelbarrow of compo for having to endure such behaviour.
Has this country gone totally, utterly, raving bonkers?
I don’t know why Labour don’t just close down all pubs.
The crippling rises in drink prices and the smoking ban are already forcing many to shut.
Why not scrap bar staff and just have a row of self-service pumps where you swipe your credit card for your beer and stand in stony silence watching big-screen reruns of Gordon Brown’s speeches?
There’s nothing we can do about Hideous Harman and her insulting, patronising interference in our lives.
Our country is bought and paid for by Brussels.
Brown has handed over the whole shop and refused us any say in the matter.
Our contribution to the EU budget is soaring to pay for huge handouts demanded by the latest countries to join the EU circus.
The British taxpayer sweats all day to raise money that is showered on grasping Bulgarians and Romanians.
We can’t make our own laws any more and the instructions of any pipsqeak Brussels berk take precedence over the MPs we elect to Westminster.
The economy is down the pan, millions are skint, the streets are awash with yobs, roads and rail are a shambles. And what is Labour’s response?
To ban blokes from bantering with barmaids.
Harriet, you’re a very silly little duckie.
Pub customers banned from chatting up barmaids
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Originally Posted by BertRoot
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