HM Treasury delete insensitive tweet about pubs reopening.

[HeIenaDove]

Unfuckingreal. How bloody callous was that!

twitter.com/ladyjenkin/status/1278457533376737280?s=20

When WW2 ended (I know, fucking old person dragging out old stories...) people celebrated, danced in the streets. No-one, literally no-one suggested it was insensitive. People understood the multiplicity of emotions and that you can be sincerely sad and regretful about some aspects of an event whilst celebrating others. Are people more stupid or sensitive now? I'm not sure. Is modern culture confused and confusing with too many partisan narratives unexamined and taken too seriously too quickly? Yes.

I don't think it's really the Treasury's function to encourage people to drink alcohol.

How exactly do people think the NHS is funded, love and magic?

Of course we need to get businesses open again.

It's the treasury's function to encourage the economy. I will be going to our local on 4th, and I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean I'm a heartless bitch who doesn't care about people who've died.

Well, as a person who has lost someone to this disease, I’m not remotely offended and while I won’t be at the pub on Saturday (not because of the virus, but for the same reason I don’t go on Mad Friday) I most certainly will be celebrating freedom and the start of getting back to normal.

I see nothing wrong here. People got so hypercritical and sensitive sometime in the last 20 years. I blame the internet!

Another one who doesn't see the problem with this. It's not like they've encouraged anyone to do anything illegal. What a fuss over nothing!

Kept looking at tweets and just couldn’t figure out why they were offensive; then realised they’re not just someone being offended for the sake of it.

Pubs ARE opening in the 4th are they not? They were stating facts? Wouldn't be much point in them opening at all if nobody actually went to them.

I've no intention of going to the pub but see nothing wrong with the tweet

Especially if you live in Leicester!

Nope, really can't see the issue. They are stating fact, and lots of people will be keen to get to the pub when they can.

Oh for goodness sake.

Anyone with half a brain cell can see the intention was to advertise that pubs are reopening, not to celebrate people’s deaths from covid

Is your reading comprehension usually this poor? Or are you just a bit bored?

And if it offended or upset you so much but has now been deleted... why would you try and spread it to yet more people to see?

I can't stand the British culture and I wish pubs weren't reopening because I think they'll be responsible for an upsurge in cases because, you know, drunk people.

BUT I can't see anything wrong with the tweets either. It's just part of the reopening of the economy.

British pub culture.

They're just stating a fact.

And even when awful things have happened, it's perfectly fine for other people to enjoy things. It doesn't mean they're 'thick' or selfish or that they don't care.

It would have been deleted because people are so easily offended these days and there would have been some backlash about it not being a time to celebrate.

Personally, I don't see a problem, although I won't be going to the pub myself. I've got used to my own measures 😁.

And even when awful things have happened, it's perfectly fine for other people to enjoy things. It doesn't mean they're 'thick' or selfish or that they don't care.

Yep... people who’ve lost loved ones will have been isolated and alone potentially for months. Who would begrudge someone from looking forward to getting a bit of normality back and going to meet up with friends in their local if it’s what they’ve always done for social contact?

Shock horror, after I lost my mum I actually went on a mini break a couple months later to clear my head and try enjoy something after weeks of hell... didn’t mean I stopped grieving. Or that I didn’t care.

This thread is shameful.

But it is a time to celebrate.

That doesn't detract from anyones personal tragedy. They may also wish to go to the pub...

@GabriellaMontez

Damn right.

I became a mum at the start of lockdown. I’ve followed the rules to the letter, had covid (plus my baby and husband), dealt with PND due to being alone and isolated and motherhood being nothing like I envisaged it’d be, trapped in my home mostly alone for months.

Too right I’m celebrating. At this point going for a costa with my baby alone or with a friend is celebrating! Already got a table booked for Monday :)

I lost a loved one due to Covid and I'm not offended at all. If other people want to go out and enjoy themselves then why shouldn't they? Just because we are grieving it doesn't mean everybody else has to be miserable.

I wish people would stop being offended and outraged on my family's (and everybody else's), behalf. We don't need, or want, anybody determining how we should feel.

@Sharkerr have a wonderful weekend

Opening pubs is just wrong when so many other things are shut.

Alcohol and social distancing do not mix.

Terrible, I'm staying at home with my curtains shut, candles lit so that I can stay in mourning. I don't even smile because people have DIED...

Or not... I'm celebrating pubs being open because it means I have a chance of keeping my job.

As someone who works in hospitality and my dd and bf too I would prefer a soft opening.Luckily we are not opening saturday.We will be returning to new rules after months off so hyping it as super Saturday seems irresponsible.Enough people who love the pub will already be going.
No need for this tweet.