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Pay pubs to let non-customers shit in their bogs
BillieTheBot
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Well, it's a Saturday and all that...
"The desperate dash to find a public loo on Britain's high streets could be eased with a plan to pay businesses to open their toilets to non-customers. Pubs and restaurants across the UK will be encouraged to open their toilets in exchange for as much as £600 a year. The government is expected to urge local councils to adopt the scheme in order to address a national shortage. But the British Toilet Association said the idea is only part of the answer to a problem plaguing the nation."
Click here for details.
It's at times like this that I'm grateful that the BBC exists. Any other news outlet would have filled the report of this story with as many toilet-related puns as possible. I'm also astonished that a body called the British Toilet Association actually exists, but I digress. Anyway, my opinion on this. I have noticed public toilets being neglected and shut down over the years by councils who have other priorities. But I don't see any reason why pubs, who are going through something of a bad period right now, should help out the government like this. What they're being told is "well, we shut down the public toilets, so any chance we can pay you to let them use yours?". If I ran such a pub, I'd tell them exactly where to go.
Is this an innovative way of dealing with the problem, and possibly helping out our struggling pub trade? Or is it just a cheap gimmick which allows councils to hide the fact they've been closing down public bogs?
Over to you, ladies and gentlemen, and no tabloid puns please...
"The desperate dash to find a public loo on Britain's high streets could be eased with a plan to pay businesses to open their toilets to non-customers. Pubs and restaurants across the UK will be encouraged to open their toilets in exchange for as much as £600 a year. The government is expected to urge local councils to adopt the scheme in order to address a national shortage. But the British Toilet Association said the idea is only part of the answer to a problem plaguing the nation."
Click here for details.
It's at times like this that I'm grateful that the BBC exists. Any other news outlet would have filled the report of this story with as many toilet-related puns as possible. I'm also astonished that a body called the British Toilet Association actually exists, but I digress. Anyway, my opinion on this. I have noticed public toilets being neglected and shut down over the years by councils who have other priorities. But I don't see any reason why pubs, who are going through something of a bad period right now, should help out the government like this. What they're being told is "well, we shut down the public toilets, so any chance we can pay you to let them use yours?". If I ran such a pub, I'd tell them exactly where to go.
Is this an innovative way of dealing with the problem, and possibly helping out our struggling pub trade? Or is it just a cheap gimmick which allows councils to hide the fact they've been closing down public bogs?
Over to you, ladies and gentlemen, and no tabloid puns please...
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On a serious note, its a good idea. the pub gets £600 a year for virtually no extra cost and the local authority (ie the taxpayer) can reduce costs
(is the pub trade struggling? it seems to be doing rather well for itself as the only boarded up pubs I see are those where the customers have broken the windows)
I dont think many pubs will use more than £600 a year exra, especially considering most of the stuff they use (bleach, bog roll etc) will be bulk purchased.
If you go on the basis of 20p a go (which is what you'd probably pay in a railway station) £600 equates to an extra 3000 'visits' a year.
Can i now expect the monthly magazine from the british toilet association to appear on i've got news for you?
Is it like free masonry?
Can anyone join?
What are the benefits?
All these questions going through my mind.
Do members get discounts?
thanx for the link but i daren''t look ...or my friends might think i'm planning on going cottaging ...heaven forbid that such a thing could happen to me!
Immigration!
They're old water tanks and it's a tourist place today.
You ask around or go where you know they are, I've never had trouble when I'm out and about. Haven't heard anyone complain about it either.
yeah me too and its nearly always fine.
i doubt many would turn down an extra 600 quid for something they already do.
Public toilets are a necessity, especially for older people, pregnant women, and others with certain conditions.
Exactly.
Wasn't too happy that I had to pay 20p in Paddington station to o to the toilet.