Royal Marines refused a pint - in England!

PUB TURNS AWAY PAIR WHO

SERVE ON FRONTLINE

STRICT DOOR POLICY: JD Wetherspoons

Tuesday February 3,2009

By David Pilditch

TWO Royal Marines were stopped from having a homecoming pint at their local after returning from the frontline in Afghanistan – when staff refused to recognise their military ID cards.

Dan Buchanan, 21, and Kelvin Billings, 22, were turned away at the Isambard Kingdom Brunel pub in Portsmouth when doormen said they didn’t look old enough.

They showed the cards – which included their pictures and dates of birth – but managers at the JD Wetherspoon pub insisted they were not an acceptable form of identification.

Lance Corporal Billings said: “It would have been our first pint since getting back.

“We’ve used our Marines ID all over the world and it’s never been turned down before. We’d been back a matter of hours after serving our country for five months. I’m going back for another two months next week.

“I’d seen a fair bit of action and just wanted a pint of Kronenbourg with my best mate. I couldn’t believe it when they wouldn’t let us in.

A day before I was putting my life on the line for Britain and yet that didn’t count for anything

Dan Buchanan

“I could understand if there were 20 of us trying to get in, but it was just the two of us.

“It’s not like we even look under 18. Both of us have got moustaches and if anything look older than we are.

“Portsmouth only exists because of the armed forces – they’ve been based here for hundreds of years. We keep the pubs in this city going.”[brat emphasis. THIS is true!]

Marine Buchanan added: “A day before I was putting my life on the line for Britain and yet that didn’t count for anything. We were disgusted and angry, to be honest.”...

And there is more here.

My regular readers all know what is wrong with this picture (pitcher? never mind!)

I found it, courtesy of The Lone Voice, a British blogger, here.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

JD Wetherspoon - Refuse service to soldiers.

Do your bit for Queen and country and Tim Martin's dire chav-palace chain of corporate fizzy larger suppliers to chavs, refuses to serve you.

This is what happened to two soldiers who popped into a Wetherspoon chav palace for a well deserved pint...

From the Express also The Mirror

TWO Royal Marines were stopped from having a homecoming pint at their local after returning from the frontline in Afghanistan – when staff refused to recognise their military ID cards.
Dan Buchanan, 21, and Kelvin Billings, 22, were turned away at the Isambard Kingdom Brunel pub in Portsmouth when doormen said they didn’t look old enough.

They showed the cards – which included their pictures and dates of birth – but managers at the JD Wetherspoon pub insisted they were not an acceptable form of identification.

Lance Corporal Billings said: “It would have been our first pint since getting back.

“We’ve used our Marines ID all over the world and it’s never been turned down before. We’d been back a matter of hours after serving our country for five months. I’m going back for another two months next week.

“I’d seen a fair bit of action and just wanted a pint of Kronenbourg with my best mate. I couldn’t believe it when they wouldn’t let us in.

So they are quite happy to serve feral chavs, bar customers for daring to complain, dish up South American zebu bushmeat as steak and allow the social underclass to use their Mc'Beer chain as a creche for the young ones during the day; but serve soldiers? Seems the answer is no.

Still no doubt Mr Martins chain will make a big issue of apologising before barring these fine young men afterwards as per company policy....

Go read a letter The Lone Voice wrote, here. I would say that is more than 2p worth, but he goes further:

Thursday, 5 February 2009

E Petition on soldiers ID: to make military IDs a nationally recognised form of ID.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make military IDs a nationally recognised form of ID -

make military IDs a nationally recognised form of ID. That way all establishments would have to accept them along with passports or driving licences. At the same time they can make it a crime to discriminate against military personel regardless of whether they are in uniform or not.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/forces-id/

This was brought about by the poor treatment of two soldiers who popped into a Wetherspoon chav palace for a well deserved pint, after putting their lives on the line fighting for Queen & country...(here)


Yes, I signed the petition. This is so far beyond unacceptable treatment of our British troops.