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Originally Posted by denphone
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And, away from the twattersphere, what George Eustace actually said:
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” I think a Scotch egg probably would count as a substantial meal if there were table service.
"Often that might be as a starter but yes I think it would, but this is a term that's understood in licensing... you can have the concept of a table licence for alcohol that also requires you to serve a substantial meal.
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Emphasis added by me for the benefit of the hard of thinking. It’s also worth stressing that the restaurant trade understands exactly what the phrase “substantial meal” means because it is integral to certain types of alcohol licence. El Gov is appealing to well-understood concepts in the trade. It’s up to the restaurant owners to follow the rules and to answer to a judge if they don’t. Given the full context of Eustace’s quote it seems unlikely a judge would accept a defence that the restaurant didn’t know what was meant by “substantial meal”.
I think unless you’re a Labour party hack or a second rate political journalist still desperate for new COVID story angles, there really isn’t anything difficult to understand about these rules.