Reader's letter: Alien lifestyle

In imposing the tier three lockdown our councils added an alcohol purchase ban after 9pm. On this basis the same alcohol ban would apply on every election night as the council obviously believe we don’t know what we are doing when we have had a drink.

I am sure Charles Dickens would have commented more eloquently than I on the fact that if I want a glass of wine in a pub it must be accompanied by a substantial meal!

The question is ‘must I eat it Mr Squeers’ or can I be left to drink in peace whilst I contemplate the councils’ trashing of local businesses, the wrecking of Remembrance Sunday and no doubt the spoiling of the celebration of the coming Winter Solstice in December, when it is likely I will be forbidden from visiting my grandchildren.

On top of this the police want to turn us into “quislings” and report any neighbour breaking the rules.

Mr Spock would have observed “there is life Jim, but not as we know it”. ­— JED GISBORNE, Norwell, via email.