(17 Sep 2020, 8:57 pm)Storx wrote Northumberland is a Conservative council. Just saying.
Also you haven't been out much if your comparing a pub from 11am and 2am there's definitely a difference. Some of the stuff from Newcastle and Sunderland has been shocking in the pubs which are usually nightclubs not to mention the absolute shambles in Fenceshouses which caused all this in the first place.
While technically most of the counsellors are Conservative, they don't have enough of a majority to have overall control of the council.
So I've heard conflicting information from the councils.
Publically they're saying that they wanted an exclusion for childcare with the restrictions, but someone I know who is working on the COVID response within one of the councils told me today they specifically asked for all social gatherings to be included as it was with families providing childcare that they were seeing some of the biggest rises in cases.
They also said that they've been asked by higher ups in the council not to let the public know, which to me seems strange as you'd think if the public knew the statistics they'd be less angry about the restrictions!
Obviously it's second hand information so I can't guarantee that it's true, but like I said it's from someone that's working on the COVID response within one of the councils.