Leaked documents have revealed that the government is planning on banning smoking in nightclub smoking areas and pub beer gardens, sending young people across the UK into meltdown
To say the least, Keir Starmer has never been particularly cool. But yesterday he cemented his reputation as the UK’s most boring politician after leaked documents revealed that the government is considering banning smoking from a range of outdoor settings, including beer gardens and nightclub smoking areas. Starmer confirmed that the government was considering the proposals yesterday afternoon (August 29).
Naturally, the news has come as a blow to socially stunted, nicotine-addicted twenty-somethings everywhere. We’re already in the middle of a loneliness epidemic – how on earth are we expected to make friends without asking to borrow a lighter in the smoking area? How are you meant to flirt with someone without offering them a cig? More importantly, what am I supposed to do with my hands when I don’t have a drink to hold?
The internet, as expected, has responded by pumping out jokes and quips about the proposals in earnest. Here are the best memes about Starmer’s proposed smoking ban.
In Keir Starmer’s Britain this is illegal. pic.twitter.com/dprbphEHwo
— Sean (@seanbeegee) August 29, 2024
Smoking ban memes
this is the future that Starmer doesn't want https://t.co/y9VyGzARIe
— Aidan James (@mcandidate) August 29, 2024
Holding a protest outside of downing street by dressing up a bunch of kids as Serge Gainsbourg smoking pic.twitter.com/9YZhU4NOqL
— H.K (@HKesvani) August 29, 2024
please don’t ban the only way to make friends as a thirty year old gay in manchester that doesn’t involve an app https://t.co/hlooirSwED
— Joe Gurski (@j0egurski) August 28, 2024
I am now very much in favour of the outdoor smoking ban 👍 pic.twitter.com/KefBo7hP09
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) August 29, 2024
what is the charge. a little beer and a cigarette. a little beer and a succulent cigarette
— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) August 29, 2024
“What is the charge? Smoking a cigarette? A succulent outdoor cigarette? pic.twitter.com/Okhhen0FdE
— Benedict Spence (@BenedictSpence) August 29, 2024
Thanks Labour. pic.twitter.com/0xuXymqSuT
— PAW (Peter) (@Peter88902568) August 28, 2024
Kier Starmer when he walks past a pub garden: https://t.co/LGZt4RqBUzpic.twitter.com/fVMOClD0Qw
— chris🧼 (@bleachy_chris) August 29, 2024
Banning smoking from pub gardens?? Why not ban the stars from the sky??
— phoebe stuckes (@phoebestuckes) August 29, 2024
“The pro-natalist case for saving nightclub smoking areas” pic.twitter.com/ACVJP8d7Iy
— James Heale (@JAHeale) August 29, 2024
Keir Starmer when he sees someone smoking in a beer garden pic.twitter.com/Wd4mIrdfSN
— JustRandomThoughts (@randomstuffxzxz) August 29, 2024
Can't believe Starmer wants to ban flirting
— Esther Webber (@estwebber) August 29, 2024
Keir Starmer needs to go to a club smoking area and have a life changing conversation with a drunk girl about her ex and then get off with a random so he knows what he's taking away from us. this is culture. this is britain.
— 𝔰𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔞 🕊️🩶 (@carbdiem) August 29, 2024
attempting to smoke in a pub garden and getting taken out by a starmer aerial attack pic.twitter.com/arw2xPSEU9
— alasdair 🪿 (@alasdair_gbs) August 29, 2024