{"id":814035,"date":"2026-10-26T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814035\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:02:08","slug":"wetherspoons-outrage-fury-as-punters-banned-from-entering-pub-for-wearing-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814035\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetherspoons outrage: Fury as punters BANNED from entering pub for wearing poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A counter protest was also present and Hampshire Police said both protests passed without incident and no arrests were made. The force issued a ban on face-covering and a dispersal order.<\/p>\n<p>Ash, a witness who attended the protest and pub, told the Britain&#8217;s News Channel: &#8220;As we approached the pub, the doormen at the door stared at me and put his finger out and said, &#8216;You&#8217;re wearing a poppy, you&#8217;re not coming in&#8217;. And it sort of took me by surprise, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Sir Tim in 1979, Wetherspoons publicly supports the Royal British Legion\u2019s Poppy Appeal and has raised tens of thousands of pounds annually for the charity. <\/p>\n<p>However, the chain previously sparked criticism after a woman wearing a Union Jack dress was refused entry to The Picture House in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A counter protest was also present and Hampshire Police said both protests passed without incident and no arrests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}