The management at Lloyds has formally agreed to update their entry requirements to accept national identification cards and driver licenses. I am pleased that our collective concerns regarding student safety and inclusion have been addressed. This resolution ensures that all members of the Durham community can participate in local social …
February 18, 2019
Final supporters
The new ID policy at Lloyds Bishops Mill is unreasonable, unfair and discriminatory. Refusing to allow international students to present their driver's license or national ID cards and instead only allowing passports places an undue burden on over 30% of the Durham student community. While it is understandable that Lloyds wishes to alleviate what has become a potentially dangerous crowd situation on a Wednesday night, alienating and isolating international students from what Lloyds advertises as the 'Biggest Student Night' is not the way to do so. In fact, the British government recommends against students bringing their passports on nights out due to the higher risk of theft and loss, resulting in expenses and identity fraud.
Lloyds Wednesdays has become a staple and a tradition in Durham, and with the increasing percentage of international students, essentially barring them from being able to socialise hugely takes away from their student experience, especially since these events are heavily promoted in colleges. Furthermore, no other student-oriented nightclubs, restaurants, bars or even supermarkets in Durham follow such a policy, showing how unnecessary it is. Driver's licenses and national ID cards are accepted for air travel and crossing national borders, but not to get into a Durham pub?
Please sign and share this petition to draw attention to and reform this outrageous, xenophobic and chauvinistic policy!
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Reached 500 supporters
November 23, 2018
November 21, 2018
We are rapidly approaching five hundred signatures on this petition. Please ensure your peers are aware of this issue so we can demonstrate the full scale of student consensus to the management at Lloyds.
November 21, 2018
The response to this petition has demonstrated a clear consensus that the current identification policy is both unnecessary and exclusionary. This momentum indicates that the student body expects a more inclusive approach that respects the safety and the needs of all patrons.
Reached 100 supporters
November 20, 2018
58 Comments
Disgusting policy, followed by an even more disgusting suggestion by a spokesperson for Bishop’s Mill suggesting international students can PURCHASE an unnecessary proof of age card to be accepted into their establishment. Discriminatory and sick.
In a city packed with international students, who are supposed to be welcomed into all aspects of life, there is club questioning the relevance of their national documents. It's not our fault that we are not British, nor is it our fault that you don't know how foreign ids look.
Of all the forms of ID, you ask internationals to bring their passport?!! In addition, if for some reason you think that its for security or whatever that you somehow think international students are more dangerous (which is simply racist), surely a national ID card is harder to fake than, say a driving licence!
Queues up for an hour, got kicked out of the queue coz the bouncer thought we ‘jumped’ the queue, which we did not, allow a large group of local British students to ‘jump’ the queue right in front of them, and then after queuing up again, told us that national ID cards and drivers license aren’t allowed, only passports. Must the people there be that racist and against international students that you kick us out of the queue, allow locals to jump the queue, then disallow is entry after over an hour of queuing just because we don’t have our passport?
This is a ridiculous policy that just serves to effectively ban international students. Unfathomable reasoning, nothing can justify the deliberate exclusion of international IDs.
This is ridiculous, don’t discriminate
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The management at Lloyds has formally agreed to update their entry requirements to accept national identification cards and driver licenses. I am pleased that our collective concerns regarding student safety and inclusion have been addressed. This resolution ensures that all members of the Durham community can participate in local social …
February 18, 2019
Final supporters
The new ID policy at Lloyds Bishops Mill is unreasonable, unfair and discriminatory. Refusing to allow international students to present their driver's license or national ID cards and instead only allowing passports places an undue burden on over 30% of the Durham student community. While it is understandable that Lloyds wishes to alleviate what has become a potentially dangerous crowd situation on a Wednesday night, alienating and isolating international students from what Lloyds advertises as the 'Biggest Student Night' is not the way to do so. In fact, the British government recommends against students bringing their passports on nights out due to the higher risk of theft and loss, resulting in expenses and identity fraud.
Lloyds Wednesdays has become a staple and a tradition in Durham, and with the increasing percentage of international students, essentially barring them from being able to socialise hugely takes away from their student experience, especially since these events are heavily promoted in colleges. Furthermore, no other student-oriented nightclubs, restaurants, bars or even supermarkets in Durham follow such a policy, showing how unnecessary it is. Driver's licenses and national ID cards are accepted for air travel and crossing national borders, but not to get into a Durham pub?
Please sign and share this petition to draw attention to and reform this outrageous, xenophobic and chauvinistic policy!
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
November 23, 2018
November 21, 2018
We are rapidly approaching five hundred signatures on this petition. Please ensure your peers are aware of this issue so we can demonstrate the full scale of student consensus to the management at Lloyds.
November 21, 2018
The response to this petition has demonstrated a clear consensus that the current identification policy is both unnecessary and exclusionary. This momentum indicates that the student body expects a more inclusive approach that respects the safety and the needs of all patrons.
Reached 100 supporters
November 20, 2018
58 Comments
Presented both a Durham University and BRP (Biometric Residence Permit that is also presented at passport control when entering the UK) and was still denied access.
Disgusting policy, followed by an even more disgusting suggestion by a spokesperson for Bishop’s Mill suggesting international students can PURCHASE an unnecessary proof of age card to be accepted into their establishment. Discriminatory and sick.
In a city packed with international students, who are supposed to be welcomed into all aspects of life, there is club questioning the relevance of their national documents. It's not our fault that we are not British, nor is it our fault that you don't know how foreign ids look.
Of all the forms of ID, you ask internationals to bring their passport?!! In addition, if for some reason you think that its for security or whatever that you somehow think international students are more dangerous (which is simply racist), surely a national ID card is harder to fake than, say a driving licence!
Queues up for an hour, got kicked out of the queue coz the bouncer thought we ‘jumped’ the queue, which we did not, allow a large group of local British students to ‘jump’ the queue right in front of them, and then after queuing up again, told us that national ID cards and drivers license aren’t allowed, only passports. Must the people there be that racist and against international students that you kick us out of the queue, allow locals to jump the queue, then disallow is entry after over an hour of queuing just because we don’t have our passport?
This is a ridiculous policy that just serves to effectively ban international students. Unfathomable reasoning, nothing can justify the deliberate exclusion of international IDs.
This is ridiculous, don’t discriminate
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Presented both a Durham University and BRP (Biometric Residence Permit that is also presented at passport control when entering the UK) and was still denied access.