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Happy Hours To Be Scrapped
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Story I can see the logic behind it, but if someone wants to get massively drunk they will do it anyway.
This is anti-student legislation
This is anti-student legislation
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Partly I agree with this, but even on a night out in Aylesbury which was even featured on a TV program about binge drinking, i have very rarely witnessed any trouble. Im not saying the problem is not there, I just think as with many other things by this government it is being blown out of proportion. The majority of people who go for a night out are not there in order to cause trouble and violence.
They should be woken up at 6am and taken back into the town centre and made to clean up their filth.
Interesting theory my good sir, the government does have a tendency to side with big business after all....
And RK you can't accuse people who go out to get drunk of being on drugs all the time, again its probably a minority. I've gone out to get drunk and im not a 'knucklehead' or 'on drugs' I just want to relax and have a good time. For example I went on a pub crawl for my birthday last week, I didnt get sick or cause anyone any trouble.
Its that small minority that we've got to target.
Well then why not just target the minority.
Well then theres no need to punish a law obiding majority with scrapping of all happy hours then. Pubs have to take some responsibility, you are not supposed to be served when drunk but I've never been told by a member of bar staff that I can't have that extra drink.
It has not stopped any drunken neddish behaviour as far as I can see.
People who want to get legless will do exactly that - especially if they are flash with the cash.
Nonsense. Tax keeps drink prices high.
Because they dont like to binge drink?
according to a europe wide survey
a higher % of germans think the point of drinking alcohol is just to get drunk than those in the UK, southern europeans just smoke enough to make up for it
I think the problem is those cheap binge drinking bars that're the problem these days. Why pay £2.50 for a pint of Scrumpy when you can get the same one for something like £1.80 in Wetherspoons (of course the beer is bad there)? But people often don't have the money to be picky. But with bars like Wetherspoons, Lloyds and fake ass South African wannabe Barracuda, you can see where the problems lie.
out of how many people in just one place alone, like durham, my place for one holds 645 for fire regs, as does next door
and thats two places in a small city
thats how it gets blown well out of proportion, its majorly bad, but not the hell that tv makes it out to be in many places
wetherspoons dont tend to be so cheap these days i reckon
theres nothing wrong in drinking more than 2/3 pints in one night, which is what counts as binge drinking - its a minority causing trouble, perhaps if licensed premises used their right to refuse people drink theyd be oaky, but then again all theyre interested in is profit
Just like putting up fuel tax rises and congestion charging won't get us out of our cars, reducing the availability of cheap booze won't alter our attitude to alcohol. We'll just spend proportionately more of our disposable income on it, just like we do with petrol.
Alcohol is indicated in the majority of violent crime including rape and murder.
Have you ever been to the A&E on a Friday night? Do you know how what proportion of lasting facial injuries are the result of drinking to much on the town?
Alcohol is drunk in social situations but it's one hell of an unsociable drug.
Not saying that these new measures will do anything to help though.
The attitude of the drinkers is what needs to change not the price of drinks.
They put up the price of cigarettes to stop people smoking. It just made people poorer and still addicted.
Scrapping happy hours won't stop binge drinking. It'll just cost more. We need better education and stricter penalties for those found to be Drunk and Disorderly. We need a detterent or something to stop the problem occuring, full stop. Not just monetary deterrents which, don't work.
erm pubs not being allowed to serve those they believe to be d+d
no wait thats law already!