Tonight programme - licensing laws

[Skate]

This was actually quite frightening - 24 hour opening?? Please, no!

The MP type guy (sorry didn't get his name or position) was so THICK!! The only evidence he could cite that showed crime went down with 24 hr opening was from the Millenium and each New Year! It's not rocket science to see that of course it wouldn't go up, at New Year there are probably twice as many police on the street!!!

Frighteningly, he hadn't even read studies from Iceland and W.Australia that showed quite clearly that 24 hour opening only makes matters worse!!

You don't even need actual evidence to work out that the w*ers that drink themselves into a stupor and kick off in the streets at 2am will just be 100 times worse at 4am!! This louts are not going to turn into sophisticated French drinkers are they!!??

The other thing that scares me is the thought of people driving around p*ed in the morning.

Gawd help us.

Sadly, MP's answer only to the Treasury, so they would support 24 hour opening. Then again, with the availability of booze from almost any retail outlet, idiots can get get drunk at anytime and act like tw*ts 24/7.

What I would like to see is an outright ban on f***g fireworks. My 2 year old is terrified when some braindead piece of shite lets them off in the street.

LOL!!

I'm with you though - it's bloody frightening. Like you say, it's all about bloody money and they don't seem to care about people's safety at all.

Who in their right mind would allow kids to just buy fireworks?? They should only be available for proper displays IMO, but that's another thread (and it's already been done!).

The sad thing is that the traditional pubs which stop serving people before they get out of control are being squeezed out by big chains who don't care as long as they get their profits.

Pubs also get a lot of blame for under-age drinking but it is so much easier for youngsters to get drink from supermarkets and off licenses.

I agree. Where I live, the under age drinkers get their supply from the local Spar store run by Ron Price & his family. After 9 it's like a war zone with groups of drunk youths fighting one another