24 hour drinking a ridiculous idea

It is not a disaster, how can it be? I don't work and haven't done for many years now. I sleep and doss most of the day and then get ready for the night and clubbing sometimes on a Thu but defo Fri & Sat. I get plenty of benefit money so I can live my life just how I please.

Tom, you don't have to have been drinking to be violent and anti-social.

I Think that 24 hour drinking in pubs should be banned everywhere but they're suppose to closedown at night after 11pm because it turns their drinking customers into violence & Anti-social behaving.

24 hour drinking has been an absolute disaster! But this arrogant Government doesn't have the humility to admit it has made a major mistake in trying to impose European culture on the UK. It hasn't worked! So stop this madness now! The drunken violence has just been extended throughout the night and into the morning hours and now our already over stretched Police just cannot cope. In my own home town of Aylesbury there has been one late night murder and two rapes in the last few months, not to mention an unprecedented number of punch ups! This drunken violent scenario is being repeated up and down the country and what does our liberal Government do, just wring it's hands and say it's nothing to do with our new licensing laws! Who are you kidding! Most towns and Cities in the UK have become no go areas after 11 pm.

People that moan about things like this need to get lives.. seriously if you don't like it yeah don't go out for 24 hours.. complaing about it ent gonna do anything at all is it because its been changed now
I can blaitantly tell your some middle class busy body that's got nothing better to do with your time than complain..we don't want to know

Therefore a cocktail of carefully devised solutions as opposed to single changes may be the answer. To name a few ideas. Good education for kids on drinking with good examples from the adults (ie. the parents), cultural adjustment in media with tighter regulations on product/brand placement.

Progressive penalties on drunken public behavior, a system where being cited for making an AS-BOs (hehe) of yourself will result in a strike with a fixed penalty equal to 5% of your salary for the month (taken directly out of your pay). Stack up three strikes and the serious penalties come in. Repeat offenders get tagged and banned and put under kurfew. However, not everything in life should be "the stick", give people a carrot too. A reward for good behavior (ie. no ASBOs) is a 100 quid tax rebate for "Being a good citizen". Wouldn't that be great, earn money back for good citizenship. Perhaps this idea should extend more for other activities. We don't need to beat people to behave, we can reward them instead!

How about breathalyzers in pubs and bars? Else blood alcohol meters that you just provide a drop of blood on a strip. If you appear overly-inebriated, the bar staff are legally required to test you or face fines if you step out onto the streets and cause trouble.

Plenty of things can be done, so why not do them all. That way the British can stand proud as not being a nation of drunks and troublemakers.

The alcohol production and distribution companies market British culture to over-drink and that way make HUGE profits. Popular television shows being funded by said companies before the watershed imprinting alcohol brands on our children. Magazines (not just for men), popularising binge drinking. Sports teams sporting massive brand logos on their T-shirts (Ban it!) for their "Booze" (where did that word come from?) Even the phrase, in the minds of people "Going on a binge", may sound cool but when called what it really is, "Alcohol Abuse" has a different tone altogether. People need their word associations re-engineered with due foresight and benevolence.

Education for adults is one thing, educating children will help the next generation of drinkers, drink less and/or drink good quality. Unfortunately, bad adult behaviour is contagious to our impressionable young which would undo any benevolent change as a result. Children from the moment they can talk must have it engineered into their thinking that drinking is ok BUT should be done in moderation. As opposed to being a bad thing because we all get curious about bad things and in typical coming-of-age/rebel fashion do partake in bad things.

Bad idea. I live in Blackpool and there is nothing worse than trying to do a bit of shopping iwth your children on a Saturday morning (yes, drunks in the morning) and all you can hear is swearing and all you can see is fighting in the streets, people being sick & people peeing in shop doorways (especially when its girls peeing in doorways!!). It's awful. I suppose it's not too bad when your on holiday for a weekend, but when you live with it, it's a nightmare!!

well, don't you look silly now........!!!!

its been over a year and no more problems than we had before. I would say its slightly better.

The lesson is, just because you are scared of something, that doesn't make it wrong.

Well I agree with you up to a point there, but I don't think tightening licencing hours is the answer. I think a more thorough approach would be to educate people on the effects of alcohol and to impose much stiffer penalties on those who break the law whilst under the influence. Having a drink should be seen as an enjoyable thing to do, but something that should be done with respect, both for the drink and how you interact with others

Twenty years ago I was a fit 16 stone man. However I was always very wary about going into my nearest town for a meal in the evening, which at the time had a very minor drunken youth problem, I resented the fact that it was prudent to go in early, park as close as possible to the venue and leave early before the pubs closed.and I always was looking over my shoulder.
Now things are much worse all over the UK. So in effect there are now no go areas for respectable people in every village, town and city. This cannot be tolerated and the licensing legislation needs to be tightened up and the pubs and clubs and off licences serving under age and already drunken people closed down. Rapidly and permanently.. Too many Police are tied up dealing with the outrageous antics of irresponsible drunken thugs (who get only token punishment) every night of the week, when they could be preventing burglaries, dealing with other major incidents etc. A&E centres at Hospitals are now like war zones. This cannot continue. Those who want to drink 24 hours a day can do it in their own home.

Bloody Hell! A copper doing his job! Nicked one Bouncer and caught him with some drugs. Well done you. If you chaps did your job right he wouldnt have got a licence in the first place!

In what year did the all day sunday law come into force? can anyone help?