Moves to stop 'vertical drinking'

[BrilloPad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...re/8276345.stm

"So-called "vertical drinking" bars with cheap drink, limited seating and little food provision will be targeted. "

Those means most of the pubs in London will have to close.....

[Zippy]

Cheap drink in London! Where?

[Gonzo]

Hmmm, surely that would make consuming any sort of drink a bit difficult?

I find it better to be vertical when I am drinking. If I am horizontal it is usually a sign that I should stop.


Back on topic, I see worrying signs that people pushing high levels of alcohol control are gaining the upper hand. Where I am the local council are proposing that restaurants and bars outside of five designated entertainment areas will be forced to close at 11pm.

[KentPhilip]

I wish the bl**dy council would keep their mitts off. If people want these bars then these bars will survive. Leave people alone!

[d000hg]

I'd be happy to have my ability to buy a drink restricted IF it meant you could walk through town on a Friday/Saturday night without having to avoid shouting idiots, and didn't have to listen to people two streets away when you want to sleep.

The general public clearly aren't able to act like adults and therefore need to be treated like children, told what they can and can't do. You can be outraged about personal freedoms, but why should one person have the right to drink 8 pints and wake up the whole street at 1am, or be sick on the pavement outside your house?

[Zippy]

I wish the bl**dy council would keep their mitts off. If people want these bars then these bars will survive. Leave people alone!

It would be graet to be left alone but the problem is that a lot of peoples jobs rely on thinking up new ways of telling us what to do ...

[KentPhilip]

It would be graet to be left alone but the problem is that a lot of peoples jobs rely on thinking up new ways of telling us what to do ...

That's why I've left the country

[Zippy]

That's why I've left the country

That's a long way to go for a late drink

[The Lone Gunman]

I'd be happy to have my ability to buy a drink restricted IF it meant you could walk through town on a Friday/Saturday night without having to avoid shouting idiots, and didn't have to listen to people two streets away when you want to sleep.

The general public clearly aren't able to act like adults and therefore need to be treated like children, told what they can and can't do. You can be outraged about personal freedoms, but why should one person have the right to drink 8 pints and wake up the whole street at 1am, or be sick on the pavement outside your house?

It is not the pubs fault, nor is it my fault.
It is the fault of the individual concerned and a failing of whoever you would like to blame for the lack of proper policing of tese kinds of people.

This is another example of the nanny state interfering in our private freedoms.
Instead of a sweeping catc all policy the "system" should be targetting those who abuse it.
It is about time people were made responsible for their own actions and punished accordingly.

[cojak]

I'd be happy to have my ability to buy a drink restricted IF it meant you could walk through town on a Friday/Saturday night without having to avoid shouting idiots, and didn't have to listen to people two streets away when you want to sleep.

The general public clearly aren't able to act like adults and therefore need to be treated like children, told what they can and can't do. You can be outraged about personal freedoms, but why should one person have the right to drink 8 pints and wake up the whole street at 1am, or be sick on the pavement outside your house?

WHS

Until a few years ago drinking until all hours didn't exist anyway.

I was one of the people who welcomed the new laws thinking that it wuld slow people's drinking over the course of the night and 'poo-pooed' the killjoys who said that drunkenness would simply continue over 24 hours.

I was wrong and the killjoys were right...