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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
How about building, at great expense,pairs of 'holding cells',beautifully lined with tiles,drains in the floors,benches at the sides.Fully airconditioned and lit, of course. One for the young ladies, one for the young gentlemen.Drunk on the streets? You're put in there and released at 12 oclock the next day to make your own way home. You get free accomodation and a chance to vomit all over your friends instead of the pavements.
Ah, you say, but what about their 'HUMAN RIGHTS'? Well surely they have a human right to get drunk,vomit, relieve themselves on street corners and knife each other, it's their free choice?Fair enough, then lets leave them to it and stop worrying about them
I'd even volunteer for the job of jet-spraying the cells out each afternoon if it would help.
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Get a grip it's that sort of nonsense which discredits the efforts of those who are trying to come up with a real solution.
In my opinion 24 hour drinking will work, but eventually - it will take decades to change an entire culture not a few years.
I believe there are a lot of rose tinted spectacles being worn here, it is a case where a fair comparison cannot be made, I, at 20 years old can account for the current state of affairs but not that before my time, and vice versa, it would be foolish for me to claim it is better or worse now or then, going purely off second hand accounts.
A minimum price on alcohol would do absolutely nothing to help. It is already the case that illegal drugs are considerably cheaper than booze, pushing up the price would just make more jump across. It's the binge culture that needs to change and to be honest there it's ingrained into British history for so long I doubt it ever will.