In England and Wales newly liberalised licensing laws came into force at midnight.
You can now drink around the clock if you choose to or indeed until you drop. Not that it affects me in Scotland where similar proposals appear to have been vetoed by the Scottish Parliament, but speaking as someone who works odd hours and finishes very late quite often, I’d have welcomed the idea of the chance of a quick drink after a long 14 hour shift.
Presumably there are mixed views about the sense of these new rules and applied to the general 9-5 work population, they may seem a tad over liberal?
I understand the idea is to combat binge drinking (drinking to get drunk) but is that really going to happen and will people who want to get drunk just do so anyway, perhaps over a slightly longer period, and avoiding the usual charge to the bar at last orders ?
What do others think ?
By: Dave Homewood - 26th November 2005 at 11:44
It’s about time. I could never get over the idea when I was in England that, just as the evening would begin to get interesting, you’d be turfed out of the pub at 11pm. That’s about the time people arrive at he pub in this country, after having a few drinks and a meal with mates at home first.
It will put a lot of those nasty, seedy dank holes they called nightclubs out of business, as no-one will pay the ridiculous ransom they charge to drink after 11pm anymore when they can stay in the pub.
I guess with later shifts, there’ll be much more work available for bar staff. They cannot expect existing staff to fulfil all the longer shifts. Got to be good for the economy.
By: MINIDOH - 26th November 2005 at 03:39
My bad!
By: Flood - 25th November 2005 at 16:47
Come on if you dont like it stay at home
Home? Where the joyful return of those with their thirst well slaked has been put back a couple of hours, so that the regular banging of parked car doors, drumming on dustbins, or that old favourite the drunken chorus of ‘Amarillo’, all take place when others are further into their sleep cycle?
Charming.
Flood
By: Swift - 25th November 2005 at 12:28
Thats just a photo of some of lifes “born winners”
By: Ren Frew - 25th November 2005 at 12:20
This law will not turn people into raving looneys.
Whaddya mean ??? 😀
By: Swift - 25th November 2005 at 12:03
Come on if you dont like it stay at home , i was out last night untill 1 am does that mean im going to fight be sick or stay in bed all day, no up at 6am this morning , no fighting no sick etc. This law will not turn people into raving looneys.
By: steve rowell - 25th November 2005 at 01:35
In this country with it’s very liberal licensing laws, where they’re probably the the biggest consumers of alcohol per capita than anywhere in the world, all it seems to have done is exacerbate the problem of binge and under age drinking
By: Ren Frew - 25th November 2005 at 00:51
I get the impression that pubs and other outlets have to apply for these licenses, and that not that many premises have applied.
– “About 1,000 licenses have been issued to allow alcohol outlets to open around the clock — of which just over one third are for supermarkets, according to official figures.
But the government says very few premises are expected to open all night, and the overwhelming majority of pubs will shut either at the same time as before or an hour or two later.” Source – Reuters.
Yes that’s the it seems to be shaping up? I guess here in Scotland having already had more liberal laws than England, for quite some time now, it’s more a case of harmonisation than anything else??? :confused:
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th November 2005 at 00:18
So does this mean that pubs and the like are allowed to be open 24 hours a day? I must be missing something here.
I get the impression that pubs and other outlets have to apply for these licenses, and that not that many premises have applied.
– “About 1,000 licenses have been issued to allow alcohol outlets to open around the clock — of which just over one third are for supermarkets, according to official figures.
But the government says very few premises are expected to open all night, and the overwhelming majority of pubs will shut either at the same time as before or an hour or two later.” Source – Reuters.
By: jbritchford - 24th November 2005 at 22:44
Obviously another law drempt up by someone who doesn’t live in the real world with all us mortals! 😉
By: SOC - 24th November 2005 at 20:01
So does this mean that pubs and the like are allowed to be open 24 hours a day? I must be missing something here.
By: DME - 24th November 2005 at 19:39
I seriously doubt it would work. The reason other it works in other European countries is because they are brought up differently. I work in a bar and im dreading it. We will be staying open 2 hours later than we used too. We have enough problems with drunks on the old “kick out” time. Now there will be even more of them. Thanks Labour, really appreciate it.
I’d not mind going to the pub at any time. I quite like popping down to my local at 10.30 for a few pints, and wouldn’t mind sitting to 1 or 2 in the morning or longer if it’s 24hrs.
Don’t think it’ll make any difference, it’ll only alter the times that fights happen etc etc. I mean I could go to a pub at 11am and drink all the way through to 1am, I’ll have had my fill, so what difference does it make to go at 1am and drink to 11am, roughly same session but different time.
I doubt many folk will do the 24hr session :dev2:
By: MINIDOH - 24th November 2005 at 18:59
I seriously doubt it would work. The reason other it works in other European countries is because they are brought up differently. I work in a bar and im dreading it. We will be staying open 2 hours later than we used too. We have enough problems with drunks on the old “kick out” time. Now there will be even more of them. Thanks Labour, really appreciate it.
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November 24, 2005 at 1:37 pm