Question by fojo81: What do you think of Boris Johnson’s drinking ban on London’s transport network?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7427304.stm
And what do you think about other countries attitudes toward alcohol?
Best answer:
Answer by Shuggoth
It probably came about due to loud, obnoxious
drunken behavior in public.
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I’m amazed that it was necessary… Australians abuse alcohol a lot, but very few of us drink on trains!
Doesn’t bother me as I do not live in London, neither do I walk around with a can of Carlsberg in my hand.
It’s obviously a good move, although I thought it was banned already. However, it might make things tough for LU staff. Imagine going up to a group of tough, alcohol swilling, bottle swinging louts and telling them to stop! Perhaps there will be more instances of delays on the Underground as drinkers are challenged.
The second limb of your question is far too broad to answer. At one extreme we have countries such as Saudi Arabia banning alcohol completely, at the other extreme we have countries where people are free to drink at any time of day or night. Relaxing the licensing laws in the UK has led not to sensible drinking, but to excessive drinking, as those of us who have the misfortune to live near drinking establishments realise all too well. I think that we should not be ashamed to put the clock back and introduce more control of drinking hours. It is quite clear that liberalisation has resulted in problems and that as far as alcohol is concerned, it was a tactical error.