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24-hour drinking was 'best thing Labour ever did', says report
Public health and order improved after the drinking laws were changed in 2005.
Alcohol consumption per person has fallen by 17 per cent since pubs and clubs were allowed to serve through the night, it said - the largest decline since the Thirties.
Fewer under-45s are binge drinking and violent crime is down 40 per cent.
Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a champion of free markets, said: "The hysteria about so-called 24-hour drinking ranks as one of the great moral panics of our time, but the evidence is now clear: the doom-mongers were wrong.
"The biggest consequence of relaxing licensing laws has been that the public are now better able to enjoy a drink at the time and location of their choice.“
"Facilitating longer opening hours may have been the best thing the Labour Party ever did."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11617185/24-hour-drinking-was-best-thing-Labour-ever-did-says-report.html
Quite a libertarian move by New Labour this one.
Alcohol consumption per person has fallen by 17 per cent since pubs and clubs were allowed to serve through the night, it said - the largest decline since the Thirties.
Fewer under-45s are binge drinking and violent crime is down 40 per cent.
Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a champion of free markets, said: "The hysteria about so-called 24-hour drinking ranks as one of the great moral panics of our time, but the evidence is now clear: the doom-mongers were wrong.
"The biggest consequence of relaxing licensing laws has been that the public are now better able to enjoy a drink at the time and location of their choice.“
"Facilitating longer opening hours may have been the best thing the Labour Party ever did."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11617185/24-hour-drinking-was-best-thing-Labour-ever-did-says-report.html
Quite a libertarian move by New Labour this one.
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Does he have a book to sell or is he a loony.
But if you can convince me that: The Police vans, sitting in every high street in the UK, for most of the night, have vanished at some point between 2005 and now, thus freeing up astonishing levels of Police resources to deal with other threats in the near future, all because there has been a miraculous transformation in the behaviour of drinkers......I am listening carefully.
What does Andy Burnham think of the 24hr Laws?
As the OP was kind enough to provide a link containing evidence to the contrary I'm assuming you can resipricate. Or are you just repeating you're ill founded prejuces.
Not if you're a pub landlord or own a brewery.
As someone who rarely drinks, and been that way for decades, I'm looking forward to going out and not being the only person in my group who doesn't drink. Hasn't happened yet, though people I'm with do seem to drink less, but that might be age more than wisdom.
Naive. They did it to please big business..and with zero concern for the effects on individuals, families or communities. It was .. as was so often true with New Labour ... all about the MONEY.
Which is why many people don't bother voting. They see a choice of government between one form of Tories and another form under a different name. Same results though.
which of course has absolutely nothing to do with the exponential growth in the non-drinking Muslim proportion of the young. You need to think this through better.
Did you pass maths at school? I think you need to do some revision on what exponential growth actually looks like. Also, here's a word for you to pass on to your English teacher for spelling tests: Hyperbole.
Exactly what I was thinking.
"Facilitating longer opening hours may have been the best thing the Labour Party ever did" - Christopher Snowdon.
What, better than the National Health Service?
Who is this lunatic?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/exponential
4. "Very rapid".
That'll do me.
Linear rather than exponential though. That's an important difference.
He's 'a champion of free markets' so he probably thinks the NHS is a communist plot. You can't expect people like this to have a realistic perspective on things.
Is that why they banned smoking in pubs too and introduced the minimum wage?
How did it help big business?
The thing I found was that, just because I stopped drinking, none of the people I'd known for years, as drinking buddies, stopped drinking. I'd never developed interests or friends that didn't involve drinking. And I don't socialise with that many people under 45, those who are less likely to drink according to this report.
And it's his claim that alcohol consumption has declined, his claim that fewer under-45s are binge drinking, his claim that violent [alcohol related] crime is down 40 per cent. He cannot prove any of it.
He has no credibility, so no surprise the Telegraph is giving him a soapbox from which to lecture.