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Originally Posted by Dravyk
Ok, so they limited hours severely to keep drinking down.
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The opening hours bit of the licensing laws were introduced in WW1 as the factory workers would spend their time getting pissed in the pub rather than down the munitions factory.
Rather like Income Tax (intro'd to pay for the Napoleonic Wars) they forgot to repeal generally it until now.
The copper what said it is from North Wales home of the Chaaaapel (boyo), where until a few years ago, the pubs shut at 10.30 and didn't open at all on Sundays... gives you an idea of where he's coming from :-)
Oh yeah, one more thing - we haven't called them Bobbies since Dixon of Dock Green. It makes you sound "quaint" Drav :-))
As for "binge-drinking", HVVDs. High Volume Vertical Drinkers has been the mecca of the brewers for a while. The brewers discovered if they put booze in a bottle for the same price as a pint, named it something wanky and took away the chairs, then people stood up and you could fit many more in a bar. Another phenomenon of making people stand is that they drink more (of the more expensive wanky drinks). And they made way more profit and could open more bars. Nice one.
Fuck knows what'll happen when they ban smoking in bars and all the whiners who "haven't been able to go out for a drink in years" come out to play.