Drink is part of our culture. All the TV 'soaps' are predicated on drinking, set in pubs, ie Corrie and Eastenders Emmerdale.
We have the highest rate of alcoholics and binge drinkers in europe. Now thanks to feminism it is considered okay for women to drink to oblivion also, with the malign laddette culture.
The core could be that Brits are just plain anal and repressed. The only way they can bear each other's company is to be totally blitzed out unconscious, when they become even more boorish than they otherwise are and liberated from the normal social constraints of decency.
One cure could be to raise the age of legal drinking to 21.
Drinking and the costs in loss of business in absenteeism go into the tens of millions to say nothing of the fractured society and broken homes caused by alcohol abuse. It also places a huge strain on police services as they are called out every night and particularly weekends to pick up the pieces of drunken yobbery, not to mention the strain on an already compromised health service.
Far from having 24 hour drinking we need less pubs.
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