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Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

Are they having a laugh I think I must be missing something here - Parents to get youth drink guide, BBC

Parents are to be given guidelines as to how much alcohol their children can consume and at what age.

I thought we already had such guidelines - Directgov. Alcohol, your child and the law

Sod the new guidelines. We have laws in place governing this already. Just enforce the law, for goodness sake, how hard can it be. None of this “two-strike” business either, just apply the damned law of the land.

I agree! Apply the current laws.

Being drunk and disorderly in a public place usually meant being arrested and spending a night in police cells and maybe being up before the beak the next morning. Or in some cases the copper would walk the drunk back to his home. Of course that depended on the availability of a copper on the beat.

You do remember a copper on the beat don’t you? It was this tall authoritative figure in a uniform wearing a helmet and walking around town keeping law and order. Sometimes there were two of them together.