THE High Peak, like the rest of the country, suffers its fair share of drunken yobbishness, while politicians, local and national, wring their hands in fake dismay and wonder what can be done to stop or decrease the incidences.
This is not an easy thing to do when Government has sold its soul to the brewers who have never cared about the results of what their product can do (and I speak as an ex-landlord).
There is no political will to cure the problem but if there ever
was, solving it is just about the easiest thing to do.
Step one: remove the right of public houses to sell off-licence, okay to sell on the premises, but not off.
Step two: make all drinking in public places illegal, ban it from streets, parks, canal-sides, everywhere where we see idiots drinking from bottles and cans.
Step three: remove the right of selling alcohol from supermarkets because they have been proved not to be responsible enough to sell it.
Put all alcohol in large, secure, off-licence premises where you would have to produce identification before being allowed to purchase anything. We could even let supermarket chains run them, to stop them whingeing, but if they were ever found guilty of misdemeanours then they would lose their right to sell alcohol at all.
If we have a problem, and we have, then let's solve it and stop messing about and if anyone has any other suggestions, then let's be made aware of them.
Dennis Snape
Eccles Road
Chapel-en-le-frith
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