Binge Drinking

Lord help us, Cameron is on a crusade. He has decided to cure binge drinking which is, apparently, caused by alcohol being too cheap. Naturally, anyone with enough money gets drunk, on the streets all the time, including David Cameron. Er, hold on, no that's not right. As being able to afford booze isn't the issue, perhaps it is just the access the proles have that is the problem. So, if we price them out of the 'market' binge drinking will stop.

Admittedly, cretins do form the overwhelming bulk of the binge drinkers who cause trouble, but some have respectable jobs and just join in the culture of drinking to excess. And that is what it is, a culture. A culture that has its roots in the late Nineties era of no personal responsibility, but immense personal ego. An age that demanded 'respek' without bothering to do anything to earn it.

Key examples of immorality were daily on display with MP's caught in the (sexual) act with consenting, though previously unknown 'friends', with the Prime Minister lying incessantly, but always with that knowing smirk that said, 'I know you know I'm lying, but I really, y'know' don't care'. His wife of course, insisted on public recognition of some elevated status she had awarded herself, with her hand out for freebies at every turn. And all the rest, from the half wit Straw to the downright weaselly Mandelson.

For the man and girl in the street, this meant that criticism was banned, any expectation of a standard of behaviour, maybe something that would earn respect, was abandoned in a hedonistic wave of self-impressed boorishness. The ultimate expression of women's lib; the right of young girls to flash their bits in a laddish manner. (Of course, 'women's liberation' was a desirable aim, hijacked by the left and taken to ridiculous extremes, simply to undermine Western society and culture).

You want to cure binge drinking David? Well, you need to start by enforcing the laws we already have, which will require high standards of leadership from you and a strong arm on the inept senior police officers to stop sucking twizzle sticks and do their job. The courts need to feel that a terrified old lady sitting in her own house, is someone deserving protection from careless louts and a judge is the person to do it.

Clubs and trendy bars should be warned about serving drunk people and that should be acted upon and politicians should constantly refer to binge drinkers as idiots, which has the bonus of actually being accurate. Why should some poor pensioner, struggling to get by, be denied the odd bottle of beer because some detached moron in No10 thinks she is a binge drinker.