Belfast is way behind....

chunter

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

Less than half of one side of the community voted for the GFA. Those voters later went on to vote for a party which trounced the other party that negotiated it. It has no legitimacy save by imposition by the authority of the army and PSNI.

As for that shower of parasites arriving on the Lagan, they arn't welcome.

I wondered where Steve Wright's "Mr Angry" had gone...

suki1964

I love the licensing laws in this country.

As a Londoner I have seen first hand what 24/7 drinking has done to the town centres, public transport ,the emergency services - and family life - none of it is positive

djdarren

almillar wrote: »

This was consulted on a while ago. Department for Social Development is responsible.
24hr 7 days a week licensing please. No rushing drinks before closing time or during happy hour, no fighting in the streets when everyone gets dumped on the street all at the same time and argues over kebabs, taxis etc.
Works in other European countries.
Also, even if pubs/clubs were allowed to open 24/7, doesn't mean they would, they'd all adjust to different opening times according to when they made money.

I wouldnt go this far but just accept a licence for Bars & one for Nightclubs. It would stop the illegal drinking that clubs are doing at the moment and avoid last minute binge drinking before 1am.

MTV weekend showed it can be done with only 7 arrests over the entire weekend!!

highrisklowreturn

chunter wrote: »

I wondered where Steve Wright's "Mr Angry" had gone...

Not angry, merely rational.:money:

babs98

As an Englishman with experience of English cities I'd say don't change your licensing laws. The only beneficiaries of 24 hour drinking are the large companies that make and sell the drink, everyone else suffers.

highrisklowreturn

Here we are: People with experience of it telling it like it is, yet some here bemoan that we haven't as yet in NI descended to the moral level of pigs and apes....

almillar

highrisklowreturn - take a drive round Belfast city centre and the Odyssey around 01.00-02.00 and have a think about those pigs and apes. I repeat, there IS a problem NOW with the law, and that is that everyone is out on the street at the same time - that's an avoidable situation and puts a big strain on emergency services, taxis, kebab shops etc...

suki1964

almillar wrote: »

highrisklowreturn - take a drive round Belfast city centre and the Odyssey around 01.00-02.00 and have a think about those pigs and apes. I repeat, there IS a problem NOW with the law, and that is that everyone is out on the street at the same time - that's an avoidable situation and puts a big strain on emergency services, taxis, kebab shops etc...

And you dont see the pictures of the English town centres where we have people on the streets all night puking and peeing and needing policing and emergency services all night?

Centre of London they now have tents with cots in them to save taking the drunks to hospitals to sleep it off. Banks of public toilets are having to be brought in so the drunks are not just stood there peeing in the gutters or up peoples front doors and worse.

When you give 24/7 drinking, you dont have people staggering their drinking - you have them drinking more and causing more of a problem longer into the night

Ask the police - ask the emergency services if their lot has been improved with 24/7 drinking because the answer is NO

caz2703

almillar wrote: »

highrisklowreturn - take a drive round Belfast city centre and the Odyssey around 01.00-02.00 and have a think about those pigs and apes. I repeat, there IS a problem NOW with the law, and that is that everyone is out on the street at the same time - that's an avoidable situation and puts a big strain on emergency services, taxis, kebab shops etc...

Don't mention kebabs. That's what got him his drink driving conviction. Actually in his own words:

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

It's only a "conviction" if one believes in / adheres to legal codes made east of Ireland.:money:

highrisklowreturn

What a saddo going through ancient posts....

For the record I'm entirely in favour of relaxing drink driving law. I have a conviction as two pints of medium strength lager put me over the limit. I of course appreciate you are a saint and would never, for example, use a mobile, smoke, wave, change the radio station, talk to a passenger, or any other thing that is more likely to cause an accident than alcohol.

Suki you're banging against the wall. People in NI follow the herd instinct: 30 years ago it was to be more self-righteously religious and patriotic than either the Irish or the British; today it's to bemoan the remaining - and now very moderate - religious aspects of Irish society and aggresively reattune our culture to that which people see on the television, which for all intents and purposes has become a surrogate pulpit.