Many a true word spoken in jest
There's not a lot happening in licensing news at the moment. If it carries on like this then I'm going to have to post up one of my many rants on the LA03, I'll just pick an infuriating grey area at random.
For the time being the Morning Advertiser has picked up on some excellent comments by Nick Palmer, the Labour MP for Broxtoe (that's Nottingham-ish) which I thought I'd bring up, mainly because it made me laugh (in a geeky, licensing insider way). Essentially, Mr Palmer floated an idea in his recent newsletter (here) of introducing a 'drinking licence' for 18-21 year olds that could be taken away if the holder was "cautioned or convicted or given an ASBO".
The best bit is the comment that "it would explicitly target problem drinkers while leaving others to enjoy a drink without government interference" (my gleeful emphasis).
The MA article says that residents have since pointed out the obvious flaws and 'the MP has since chosen to shelve plans for drinking licences'. Which is a shame, they should've egged him on a bit to see how far he'd have taken the idea. I mean really, what on earth was he thinking? Free publicity I suppose. From someone with a regulatory reform remit it's a bit worrying.
The reason this made me chuckle was that around the time of the transition period (mid-2005) there was a joke email going round with what was apparently a consultation document on the next stage of government licensing policy. The idea was that everyone in England and Wales would have to apply for their own 'drinking licence'. Oh, how we laughed...
Incidentally if anyone reading this has a copy of that email could you send it over? Ta.
For the time being the Morning Advertiser has picked up on some excellent comments by Nick Palmer, the Labour MP for Broxtoe (that's Nottingham-ish) which I thought I'd bring up, mainly because it made me laugh (in a geeky, licensing insider way). Essentially, Mr Palmer floated an idea in his recent newsletter (here) of introducing a 'drinking licence' for 18-21 year olds that could be taken away if the holder was "cautioned or convicted or given an ASBO".
The best bit is the comment that "it would explicitly target problem drinkers while leaving others to enjoy a drink without government interference" (my gleeful emphasis).
The MA article says that residents have since pointed out the obvious flaws and 'the MP has since chosen to shelve plans for drinking licences'. Which is a shame, they should've egged him on a bit to see how far he'd have taken the idea. I mean really, what on earth was he thinking? Free publicity I suppose. From someone with a regulatory reform remit it's a bit worrying.
The reason this made me chuckle was that around the time of the transition period (mid-2005) there was a joke email going round with what was apparently a consultation document on the next stage of government licensing policy. The idea was that everyone in England and Wales would have to apply for their own 'drinking licence'. Oh, how we laughed...
Incidentally if anyone reading this has a copy of that email could you send it over? Ta.
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