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9-6-2012 02:11 | Ah, well Jeff you know we bloggers are a difnereft breed. Just because a few bloggers can think x it doesn't mean the public as a whole also thinks x. I have mentioned this phenomenon a few times on this blog before, notably .It became clear to me when ID cards were a big story. Opinion poll after opinion poll told us that the public were in favour of ID cards. But it was almost impossible to find a single blogger in favour of them.I strongly suspect that if you were to talk to your workmates or just random people in the street they would come up with a list of proposals very similar to what the SNP have brought out. Increased prices, increased age limits, etc. In fact, it's nigh on all you ever hear in terms of policies being proposed to tackle binge drinking.I doubt also that tourists who are visiting Scotland for a few days see much of binge drinking culture. In fact, I have lived here for all of my life and have pretty successfully avoided the worst. No doubt if you head to a city centre on a Saturday night you'll see some disgraceful sights but you'll see that in any city in the world on a Saturday night.The binge drinking problem is most heavily concentrated in areas that tourists do not touch with a bargepole Dunfermline on Saturday at 2am, Paisley on Friday night, whatever.. my hometown of Kirkcaldy even. Not Edinburgh Castle on a nice Tuesday morning. It will have been much the same when you visited the countries you listed (unless you went to Stockholm to sample the nightlife!).And just to underline the point that Sweden and Australia perceive themselves to have a binge-drinking problem just like we do, here is a talking about binge drinking. It mentions the Swedish policies and the fact that it doesn't work.Then there is a against violent binge-drinking teens . You could lift that phrase straight out of any British tabloid. nearly half of all students abuse drugs or alcohol at least once a month. That story has a familiar ring to it too. Where is that? Glasgow? Fife? No, it's Montreal.For the media in all of the countries you've cited, your solutions are anything but I'm afraid.As for West Lothian, I don't think six weeks is nearly enough to give a clear indication of whether the scheme has worked. Any number of factors can account for a change in behaviour The weather even. You need to wait for the effects to filter through and for everything to settle down. If anti-social behaviour is still do |
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