Over at Liberal Conspiracy Sunny Hundal is suggesting a tube crawl for the 31st, which would mark the end of underground drinking. Details can be gained by email, and there’s even the suggestion of bringing Bullingdon Club outfits.
One commentator, however, makes an excellent point:
“Would a piss-up be the right way to do it? Surely the best way to stick one up at Boris would be to turn up, have a few, quiet drinks on the tube and then get off. That would show that people can drink responsibly on public transport, undermining the whole premise of the ban…”
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This would turn into a party of tossers drinking their selves stupid and cause more problems than enough.
Childish action.
The ban is on, live with it.
If one can’t wait to either get home or arrive at the nearest pub you have a drink problem.
As for the Bullingdon Club outfits it would back fire just as the Toff campain that ZaNuLabour are running in Crewe.
Chunters, you might be taking this ‘protest’ a little seriously. People don’t really convene for a drink in order shatter the rotten edifice of authority.
I’ll do a Bullingdon cossie and hardcore excessive drinking as long as Sunny or Boris provides live fox cubs, empty Bollie bottles to sling at them, hotty crack whores from Soho, and an attempt is made to smash a minimum of 1,000 carriage windows.
Goodness, you are used to interesting parties.
I can’t remember seeing live fox cubs at the cash and carry, but maybe they were keeping them under the counter.
Wouldn’t Bullingdon Club outfits be as counter-productive as getting out-of-the-skull drunk? The latter would be spun to show that the opponents of the ban are irresponsible. The former risks us looking bitter, as if we opposed the measure for the sake of opposing Boris, rather the ban itself. It might all be a joke - but that’s not the way it would look the next day in the press.
A fair point, Doug. I think that the original comment was purely ironic, but there is - especially among the libertarians - annoyance that an ex-Bullingdon Club member could be passing legislation against alchohol.
Chris Paul said “I’ll do a Bullingdon cossie and hardcore excessive drinking as long as Sunny or Boris provides live fox cubs, empty Bollie bottles to sling at them, hotty crack whores from Soho, and an attempt is made to smash a minimum of 1,000 carriage windows.”
I knew and I told ya so…
It would back fire as I have stated before and you will be arrested.
Still it would take off the streets another load of left wing tossers.
Tell you what Chunters, if Chris smashes 1000 (hell, I’ll lower that to ten) windows then I’ll propose to Boris Johnson.
“That would show that people can drink responsibly on public transport, undermining the whole premise of the ban…”
The point is that people don’t drink responsibly on public transport, do they? It’s an inherently uncivilised thing to do. Those who do it are invariably already drunk and have lost the self control to behave reasonably. Go home, or go to the pub, like the rest of us.
Unlike our illiberal and authoritarian government, which wants to ban all sorts of reasonable behaviour (remember the smoking ban?) I am not generally in favour of banning more things. But Boris Johnson took a lot of soundings during his campaign and found that a lot of people are distressed by threatening, drunken behaviour on the tube.
He therefore pledged to ban drinking on public transport in his manifesto. As a result of his manifesto pledges, he was duly and democratically elected mayor of London, and is obliged to honour those pledges. If you don’t like the ban, complain to the million plus people who voted for Boris.
If the mayor wants to ban excessive drinking, disorder, drunkeness, threatening behaviour etc he can ban that. But the place where the drink was consumed to create this problem is hardly relevant. The laws already exist to stop any of this that is problematic. In canada it is illegal to have alcoholic beverage containers - including unopened - in vehicles. This does not stop drunk driving. It does stop passengers enjoying lunch in transit having a root beer.
PS does Chunters have a sense of humour?
Chris Paul said “PS does Chunters have a sense of humour?”
No I don’t.