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April 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Daily Mail Reporter
18:05 EST, 16 April 2012
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18:05 EST, 16 April 2012
The government may be introducing minimum pricing on alcohol in an effort to curb binge drinking.
But former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe has revealed her own solution – name and shame weekend drunks who breach public order on a Monday.
She said the law needed to be used to ‘bring a sense of shame’ to stop people drinking to excess and behaving badly.
Anne Widdecombe says the law needs to bring a ‘sense of shame’ to stop people drinking to excess
The 64-year-old told the Radio Times: ‘If the police carried out the occasional big blitz in the city centres on a Friday night, drafting in extra manpower and pursuing every single person who was drunk in AE or incapable on the streets.
‘Then people going out specifically to get drunk would risk finding themselves in court on the Monday with their names and photographs in the papers. That might be a deterrent to the wilder stages of excess.’
She added that the situation would continue to deteriorate while binge-drinking was regarded as a reasonable way of letting off steam at the weekend.
Miss Widdecombe explained: ‘Drinking to excess in public has to become socially unacceptable in the way that smoking is now. I was taught that if someone wanted to smoke in our house I should supply an ashtray and, indeed, push the cigarette box towards them with the words “Oh, do smoke ours.”
‘Now nobody with an iota of manners would dream of lighting up in somebody else’s house and it is considered perfectly acceptable for a host to plonk the ashtray down outside and to do so with a grimace.’
Anne Widdecombe was speaking out after she followed a group of young women on a night out and spoke to members of the police force and emergency services for a radio documentary
Miss Widdecombe took part in a documentary Drunk Again for Radio 5 Live in which she followed a group of young women enjoying a night out and spoke to members of the police force and emergency services.
The former Home Office minister warned the binge-drinking problem was in part spoiling city centres across Britain during the weekend and creating needless problems in A E.
She admitted that while it was a problem that alcohol is more freely available and cheaper than ever before, British attitudes to drinking are also a concern.
Earlier this year Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed plans to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol – expected to be 40 pence.
Ministers are also pushing for a voluntary agreement from the drinks industry to water down their products.
Speaking during a Westminster Hall debate, Anne Milton from the Department of Health added that the Government wanted to ‘remove a significant number of units of alcohol from the UK market through changes in how alcohol is produced and sold’.
She added: ‘Quality above quantity is something we’re aiming to do. We can’t turn this problem around overnight but we’re deadly serious about a deadly problem.’
Figures published in December showed that the number of people being treated in hospital for alcohol misuse has doubled in ten years.
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This woman may be intelligent but is out of touch with reality. This will become a badge of honour.
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They have no shame and a day naming them will only bring them pride. There used to be something called DRUNK AND DISORDELY…use that and put them in jail for a week or two with hard graft. That should sort them out.
This country is full of politicians with no spines.
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They love telling you what to do, don’t they? They tell you where/when/how much you may drink, smoke, eat, everything is scrutinised and studied. Then they decide the masses can’t be trusted to regulate our alcohol consumption – and hike the price up to “target criminals” but they will actually punish the law abiding majority. Some people have alcohol problems – but I don’t! And neither do most people! And does this woman really think people will stop binge drinking because it costs an extra pound or two? Sorry, they won’t. It’s more likely to be another tax grab.
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Can’t see this working. Most of them post about their excesses on twitter and facebook (with pictures). More likely to brag about it, IMO.
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Ann, as usual you are spot on but you’ll never get idiot, weak-as-water politicians to agree to anything that may make them momentarily unpopular with the masses. That type of pollie died out with Winston Churchill…
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Back in the good old days, you could go out with five pounds, get roaring drunk, buy a take away, get arrested for breach of the peace, spend a night in the cells, get fined by the sheriff, pay the fine, and still have change from the five pounds.
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What an idiotic idea, Widdecombe needs a reality check, listen, these binge drinkers are no different to some MPs…. THEY HAVE NO SHAME, as a previous commentator said, it will become a competition, a badge of honour so speak.
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What an idiotic idea, Widdecombe needs a reality check, listen, these binge drinkers are no different to some MPs…. THEY HAVE NO SHAME, as a previous commentator said, it will become a competition, a badge of honour so speak.
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– Callan, Liverpool, England, 17/4/2012 01:39
From Liverpool AND right on the button.
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She should lay off the beer and pies herself.
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