LGA slates new booze rules

摘要

Plans to tackle drink-related violence have been dismissed as 'a gimmick' by the LGA. Council leaders said the introduction of 24-hour drink licences had been a catastrophic mistake which had created no-go areas and fuelled drink-related violence. Government proposals to create a new yellow and red card warning system for alcohol licencees plus higher fines for people caught drinking in public were condemned by the LGA. The LGA also challenged Home Office figures showing a 1% drop in crime as 'statistically insignificant'. A spokesman said: "These gimmicks go nowhere near to giving councils back the one tool they had for 80 years to protect their communities against drunken violence.'