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Mon 1 Jan, 2007 07:52 am
LONDON - New 24-hour alcohol licensing laws have failed to help Britons adopt a more relaxed attitude toward drinking, a Cabinet minister said, according to a Sunday newspaper.
Most Britons enjoy drinking too much to emulate the cafe culture of continental Europe, said Hazel Blears, chairman the governing Labour Party and a member of Prime Minister
Tony Blair's Cabinet.
"I don't know whether we'll ever get to be in a European drinking culture, where you go out and have a single glass of wine," Blears said, according to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
"Maybe it's our Anglo-Saxon mentality. We actually enjoy getting drunk," she was quoted as saying.
Britain's drinking laws were changed in November 2005, allowing licensed premises to apply for permission to open round-the-clock. Proponents of the laws had hoped they would nudge Britons toward gentle tippling rather than relentless chugging, by ending the scramble to guzzle as much booze as possible before an early closing time.
the text on the shirt reads, "a pint and a fight, a great british night"
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