It's Britain's Fault, It's Britain's Fault, Why Is It Always Britain's Fault?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/567881/Binge-drinking-French-Government-Britain-teenage-drunks

/// The Government will introduce a new law with the power to jail those inciting binge-drinking for up to a year and fine them up to €15,000 (£12,000). ///

Perhaps that's not such a bad idea, perhaps we should do the same in Britain?

[crzyryn]

We should take on the same policy. It isn't our fault though, it never was and I doubt it ever will be.

[crzyryn]

I don't agree with the custodial sentence though, it go as far as suggesting it should be increased to be at par with UK licencing law regarding selling alcohol to people under the age of 18.

[jim360]

In this particular case, they may have a point, sadly. Binge-drinking is, at the very least, not part of French culture (or at least not the official one).

[crzyryn]

I'm sorry. Ignore my poor spelling there. I meant to say 'licensing' and 'I'd'.

[zebo]

So the French Government or whoever think that their young people are too thick to create their own lifestyle, they have to copy others.

[Baldric]

Nous français hein , ne allons pas prendre la responsabilité de ne importe quoi!

[Booldawg]

Maybe we should blame the French - that's where most my cheap booze comes from!

[douglas9401]

I'm sure that French yoof guzzle their vodka n Red Bull with verve and panache to say nothing of a little je ne sais quoi.

They are a stylish and slightly aloof lot are they not? Or maybe that's just a myth, like them dodging the soap.

[andy-hughes]

It's a slow news day - we shouldn't rise to it.

[Gromit]

He didn't say it was Britain's fault.

// “It is really an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon that’s beginning to slip in to the generation from the 15-24-year-olds.” //

This type of drinking (fast and to excess) is how the youth drink in the UK and Germany and the US. Young french people, if this French Minister is to be belueved, is saying it is creeping into french culture, probably through films and tv programmes.
He is not blaming us for the cultural change, he is just saying a change has occurred.

[Baldric]

Well someone blames us

///FRANCE has blamed the British for soaring numbers of young binge-drinkers on the other side of the Channel in a gobsmacking case of double standards.///

[Gromit]

/// The Government will introduce a new law with the power to jail those inciting binge-drinking for up to a year and fine them up to €15,000 (£12,000). ///


In the UK, those inciting binge-drinkers would be the licencees and landlords. They can be heavily fined and have their licence revoked. That is probably more than a £12,000 fine.

[Booldawg]

'He didn't say it was Britain's fault. '

Not in so many words Gromit!

[Booldawg]

also - Anglo Saxon? So the Celts don't like a drink or eight then!

[tonyav]

Baldric, get the trebuchet ready.

[Gromit]

Baldric,

They didn't say it, that is the Daily Express journalist's take on it.

It is like saying it is the French fault that there are so many middle-class, middle aged wine guzzlers, because we are imitating them.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

He didn't say it was Britain's fault.

// “It is really an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon that’s beginning to slip in to the generation from the 15-24-year-olds.” //

Ah yes, the Anglo-Saxons, woe betide he or any one else for that matter who dares to criticise non whites.

[Gromit]

I doubt it is anything new that French youth are getting blotto.
They are just doing it in a different way than their parents.

The fault is more likely Globalisation, where drinks are now brands, drinks are promoted as a lifestyle to be copied.

[Gromit]

AOG,

As pointed out above, Anglo-Saxon does not mean British. Scotland, Wales, Ireland are Celtic. The USA could be an Anglo-Saxon country. The Saxon bit obviously refers to German ancestry.

[Gromit]

// Ah yes, the Anglo-Saxons, woe betide he or any one else for that matter who dares to criticise non whites. //

I have no idea what that means? Or what it has to do with what the French Health Minister said. This isn't a race issue.