News on the BBC that the Conservatives will attempt to call time on controversial government plans for extended pub opening hours by forcing a Commons vote on the issue.
After last weeks "collapse of the Government and Tony Blair", well, that's how it read in the Daily Mail, it seems more political gameplay is being pushed. Taking advantage of the situation and creating a last minute push to stop it all. I still don't really grasp the issue myself, I'm all for extended hours. After all, it's one of the great things about going abroad with work, being able to sit out and enjoy the evening without some hairy lout shouting, "Time gentlemen..." It seems farcical that a vote at 7pm tonight can stop the legistation coming into force next week. What have they all been doing the last 2 years?
Sure, there's the issue of binge drinking. But it's always been the case, not just recently. And half the reason is the fact you're limited to how long you've got in the bar. I'm still a strong believer that it'll reduce the mass-exodus problems police face now. What really needs targetting is people's habits to drinking, and why it seems part of the culture to go and drink until you physically can't move. Target the plonkers and leave those of us adult enough to know when we've had enough, to go out and "have enough" 
As one commenter says on the BBC site, where do you go for a quiet drink after 11pm these days?
Of course, it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things, does it now
