The Argus jumps in to the anti-alcohol arena with this completely impartial article. The language used in the piece such as customers desperate for their morning fixand
drinking hotspotsis all very negatively slanted. From reading it you would think that anyone who goes into a pub *must* be an alcoholic.
Donna Coe, the landlady interviewed, makes a very good point though. She says
“If you look at the age of our customers a lot of this is about people who have no one at home and just want the company. It's not really about the alcohol.”That for me is the crucial point. Many of these early morning drinkers are old, divorced or widowed, and they congregate in a neutral social setting so that they can chat with other similarly positioned people. I know the pub she runs as I grew up about a mile away from it. The early morning drinkers might sit and nurse a pint for hours at a time so that they can chat endlessly about stuff that makes my ears bleed. Then they go and 'do a bit of shopping' before getting the bus home again.
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if you work at nights keeping everything 'ticking' 9 is 3 is 6 is whatever.
-sok
Oh yes indeed .. .. there've been mornings I've sat in Preston Park drinking a bottle of beer with the sun rising and the 9-5ers heading to work .. .. .. then home to bed for a good night's sleep .. .. ..
"A special investigation by The Argus on alcohol in Brighton and Hove found drinkers in the pub as early as 9am"
How very enterprising of the Argos since it has been this way since however long ago Labour reformed the licensing laws.
As anonymous says, for anyone who finishes a night shift at 6am, going to the pub three hours later id just what many people do.
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