Why do MPs insist on telling us and companies what we should do with our own money and bodies? Surely is up to companies at what price they sell their produce?

If I wish to buy cheap alcohol and they wish to sell it to me, what business is it of any group of MPs to complain? It is our right as free people and alcoholmarkets supermarkets, pubs and off-licences rights as free-operating business to do as we wish.

The MPs claim that the policing requirements are made far worse by the sale of cheap alcohol, but that’s rubbish. The supposed policing requirement that shift patterns are dictated by drunkenness may have some basis in truth – but this is not caused by alcohol being “cheap”. Pretty much whatever price alcohol was to be allowed to be sold at – as if its current price wasn’t high enough – would not prevent this policing requirement.

These MPs are not considering simple human nature: if alcohol were to be made much much more expensive, there would still be the same drunken brawls, and the same policing requirements. Nothing would change – except it would cost us more. And if it costs us more to do what we already do, the economy is even more screwed than it currently is.

MPs need to wake up and accept that it’s not up to them how much it costs us to buy anything. They already decide how much tax we pay on alcohol, cigarettes and the like. That’s enough power and control without them wanting to dictate the sale price!

The only way to reduce the amount of drunken brawls is to properly liberalise the rules governing the sale of alcohol. Make any establishment licensed to sell alcohol able to sell it at any time they choose. Only when 24-hour drinking becomes a reality can we start to move on towards the much-desired “cafe culture”. As long the time that pubs, clubs and off-licences are permitted to sell alcohol, this will remain a pipe deam.