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Will the Last English person on this forum please close the door when they leave???

[purdey]

I have been banging on about alcohol and the British for a while now. I realise there is a major problem, maybe because I am a non drinker (yes I am a boring fart).
I am afraid the figures from the Police, ambulance services and hospitals bear witness to what is happening in the UK as well as across Europe.

[Tim Drayton]

Niki mou

I think you are missing the point a little here. Obviously there are the nicer things of life in the UK, the problem is that the behavior exhibited by the lager louts is not rare or unusual. Is binge drinking more popular than enjoying fine wine in the UK? Well, just look around and count how many businesses make a living out of binge drinkers and compare it to how many deal with connoisseurs.

All over the Mediterranean, licensing laws are loose or totally absent, you can drink at any time, but the local culture does not tolerate public drunkenness. In the UK I recall, being publically drunk earned you a badge of merit. It is this general climate of tolerance for the loutish and the violent that mystifies people hence the question by the police officer above: "what is wrong with the British?"

The problem has gone far enough here in Greece for locals to avoid going on holiday in spots popular with the British. In fact many travel agencies will entice you to a spot by mentioning that there are no British people there.

Does not anyone in Britain teach kids how to live well?

Agia Napa has started trying to get rid of British louts and reinvent itself as a family resort.

I heard that they conducted a survey which concluded that, taking into account the cost of damage caused, extra policing, treating wounded thugs in the hospital (apparently an amazing number of stomach pumping operations were being conducted) etc., British hooligans were actually costing the town more than they spent there!

[purdey]

Nice to see they have finally learnt from the errors they have made !!

[Z4]

A very racist topic.

[murf62]

And I thought it was just Soldiers

[Feisty]

I don't have the answers but have to wonder if things are any different than they have ever been or if it's just where the people frequent that gets the attention.
Some 20-30 years ago it was Benidorm and Ibiza that were the party places. I remember visiting Calella approx 15 years ago and being appalled by the behaviour of people. It is, on the whole, a very small minority of tourists as a whole and perhaps it's about time they were stopped being so encouraged by permanent 'happy hours' where people are encouraged to drink twice as much.

[Tim Drayton]

A very racist topic.

I am British and these things make me hang my head in shame. I don't think it's racist - sadly, it is just true.

[Z4]

A very racist topic.

I am British and these things make me hang my head in shame. I don't think it's racist - sadly, it is just true.

Ditto Tim, but the title of the topic is still racist I'm affraid.

[Magnus]

In fairness, it is not all the Brits that behave so badly. To be honest, a lot of the things that are reported abroad are no different to what goes on in city centres all over England every friday and saturday night. The trouble makers don't wait for their holidays to behave badly, it's how they behave all the time.

Britain has a rapidly growing underclass of people that have absolutely no common decency or sense of social responsibility. There is a multitude of reasons for this, far too many to go into here. Suffice it to say that the government has made it far too easy for people to behave irresponsibly and the people have become too selfish and stupid to behave differently. Again, it's not all Brits, just the underclass.

We should also bear in mind that they are unaccustomed to the heat and it's dehydrating effects (especially when their only liquid intake is alcohol) so they just drink more booze and become completely paralytic. We all know some people just can't handle their drink.

Some places also encourage the problem in the way they market themselves. If Agia Napa or Ibiza market themselves as a 'clubbers paradise' and gear the local economy around this trade then they can't really complain when some troublesome elements turn up. It's the price you pay for attracting these people.