CAN someone please tell me, preferably someone in authority, why the 'on-the-street' drinking ban only affects respectable law abiding citizens?

My wife and I were sitting on a seat provided outside the Royal Hotel, Morecambe having a quiet and minding our own business when a passing police officer told us we had to go inside the pub to finish our drinks.

Fair enough yet every day when I pass the sunshine bar bus shelter on the promenade at the top of Regent Road, there are at least five drunken individuals, usually lying on the pavement openly drinking from large bottle of cider! To top it all, today I watched two police officers walk right past the shelter completely ignoring them!

Holidaymakers following signs to Morecambe are likely to be directed along Regent Road to the promenade. Therefore the first sight they see if they are sat at the traffic lights is several inebriated low-lifes either urinating in the shelter or verbally abusing passers by. Is this the first impression of Morecambe we want people to get?

Never mind, at least the police are 'moving on' the smartly dressed, sober thirty-something, respectable married couples whose only crime is talking. So, it isn't all bad, eh?

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