Own goal?

Drinking Banning Orders - already nicknamed "Booze ASBOs" have finally been brought into force some four years after the legislation which provided for them was passed. The effect of such an order is to ban somebody from going into any pub, club or off-licence or drinking in a public place within a defined area. The situation regarding supermarkets is not clear. What strikes me is that this and other measures which the Government have introduced to try and combat the anti-social aspects of drinking have in great part been necessitated by the Government's own decision to introduce 24 hour drinking.