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Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, there is something rather delicious about this. The noble Lord reminds me irresistibly on this occasion of the Venerable Bede, who waxed lyrical about the drunkenness of his young monks. Garibaldi sent his English volunteers back because they got paralytic and behaved badly. The troops in the 1914 War drank wine out of pint tankards because they thought it was Watneys Mild, or something like that. There is an inherent thing in English culture of going out with the deliberate effort of getting totally and utterly paralysed, and I am afraid that there is nothing we can do about it. While I accept that it is not totally germane to this exact clause, it is well worth while that, on this occasion, the noble Lord is giving a very good imitation of the Venerable Bede.