And it took someone how long to realise this?
For the past 15 years I have worked on a regular basis with people in Bristol in relation to alcohol. One thing has become increasingly clear to me and that is simply there is no real desire to educate people to give them the options for change. Walk around Brunswick Square, literally the other side of the road from the multi-million pound Cabot Circus shopping centre, and any time day or night you will find people drinking. In fact one of the best known Bristol street art paintings is on a building there. It depicts two young people with their can of special brew.
The local Council doesn't appear to really care, the law enforcement and judiciary services are Victorian in their understanding of how things work and the people who are left to pick up the pieces are the medics on the front line and those of us who seek to change things.
There is no miracle cure for the challenge but if we do not start now then it will not be just this generation that has a problem but subsequent generations of young people will see their lives wasted or ended prematurely by alcohol abuse.
Have those politicos that supposedly care about Bristol really got the guts and the common sense to ask for help? Or are they just happy to keep picking up the council tax from the businesses that encourage the above scene to continue?
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