[Vlad_Dracul]

BBKING spake thus >b) This being Britain and a free country with a long tradition of liberty, one of our main legal principles is that things are legal unless there's an explicit law against

BB you are pushing at an open door here.

Unfortunately the principle to which you refer seems rather etheral and even if it were so,its general acceptance as a principle would be counterbalanced by a generally accepted standard of morality and behaviour which may have existed in the past but now,sadly,is not quite so prevalent.

Hence the need for explicit legislation.

i.e in the past there may not have been an explicit law against drinking in public but most right minded people would have considered it bad form,bad mannered and unacceptable. Now its mob rule,do as you like so we HAVE to legislate.

Unfortunatly legislation and enforcement are two different matters.

The train drivers should have walked out instead of being complicit in this vulgar and unruly display.