"Postwar Britain saw little need for the temperance move-Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia
ment. In 1951, the govemment refused to pay for a representa-
tive to a World Health Organization meeting on alcoholism on
the grounds that the problem did not exist in Britain. This
claim was in one sense a tribute to the work of the temperance
movement; however, it also revealed the temperance move-
ment’s decline. The spirit of the 1960s was freedom, summed
up by Sir Jocelyn Simon’s peroration at the final reading of the
Liquor Licensing Act of 1962: 'Now is the time to dance. Now
is the time to stamp the floor with the feet of freedom!' "
Beer Guide to the 1970s (part sixty-four)
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Yes, I'm still not finished with what is by far my longest series of posts
ever.
Three more Whitbread breweries. All from parts of the country I never go...
10 hours ago
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If I can't dance it's not my revolution.
I thought I should look this up. Hansard has:
"Now is the time to drink... Now is the time to stamp the floor with the feet of freedom."
It's a quote from Horace:
"Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus"
So, less dancing, more drinking.
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