Lager Loutettes Fight For Britain

Binge drinking Brit girls who get involved in violence could be subconsciously emulating behaviour that stretches back over a thousand years, according to several reports which appeared in the (British) media this week.

The stories emerged after Home Secretary David Blunkett linked morally irresponsible 'lager louttettes' (female hooligans- Slang Ed) to contemporary UK street violence, prompting a dismissive reaction from the BBC.

"You can't look at drunkenness as something that's come out of liberal attitudes," said Warwick University history lecturer Angela McShane-Jones.

"Drunkenness has been a permanent problem for the Brits. I mean, when the Normans invaded in the 1060s, the Brits had a reputation for drunkenness," she said (BBC Online).

Miss McShane went on to outline how excessive boozing had been considered politically correct during the 17th century (apparently to prove you weren't a secret coffee drinking puritan) while the Guardian dug up a newspaper cutting revealing that little had changed by Victorian times.

"In 1865, the Islington Gazette reported that ratepayers had complained to the police about the 'rough conduct of a low rabble who use Upper Street to indulge their disorderly passions and wreak their ferocity on respectable passers-by," the Guardian said. "To their astonishment, women were among the offenders."
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