MPs have suggested that Britons on stag and hen parties abroad should be charged for the help that they get from UK diplomats when they call on them to bail them out of trouble. Apparently, only 323 people have been charged out of 84,000 cases and officials have said that it is difficult to charge someone who is drunk and has no money. Words almost fail me!What is it about the British yob or ladette and alcohol? The rest of Europe must think the same thing when their cities are invaded by the British Stag and Hen parties. The more respectable Briton must feel ashamed when they visit cities such as Prague or Dublin to be confronted by their young countrymen and countrywomen behaving in a drunken fashion.
Every one of them should pay the full price for the help they receive. Their passports should be confiscated until they cough up the money and, if they have been convicted of antisocial behaviour whilst abroad, the passport should not be returned for a couple of years.
