York’s latest assault on hen and stag parties ignores the fact that it owes so much to marauding outsiders
And so to York, where the powers that be are trying to ban buskers from letting drunk people grab their microphones and sing their tuneless hearts out. Yes, the buskers, already subject to a fair few rules of their own, are now being given laminated cards that will state that they are “not allowed to hand over their microphone”, according to a report that was discussed by councillors in York on Tuesday evening and which surely met with resounding support, because everyone recognises the forcefield of power that a laminated card can wield against a drunk idiot doing what they want to. Oh.
Ah, but we must not mock, for it has been a busy few years for York’s fun police and they are weary. First, the town’s officials warned, in 2015, that the city centre was becoming a “no-go area” at weekends, with hen parties and stag dos descending from Newcastle and Sunderland to do their boozing within the walled city. Then they banned alcohol from certain incoming trains, to stop these groups from pre-loading, and even tasked the coppers with asking hen parties to deflate the inflatable pink penises they liked to carry with them, in what can only have felt like some kind of reverse breathalyser procedure.
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