Ben Sims
speaker
209 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 May
Ben Sims’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The first one is nobody really knows.
The second is an answer that Sarah and Ben dug out.
And this is remarkable.
They began because they've given themselves a period of time to try and effect some change.
They decided to find out how alcohol was regulated.
They started doing official Information Act requests, and they found sting operations taking place erratically around the country in rural areas, mostly in city areas.
And they found quite a high failure rate.
You know, this is police taking out 17-year-olds to go and try and buy alcohol from places and a remarkably high hit rate.
Now, that indicates it's a sample of what's going on out there, but it indicates it's quite easy.
And during the licensing hearing, one of the businesses involved, the Maticana Liquor Center, did actually mention that they actually have...
Schoolchildren in school uniforms coming into their store sometimes trying to buy alcohol.
Now, that implies that kids don't really think it's too hard, doesn't it?
I've come to the conclusion that there's lots of us who have a part to play.
I think MPs have a part to play and they've got to think about this.
They seriously do.
Police have to take prosecutions, criminal prosecution.
They are merited.
Business owners, they have legal duties.
They have to carry them through.
Parents, of course we parents.
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