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Why is no one allowed to have anything? Why aren't these guys allowed to just sell a couple of balloons on the street on a Friday night, for fuck's sake? Imagine the same situation in somewhere like Barcelona. How European and fun it would seem—jovial men and women breathing in silly air on a balmy evening with a cheeky Estrella chaser.But this is England, where everything is a crime, everything is dark and drab and rainy and cold and shit. Having fun without a million quid in your bank account is an offense soon to be punishable by death in London, and a last-ditch attempt to salvage a bit of money and enjoyment from this swirling toilet water could land you seven years in the bin. Let's not assume that all NOS sellers are destitute, on the breadline, making ends meet by selling joy-fug to Essex boys on Brick Lane. Because they're not. However, what they do tend to be are young (mostly) men who are often trying to get some reparations from the very people forcing them out of their areas via gentrification.The ban is a populist policy borne of a moral panic, a knee-jerk reaction to appease the readers of the newspapers making a fuss about "hippy crack." With benefits for under-21s being cut, and the abolition of EMA, the young are being pushed further and further into a corner—and the lashing out that'll inevitably occur will also, of course, be all their own fault.Follow Joe on Twitter.READ ON NOISEY: How Will the Ban On Laughing Gas, Poppers, and Legal Highs Affect This Summer's Festivals?