Ah, well, you see. What this is reporting is a significant step along the road to Brexit. Drinking alcohol is a habit practised on the continent. It is one of those pernicious aspects of behaviour which arrived in Britain - along with immigrants - when we joined the Common Market.
We thought we were going to get lots of croissants and speculoos biscuits and French beans from the market in Calais but the Europeans (who are foreign) pulled a fast one on us. Not only did they dump golden delicious apples on us but they poured Pernod and Courvoisier and Asti Spumante all down our throats ... and also that most alien of liquids ... WINE.
Don't forget, we were a nation who drank weak warm ale and weak warm tea almost exclusively. Our national sense of propriety was seriously unbalanced. It had a disastrous effect on us ... and our football fans ...
Our football fans were renowned for their hymn singing and the fact that they had impromptu prayer sessions outside the turnstiles during away fixtures but these foreign places with people eating meals on tables in the street were just too much to comprehend. The very small number who decided to sample the wine just fell apart ... and the abolition of the microscopic duty-free allowance allowed them to bring the stuff in and corrupt their families and friends and neighbours. And they all were totally unprepared for its effects.
So you see, Sriram, Brexit is really being imposed for reasons of strict morality - and its effects can be seen already.