Minimum pricing on Alcohol
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This is how most youngsters drink
Maybe not in School, but on a Friday or Saturday night, they will consume this as a matter of course - before they even leave the house. Then they get all rowdy. Idiots.
Maybe not in School, but on a Friday or Saturday night, they will consume this as a matter of course - before they even leave the house. Then they get all rowdy. Idiots.
Maybe it should reduced in price and speed thing's up a bit,someone's going to be laughing all the way to the bank
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Binge drinking / alcohol dependence / alcholism is rife round here, but there is never any trouble. Reason being its very rural, affluent, and there's not much else to do quite frankly. Does it cause an immediate problem? not really.
There's a hell of a lot of middle class hidden alcohol abuse.
There's a hell of a lot of middle class hidden alcohol abuse.
As several others have said, I am convinced that the reason for this problem is not cheap booze, but today's society.
Why this country should be different in this respect to any other country I can think of, I don't know.
Why this country should be different in this respect to any other country I can think of, I don't know.
Piece of nonsense. Just a tax, they don't care if a few hundred feckless plebs are alive in a few years, most likely anyone on skid row and drinking themselves to death is highly unlikely to be a productive member of society and working are they? Living in a box on benefits under a flyover and will probably die on the streets before they become this theoretical burden to our precious NHS.
Anyway, 45p a unit? It's to be 50p here in Scotland...hopefully the EU will stamp on this cr*p. Whisky is one of Scotlands biggest industries, talk about pumping the golden egg laying goose up the chuff. 80% of a bottle of single malt in the UK is already tax. I'm gonna start home brewing anyway. After all I'm a distiller now to trade. Mixing some sugary water with a bit of yeast at the correct temperature will soon bypass this nanny state problem.
Worse than that is the fact they've even classified naturally grown hallucinogenic mushrooms into the same Class A as smack. They (our sh*t scared elitist masters) just don't want you taking a holiday from your day to day brain, to maybe see things from a different perspective? That's right kids, just worry about your job, our ponzi scheme economy, terrorism and keeping your overpriced home- just stay sober and work yourselves to death for ever less money and real happiness.....
Time to wake up......
Anyway, 45p a unit? It's to be 50p here in Scotland...hopefully the EU will stamp on this cr*p. Whisky is one of Scotlands biggest industries, talk about pumping the golden egg laying goose up the chuff. 80% of a bottle of single malt in the UK is already tax. I'm gonna start home brewing anyway. After all I'm a distiller now to trade. Mixing some sugary water with a bit of yeast at the correct temperature will soon bypass this nanny state problem.
Worse than that is the fact they've even classified naturally grown hallucinogenic mushrooms into the same Class A as smack. They (our sh*t scared elitist masters) just don't want you taking a holiday from your day to day brain, to maybe see things from a different perspective? That's right kids, just worry about your job, our ponzi scheme economy, terrorism and keeping your overpriced home- just stay sober and work yourselves to death for ever less money and real happiness.....
Time to wake up......
I just caught the end of moral maze it was interesting listening to the righteous middle class talk about poor people and their inability to make the right decisions interestingly no representation for the **** head poor, its funny how when the poor people were some use, going down the pit's doing factory work digging trenches picking up dog ****e or being sent to war as cannon fodder,no one minded them having a good drink
I want you to think very carefully about this.
As people are living longer, how exactly is an alcahol "related" death defined.
The average age for alcahol related deaths is 55-74 (no information is published to say what proportion are nearer 74 than 55), the average life expectancy being 80 years.
In 1970 the average life expectancy was 68 years, how many of these people die directly due to alcahol, or alcahol "related"!
How is it at all honest to start chucking about these blatantly incomplete statistics?
Then you should ask how do we compare to other countries.
OH SHI OH SHI look at all the dark blue.......
everywhere else......
Isnt that funny, several people in this thread going on about drinking culture being better abroad, when we actually have less alcahol related deaths.
My my, you silly little people being manipulated so easily by government funded lobby groups.
I dont think the minimum price as sugested will have a significant effect on reducing binge drinking, nor do I think that a hight price would remove it it. However I dont think its a stupid or outlandish idea to have a minium price, at around the price they are suggesting. I also think that reducing/preventing the hard advertising of cut-price supermarket boose is a good idea, we all know its there, and can look in the alcohol isle, without 8ft billboards to the tune of "£24 cans for a fiver" .
Daniel
Daniel
Good little citizen arnt you.
That's exactly what they want from you, they suggest restrictions that "go to far", then wind back a bit and do something less draconian.
months or years later they will then suggest exactly the same thing, except this time it will only be a few more steps ahead rather than a leap, and it will seem so much more palatable.
Did you vote for this, did anyone vote for this?
Nope, it's the elite in government controlling the media through government funded lobbying groups to control the plebs, and you lap it up every time.
Probably about time we had a tax on stupid ideas. 
Too many politicians sat around with nothing else to do but argue like a bunch of kids and dream up the next stick to beat the rest of us with. Lets have a lot less of them, and their minions to start with.
The alcohol tax won't affect me all that much, but it's just that. Yet another tax to fund yet more stupid ideas.
Too many politicians sat around with nothing else to do but argue like a bunch of kids and dream up the next stick to beat the rest of us with. Lets have a lot less of them, and their minions to start with.
The alcohol tax won't affect me all that much, but it's just that. Yet another tax to fund yet more stupid ideas.
Its a hard one. On one level im very much against sensorship, legislation, etc and I dont want to price people out of drinking, or see the brewarys take a stack load more cash,. But on another level it seems mad that supermarkets can use 'loss-leader' alcohol to draw punters into there stores.
I dont know the solution, and I dont nessrally support the exact actions being taken, but I do support something being done and have heard worse suggestions.
Daniel
I dont know the solution, and I dont nessrally support the exact actions being taken, but I do support something being done and have heard worse suggestions.
Daniel
