A few people have said that it will push up the price of the "acid coloured shots" that the weekend binge drinkers seem to go for.
Will it really ?
Are they really selling them at less than 45p at the moment ?
I realise they need a profit margin, but how much do they currently cost and what would they need to sell for to make it worthwhile ?
They cannot ban beer. It's too easy to make it yourself
What if they ban the sale of Hops and malt extract to individuals?
I've had my problems with drink. Don't touch the stuff now - if I do, it never goes well for anyone.
In my heavy drinking days, I can't say that a minimum price would have ever put me off. If you're addicted to the stuff in some way, you don't really care what it costs - in every sense, financial, emotional, whatever.
I just think the government don't really know what to do about it, 24h licensing was meant to give us a European drinking culture instead of the British binge drinking culture, but that didn't work, so they're now attempting to make it effectively too expensive for poor people to drink - how wonderfully simplistic, because of course it's poor people getting drunk that's the problem isn't it 🙄 nice middle and upper class people, they can be trusted with alcohol can't they? They're educated and responsible and only drink moderately within government guidelines....no silent epidemic of functional alcoholism among the middle classes at all.
But the middle and upper classes can pay for their own rehab and generally keep their problems away from the social workers, so I guess it's not the government's problem if those kinds of drinkers don't cost them money.
Your missing the point Panda, it's not about alcoholics are class distinction. It's about trying to make cheap drink available to the masses, it tells you all in many articles and in the government and health studies.
That's an easy stance to take on whitemiddleclasstrackworld, but it's ostensibly taxing the homeless.
Ha! ha! Nice try, but I suspect you're trying to get a rise out of me there.
Homeless people don't HAVE to drink the likes of Kestrel Super - it's a choice.
