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Originally posted by mully

It's a complete nonsense, though, that policy. People who want to get pished and violent will still get pished and violent. Alcoholics will still be alcoholics - the price of the alcohol has nothing to do with the addiction. Putting the price up a bit won't make the slightest difference. But someone will get richer out of it.

Stephen

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Originally posted by mully

It's a complete nonsense, though, that policy. People who want to get pished and violent will still get pished and violent. Alcoholics will still be alcoholics - the price of the alcohol has nothing to do with the addiction. Putting the price up a bit won't make the slightest difference. But someone will get richer out of it.

Stephen

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Originally posted by gaz farrimond



Most beer, wines and spirits will not be touched; but on say a bottle of Tesco own label vodka (26 units), minimum price in Scotland will be �13, but in England it will be �10.40!!!

Time to look into 'The Borders off licence' chain.



And who the **** is going to spend £13 on a bottle of $hite quality vodka?

In essence it's just another price hike which will benefit the supermarkets.

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Originally posted by gaz farrimond


Yep, the more it costs, the more it can be taxed.

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Yep, the more it costs, the more it can be taxed.

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And if that tax goes to paying for the massive cost to the NHS and emergency services that booze over-indulgence causes then I don't have a problem with it. Sadly, that's probably not what will happen.

Overall though, it is yet another fine example of a UK government trying to fix problems by attacking the symptomatic end of the problem rather than the causal end. Ineffective, short sighted and removing people's freedoms.

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Originally posted by OriginalAnimal

Yayyy, that would make Stella cheaper currently £1.25 a can at Bargain Booze and some Co-ops

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Originally posted by Sharklaar

40p isn't too bad. I'm a lager drinker, I'd say Fosters is my supermarket purchase of choice. At 1.8 units per can, the minimum price for a 4 pack is £2.88 at that rate - less than it costs now.

However of course it will be abused and they will put up the prices considerably while they have an excuse.

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Yayyy, that would make Stella cheaper currently £1.25 a can at Bargain Booze and some Co-ops

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Buggers up Stella's "Reassuringly Expensive" marketing ploy though

Back to the main point though - it ain't no secret that the binge drinking has got a tad undesirable especially amongst the younger generation, and with my eldest lad approaching the going out and drinking age I get some comfort in the thinking that when he is choosing what to spend his money on that he may be deterred away from the real potent stuff and back to the more usual gassy pi55 we used to put up with. That way we then may be able to start to veer society back a bit towards the more subtle drinking habits of the masses further down the line by by doing something about it now. A number of other countries are keen to bring it in so this is not something just to Tory bash about, those other countries must be doing it for a reason.

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Originally posted by drummerant

I drink.alot. it wont stop me drinking. i will provably have people round more than going out though. so it isnt helping the local pubs and taxis. unless i didnt get it...

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