Minimum alcohol pricing
- 16 November 2017 09:22335781The main side effect could well be illicit stuff being brewed for the White cider drinkers which is likely to be dangerous.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/15/scottish-booze-cruises-england-predicted-minimum-pricing-introduced/ - 16 November 2017 21:10335824anyone who begs for drink won't be affected , this thing is just Nanny State BSGuest 1713 likes this
- 17 November 2017 14:41335861The idea behind it is quite laudable if it stops people with drink problems accessing cheap strong beer and cider but it also means that spirits are affected in a Country where many are employed in the whiskey industry.
- 18 November 2017 00:19335886Didn't they try this in Russia to stop their problem vodka drinking problem drinkers?
Didn't said drinkers then start drinking (and dying from drinking) cheap perfume and the like as a substitute?
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-raises-minimum-price-for-vodka-53271
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/21/vladimir-putin-clampdown-surrogate-alcohol-deaths-fake-bath-tincture-irkutsk - 21 November 2017 18:39336022and what's to stop people just piling up a Transit with cheap booze in Berwick etc..? no, this is just righteous liberal partonising tosh as usual - what about the Chablis brigade, why aren't they having to pay more , just a poor-tax as usual by the leftie hypocrites
- 21 November 2017 18:54336026Martina wrote:and what's to stop people just piling up a Transit with cheap booze in Berwick etc..? no, this is just righteous liberal partonising tosh as usual - what about the Chablis brigade, why aren't they having to pay more , just a poor-tax as usual by the leftie hypocrites
It's all based on units of alcohol so posh people will see the price of their grog rise also. - Reginald Barrington
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21 November 2017 22:17336031Martina wrote:and what's to stop people just piling up a Transit with cheap booze in Berwick etc..?
Absolutely nothing, just like I do a few times a year to calais for wine and beer!
Not that I have a problem with tax of course(except when i have to pay it) but purely because I'm tight b*****d
Brian Dixon likes thisArte et Marte - 22 November 2017 17:44336056howard mcsweeney1 wrote:It's all based on units of alcohol so posh people will see the price of their grog rise also.
hang on there, it's a min price per unit - so the more expensive booze won't go up in price - no, it's just for the tramps who like white cider, hardly equality is it.......why isn't Corbski having a pop here?