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Here's a gripe that may be a familiar subject to those paying attention to the news these days. No more cheap beer at supermarkets because the government want to impose a minimum price for alcohol.
Cameron has hardly been in power ten minutes and he has started on the cheap beer in supermarkets being the root of all evil. I'm sorry, but I am pretty certain there are much more important issues that need to be tackled first by our new government.
When it's really cheap I stock up for months, I only drink a couple of cans a night, but I am classed as an alcholic and binge drinker and must be controlled. Are they basically saying I am going to go out and start fights because the drink I bought was cheap?
Don't they realise that a fair number of people in this country can't afford to go out to pubs now because of the high taxation that has been imposed on us? The pubs are mostly empty and closing down at an alarming rate as it is. If the minimum price on alcohol policy is brougt in then only the well off will be able to have a drink and the UK breweries will soon start to feel the effect as well. They will no doubt follow the pubs and start closing. So much for supporting British industries!
If they really want to clamp down on drink related violence, then they ought to start on the ones causing trouble, not penalising family men having a few cans of beer on the patio at night. It's basically like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
Using their logic, they should be putting up petrol because people die in car accidents, or taxing chip and kebab shops because people are getting fat and unhealthy.
They will no doubt implement this minimum alcohol pricing policy and the real reason is more tax, presumably so more wasterers can sit behind desks.
Well they won't beat me, I shall buy mine in France in bulk from now on!
By: Gainsborough lad.
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They don't buy that many drinks in the pub as they've had a few. Which is less revenue for the pub and less tax to the government who put the duty up year on year.
Supermarkets can afford to sell alcohol as a loss leader to get people in to buy other stuff as well.
I like a sociable drink in town but won't go very often on Friday and Saturday nights as the idiots you get on a night out do my head in and I can't afford it very often so I buy cans to drink at home.
Why should people who have to stick to a "we're all in this together" budget weekly/monthly have to pay through the nose for beers as the pubs keep putting prices up to cover tax hikes?
I buy a few cans occasionally to sit indoors with. Im not burderning the police or ambulance services by getting drunk in town and casuing fights or unable to get home.
Now it seems that an innocent pleasure like that is being eroded. And you thought cromwell was dead.
Unless you have balls of steel and be prepared to stand up against their decisions. Get back in your box, save your tears for your evening meal and stop whining about it all.
Alright 'Peeps'?
They are very deceiptful on how costs for this campaign are hidden from the general public.
1) limit the number of alcohol licences granted to outlets. I have always been baffled by 'small' corner shops that find the space (normally one shelf in a fridge) to sell alcohol. These outlets are 'probably' responsible for selling alcohol to minors;
2) advertising of alcohol should be banned from media, for example, television, radio, newspapers and the internet. Advertising of special offers should be limited to inside the outlet only, for example, supermarkets, and the promotion should be in the aisle displaying the alcohol items only. Alcohol should also be displayed at the 'back of store'. (I am not against special offers on alcohol, providing the outlet is responsible);
3) off licenses and public houses should be the only outlets allowed to sell high content alcohol, for example, 40% and above;
4) 'happy hour' should be held between Mon and Thur only.
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Aren't ordinary people paying enough in taxes, council tax and now VAT hikes?
IF anyone wanted to reduce the nuisance that drunks cause then deal with them directly. A return to old style pub hours would help perhaps with on the spot fines for licencees selling to drunks.
ben