Is minimum pricing of alcohol fair?
Scotland looks set to go ahead with plans to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol. In bills being discussed before the Scottish parliament on Thursday, we will see plans brought in to set prices. Is this a reasonable response to antisocial behaviour, or more meddling from a nanny state?
For those of you in England and elsewhere, remember that they brought in the Smoking Ban here first.
“On the Alcohol Bill, the spokesman said it would stop “high strength beers and ciders being sold for pocket money prices” without affecting premium products like Scotch whisky.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8228599.stm
Oh. I nearly forgot. They’re also proposing a referendum on Scottish Independence.
Hal. I doubted your prices, but you’re right Asda are selling paint stripper vodka at £4.48 for 70cl! I do think that is a touch too cheap, but surely £8 -£10 is fair and reasonable for a bottle of Vodka? (I wouldn’t class that cheap muck as anything other than poison)
Supermarkets, yes. The price of this paintstripper vodka is ridiculous!
For bars, like pheemz said, enforce the already existing laws!! You can’t serve alcohol to a drunk person. What’s the point of it if it won’t be enforced?! Pah!!
As a poor yet responsible drinker, I’ll be narked if I’m paying more!! In fact I’ll start making my own drink!! Ha… Ending up dead…
