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Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM
"Alcohol consumption has little to do with price, but everything to do with fashion and culture. If the SNP really wants to cut alcohol abuse, it should make alcohol unfashionable. It could start by banning the sale and consumption in all public buildings (including Holyrood). SNP ministers should refuse to attend conferences or public events at which alcohol is served. Once the government has led others will follow."
In fact, why not go further and shun alcohol entirely if you're so serious about penalising every Scot in pursuit of that ego-boosting pat on the back from the health lobby, eh Nicola?
Make a bold statement by implementing an alcohol free policy for all SNP elected representatives, local and national, publicly and privately. Let's see you courageously leading by example. I'm sure the lobby fodder queueing up to back this proposed infantilisation of the Scottish public will welcome the opportunity if it is presented, as would all scattered ScotNat councillors.
Remember, "there's no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption", according to 'experts'.
Or are you quite comfortable pronouncing from your ivory tower, safe in the knowledge that the extra costs inflicted on unfortunate Scottish proles will never affect even the heaviest drinker in your Holyrood bubble?
William Wallace would be so proud.
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South of the border it applies as much in the bars and restaurants around Westminster that we subsidize for the piggies.
Quite. But at the moment, I believe the Westminster stance is still that it is illegal. When that changes - which it almost certainly will - the same will apply.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/minimum-alcohol-pricing-probably-illegal
What the flying fork is up with the Scottish people that they allow all this shite? Are they all just a pack of pansies, after all?
That's a splendid idea. Give 'em a taste of their own medicine.
Beats the living hell out of me. There is no political party in the Anglosphere so absurdly full of internal contradictions as the SNP (anti-alcohol/pro-Whisky, warmist/pro-oil, nationalist/EUnionist, seperatist/pro-Sterling, BBC, and monarchy, “non-ideological” yet following socialist policies at every turn) but for some reason they face no serious opposition.
"William Wallace would be so proud."
Well, he would. He was Welsh, is'n'it? It's what Wallace means. Ie, not Australian cunt.
I think the problem is that the opposition is even more shit. The SNP just show what UKIP is likely to achieve soon, south of the border.
I had a Email from Sarah Woolaston MP a couple of days okay in reply to my Email to her regarding her stance on alcohol pricing. She categorically stated that the subsidy in MP's bar no longer exists.
Trouble is I trust no-one any more.
The Scottish people allowing 'all this shite' and thus being defined as a 'pack of pansies' could equally be ascribed to the English people who 'allowed' the smoking ban to be implemented. Who's the pansy now ?
When I worked in a Commons bar many moons ago I can assure you people got legless for very little. And it was high quality stuff as well.
Sadly the Scottish labour rump drank enough for the whole country, and the North of England, particularly Yorkshire, were not far behind.
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