Tuesday 11 September 2012

Going Through The Motions?

All decided already, is it?
[A government spokesman said:] "We are working with the alcohol industry which has pledged to take one billion units out of the UK's alcohol intake and introduce a minimum unit price."
I must have missed the announcement.


8 comments:

Anna Raccoon said...

Tory MPs are quite fond of 'going through the motions' it seems....http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/mp-in-the-sht/

Jay said...

This: "[...] its research suggested 79,000 babies aged under one in England are
living with a parent who is classified as a problematic drinker, which
they extrapolated to 93,500 babies in the UK."

And this:

"The research also suggests 26,000 babies in England are living with a parent who is a "dependent drinker" which is equivalent to 31,000 across the UK."

Magic word: Babies. It's not even the usual "children." No, we got babies at risk. Watch the fur fly...

Dick_Puddlecote said...

:)

Dick_Puddlecote said...

Also, 'classified' is the operative word. They are probably not a problematic drinker, just 'classified' as one by government's absurdly low unitary guidelines.


Remember that 8 cans of Stella in a week is considered hazardous ...


http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/mps-agreed-on-denormalising-beer-wine.html



... so drinking one and an eighth of a can per day - according to these arsewipes - is child abuse.

Jay said...

Wow. That post is from 2010, and yet it reads like it happened just yesterday. Nothing ever changes. Yeah, the classification system is balls. By the way, the UBath Alcohol Twitter people have gone quiet... not a peep-tweet since the end of July. Guess they've got their data -- wonder what they're report will say? "There is no safe level of alcohol. Raise tax." ???

Can't abide Stella, to be honest. Drinking it any any quantity, however, is not child abuse -- unless you're forcing your "baby" to drink it with their soggy Weetabix in the morning.

SteveW said...

Jeebus, the comments (or those which haven't been deleted) are all the work of certified mentalists, for example:


"The root cause of the problem is the low price and 24/7 availability of alcohol. If the duties were doubled, pubs closed at 11pm on weekdays and 5pm at weekends, we would see fewer drunks on the streets, and more sober parents taking responsibility for their unruly children who roam our towns after darkness has fallen. Simple and obvious solutions are not politically popular, though."


Yes, that seems a reasonable response - assuming you want the state to run everything for you and absolve you of any personal responsibility and are then stupid/blind enough to think that people won't buy when shops are open and drink it later.


Still, nice to see comments supporting increased price and I'm sure nothing to do with minimum per unit pricing being under consideration.

BrianB said...

I thought that 'pleasure' was reserved for Lib-Dum MPs...

*COUGH*Mark Oaten*COUGH*

nisakiman said...

Gawd, I'm a serial child abuser!



Can't understand why my kids don't spend all their time castigating me for being a binge drinking abuser of children, in particular themselves. And horror of horrors, I smoked around them too! Oh the shame!Oh the guilt!



I must have brainwashed them too (probably part of the abuse), because in adulthood they keep coming (expensively, costs me a bloody fortune every year) back for more. Not only that, but I'm now abusing my grandchildren by drinking and smoking around them.



Dunno how I'm going to live with myself...