2 March 2009

SNP are right?

I would normally be against any government involvement in the way we live our lifes and especially one witch is high in bureaucracy but it has come apparent some thing has to be dune about binge drinking to save the liberty of other drinkers. If we follow a socialist lead with Labour we will see all drinkers penalized with the governments planed tax hike.

Some thing witch is embed into the social conscience and culture of this nation alcohol is; as the Scottish Parliament reports, is a 'complex relationship with alcohol' there is no doubt we need to change the culture of drinking especially with underage drinkers but also uphold the traditional culture of Scot's and the rest of Briton drinking.

I welcome the proposal by the SNP to day. It is simply to put a limit price on all alcohol now the idea to this would be to price out the cheep nasty drinks witch not only taste like poison but also high in alcohol. I do think if people where given the choice they would buy the better drink if it was of equal in price. This drink limit would also go into the pub and bar witch would stop the happy hours which we see on high street bars. The happy hours are on the cheep and nasty drinks it dues takes the Mick out of a smaller independent bar/pub happy hour who are behaving responsibly.

Now this is open to not only stop the people who abuse the luxury of alcohol but also the honest chap who might wont a pint of bitter after work. I do fill as much as I do welcome the min prise on booze that a more complex system working on each individual drinks and placing them in catagree. For example a bottle of wine at the supermarket witch is at the £5 mark if this bottle fills the right standard to be on a low tax band it should but if it has found out to be of low querty of drink it should be higher tax. Now I don't wont this to be a snob thing on good/bad wine it should be as easy as compeering a 2 letter plastic bottle of white lighting with a bottle of Pedigree but this is some thing whitch should not be dune by bureaucrats but by the W&S industry with the health pros.

What ever happens this is short term. To take some thing what has grown out of 12 years of Labour I cant help think we need to educate children not just by nagging them of the danger of alcohol but of what acceptable behavior of drinking and its etiquettes. Also the fact we seen our police tide down with red tape witch stops them getting on the street to stop bad behaver and when they are not being back up by the law. If some one found with a hand gun they can get 3 mouth what are the courts going to do with drunken kids smashing windows a finger shake? It is not as easy to just slap new laws down we need to change the way some people drink.

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