How alcohol policy is set by temperance campaigners

Fussbucketry Central

Chris Snowdon writing in the Spectator explains the dreadful truth about the UK's alcohol policy - it is designed by people dedicated to teetotalism and temperance:

The Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), a small but hardline anti-alcohol organisation, was heavily represented on the committee. The IAS was formed in the 1980s as a direct successor to the UK Temperance Alliance which, in turn, had been formed out of the ashes of the UK Alliance for the Suppression of the Traffic of All Intoxicating Liquors, a prohibitionist pressure group. The IAS receives 99 per cent of its income from the Alliance House Foundation whose official charitable objective is ‘to spread the principles of total abstinence from alcoholic drinks’. Its director, Katherine Brown, was on the CMO’s panel, as was its ‘expert adviser’ Gerard Hastings, although he failed to disclose his IAS role in his declaration of interests.

So when you hear the latest piece of public health dribble about drinking remember that it comes from people with an ideological opposition to drinking alcohol.

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