tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post1594360179066593956..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Scotland introduces another tax on the poor...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-65414353764650183152012-05-15T16:24:20.205+01:002012-05-15T16:24:20.205+01:00Ahem...
I'm ambivalent about this minimum pri...Ahem...<br /><br />I'm ambivalent about this minimum pricing, I think it might work but only as part of a wider program, what is obvious is something needs to be done about it up here; its a real problem.<br /><br />Firstly it's not an attack on the poor, you would have to assume that poor folk always drink the cheapest booze, the fact is, they don't. Take buckfast for example, the drink of choice for the Scottish chav (or so we are told) It's not affected as it's already above the 50p mark.<br /><br />It's the really cheap paint stripper ciders and premixed drinks that do the damage, in many cases its cheaper than the fuel you'd need to do that cross border drinks run, rendering that enterprise non-viable.<br /><br />It probably wouldn't affect most folk because the booze you buy is already over the limit, even the boxed wine I buy is already over the limit and I'm a pretty cheap date. <br /><br />I'm really not keen on nanny politics, but it is a problem up here so I'm willing to try stuff out and see what works. <br /><br />This seems to be aimed at the kind of people who properly binge drink (meaning pints in double figures, not the measly 2 pints the gov thinks is binge drinking) who aren't poor and people who are basically drunk all the time, they don't care how they do it and are poor because of it.<br /><br />The idea being there is a policing saving on the former and an NHS saving on the latter.<br /><br />No idea if it'll work mind but we'll give it a go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-45639721582021206412012-05-15T14:24:38.195+01:002012-05-15T14:24:38.195+01:00The result of all this is that people will resort ...The result of all this is that people will resort to brewing and also (dare I say it or will my door be busted down at 4 am in case I have "apparatus"?) distilling their own.<br /><br />While this campaign goes on yet further, it is still not, as far as I can see, illegal to buy, sell or possess (for use) scientific apparatus suitable for fermentation and/or distillation.<br /><br />Peple should take advantage of this while they can. I bet you 5p that you're not allowed to buy "Quikfit" glassware online, in North Korea!David Davishttp://libertarianalliance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-58690766524289544662012-05-14T20:42:35.897+01:002012-05-14T20:42:35.897+01:00I live not far south of the border. I am thinking ...I live not far south of the border. I am thinking of loading up a Transit van and doing a bit of bootlegging,stand to make a fortune.johnd2008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-8267057146028099702012-05-14T15:42:22.345+01:002012-05-14T15:42:22.345+01:00Nicely summed up.
I get more angered by the week,...Nicely summed up.<br /><br />I get more angered by the week, first they fuck me over for being a smoker, now they ramp up my drink prices.<br /><br />And again, Scotland is the test-bed before the rest of the UK.<br /><br />And this shit from a supposedly "nationalist" government, fuck off...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-45674206839726652412012-05-14T15:37:08.206+01:002012-05-14T15:37:08.206+01:00Great comments. It is as if anyone with a drink pr...Great comments. It is as if anyone with a drink problem must be poor, which is certainly not the case. Education to the dangers is the best way, not trying to price it out of the reach of responsible poor people who enjoy a drink.<br /><br />Shocking tactics from out-of-touch people.Tonynoreply@blogger.com