The cost of alochol could double

[grim_tales]

The Govt. brought in 24 hour drinking and then wonder why there are problems? All this pricing plan will do IMO is piss off responsible people (ie most of us) who don't behave like chavs and just like a drink sometimes. Chavs will always get drunk no matter what the price of alcohol.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... nking.html

This will just penalise the majority IMO - tits

[gasteropod]

Could potentially make more people turn to illegal substances since pills generally cost a couple of quid each.

[Yi-Long]

Exit alcohol, enter glue-sniffing!

Anyway, I'm never in favour of these kinda price-hikes, supposedly to combat alcohol-abuse.
I rather see them double (or triple) the fines and punishments for those who misbehave while drunk.

Now you are raising the prices for everyone, including all those who drink responsibly, while it's only a small percentage of the drinkers who are out of control...
Not really fair, is it?

The goverment SHOULD take their responsibility, NOT in this way, but by going after those who misbehave.... and going after them HARD.

[grim_tales]

Spot on, as you say its hardly fair is it?!

[Markgway]

Chavs will always get drunk no matter what the price of alcohol.

Naturally, since it's paid for by benefits.

I rather see them double (or triple) the fines and punishments for those who misbehave while drunk.

Stop making sense, dammit!

The goverment SHOULD take their responsibility, NOT in this way, but by going after those who misbehave.... and going after them HARD.

Clearly you're far too intelligent to be a politician.

[Yi-Long]

It isn't intelligent what I wrote. It's just common sense. The problem nowadays is that too many people, especially politicians it seems, are so stupid that common sense is now considered intelligence(!)

[bradavon]

The Govt. brought in 24 hour drinking and then wonder why there are problems?

This was one of the better things the government did. Very few pubs/bars open 24 hours, that's simple the media picked up on, when the reality is, it didn't happen. It used to piss me off royally I had to leave the pub at 11.

I'm undecided this price fixing idea is a bad one. Booze can be bought for such insanely cheap prices. It's often cheaper than water. I tend to stick to decent bars, which never go in for such low prices, so it won't affect me much.

[saltysam]

One positive thing to come from this is the fact it could well price Absinthe out of Bradavon's reach.

[gasteropod]

One positive thing to come from this is the fact it could well price Absinthe out of Bradavon's reach.

[Markgway]

It isn't intelligent what I wrote. It's just common sense. The problem nowadays is that too many people, especially politicians it seems, are so stupid that common sense is now considered intelligence(!)

That's the last time I say anything nice about you, fuckhead.

The problem with common sense is that it isn't common.

[grim_tales]

Voltaire said that

[bradavon]

One positive thing to come from this is the fact it could well price Absinthe out of Bradavon's reach.

Since when was Absinthe a low price drink? .

[saltysam]

One positive thing to come from this is the fact it could well price Absinthe out of Bradavon's reach.

Since when was Absinthe a low price drink? .

obviously low enough that a notorious cheapskate like you can afford to buy it

[bradavon]

Since when do cheapskates have 2 holidays in 1 year? I'm skint but ain't no cheapskate. Clearly you don't know me at all, if you think I'm a cheapskate.

[Markgway]

Since when do "skint" people have two holidays in one year...?

[bradavon]

That's why I'm skint . You've never heard of a credit card?

[saltysam]

Well when you emigrate to Spain you'll be pleased as punch to know Absinthe is dirt cheap over there

[romerojpg]

Dole pays well then.

[grim_tales]

Brad works, Romero.

[romerojpg]

Yup, he cannot sit down in a chair becuase of that sort of work.

[Shingster]

Well when you emigrate to Spain you'll be pleased as punch to know Absinthe is dirt cheap over there

Bohemian Absinthe is, you have to pay more for the traditional stuff!

[Markgway]

That's why I'm skint . You've never heard of a credit card?

So you're buying shit you can't afford? If I don't have it I don't spend it. Credit is for fools and the reckless (as the recession has emphasised). Although I suspect you probably have more money that you make out. With your middle-class background you've probably never even met a "skint" person.

[saltysam]

if you think I'm a cheapskate.

Well you bullied Grim incessantly until he handed over half of his 40p Stranger Than Fiction earnings to you did you not? that's the act of a cheapskate imo

[Shingster]

The thread title is wrong anyway, the government isn't doubling the cost of alcohol at all, but merely applying a "minimum price" to cheap booze. They say it's to curb binge drinking, but really the biggest demographic who binge drink on a 24-pack of carling are teenagers and borderline alcoholics - both of whom will happily binge drink at the higher prices like they did 10yrs ago before the cheapo supermarket booze boom really took off. The irony is that this will just push people back into pubs and clubs, where weekend binge drinking and alcohol-induced violence is most rampant. Well done government!

Oh and about the 24hr licensing laws, how many of us can list many pubs/clubs whose opening times were heavily altered by its introduction? It seems to me that the vast, vast majority of pubs close an hour or two later now and nightclubs still open until 3-4am like before the laws.

[gasteropod]

Yeah, and there have always been lock-ins anyway haha