At last...

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:30 pm

Cheap booze to be outlawed: Cameron signals new crackdown in battle against binge drinking | Mail Online

I have been campaigning for this for some years.

Anything that helps the casualty's of binge drinking Is welcomed.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:51 pm

oscar;1384691 wrote: Cheap booze to be outlawed: Cameron signals new crackdown in battle against binge drinking | Mail Online

I have been campaigning for this for some years.

Anything that helps the casualty's of binge drinking Is welcomed.

So what percentage of the countries population binge drinks to the extent shown in the photograph?

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:59 pm

I'll go back to brewing my own then. The only consequence of what's proposed here is further restriction on those with limited budgets which in practice means the unemployed and those reliant on state pensions, neither of whom loved the tories in the first place. It's pandering to the party base rather than acting in the interest of the country, as usual. The Loadsamoney 5-gcse city traders in their twenties will still get hammered every week and puke in the gutters the way Maggie taught them to.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:06 pm

You can always do what we do here; make hospitals and prisons for-profit private entities and then encourage more alcohol consumption. Get em' drunk - fix em' up - then lock em' up. It's good economics.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:10 pm

Ahso!;1384781 wrote: You can always do what we do here; make hospitals and prisons for-profit private entities and then encourage more alcohol consumption. Get em' drunk - fix em' up - then lock em' up. It's good economics.

You cynically correct bugger.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:14 pm

Bruv;1384783 wrote: You cynically correct bugger.

I can see where the first two come from but the third has shades of Jester

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:17 pm

Ahso!;1384781 wrote: You can always do what we do here; make hospitals and prisons for-profit private entities and then encourage more alcohol consumption. Get em' drunk - fix em' up - then lock em' up. It's good economics.

Some Ministers are looking closely at the holding pen system of the USA.

Bryn... the estimated cost to the NHS Is 2.7 Billion

Video: Health minister: binge drinking costs NHS £2.7bn a year - Telegraph

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:29 pm

oscar;1384786 wrote: Some Ministers are looking closely at the holding pen system of the USA.

Bryn... the estimated cost to the NHS Is 2.7 Billion

Video: Health minister: binge drinking costs NHS £2.7bn a year - Telegraph

Which is what percentage of its total budget? They've already spent way more than that refurbishing our local hospital.

I ask again, what percentage of the population are these measures aimed at and what percentage have to suffer the consequences? Given the disparity in numbers why are the government targeting everyone rather than using targeted measures against those causing the problem?

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:20 am

Nice to see David Cameron taking lessons from the SNP they've already taken steps here to ban special cut price offers in the supermarkets. It's daft and penalises the majority who do not get involved in this kind of behaviour. Booze is cheaper in france and italy yet they don't have these kind of problems it's a cultural thing that this wonl;t solve. Still it helps politicians fel they are acghieving something.