All this increasing the tax on alcohol and/or pay by the unit stuff it rubbish. Yes, it would be nice to move British drinking culture away from binges towards sensible, relaxed drinking where you can still walk in a straight line when you go home, and don’t vomit. However, is making people pay more really going to make them drink less, or is it just going to make them have less money?
Educating the younger generation of the problems of binge drinking = good. I can get behind that. I think it’s the job of parents as well as of schools. I don’t quite have clear ideas of how this can be done, but I’m pretty sure that charging more money for booze is going to be ineffective. As for those who are aware that epic amounts of drinking will gradually lead to epic fail on the part of the liver and other accompanying anatomical elements? Well, let us make up our own minds as to whether we do that or not. We are grown up enough to make up our own minds about self-destruction.
Clearly I am developing objections to the nanny-state.
