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Originally Posted by staggeringman
the government should never have given out to supermarkets the license to to sell alcohol, that is where your binge drinking comes from!a program on the telly tells you what they want to tell you!thats why i would throw the bloody thing through the window, these people that they are showing have supped a bottle of vodka or whatever whilst getting ready to go out!FACT.......and when they slurp a few more they are out there heads,they go and pay an entrance fee too a night club and dont drink alcohol,they drink bottled water,because they cant drink more alcohol,what entwisi said is right!crime from drink related incidents down!hospital problems down, leave the problems of the telly to them margerat its all made for people that sit in front of them!  |
While I accept what you are saying is true......this was not a programme per se......it was a news item......and it involved Caroline Flint the Government Minister for Health.......so there must be some truth in what was being said.....although I agree that certainly there is always some bias put onto these items. I do not have a problem with people who want to drink themselves into oblivion...but what i do find ironic is that this government knew of the cultural problem of binge drinking before the licensing laws were relaxed. Health advisors at the time renewed their warning of the dangers that relaxation of these laws may create. And I do not believe for one moment that drink related crime is down...or for that matter that alcohol related admissions to casualty units are down.
The only benefits that may have been accrued as a result of the relaxation of the licensing laws are those to the Chancellors coffers.