Scotland's minimum pricing for alcohol

[littlespark]

After the nationwide sugar tax attacks my taste for full fat coke in a red can, the SNP have gone one better and finally brought in their diabolical minimum price for alcohol.
I don't know the details, because i'm not really interested, but I think its 50p per unit of alcohol.
Reading off some news website, that's 27% increase on the price of a 70cl bottle of spirits, and a 150% increase on the cheap blow-your-head-off cider.
I live only 4 miles from the English border, so we already buy from an English supermarket.

I will now be calling the weekly shop the Booze Cruise.

Would our Glasgow based forum members like to put in an order?

 

[MDJ]

I was waiting for someone to start a thread today on this haha. Basically your all ---- heads so you need to be taxed lol, thinking about it though 50 pence a unit may be cheaper for some continental lagers than now, I bet they don't drop the price.

 

[telectrix]

going by the published guidelines. my real ale is 2.5 units per 500ml bottle and costs £1.25 at aldi/lidl. so using a bit of schoolboy maths, that's 50p/unit, so what's the problem? is it just another ploy by the virgin sturgeon?

 

[derek]

The only people who are going to be affected are the kind of people who drink 'frosty jacks' and other types of gut rot cider and cheap wine. Wouldn't make a difference to any body who likes a good quality drink like ale, decent wine and whiskey.

 

[Adam W]

It's a poorly thought out knee-jerk reaction which I don't believe will have the desired effect.
On the radio earlier they were in a park where half a bottle of Frosty Jack had been left behind - under the new pricing structure whoever had drunk the other half would have felt compelled to finish it off since they'd paid so much for it, so the problem would be exacerbated. It was a similar effect when the do-gooders decided bars and nightclubs shouldn't offer cheap drinks, so the kids started 'pre-loading' behind closed doors and getting smashed before they even got into town.

Who decided that getting trolleyed off Frosty Jack or Special Brew was so much worse for you than getting trolleyed off Pinot Grigio or Peroni? Is Lambrini really so different to Prosecco?

The fact is there are just as many if not more middle class alcoholics as street drinkers, so introducing a minimum price will make no difference at all to some of the people most at risk.

 

[littlespark]

Its targeted at the cheap priced - high alcohol content that gets the neds so p*ssed.
Regular lagers, ales and whatever will be largely unaffected.
My booze cruise statement is a little misleading as i'm not a heavy drinker, and I've not bought a 3l bottle of cider since 1996.

 

[Adam W]

If the neds can't afford to get p*ssed on Frosty Jacks or Bucky they'll just get p*ssed on moonshine instead, which will put far more strain on the NHS.

 

[Octopus]

Reading off some news website, that's 27% increase on the price of a 70cl bottle of spirits, and a 150% increase on the cheap blow-your-head-off cider.

Hum .............. only the cheap carp ............... my favourite Malt Whisky is already over 50p a shot!

 

[Andy78]

I couldn't agree more with this sort of action, but just hope that such extra levys on alcohol go directly to programmes to help those with alcohol dependency issues.

A couple of years ago I became aware of a friend of a friend who had a drink problem. The cheap price of cider made it his nightly tipple, cheap enough to get through 6-9 litres most nights. He was eventually hospitalised due to his condition but is now doing well. 18 months completely dry I believe.

 

[Percyprod]

That's your punishment Murdoch for being nasty to innocents like me.

 

[Midwest]

There was a time when you could only buy the demon drink form pubs and off licences.

Nor ids avaialabible form aniwed, yud gi intu a lucul supermarket and thed lishings od id on th shelds. I conpultedy agree width Sturgeon, it had gut to stop, oderwise I will be dead within 10 yurds. Thinking about it, I'm gonna be dead within 20 years.

So what the hell. Party time

 

[buzzlightyear]

f**K Scotland ,free dentists ,so drink has much of the sugar has you like .until you teeth falls out .

 

[MDJ]

This is serious stuff for the sweaty socks Buzz, they have the alcoholic capital of the EU in thier country so putting the prices up is bad news for them?

 

[buzzlightyear]

free this and free that ,fry pies .what next . no oil soon ..5 million scots out of work.

 

[MDJ]

free this and free that ,fry pies .what next .

whatever it is will cost the English a fortune lol

 

[telectrix]

just a bloody nother stupid nanny state reaction to binge drinkers. remember the grinning idiot blair banning t=bone steaks to stop us all getting mad cow?

 

[MDJ]

just a bloody nother stupid nanny state reaction to binge drinkers. remember the grinning idiot blair banning t=bone steaks to stop us all getting mad cow?

No

 

[MDJ]

I am suprised Jimmy Cranky has done this to her fellow Sweaty Socks to be honest, obviously she doesn't like a tipple?

 

[Andy5678]

Any room for us to come down to England. Cheap drink and it’s 24 hours.
Oh no you have part p tho...

 

[MDJ]

Any room for us to come down to England. Cheap drink and it’s 24 hours.
Oh no you have part p tho...

there are already 6 million of you down here and all of them are slating us constantly, no we do not want another lol