This is good. It sends the right message.
There will be a minimum price per unit of alcohol.
I wonder how the alcohol industry will respond to this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9707915/Supermarkets-banned-from-irresponsible-alcohol-offers-under-new-plans.html
Read how a spokesperson for the industry responded. Sounds precisely like a politician opposing the elected government :
"Miles Beale, the chief executive of the Wines and Spirits Trade Association said: “Minimum unit pricing will punish responsible consumers with higher prices and it will do nothing to address the causes of alcohol misuse.
“It will push up prices for millions of hard-working families who are already feeling the pinch – the busy parent who buys a bottle of wine to relax after a hard week or pensioners enjoying the odd tipple in the evening.” "
Let's hope the busy parent or the pensioner is also thinking to themselves : at least my streets may be safer as a result of this.
The more we live in a society which doesn't see itself as a society, the more this sort of talk will come out.
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