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Originally Posted by richard1960
clearly they had bought the booze not in supermarkets they also use the local pubs to get tanked up in before the nightclubs open,
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The majority of young people get tanked up before they go into pubs/clubs in my experience, making off-licence booze more expensive would get them into pubs sooner rather than trying to cram all their drinking into a short space of time. Coupled with more effective enforcement of licensing laws (It's an offence to serve alcohol to drunk people in Scotland, I'd imagine England/Wales has a similar law) I think its the most effective way of dealing with the problem.
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Originally Posted by richard1960
why is it fair that me an adult of nearly 50 should be penalised for buying a few cans in a supermarket and anybody drinking in pubs clubs does not have to pay it highly unfair.
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Its not overly penalising the person who wants to have a few quiet drinks in the house (at least the Scottish plans aren't, I haven't read the full proposals for England yet).
Its targetting the people who go out and get the cheapest drink possible, get off their faces on it and repeat that cycle day-in, day-out.
Under the proposals the minimum price for some drinks would be less than they are sold for already.