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Originally Posted by Derek S
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.
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.
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How is it not if alcohol were sold in english supermarkets as per the proposals,a bottle of bacardi would go up from around £11 to £19 roughly how is that not penalisng the responsible drinker, also the stronger lagers are say £4 at present in supermarkets they would also go up under the 50 per unit proposals (ie 4 cans 2.5 units each ten units £5) ,all of which would have the effect of responsible drinkers paying more something which imo,is very unfair.
Which drinks would be cheaper then they are now then alcohol free lager!
Also young people do fill our pubs at the weeknd here in essex the town centre pubs have bouncers on the doors to stop trouble and sell cheap booze to get people in ,under the present proposals this would still continue,no doubt people do drink as welll before coming out however it is wrong to demonise supermarkets for this or off licences for that matter. Any increase in supermarkets may well have the effect of putting responsible drinkers off though,thereby putting jobs in the brewing industry at risk hopefully they and the supermarkets can see this excercise in nannying off.