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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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so why dont the police prosecute the bar owners who have obviously served drunk people ?
as to price the proposed system would be unlikely to see any prices reduced just put up
one large flagon of cider was just given on news would go up from £4 odd to nearly £12
and just working out my case of cider which last us a few weeks would go up from £17 to nearly £28 + what ever the store would put on to make a profit
cant see it myself
as i pointed out before
- It is illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is drunk
- It is illegal to allow a customer to become intoxicated on your premises
- It is illegal to serve customers under the legal drinking age of 18.
cant see how it would be hard to get the clubs and off-licences prosecuted if the police and courts got thier act together