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Originally Posted by Angua
Apparently registered alcoholics on the dole get £200 per week for booze according to Ma in Law. How true this is I have no idea.  |
£150 per week extra on top of their dole or sick money. A drug addict gets the same, it's so they can buy their drugs and beer.
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Originally Posted by Derek S
I'd like to see two different rates of duty for alcohol. One for drinking in the pub and another higher charge for off-sales.
Having that with a far greater emphasis on licensees having responsibility for not letting patrons get totally hammered and a minimum price per unit stopping the 3 litres for a pound type cider would do more to stop binge drinking than headline grabbing but totally unworkable ideas like this.
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Simple solution make it like Norway where it's £5+ a pint. There's no alcohol fuelled violence over there.