Plans for minimum alcohol price

[Osem]

Originally Posted by richard1960

He meant direct taxes ie income tax which has actually seen a reduction on the basic rate,not indirect taxation ie vat and the like.

Oh right - so why didn't he just say that then?...

Why didn't someone as honest and articulate as Bliar simply say they were not going to increase rates of income tax but were going to increase taxes on virtually everything else plus dream up a whole load more things to tax so that the overall tax burden would in fact be higher under New Labour?....

[Derek]

Originally Posted by rogermevans

so why dont the police prosecute the bar owners who have obviously served drunk people ?

They do. Licensees and bar workers get done on a fairly regular basis for licensing offences including serving already drunk people alcohol.

[rogerdraig]

then they should be able to shut the offending places permanently if they are such a big problem in areas with out raising prices to everyone else

as of yet i have not seen many clubs or pubs closed because of this

watched another police program again ( wife likes them lol ) the other night lots of drunk people leaving clubs saw no police rushing in to get the bar staff but lots of moaning about the behaviour and about it being every friday weekend etc

seems to me if the laws were being enforced properly then they wouldnt be coming out of the clubs drunk every friday weekend etc

unless bar staff managers only last a week at thier jobs all the time would have thought if this was the case getting the licensee changed over all the time would be a bit of a headache