Government proposes minimum alcohol price

Zbornak

Zbornak

Zbornak

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40p per unit. BBC News article here.

If my calculations are correct, the cheapest you could buy a 1L bottle of 40% spirit would be £16. That's not a huge price hike, is it?

I'm a bit skeptical on whether this will work or not. I think people with alcohol problems are just going to go to pubs and clubs instead. However, I don't have a problem with alcohol so I don't know.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the big players in the alcohol industry were lobbying for this. It brings cheap alcohol (mostly small companies) up to the price of standard premium (e.g. Smirnoff, Stella, Magners) therefore giving Big Alcohol more customers. In saying that, the alcohol monopolies also own some of cheap brands so they'll just be getting better margins.
 
Nothing new proposed and won't make a difference. I don't think that alcohol prices are the right way to go about tackling alcohol issues.
 
just import or make ur own if it gets to much i rememeber a few years ago working for a diving company in a dry state smuggling **** in , in compressed air bottles and oil drums so we could have a drink point is so what its legal buy it if it cost to much u make it etc etc
 
I don't drink the cheap gutterswill so this wouldn't effect me unless the supermarkets also increased the ale and whisky prices to make it look proportional.
 
The government should make it so you need a lisence to buy alcohol like with guns or driving cars. Alcohol kills far more people than guns ever did but you can still just walk in to a shop and buy it no questions asked??

They could put on your lisence how many units of alcohol you can buy each month, worked out by government doctors from your age/sex/BMI.
 
price will deter the majority of people who are not addicted to it the ones that will buy at anycost need to be sorted tho tbh ..... thats where the problems arise....
 
kwerk said:
The government should make it so you need a lisence to buy alcohol like with guns or driving cars. Alcohol kills far more people than guns ever did but you can still just walk in to a shop and buy it no questions asked??

They could put on your lisence how many units of alcohol you can buy each month, worked out by government doctors from your age/sex/BMI.
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I take it you don't drink.
 
[FnG]magnolia;21534323 said:
In the same way that escalating cigarette prices make no difference to smokers, increasing booze prices won't put off the seasoned alcoholic.
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I know quite a few people who have stopped smoking because of the price increases,a couple of others have halfed what they smoke to compensate.Wont be long till they are a tenner a pack the way things are going. Although people may still be able to afford to smoke it still draws attention to the fact they are spending a lot of money on a unhealthy habit.
 
It wont make a difference tbh

does £7 a pack of cigs stop people? nope.

price wont affect consumption imho, people who cant afford it will just make sacrifices in other areas IE don't buy as much food etc
 
I reckon it's directed at the 2l bottles of White Lightning etc that are sold for a pound or so. Lots of alcohol, dirt cheap.
Personally I'm dead against it as I don't see why I should have to pay more for other peoples problems. Besides the opposition up here were dead against it when the SNP proposed it and now they are talking about introducing it south of the border. It's a bit hypocritical.
 
craarc said:
just import or make ur own if it gets to much i rememeber a few years ago working for a diving company in a dry state smuggling **** in , in compressed air bottles and oil drums so we could have a drink point is so what its legal buy it if it cost to much u make it etc etc
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Here, have a "full stop" - "."

Don't be afraid to use them at the end of sentences.
 
It won't change anything and would only be implemented as an easy way to increase taxes. The problem with Alcohol consumption is entirely a cultural issue in Britain that you don't get in other European countries and changing the culture is the only way to effectively address it.
 
Taxing a product with very inelastic demand can work but the taxes must be heavy. The GES know this and just use the taxes to maximise revenue. If they were serious about decreasing consumprion they would do something like putting another fiver on twenty fags and pricing a unit of alcohol at a couple of quid.
 
Hopefully it'll make cheap beer more expensive in supermarkets. Although I doubt it.

Chea supermarket booze is stopping people going out drinking :(
 
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