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AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

The SNP want to introduce new laws to stop under 21's buying alchohol in supermarkets to try and stop the yob culture binge drinking. They also want to tax alchohol by the amount of %volume of alchohol content.
So much for the moderate folk who like a quiet drink or two or three.

Perhaps they would also like to stop under 21's voting, driving, getting married, or joining the forces etc.

Salmond and Alexander sounds like a comedy duo, or rather Big brother's, brother and sister.

Someone said that you cannot have too many rules, I say yes! you can.
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BoB · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject:

I don't think it will make a blind bit of difference as I have seen 8 - 10 year olds drinking in the street!

The law is OK as it is, it just needs to be enforced.

As for the drink culture we appear to have, the French are held up as an example, but I watch a program that had a leading doctor on it and he said the French livers were worse than ours.

If kids are getting access to drink at 8 - 10 years old, where are they getting it from?

All they have to do is police the laws that are there now.

Raising duty on drink is nothing short of an extra tax to the rest of us.

I think Home Brew may have a revival again

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Merak · Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 154

Can't really see it making any difference either. Something else they've suggested, and this is aimed at 21+, is having a booze only till, and their thinking behind it is that it'll stop people buying a lot of booze cause their fellow shoppers will see them at the booze only till, and it'll also encourage people to make a conscious decision about whether or not to buy booze (as if anybody accidentally buys booze.

) Ye couldn't make it up.

I knew something like this would happen as soon as they ran amok with smoking bans. And, as with raising the age of fags to 18, if they get away with this without a fuss over raising buying booze in shops to 21, I'll bet it's not too long before they want to raise the age for drinking in pubs to 21 as well.

BoB · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

Merak · Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 154

They mean 21 years old - not 1921 year of birth.

Merlyn · Joined: 08 Feb 2009 Posts: 5 Location: Misteria Lane

I thought this was about the reality show,I'll just slip away quietly.

Lord Blackadder · Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 2953

McAskill is a McIdiot!!!

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Sidsnotwasere · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 705

...and i agree wholeheartedly with him.

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