50p a unit minimum price for booze
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Fittster said:
We shouldn't have our lives ruled by the needs to the NHS. Time to think again if its really the best model to deliever health care.
Without more taxpayers or a disease that kills people about to retire we won't be able to meet our future obligations without some reform. Our population structure will simply not be sufficient.Right-on do-gooders have been banging on about the lower classes drinking too much for centuries.
Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. On the simplest level, Hogarth portrays the inhabitants of Beer Street as happy and healthy, nourished by the native English ale, and those who live in Gin Lane as destroyed by their addiction to the foreign spirit of gin; but, as with so many of Hogarth's works, closer inspection uncovers other targets of his satire, and reveals that the poverty of Gin Lane and the prosperity of Beer Street are more intimately connected than they at first appear. Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide, while Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce, but there are contrasts and subtle details that allude to the prosperity of Beer Street as the cause of the misery found in Gin Lane.
Hmmm, I suppose Surliam is a trendy wine drinker
Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. On the simplest level, Hogarth portrays the inhabitants of Beer Street as happy and healthy, nourished by the native English ale, and those who live in Gin Lane as destroyed by their addiction to the foreign spirit of gin; but, as with so many of Hogarth's works, closer inspection uncovers other targets of his satire, and reveals that the poverty of Gin Lane and the prosperity of Beer Street are more intimately connected than they at first appear. Gin Lane shows shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide, while Beer Street depicts industry, health, bonhomie and thriving commerce, but there are contrasts and subtle details that allude to the prosperity of Beer Street as the cause of the misery found in Gin Lane.
Hmmm, I suppose Surliam is a trendy wine drinker
10 Pence Short said:
I actually think a minimum price would be a good thing. Not for the supposed health benefits, but to provide a more level playing field between corporate public houses and their competitors.
I agree with this as well, the stuff sold at the supermarket is way too cheap. Rather see pubs survive and get the money than Tescos etc10 Pence Short said:
rhinochopig said:
The whole thing is utter tosh - as someone quite rightly said this week, if the cheap price was such a draw we'd all have two or three DFS sofas sat in our front room.
It's not a very good analogy, is it?A sofa isn't strictly speaking a consumable.
rhinochopig said:
10 Pence Short said:
rhinochopig said:
The whole thing is utter tosh - as someone quite rightly said this week, if the cheap price was such a draw we'd all have two or three DFS sofas sat in our front room.
It's not a very good analogy, is it?A sofa isn't strictly speaking a consumable.
The point being that even if sofas were 5p, people couldn't and wouldn't buy lots more because they don't have room or need for them.
With drink you can keep drinking until your money or ability to stay conscious runs out. If you make the first one happen more quickly, it makes it more difficult to achieve the second.
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