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Say it ain't so: more levies on bevvies?
The Government's sinister plan to turn Blighty into an Orwellian Police State (copyright, Henry Porter) continues apace as the details surrounding the latest and most destructive attack on The Liberties We Have Treasured Since The Magna Carta (copyright, as above) have come to light.
Prepare yourselves, and try not to overreact: they're proposing more tax on booze. MORE TAX ON BOOZE, PEOPLE!
According to the Mirror, the Gord is planning a crackdown in advance of Christmas (ruddy killjoy) after a report issued by some meddlesome quacks calling themselves the Health Alcohol Alliance recommended that an increase of 10 percent should be levied on the tasty sort of drinks one can purchase on licensed premises.
The kind of poll ratings that Labour's, uh, enjoying at the moment combined with the start of the festive season (sometime around August this year, by our calculations) means that the Gord would have to be extremely "courageous" to take this decision, as Sir Humphrey might say.
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The Meddlesome Quacks, (c) Sadie Westmonster, after Henry II, have a very funny graph. Showing how some plonk and lager have been getting cheaper and nastier over time and this thing called "cost of alcohol" which is in facts deaths per 100,000. I think they might have been squiffy when they drew it.
As the price of cheap and nasty alcohol has remained the same WHATEVER the tax and duty there doesn't seem to be a case for raising it. that would just put vintners and publicans and supermarkets out of business as they subsidised drinkers by even more to hold their price.