@Phoenix32890,
Phoenix32890 wrote:
Oh, the shame of it all. Imagine an England where you can't get your fill of booze at a discount price. I never thought of Great Britain as a "nanny state".
Well, how do you call a state where you must be 21 until you are allowed to drink and get jailed when you do it before?
From the
Telegraph:
Quote:Ministers also want to force drinks companies to carry health warnings on television adverts for beer, wine and spirits.
And cans and bottles of alcoholic drinks may have to bear cigarette-style medical advice about the dangers of drinking.
The announcement of the plans in 10 days' time will coincide with the start of the Christmas party season when police forces and hospitals see a major rise in alcohol-related offences and admissions to accident and emergency departments.
Ministers have drawn up a new draft code of conduct for the drinks industry amid growing concern about excessive drinking.
Alcohol misuse is said to cost society up to £25billion annually, with the cost to the NHS running at £2.7billion a year.
I'm not sure if this will help to get the British drinking problem solved (the police, health organisations, local governments,parliament, tourist boards ...do so).
But since other ideas failed ...
Last week, in Wales, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, and Barbara Wilding, chair of the Wales Association of Chief Police Officers, caledl upon drinkers to sign up to an online pledge vowing to cut back.
In an open letter to Welsh media they warned people in Wales to choose their friends and family carefully because the country was "a very violent place" with a binge drinking "culture".
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