tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post1719942170934242750..comments2023-09-28T13:28:52.243+01:00Comments on Raedwald: The love of alcoholRaedwaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-52754287972576632642017-11-23T05:04:39.020+00:002017-11-23T05:04:39.020+00:00Anonymous Anonymous said...
Glasgow isn't far ...Anonymous Anonymous said...<br />Glasgow isn't far from Carlisle, Edinburgh isn't far from Berwick, without one of those EU 'hard borders' it looks like a good opening for white van man/woman/transperson<br /><br />Would that include a tranny in a Tranny? john savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08874092149970007622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-43897392410316369182017-11-20T15:35:23.434+00:002017-11-20T15:35:23.434+00:00It reminds me of another government crusade - the ...It reminds me of another government crusade - the one against animal fats. And before any militant Veggie froths, of course you can eat sensibly without animal fat.<br /><br />But very many low income people without a proper education in nutrition (also with feminists pushing young women away from domestic duties), subsist on a diet high in refined white wheat flour, refined white sugar, and salt, with a leavening of vegetable fat and chemical flavourings.<br /><br />Their bodies crave the nutrition easily available in animal fats but they can't get it on their diet, so they over-eat, becoming fat, and more unhealthy. This odious government policy based on a false interpretation of a 50 year old study, produces what it purports to avoid.Budgienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-5241650212501314512017-11-20T15:30:37.730+00:002017-11-20T15:30:37.730+00:00Scruton's good on booze. (Good on everything, ...Scruton's good on booze. (Good on everything, truth be known!). Very good on how it oils the wheels of social gatherings. Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-30903806603499579182017-11-20T13:49:02.386+00:002017-11-20T13:49:02.386+00:00And after booze, what next?
Do you think the do-g...And after booze, what next?<br /><br />Do you think the do-gooders and virtue-signallers will sit back and say "job done"? No, nor me neither.<br /><br />Very soon some fake charity will be agitating for a minimum price on mars bars, or burgers, or cheese, or butter, or whatever is the boo-food of the moment.<br /><br />And before long we'll have the State (ie the SNP) deciding the price of everything in your supermarket trolley.<br /><br />Peter MacFarlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554166005487231094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-65788348935344061532017-11-20T11:57:13.579+00:002017-11-20T11:57:13.579+00:00On the other hand, minimum pricing was basically w...On the other hand, minimum pricing was basically what we had when booze could only be had in a pub or off licence, and it is the supermarkets that undercut that price, so it is just a reversion to past pricing, in a way.<br /><br />Would I drink less if the price went up? Eventually, I suppose. But would I drink more if it was cheaper? No. I drink the amount I'm comfortable with when I want to. It's like the price of car fuel. I wouldn't drive an extra mile, if it were a tenth of the price, and it would have to be very much more expensive to stop me driving my essential mileage, although there is a point where I'd just stay at home.<br /><br />I suppose that I'm insensitive to tax-driven price on these commodities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-78302252982639215732017-11-19T19:51:23.104+00:002017-11-19T19:51:23.104+00:00It's political virtue signalling and cant.
Th...It's political virtue signalling and cant.<br /><br />The British political claque. You know it is funny that, how they claim that their hands are tied - 'concering the green menace' emissions laws, Islamification and at other times - they can do as the bloody well please with or without the people's assent.<br /><br /><br />Addicts will get their fix, most politicians should understand addiction and craziness, megalomania and ability to 'fixate and 'fix' those things which need leaving well alone. All the while politicians are given to ignoring - crapistan grooming gangs and the insidious creep of sharia slowly smothering Britain though political facilitation, the yuman rites laws, along with, a purblind police some would call 'em complicit 'police service'..............<br /><br />nope just demonize, then stick some pennies on bottles of booze which in case you haven't noticed, like tobacco is still a legally purveyed substance. <br /><br />The fuckwittery of it all astounds, boggles and appals in equal extent and yet the sheeple continue to vote for ritual slaughter, why?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-68926348602902415012017-11-19T17:12:55.448+00:002017-11-19T17:12:55.448+00:00Of course it's not going to make any differenc...Of course it's not going to make any difference to alcohol use, but grandstanding politicians will be able to smugly pat themselves on the back because "something had to be done" and the current generation of alcohol prohibitionists can now rest secure in the knowledge that thier Government funding is secure for years to come. <br /><br />I guarantee it won't be long before they start campaigning for the price floor to be lifted - it gives them something to do. Also attention will turn to moaning through the press at the British Government, who will be accused of ignoring the shining example in Scotland and be accused of "failing to do something". Not that taking wee Jimmy Krankie's policies as precedent is ever a way to conduct Government.<br /><br />And in the meantime, the M74 is just going to turn into a new silk road for cheap booze up into Scotland, and the spirits isle at Tesco in Berwick is destined to become the biggest in the UK.John Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07437765041360086205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-54267614019616291472017-11-19T16:56:17.812+00:002017-11-19T16:56:17.812+00:00Glasgow isn't far from Carlisle, Edinburgh isn...Glasgow isn't far from Carlisle, Edinburgh isn't far from Berwick, without one of those EU 'hard borders' it looks like a good opening for white van man/woman/transperson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-19218247404505976572017-11-19T14:49:12.046+00:002017-11-19T14:49:12.046+00:00Rod Liddle on QT this week pointed out that minimu...Rod Liddle on QT this week pointed out that minimum-price on alcohol and various restrictions on smokers hit the poor disproportionately. I think it's just tax-gathering disguised as caring - imagine if it really worked and all the class C2/Ds stopped booze and fags in one go! I suppose the taxes would be reversed PDQ.<br /><br />But I do accept - as some of our blogfellows do not - that these vices kill in large numbers, though of course some are more susceptible than others. The Big Dopers used tobacco and alcohol as exemplars to justify legalisation of other drugs; I'm not sure they'd be happy if the government said we agree, and clamped down on drinking the way it has on smoking, and really went for pushers and users in the illicit drug market.<br /><br />They won't, of course. There's too much money to be made - by the government and the entrepreneurs who sponsor them - from quietly encouraging people's weaknesses. Look at gambling and money-lending, too. They'll wave the flag of Liberty as they help people shackle themselves with addiction and debt. Shouldn't the libertarians who resent being "nudged" by the faux-Nanny State also oppose the huge commercial encouragement in the other direction?<br /><br />Who is truly the poor man's friend?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-1299207290362970932017-11-19T14:23:50.163+00:002017-11-19T14:23:50.163+00:00As with all these people the minimum price is the ...As with all these people the minimum price is the start not the end. Tame statisticians will prove the minor success, then it will be calls for price increases, more tax, greater duty, funds for the nhs, plain lableing, warning labels, photos of diseased lovers, smashed cars, broken marriages, ban on advertising, finally full “de-normalisation” attacks. All accompanied with dodgy studies and call for greater funding. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-43078921180191339902017-11-19T12:58:40.415+00:002017-11-19T12:58:40.415+00:00We have a multitude of existing laws and legislati...<br />We have a multitude of existing laws and legislation that could curtail excessive consumption (and the attendant disruptive behaviour) that .gov seems only too willing to address but fail miserably in applying.<br /><br />Whenever there is an opportunity for revenue there will be a new 'reason' to legislate for it - regardless of sense or sensibility.<br /><br />Dave_Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-72475271562258380952017-11-19T12:45:34.192+00:002017-11-19T12:45:34.192+00:00I doubt it will work but only time will tell. The ...I doubt it will work but only time will tell. The trouble with politicians though, is that when new measures are deemed to have failed given time, it's the devils own job to get them repealed. Repealing such a law, would be an admission of failure and no politicians are humble enough to admit failure.Poisonedchalicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877122279794559618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-41463735727223108682017-11-19T12:45:27.945+00:002017-11-19T12:45:27.945+00:00The USSR had a problem with Vodka drinkers, they m...The USSR had a problem with Vodka drinkers, they made it more expensive and harder to obtain but the number of drunks down and out in the streets steadfastly failed to change. Extra taxes won't make any difference to someone determined to drink; they go without food, new clothes and anything else as long as they get their drink.English Pensionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15271488641341955140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-37484325860471302232017-11-19T09:55:08.816+00:002017-11-19T09:55:08.816+00:00Wonderful piece beautifully written, Raedwald It ...Wonderful piece beautifully written, Raedwald It resonates completely. leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09306152717670389251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-63155282380739514752017-11-19T09:23:39.497+00:002017-11-19T09:23:39.497+00:00Wise words, even poetic, Radders. Wise words, even poetic, Radders. miker22https://www.blogger.com/profile/10938730639767634584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-16326214478330218432017-11-19T09:08:13.036+00:002017-11-19T09:08:13.036+00:00I watched a friend descend into alcoholism. Her m...I watched a friend descend into alcoholism. Her marriage failed; every subsequent relationship; her son cut her off completely when he was 19; friends were alienated, one by one....... including me, eventually.<br /><br />She became reclusive; groceries, including the booze, were delivered. I have no idea if she's still alive - with the combination of alcohol and heavy smoking I doubt it.<br /><br />Raising the price of her booze wouldn't stop her: I doubt if anything would. Her mother was also alcoholic: it's in her genes.<br /><br />As a Brit with Scottish and Irish ancestry (they call it the Irish disease and it isn't just cultural), I guess I'm fairly lucky that I'm a social drinker, who very occasionally has a bit too much, but can go all week without a drink without caring and finds Dry January no problem whatsoever.<br /><br />We have a very stressed and in places, miserable, despairing society. The puritans who want to increase the price of alcohol aren't doing anything to change that.DeeDee99https://www.blogger.com/profile/06753473473887381622noreply@blogger.com