The Government released a report this week that stated
“Teenagers are drinking 44 bottles of wine or 177 pints of beer a year each, a new study into under-age alcohol intake and violence shows.
The figures relate to 15- to 16-year-olds in the North West of England and stem from a study of 9,833 such youngsters.”
It’s nice to know that the government was shocked by the results, even nicer to know is that the idiots who have been looking into this failed to realise that your average 15 to 16 year old is going to massively overstate his achievements.
However binge drinking in the UK is apparent in many situations, whether it is actually a problem is debatable. The level of drinking in the UK has remained steady for a hell of a long time. We drink pints, we drink tehm fast and we have a great time. And yet according the our newspapers it causes violence and antisocial behavior.
While I would agree that people lose their inhabitions after several pints I dont think taxing alcohol is going to reduce the problem, since lets face it, most of the nob ends who start fights in town tend to have something wrong in the head, they don’t need alcohol to start trouble.
The government has responded to this threat by raising the tax on beer by 4p, and it is going to reduce this duty by 6% above the rate of inflation every year for 4 years.
Jesus christ I hate our government. Not only are they heavily taxing one of the few luxuries we enjoy in our repressed and recessive nanny state, they fail to realise that the trouble is more likely to come from the cider drinkers, especially with the young binge drinkers.
Beer - £2 - £2.50 a pint ($4-$5 )
Cider - £1 ($2) for two litres (Around three to four pints)
The ones who tend to cause trouble on a night are from low income families, they drink the cheaper drinks. the governments new tax on beer willbring in over half a billion pounds ($1,000,000,000) per year from this yeas tax increase alone.
Go figure why the government decided to tax beer drinkers over the cider drinkers.
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