Scotland is Trying to Stop People from Drinking so Much (American Reacts)
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It's the politicians that can afford a drink at any price that make these laws. Anyone who really wants a drink will buy it at the cost of other things, food etc.
And they make these rules after drinking in their subsidised bars *in the workplace*.
I think if you pick alcohol over food etc then its not really a issue they helping the hundreds of thousands of pissheads here in the UK.
@@sameebahexactly, and they can get a full English for just over a quid, where as we get charged like nearly a 10a for one 😂
You say anyone, it has apparently reduced the rate of how much is drunk in the country
@@viewer.123 in some cases yes but not all and not enough
I totally agree with you, Joel. Alcoholism is an illness and you don’t cure an illness by hiking up prices. You cure an illness by fixing its cause. We need to target the issues of social care, poverty and unemployment levels. As you say, targeting pricing alone will just least people to find another way to get their alcohol.
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If your an addict you'll find a way of getting a drink . Been there
I agree for people who are addicted to alcohol. Where this might work is for 16 year old kids who would buy cheap ciders and drink to excess. The higher price might put that kind of "purchaser" off, but not people who have an addiction to alcohol. We shall see.......
People tend to think this is intended to be a quick fix. Yes, it may not help people who are already alcoholics, but it makes it more difficult for young people to purchase cheap alcohol and develop a problem. It's a long-term policy.
"Alcohol is not the problem. The problem is the problem and alcohol is just the medication"
I like that one. I used to talk about it in criticism of mental health services. Getting drunk when you've got personal stuff to unravel and identify and deal with is like dressing a festering wound with a magic numbing plaster that hides the gunk - less pain as a result, but the risk is people just see the drunk.
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Agreed
As a Scot and someone who’s had family very badly affected by alcoholism I’m not sure pricing would’ve made a difference when my parents drank excessively every weekend. We would just have had even less than we already did.
University of Glasgow and public health Scotland estimated deaths attributable to alcoholism have been reduced by 13.4 percent equivalent to 156 deaths per year. Hopefully this will be a growing number in following years
The Scottish government provide funds to the University so they are not truly impartial.
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I was staying in a hotel some years ago and got chatting to a couple of Norwegian businessmen in the bar. They told me that their government had made alcohol so expensive that just about everyone had a still at home to make their own. The same thing will happen here if alcohol prices keep going up. Stills are openly on sale in the UK as they are legal to sell, buy or own, you're just not supposed to use them to make alcohol. A similar thing has already happened with tobacco products. The taxes are so high now, most of my friends who smoke buy illegally smuggled tobacco instead, which is freely available. It makles me laugh when the government boasts about how few people smoke now when they can't possibly know how many that is when they have no way of recording consumption.
completely agree with raising the unit price for Booze - but it needs to be combined with education - A million years ago in the UK drink driving was an issue but due to serious action by governments - bigger fines & a campaign of education (partly via TV ads) boozed up behind the wheel is significantly reduced these days & socially unacceptable thing to do - this needs to be repeated re excessive alcohol intake
2:30 You are hitting the nail right on the head. Classic case of symptom 'managment'... Clever, kudo's
It's not about stopping drinking it's about drinking less
If we're talking alcoholism then stopping is the only option. Just not cold turkey, because that can kill people too.
Hi Joel im a recovering alcoholic of 5 yrs now and its most definately an illness not something we choose . It can happen to anyone mine started aged 20 yrs i suffered with severe social anxiety and would drink to cope it then became something i needed everyday , its absolute hell and extremely differcult to come off , its a physical addiction as well as mental . My brain had to rewire essentially . Im now free of addiction and feel great . Why do people always say why are you not drinking ? i think it should be why are you drinking . 😊
I think you should call yourself recovered if you've beaten the addiction :)
A lot of what you say resonates. People don't get the physical aspect. I still have the letter from Nov 2022 confirming on paper what was said by voice, which was basically "if you don't go to hospital today, you will die, and it is important you continue drinking alcohol as normal until you get there, else it is likely you will die".
People who query you in certain situations are, in my perhaps lucky (?) experience, a rarity but they're probably asking themselves questions. Quite possibly asking "why are any of us drinking, really?"
Recovered or recovering people get unwarranted stigma so even if you straight up say "I'm an alcoholic" then that's an immediate shut down I have found 😊
👋 5yrs, be proud of yourself, it can't have been easy for you. 💙
England recently came out on top as having the biggest drink problem in the uk.🤷♂️😁
I think it was my score that boosted it don’t worry
@@cheryltotheg2880 🤣
@@cheryltotheg2880 Snap, always been dedicated to keeping my local open.
🏴 I'm not surprised
And the biggest population by some 10 times
Regarding cheap booze e.g. Frosty Jacks no longer being a viable purchase in Scotland because minimum pricing just stops people buying the nasty stuff (in theory), it just makes it easier to justify going to an actual pub for a pint, and buying wine or decent beer/cider from shops. If not just stealing it of course.
This was 6 years ago......there has been a fall in alcohol related issues. Its not a complete fix the problem but its slowing down the problem....By the way England has taken over Scotland now with alcohol related issues...
Alcohol related mortality is at its highest rate in 15 years and is still climbing every year.
Scotland is still the biggest consumer of cocaine in Europe though and the population is minute compared to other European countries
Measures to address the harm of alcoholism needs a working party composed of alcoholics. If you're not a alcoholic you don't understand. And you don't understand how you don't understand. There are plenty of very smart alcoholics out there - see what they suggest.
MUP "had a positive impact on health outcomes, including addressing alcohol-related health inequalities". Based on comparisons with England, the analysis estimated there were 13.4% fewer deaths related to alcohol in Scotland than would have happened without the policy.
I'm glad the statistics are feeling better.
I agree with everything you said Joel.
It's really funny you go into town in Sweden all the drunks are on roundabouts early in the evening because booze is so expensive they get drunk at home on home made booze .you go into town in Scotland the drunks are on the roundabouts late at night trying to remember where they live 😂
alot of places in Glasgow in particular don't let people in if they are really drunk
I don't live in Scotland but I already make my own wine because it's a lot cheaper to make that, than buying cider (which is the cheapest booze possible in off-licenses).
The wine I make is 15% ABV so it's also twice as strong as these ciders!
I have got it down to about £1 for a 750ml bottle of wine. That's 5 times cheaper than what wine costs to buy. I suggest this is what people in Scotland do, just make it yourself from a 30 bottle kit. I always use the "SG Gold Chardonnay Style" and ferment it in 5L Spring Water bottles. Been doing it for well over a year now and every batch has turned out fine. Ferment for 2 weeks with about 1100g sugar per 5L bottle and in 2 weeks you have wine at 15% ABV. It costs hardly anything, 25L of wine for about £35. In terms of 1 pint of beer at 5%, 200ml of this wine at 15% ABV (which is about the same alcohol as 568ml of beer at 5% ABV) comes out at 30 pence! Not bad when pubs charge over £4 a pint these days! I don't even have to go to the off-license, it's all here at home. If I have 5 little 200ml glasses of this wine I don't need any more than that and it's only cost £1.50.
You can make it from pure orange juice too but it isn't cheaper than the wine kit (it costs about the same) and the wine from orange tastes like garbage compared to these kits. The kit is about £28 delivered and the sugar is about £6.
Hi, retired GP here, with special interest in alcoholism and addictions. Minimum unit price will (as you say) probably not help the already addicted - and may even harm a few, and their families too. *But the greatest amount of alcohol related harm happens not to alcoholics but to people who drink a lot but who aren't addicted*. WHAT??? Because there are many many more of the harmful non addicted drinkers than there are alcoholics. National alcohol and tobacco consumption closely follows taxation levels. with consumption going down with higher taxes and rising with lower ones. And total alcohol and tobacco related harm closely follows consumption. Minimum unit pricing is a whole country policy. Individual heavy drinkers, smokers and drug addicts need a whole load of other more complex and much more personalised approaches.
On the drink, So British. You are officially adopted.
Hello Joel, speaking as one who is both native to Scotland and also residing here, I can certainly confirm that our nation's relationship to alcohol is very deep-seated and cultural and like you, I have very mixed feelings about the benefits of minimum unit pricing... Although there is an emotional part of me that might say that if it suceeds in bringing anyone back from the brink or better still helps prevent them from going in that direction in first place, then by all means bring it on; I feel I have to say, this is hurting far more people than just the ones that it's targetted at and therefore, it can only be a tax...! Because an addict will do pretty much anything they need to, in order to get their fix. They'll not eat because, thanks to the ridiculous benefits system that our government brought into being and still perpetuates, we now have an entire network of food banks that they'll rely upon instead until the day comes when they need to sell it in a pub for a tenner... And then, their families won't eat either. The communities in which they're obliged to live, will be filled with others with the very same problems. Some of them may have other addictions too - gambling, sex, or crime - which results in them spending time in prison - where they can relax with many others like them - free from any of life's pressures or responsibilities - because our extremely overcrowded prison system makes very little attempt to rehabillitate anybody and yet, still offers them free accommodation, food and all the home comforts they desire - as well as their fixes... But wait - there are wealthier families too, whose lives are ruined by the relentless intake of vodka, gin, wine and fancy cocktails. Shots, fortified wines - and what hope is there for the children of these adults who insist they're not alcoholics, yet devour several bottles a week...? You only need to go into any supermarket or convenience store and observe how much shelf space is given over to alcoholic drinks, to see the extent of the problem; or watch the contents of their trollies as they leave the store for their cars: it is absolutely endemic right across every social definition that ever was!! There are however a few families who frown upon such behaviours and only with considerable reluctance, accept an alcoholic drink on formal occasions and almost never, otherwise. Indeed, I am one of those fortunate few, because both of my parents grew up in abject poverty that was considerably worsened by parents who put their social lives before food and clothing, for their children. It was only when they got together that either of them realised how much better life could be - and they vowed there and then to ensure their children never went without. Yet, we do seem to still be in the minority that is less than a fifth of all the other people we know.
Its the same argument with drugs. People do it because their life is shit. Rather than making these things more difficult to get a hold of, try improving their lives. Not being a shit government would be a good start.
i wouldn’t even say that nowadays it’s the alcohol prices that are putting younger people off going out and drinking, it’s the fact that we barely have money for food a week on top of sky high rent, bills, etc, on top of being students therefore even if they wanted the cheapest alcohol they couldn’t afford it, plus a lot of people are sick of clubs and especially for women, the chance of being spiked while out is so high now so most people just don’t bother
As a single measure raising the price of alcohol is not going to work. I think it should be part of the overall strategy. Increase the funding for health related services, services for housing the social supports among others.
I believe I can agree with you, Joel...
I'm not a drinker as such, just a couple of glasses of wine, or one Guinness on my birthday, and / or at Christmas, and / or on New Year's Eve. But not all usually one or the other...and rarely as a regular habit.
I think those who have developed a dependency upon alcohol, they'll be less likely to just stop drinking, as whatever started them drinking heavily in the first place, the stresses caused by poor wages or no wages, poor housing, rising costs of living generally etc. As you suggested, the addicts may move on from alcohol to other substances...and the additional crimes which occur in order to afford the other types of addiction. I really can't speak on behalf of drinkers as I don't imbibe to such a degree that I can understand their woes and worries. I feel for them, and their communities but I think there has to be a better way. Like you, I feel it 'smacks of Prohibition', and that just caused the problem drinking to go underground...to 'Private drinking clubs' and "speak-easy's" which only added to the problem.
Yes, the alcoholics need help, but not being driven into ways and means to procure alcohol and / or additional substances, which builds into an even greater threat to society as a whole, and to the services they're trying to protect, specifically, with these 'Draconian measures' ...in my opinion. 🏴😥
Good Luck Scotland...and Good Luck to those who want to try to help people
...but I think this particular method could significantly backfire - though of course, I hope it won't. 🏴😮🏴🤔🇬🇧❤️🖖
The assumption that all alcoholics are hard up is shocking.
It has been working. Took time to be noticeable, like most things do
The stupid thing is that this applies in Scotland so people will source their drinks from below the border in small or commercial quantities . There is no customs or checkpoints to stop vans or trucks or even private cars from filling up and selling in Scotland. And of course if drugs are cheaper then the result of that is obvious.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER HIT ON THE NHS IM STILL VOTING SNP ON THE 4TH OF JULY
Wales has a minimum pricing law too. It's a nice and convenient way for local politicians to grab money off the poor (it has less effect on high income earners) and spend on their pet diversity programmes. I live in Cardiff and have a free bus pass. I can travel up to Hereford in England once a month, fill a suitcase (with wheels) with booze and cut my monthly spending by 50%.
Yes, there are problems with alcohol, however It is not scotland as a whole. In my area, you rarely see anyone drunk.
I'm pretty sure that if Frosty Jacks cost £12 in Scotland and £3.69p in England then the illegal Cider trade is rife, at least the money is going into the publics hands and not the governments.
Scotland is also holding the first World Pig Flying Contest!! on another note 100K Subs so close well done Joel! oh and have I mentioned Vicious for Patreon? lol
The cost rise will not really make much of a difference .There is a drinking culture in Scotland ,sadly I do not know the answer . I know heavy drinking does no good for anyone .
I hope this new pricing policy will reduce the number of alcohol related traffic accidents I one thing to drink but please your action may result in someone's death. Just be a responsible consumer and that means one drink is too much if you plan to drive. Peace and love to all
If people want to drink then they will irrespective of the price.
I heard they're going to be raising the price of freddo's again as well, what is the world coming too, where will i get my choco-fix now.
I really could go deep with this government I’m sick to death of hearing people killing themselves because of alcoholism. Take off the poor and give to the rich I’m sick of it. The UK is like waiting for paint to dry all the MPs partying when we was all in lockdown we need CHANGE 🇬🇧 or something really bad will happen I’m going to be on the streets if it carries on.
Government has an idea... find/fund any statistics that support their idea... circulates the idea in the media (it'll happen unless there is extreme push back)... idea is implemented.
Current ideas in the works...
*Anyone born after 2009 cannot buy cigarettes
*Assisted dying
*Net zero (push back is occurring)
Another current idea is restrictions on younger drivers.
I live on the English side of the border. The Scots just come here for their alcohol 😂
It didn’t work the first time they tried it Jps and it won’t this time. We like a drink because it’s cold here, also because we have a horrible government who are driving us into the ground.
For anyone addicted and as a smoker and semi heavy drinker I include myself. You just make cut backs elsewhere. Price rises make zero difference. At worse, the poorest frosty jacks consumers with either steal more, or beg more, or commit more crime to fund.
Prohibition and Hiking prices only leads to disaster. Also, hooch exists which causes more health problems which you mention in the video
Why when you came to the UK why did you drink so much because you had the freedom to do so . Where in America you didn't have the freedom . My friend in Glasgow works with alcoholics and he saw this as a positive measure and has been a benefit in alcoholism prevention.
NO IT FUCKING DIDNT
If you live down anywhere near the border you can just nip across and still take advantage of normal pricing and cart it home for friends and family. Elsewhere, you're just poorer and more irritated by the greater expense (thereby having more reason to drink). The cost is likely detering some young people from really getting into it, but for those with ingrained habits its just another burden inflicted by wealthy (and heavily subsidised) politicians in Holyrood at a time when people are at their poorest and unhappiest.
They will start drinking hand desi or anti freezing liquids.
Black market will raise on streets.
Putting prices up is like putting a bandage on a brain tumor. One ought to solve the root issue why the people have a problem with alcohol consumption.
It's a fund raising move by the government. They know the die-hard drinkers won't stop and the youngsters will find it out of their reach financially. I would like to know if crime rates have risen significantly in the areas of domestic burglary and street robbery.
It will surprise me if these price hikes don't lead to litigation by breweries being priced out of business. The government won't mind either way, because they will find something else to tax us on.
It's been in place for six years. The Scottish government doesn't receive money from it. The Supreme Court already decided the Scottish Goverment had the right to do this in 2017. Crime rates in Scotland are at their lowest since 1974 and the Lancet published a report saying deaths wholly attributed to alcohol had fallen 13.4% since the measure was introduced.
The thing with Alcoholism is these minimum prices wont stop alcoholics from getting alcohol, it just means they'll go without necessities in order to favor alcohol or perhaps even steal or pawn to feed their habit. If they're putting this money into alcohol recovery programs then fair play but I just don't see it.
What I think a lot of politicians don't realise is fundamentally addiction is rooted in pain/trauma...Just as tobacco got more expensive, many switched on to vaping. Make alcohol too expensive and people could quite easily switch to man-made dangerous drugs for that "buzz" i.e street valium And as for people saving money, no alcoholic I know SAVES MONEY! Because they spend it all or majority on alcohol. I don't even think this is aimed at alcoholics as Alcoholism is just as much a mental issue as it is a physical issue. It's far more deep rooted than just raising the price of alcohol.
sorry, I meant NOT the whole solution
Putting the price up won't work
Maybe they are out to help pay the health system for the stress imposed by alcohol consumption. I don't drink. I made the decision in my earlt teens that I wouldn't and I never have. They used tax on tobacco to get people to stop smoking. I took it up when I was in rly twenties. I am now in my early seventies and I have given the filthy things up. I hate to think how much money I set fire to over the years. I gave it up because I want to last a fair while yet and smoking was likely to shorten my life.
@@OneTrueScotsman The heaviest I ever got to was 86 kilos. I changed jobs and over 12 years I went down to 76 kilos. I retired in 2017 and I am now 63.8 kilos. One part of my family came from Scotland. My great, great, great grandfather was the licensee of the Forbes Arms Inn in Fettercairn until 1839 when they came to Australia.
There is no quick fix, and you need to take a longer term view just like we did with cigarette smoking…..which has significantly reduced over the decades. 6 years on is still a little early to see a societal change in drinking.
Depends were you are re cigarette smoking. Most have gone down the even more dangerous vaping road.
And due to them wanting to control us, will bring up any excuse to say it's for our best interests: digital ID/Currency; EV's; immigration; speech laws to protect the frail and mentally challenged etc.
If the extra cash goes to the NHS it will help
It doesn't though, it stays with the retailer
This will simply raise crime levels. Alcoholics are addicts and will do whatever it takes to get their drinks. Only someone who doesn't understand that is going to believe that this will work. There are alcoholics in every country where you can purchase alcohol. I suspect there will always be alcoholics. I believe there are people who have a natural tendency towards addiction. Better alcohol than heroin in my opinion.
Here’s something I haven’t seen in your videos that’s a big difference between us is our punishments for crimes- you guys 🇺🇸 have crazy long prison sentences & the death penalty; where as here 🇬🇧 it’s extremely rare to get a life sentence without parole; it’s seen as a breach of your human rights 🤷🏻♀️
Joel they will always find the money to drink and smoke
If this was a six year old video I guess we can say the measures, whatever they were, failed.... 🤣
It's not the function of govt to change people.
People will just drive to England buy in bulk and take it back to Scotland
The sinister reality about this is that it only works if the vast majority of people can’t afford an extra 15 pence a unit. This means that the Scottish government (like most others) are already taxing you to the hilt that a few extra pence a week can’t be afforded.
The system used to be “how much do we need”? “How can we raise it”?
Now it’s, How much can we get from them”? “What can we spend it on”?
The government don't get the extra money though, it goes to the retailers.
It’s not so much where the money goes but the fact that the government controls what and where you spend your money on by deliberately keeping you on the poverty line. If we all had more of OUR OWN money left in our pockets at the end of each month a few pence hear and there wouldn’t effect where we spend it.
I’m saying the governments are trying deliberately to keep us poor to control our behaviour.
Alcohol related deaths are now much higher in Scotland than they were in 2012 so it’s just another method to tax people, cloaked as ‘in the public interest’.
The Lancet published a report saying deaths wholly attributable to alcohol had dropped 13.4% since the measure came in.
@@tommym1966 alcohol related deaths 2012 - 968, 2022 - 1276. I notice that the Lancet report quoted was funded by the Scottish Government, I’m not generally one for conspiracy theories but sometimes the inconvenient evidence cuts through the bullsh*t.
The elephant in the room (what this is really about - which wasn’t mentioned) was that it’s an easy way to raise extra tax to fund Scotland’s failing public services! Deep down they know this will have minimum impact for, if it did work, the Scottish government would be getting less tax rather than more.
None of the money goes to the government. It's the retailers that reap the benefit.
The extra money does not go to the Scottish Government though. It goes to the retailers and producers, I assume to help offset the loss of income by reduced sales.
It doesn't raise any tax.
Presumably there is extra VAT to the govenment?
@@alanmon2690 vat is reserved. Any extra goes to UK
Since the first minimum price kicked in it’s been proven to have saved so many lives and this is a long term solution. Don’t forget it’s not just about stopping alcoholics in a park getting drunk but those people that deny or don’t even know that they have a problem with drinking too much. Parents in their home drinking every night and young kids being brought up thinking this is the norm! It’s all about breaking the cycle.
Sorry but believe me, it just costs alkies Mair pennies.
@@vibrationcommunication9432 ok……so if you were in office you would do nothing! Can I ask? Is your name Boris Johnson or going with your RUclips name vibrationcommunication Liz Truss .
This is what happens with a left wing government.
I believe people with cars are doing booze runs to England and knocking it out on the black market the same as we used to do to France back in the day.
The most irresponsible just stop feeding their kids properly to fund the alcohol. Be careful what you wish for….
A more upto date video would have been better to review, this is at least 6 years old, or at least find a more upto date video to compare fully.
Yes,,, spiking drinks is a dangerous thing,,,,, young girls especially,,,, not good. ,,,,, but this is just being seen to address the problem,,,,,rather than actually addressing it ,,,
Ah alcohol; the English disease. I've never understood why people want to drink or why young people think it's a right of passage. People just come across as idiots.
Hello Joel. Cheers!
Years back people in England just did booze runs to France.
Mind you, Trainspotting was about something else that could replace this addiction, with no tax to the UK government. Was this from the SNP by any chance?
What has trainspotting got to do with this? And what are you talking about no tax to the UK government?....Do you mean Westminster because Scotland is in the UK.....It was the ent Scottish Parliament who introduced this higher prices to slow down alcohol consumption.....
What has trainspotting got to do with this??? Or Tax to the UK government .???....Scotland is in the UK by the way and it was the entire Scottish Parliament not just SNP who voted to increase alcohol prices to reduce consumption and it has had an effect ....less alcohol related incidents.... .
@@holistichealthresources5938I read there were other incidents from a more illicit trade involving my fellow Bradfordians, so I asked the question as there seems to have been little else reported since.
Not making a jot of difference, the poor are just poorer now and drugs have become more affordable than alcohol.
Cider had a lower alcohol tax. Don't forget that Scotland worships and idolises whiskey.
Trying to get a Scot to give up alcohol is like trying to stop a baby suckling mothers milk.
A little realism, Scotland has a broken budget and huge deficit - the SNP did some real damage, so who do you think is going to receive all this additional income? The shopkeepers, the brewery? No government to fill their massive national deficit.
But the government don't get the money, it does go to the retailers and producers. Even if it did the reduced sales would reduce the tax take, then the additional pricing would bring it back to the previous levels, therefore there would be no extra tax. I think that is why the extra money is given tot he retailers/producers, to make up for loss of sales.
@@migsg7238 How is a minimum unit value actually enforced? Do manufacturers just increase prices or is tax increased to increase prices?
If they do increase prices, that creates increased tax revenue since it's percentage based. If it goes up four fold tax income goes up four fold, and I very much doubt sales reduce four fold.
@@daveofyorkshire301 You're just wrong. Shopkeepers get the money. VAT is a reserved matter so any extra tax raised goes to the UK government not the Scottish.
@@tommym1966 try this:
20% of £5 = £1
20% of £20 = £4
Now tell me that the tax man doesn't get more revenue?
How much of a deduction in sales did it create? Certainly not 4x!
The UK didn't apply this ruling YOUR devolved Scottish parliament did, here in England we didn't get this new regulation...
@@daveofyorkshire301 I know this is a difficult concept for you but VAT goes straight to the UK exchequer. Any increase in prices and the additional VAT goes to the Westminster government. The Scottish government doesn't see any extra from it. The Scottish government gets a bock grant based on the Barnett formula and raises some of it's own money through variations in income tax and council tax.
Well it hasn't made any difference at all. Alcohol consumption in Scotland is falling, but has been for more than 20 years. But deaths from alcohol have gone up since the law came in to the highest in 15 years. Also its not true that the poorest people have the worst drinking problems, in fact in Scotland it's the opposite. Dangerous levels of drinking were highest among the wealthiest 20% in a 2022 survey. The most likely to not drink at all were the most deprived 20%. The Scottish Government are just engaging in gestures, not genuine solutions.
According to the Lancet, deaths wholly attributable to alcohol dropped 13.4% in the years since the change came in.
Will I will not be going there, you do not expect to put up with this shit sober, do you?and where can I buy frosty jacks in london anyone?
Where there is a will people will find a way. Scotland is trying to cure a disease without addressing the symptoms of the disease. It would be interesting to know what Scotland did with the funds from the increase. Did they pour the money into alcohol rehab programs? Did they use the funds to address poverty? People need to demand answers from their government.
😂 The Scots do love a drink! Have for a thousand years (maybe more) It's a social matter as well! A long history of tavers and inns, where stories are shared. People live an in house life
What happened to Will!?