Revert to the way the law was many years ago and stop the sale of alcohol in supermarkets.

Why the contribution is important

This will focus the trade in alcohol back onto the pubs, which are suffering so badly in this recession and will better enable this valuable aspect of British life to survive.

This will also achieve the objectives of:

- effectively reducing access to alcohol

- and effectively raising the average price of alcohol (as pubs are most unlikely to follow the supermarket practice of selling below market cost, especially with such significant competition removed).

- resulting in less alcohol fuelled trouble

- and reduced NHS costs incurred in treating the results of much alcohol abuse

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euneun
Posted by euneun July 13, 2010 at 20:40
Excellent idea

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monterey
Posted by monterey July 14, 2010 at 01:43
agreed, the way things are going, it has got to happen sooner or later, We dont need to buy our alcoholic drinks from supermarkets, much better to have 'off licenses' with greater controls, everybody used to manage like that and there was no way such a drinking problem with the young, such as we have now

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Fifi
Posted by Fifi July 14, 2010 at 10:40
Excellent idea..

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freespeechoneeach
Posted by freespeechoneeach July 15, 2010 at 10:50
 The basic problem is the toxicity of the drug alcohol itself. The next most serious problem is the privilege which successive Governments have awarded alcohol; unlawfully exempting it from classification, and conducting a war against all the safer alternatives.
The problem of alcohol's exploitation as a loss- leader by unscrupulous retailers (including corner shops, BTW,) is only the third most serious factor.
 Restrictions on free trade are what got us into this mess- £55 bn a year cost to the UK economy, 1/13 adults dependent, 20,000 children in rehab, etc. etc. etc. I don't think even more restrictions and regulations are the way forward.

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HaroldGough
Posted by HaroldGough July 15, 2010 at 13:15
I have been thinking this for some time.

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