Booze Part 2: Dr Nanny strikes again
A total ban on alcohol advertising must be introduced by the Government to halt an epidemic of problem drinking, doctors’ leaders said today. A report from the British Medical Association has called for a sea change in the approach to alcohol regulation to halt promotions including happy hours and sponsorship of music and sports events. The move is necessary to stem the invidious ways it is promoted, particularly to young people, it said.
At just this moment, I am minded to recall one of Sir Henry Rawlinson’s comments on his alcohol consumption
If I had all the money I had spent on booze ... I’d spend it on booze
& whilst I have devoted quite a few years of my life to the pursuit of booze in its many varied & wonderful forms, I very much doubt that the decision to consume a single unit of alcohol has ever been influenced by an advertisement.
Despite the vast sums that we drinkers contribute to the Exchequer on a daily basis our Government takes every opportunity to persecute & discriminate against us. If the truth be known, there are think tanks & pressure groups in the Westminster Village campaigning for alcohol to be banned in pubs.
If this blatant victimisation isn't enough, Health Secretary Toerag would like to turn the entire nation into police informants by sticking notices everywhere warning that having just a swift half is socially irresponsible, completely verboten & urging people to ring a hotline number if someone is seen enjoying the contents of his or her hip flask at the local point-to-point. Crack teams of Einsatzgruppen from Ministry of Temperance will then descend upon the hapless drinker, seize their children & condemn said drinker to a length period of penal servitude in some dry gulag.
What next? Grassing up the diner on the next table for failing to eat his greens? Calling a Nicotine Unit Enforcement Officer when someone sparks up a smoko as they walk to the bus stop in the morning? Compulsory monthly weigh-ins in market squares where the general populace can gather to ridicule any lard-arses who haven't lost the government-approved amount of weight?
However if the intention is try & curtail the supply, to the hoi polloi, of vast quantities of alcohol, thus endangering their health & leading to outbreaks of rowdiness & violence, why not try this. The next time chavvie yoofs go rampaging through the streets after overdoing it on the Monster Get Pissed Fast Donner und Blitzen lager, just lock them up. For a long time.
When Chantelle Storm collapses in the street outside the nightclub in a sea of manmade fibres, vomit & cellulite after a night of binge drinking – simply leave her there. Let her take responsibility for her own actions. In the winter months there is even a fair chance that she might die of exposure while unconscious – a sure fire way to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate. See, once again this site brings the long suffering taxpayer simple cost effective solutions & at no charge I will add
Comments
We tried that. It didn't work out too well.
Posted by: POWinCA | September 9, 2009 7:47 AM
"It didn't work out too well."
It sure damn well did.
Posted by: Fred Z | September 9, 2009 8:18 AM
I believe the tax raised from Tobacco and Alcohol once paid for the National Health Service? So, once it is all banned, who will fund the treatment of the BMA's shot foot?
That's a retorical question by the way, not a suggestion for a tax on Breathing.
Posted by: bambi-ski | September 9, 2009 8:34 AM
I might (and I stress might)be more inclined to listen to these buggers but for two facts:
One: Every medic I've ever met is an even bigger p1$$ cat than I am.
Two: The b'stards who would enact the required legislation spend their days in a workplace equipped with God alone knows how many bars. Bars, that charge prices considerably lower than those inflicted upon the general public, I might add.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | September 9, 2009 10:13 AM
As usual some moron in westminster hasn't learned the lessons from the Americans Prohibition era.Lets make the criminals richer by giveing them another prohibited substance to pedal and at the same time give the poor over streched police force another thing to worry about.Ye gods ,when are these idiots going to wake up a smell the coffe? I totally agree with Mr Fm's suggestions,"you make you bed and you lie in it "or should it be "you make your pool of puke,now drown in it!"
Posted by: justin | September 9, 2009 7:47 PM