Why Is This So Difficult?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26048425
don;t pi55 about with a shilling a bag make it a pound across the board. I don't get it, ake aways can use paper like they do now, simples!

[mikey4444]

Emmie...I heard Coren say it on the News Quiz...Fry probably pinched it !

[Gromit]

I totally agree Tora.

5p isn't going to change anyones behaviour. Make it a proper tax where every bag costs £1 and the supermarket has to give it directly to the chancellor, no profiteering. If people knew they were paying into the government's coffers, that would encorage 'em to bring a bag with them.

[trt]

## I could always ask the staff to help me carry all the individual items to my car, i suppose... ##

And while they are doing that, the shop will get robbed!!!!

[mikey4444]

But Gromit...it works here in Wales...why can't it work in England as well ?

[pixie373]

Well exactly, trt!

[emmie]

mikey, could be, i remember him saying this a few months back, perhaps he was quoting coren

[emmie]

don't produce the bags, the people will soon get the message.

[emmie]

there are a number of pages, but some of the comments are quite funny
and he did say it, whether it was a take from Alan Coren,


http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=26539&postdays=0&;postorder=asc&start=0&sid=955fcd4eb51009de8e5f76313e19dd2d

[mikey4444]

Eh....? Thanks emmie.

[DrFilth]

went in lidl today and you have to buy your bag and pick them up before you get to the till

so i ended up buying a extra bag


i will never sleep tonight after spending an extra 3p

[Sparkles62]

As Mikey says, it works here in Wales, we are just used to it now, everyone tends to carry bags with them or have them in the car ready for the shopping, as for not having the carrier bags to use as rubbish bags, I use the endless amount of charity bags in my swing bin, we get two to three put through our door every week, and every week I leave the unused ones out to be collected to be re-used, they never get collected, and end up as bin bags. re-cycling of a sort I suppose.