Why must we all suffer.....

[R1Geezer]

http://news.sky.com/s...Of_Effect_On_Children
For the feral bratts on street corners?

[ummmm]

Do you drink cheap cider?

[McMouse]

Couldn't find anything about 'feral brats' in your link. It all seemed to be about the low cost of alcohol. What's your point?

[R1Geezer]

No but they'll raise the prices of everthing in the supermarket booze collection.

[ll_billym]

Yes, increase prices so that the yobbos actually have to mug people or go out stealing so they can afford their pop. Or better still why not create a new black market like the one that exists for other drugs.

What a stupid and short sighted 'solution'.

[fredpuli47]

If the existing law was properly enforced youngsters couldn't buy alcohol for themselves . The problem is more than that though. In Britain we have now got a culture of binge drinking and alcohol abuse the effects of which are to be seen both in public and in private. Pricing isn't the answer. Greece, for example, has a very low incidence of alcohol -related illness but the booze there is very cheap.It doesn't have the glorying in getting drunk which is so marked in Britain, either. The same attitude to binge drinking is found in most of Europe, whatever the cost of the drink. Youngsters who grow up surrounded by older people, particularly those a few years older, who have our attitude to drinking will adopt it and treat booze accordingly