The BBC reports on the sessions of the Scottish Parliament health committee today which is taking evidence on minimum pricing of alcohol. There, we have chief harridan Nicola Sturgeon trying to compete with Don Shenker for title of most annoying nanny state crony :
Ms Sturgeon said: “I think Whyte & Mackay have been rather disingenuous with this evidence – it’s based on a 50 pence per unit minimum price across the whole of the UK and clearly our proposals apply only to Scotland.
Clearly for now you raddled bitch (note the Ms too – probably too horrific without her clothes to keep a man in her bed for more then two minutes without the aid of 3 gallons of whisky).
More interesting to me was the next bit :
Meanwhile, several major supermarket chains also expressed concern about minimum pricing to Holyrood’s health committee.
The UK’s second largest supermarket, Asda, said a survey of 10,109 Asda shoppers in 30 Scottish stores indicated 61% of respondents disagreed with minimum pricing.
Morrisons corporate affairs director Richard Taylor said minimum pricing may have little or no effect, adding: “The only certainty that minimum pricing would bring is imposed higher costs to customers. This is neither proportionate nor fair.”
And Sainsbury’s said higher alcohol pricing would simply hit people on fixed incomes, adding: “A whole population approach is unfair. It will not discourage problem drinkers but punish the responsible majority.”
The results of ASDAs survey seem to point to why Labour has a consistent vote in the polls – if 39% of people are in favour of minimum alcohol pricing then they must surely believe in the whole socialist utopia being forced upon them as well.
No wonder this country is truly fucked.
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And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! 🙂