Drinking - New Labour & The EU

First off we have New Labours assault on our right to drink booze now that they have decided that they have the smokers under control, so its now time to meddle in the lives of drinkers.

DK covered this brilliantly here and even showed the self serving loop used by the politicos.

From DK: this shows the assorted shyte peddled by this government.

In brief , the merry-go-round can be summarised as such:

1. EU Commission issues a "policy".


2. Lobby "charity" issues a report in response.


3. Media , particularly the BBC, laps it up, not telling you about point 1.


4. Government responds and "does something".


5. Government funds lobby charity.


6. Go back to step 1.

Then we have the fact that the state now feels that it has to watch us whilst out for a beer or four. But of course the pubs are just seen as a huge fucking cash cow for the one eye cunt that is our PM, as this shows.

Mind you never mind that the state is wrong, when it dreamed up fag packet figures for advice levels for alchol

Oh and puritanical wakers don't help, like this arse peter fahy who thinks upping the age we can drink will solve all the ills of the world.

A very good bit on state meddling in our drinking pleasure is at http://johntrenchard.blogspot.com/2007/11/alcohol-binge-hell-scare-stories.html

I quote a chunk of his article below:
What the BBC does NOT mention is that the get-tough-on-alcohol policy originates from the World Health Organisation and the European Comission.
Don't believe me? Have a read of this.
The policy project is called Bridging the Gap - alcohol policy network in the context of a larger Europe
Note how the BBC report focuses on young people drinking, and yet in that EU link we find:"to improve young people’s participation and information as priority themes of the Commission’s 2001 White Paper on youth policy (as suggested by the Commission’s proposed set of objectives to Member States on 14 April 2003)
"This leads on to another EU document entitled Combating alcohol-related harm in Europe - evidence of effective and cost-effective measures.
It has a series of recommendations and I quote verbatim:
The World Health Organisation European Region Framework on Alcohol policyThe WHO framework is to succeed to the WHO regional action plan, with more concrete strategic guidelines for policy options.The framework aims to encourage and facilitate the development and implementation of global, regional, national and local policies to prevent and reduce the harm caused by alcohol.After having reviewed the most recent data about alcohol in European and the existing initiatives - among them, the Bridging the Gap project is listed -, the report identifies 10 areas for action:1. Information and education,2. Public, private and working environments,3. Drink-driving,4. Availability of alcohol products,5. Promotion of alcohol products,6. Treatment,7. Responsibilities of the alcoholic beverage industry and hospitality sector,8. Society’s capacity to respond to alcohol-related harm,9. NGOs,10. Formulation, implementation and monitoring of policy.
According to the framework, a strong case can be made to restrict the availability of alcohol products through an effective taxation policy and limiting the hours of sales.
The frameworks also emphasizes the participation of civil society as essential in prevention, treatment, and reduction of alcohol related problems in society, as well as in advocating to ensure that Member States develop and implement effective alcohol policies.
Non governmental organisations are also recognised as "vital checks and balances by highlighting practices or policies of vested interests.
"It foresees that a progress report on the framework should be produced every third year, together with the organisation of a high-level forum on alcohol to discuss the outcomes and recommendations of the progress report. The progress report shall highlight levels of implementation and emerging challenges and threats to public health.
My emphasis in bold - ah yes. Those NGOs crop up. One of them is "Alcohol Concern". You can download their accounts over here at the Charity Commission. It's supposed to be a "charity", yet it's funding is:
38% Department of Health31% "Project Grants"It had funding of over £1 million in 2006, some of which breaks down, in part, to the following:Department of Health: £440,000
Comic Relief: £50,000
Parenting Fund: £170,736National Treatment Agency: £34,900AERC: £6,050£440,000 of taxpayers money to a lobbying charity is a sizeable wad of cash in comparision to their total of £1 millon. So, you can see what is going on here - it's a merry-go-round designed to fool the electorate into believing that independent lobbying on alcohol policy is going on , when it's actually the government funding the lobbying to lobby themselves.
I've not investigated the "Parenting Fund" charity, but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't also taxpayer funded to a certain or large extent.
In brief , the merry-go-round can be summarised as such:
1. EU Commission issues a "policy"2. Lobby "charity" issues a report in response
3. Media , particularly the BBC, laps it up, not telling you about point 1
4. Government responds and "does something".5. Government funds lobby charity.
6. Go back to step 1.It's a self-serving endless loop in which the ordinary electorate are not involved, are not fully informed, and it also serves to hide EU policy as UK government policy.

**Late update total cock fucking cunt arse, fuckwit, proven liar and libelist/amoral cunting fucking cunt who whored himself and all his so called libertarian "labour" ideals when he knelt down and swallowed some Pasha Blair cum and voted for ID cards - the cunt - still does't get the concept of New Liebour closing in our choices and oppressing the people.

Higher taxes will hit sensible drinkers, you dozy cunt of an MP.

From the cunt Paul "cunt" Flynns webshite - Paul cunting Flynn spews forth PR from New Liebour HQ having whored his morals years before the worthless wig wearing libel case losing cunt of a cunt.

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