Bars could be banned from offering free alcohol to women and restaurants may be obliged to serve wine in glasses with marked measures under new proposals being considered by the government, it emerged yesterday.
WTF? We have a tax escalator on booze as laid out in the last budget, some 5 pubs a day are shutting their doors for good and they plan to make them use labeled glasses? Jesus wept.
The moves are intended to cut public drunkenness - and its attendant health and social problems - by encouraging people to drink sensibly.
Other initiatives under consideration include the compulsory display of health warnings wherever alcohol is sold, curbs on free wine, whisky and beer tastings and a ban on drinking games.
No lets clarify this, they are not "encouraging people to drink safely", they are planning compulary measures. As for the curbs on tastings I am sure that that will go down oh so well with all the fine folk who go to beer festivals. If they are unable to taste a new beer quite how will people develop a taste for beer? If they have to pay they will stick with what they know.
The Home Office and the Department of Health said that draft proposals had been issued as part of a consultation on the government's alcohol strategy - Safe, Sensible, Social - which is due to end on Tuesday. The proposals were disclosed in the Sunday Times, which saw a copy of the code for the drinks industry.
The document notes that the introduction of 24-hour drinking has failed to bring about the shift in behaviour that some had hoped for and that a more continental "cafe culture" has not been widely adopted. It criticises many prevalent attitudes to alcohol and warns that drinks should not be promoted as a way of enhancing an individual's "social, sexual, physical, mental and financial or sporting performance".
Look the continental cafe culture is a fucking myth. Seriously has not one of these folk ever seen a pub in German full of large men quaffing strong ales by the gallon? Having been in quite a few Italian pubs I can vouch that Mr Italian can pack back the ale in huge amounts. Even the Euro surrender monkeys the French have a pub scene and drunks..
The health warnings would include a graphic telling the drinker how many units their glass or bottle contains, a statement from the chief medical officer on safe drinking and the address of a website offering information on moderate alcohol consumption.
Units? Do what? Look the unit system is horse cock. Total fucking horse cock. By units I assume that they mean these units? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article2697975.ece
Guidelines on safe alcohol consumption limits that have shaped health policy in Britain for 20 years were “plucked out of the air” as an “intelligent guess”.
The Times reveals today that the recommended weekly drinking limits of 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 for women, first introduced in 1987 and still in use today, had no firm scientific basis whatsoever.
Wankers.
Licensees reacted angrily to the prospect of further regulation, saying that, given the current economic situation, they needed a more restrictive code like a "hole in the head".
Since when has Labour ever cared about pubs, other than as tax raising places that is?
Mark Hastings, of the British Beer & Pub Association, said: "At a time when the economy and business is under severe pressure it's government's role to support business, not send in a wrecking crew with the ball and chain of further regulation. Government needs to wake up to the fact that five pubs a day are closing."
Hastings added that the Licensing Act already gave powers to take steps against any of the UK's 186,000 venues that were causing problems.
A Home Office spokesman confirmed that a draft of "a possible code" had been sent to bar and restaurant owners. "It's not a statement of government policy," he said. "It was to give government stakeholders an idea of what the code is going to say. You might assume that the thrust will be the same if the details change."
The Home Office is bunch of data losing cunts. It is government policy or soon fucking will be and you can bet that a bunch of authoritarian cunts(Labour MP's) now upset by losing the chance to bang up dusky Arab folk for 42 days to get a hard on at passing rules and regulations to boss the rest of us about. All for our own good you understand.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Although no final decision has been made, the government's initial belief is that the code should be revised with a view to making it mandatory in retail premises that sell alcohol."
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