Ah yes higher costs of goods, exactly what we need during a cost of living crisis.
I got a litre of Smirnoff the other day for £19, I think the new minimum price will be ~~£26~~ £24.38 which is quite a rise.
Not sure why it didn’t just rise with inflation to begin with.
I’d understand this more if the money went into health care options for addiction services. But it’s just more money for the retailers.
Cue the usual suspects lecturing us on why this is completely fine and justifiable.
And how nobody would ever think of buying drink online or border-hopping to avoid this.
Carlisle is struggling as it is with all the extra traffic from Scotland from people on booze cruises
I don’t see how it can cope with this
/s
As a non drinker, I welcome this increase.
If they ever bring in a bombay mix MUP, I’ll riot.
Just another tax grab.
It really really should be a tax with the money funding alcohol related illness and social issues
In its current form it’s kinda fucking stupid
For those of us bad at maths, does this affect only home drinkers or will it change pub pints too (not that they need any excuse to raise prices).
Money grab from retailers and the government.
Raising the minimum unit price with inflation right now is really stupidly unnecessary. The cost of living crisis has already caused a decrease in disposable income that will impact the amount the average Scot can spend on alcohol anyway. There seems very little justification to increase MUP with inflation when the inflation itself leaves people with less money to buy alcohol.
This is just going to lead to more people on the border going to England and bulk buying
Yass half price tennents in edinburgh
I thought 50p was OK. It was enough get rid of the very cheap ciders and the loss-leader deals but 65p seems like they are pushing it too far. We know there has been inflation, and I think 60p would have been a fair increase, but 65p feels like they really wanted 70p.
And, of course, it’s brewers and retailers who pocket the extra cash
Why do cunts actually go on about essential items now when this is brought up?
Like I’m genuinely serious to why anyone who defends this by hitting out with alcohol isn’t an essential item?
Of all the ways to defend rising minimum unit pricing this is the fucking most insufferable.
A, who the fuck cares if it is, or isn’t essential to sustaining my life?
B, why do people talk like weird commissars of the USSR when saying it? As if I need the communes permission to buy outside of the essentials?
Like just seems like a specific personality loves the government stepping in on these matters when the stuff they should actually be sorting out gets left time n time again.
Alcohol abuse in this country needs to start being treated as a civic matter,
I,e we the people do more to look after our friends n family and do more to change the culture from within. Rather than hoping for short sighted legislation to do anything after failing time n time again.
this nanny state bollocks on public health thats been happening for 2 decades now is beyond a joke.
10pm licensing never worked, it just meant people stocked up even more Bev than needed because it wouldn’t be available later. Minimum pricing didn’t do anything either.
Folk going to the Clubs n Pubs which having worked in hospo for 10 years now I’ve seen plenty binge drinking disasters and regular people who wouldn’t say they’re alcoholics going out every weekend ,saturday night and get mangled.
It just means for the vast majority of binge drinking / regular social drinkers are charged more and will not change their habits because its so ingrained in the culture and their habits.
Alcoholics are most definitely not going to go, aw well thats £25 for a bottle of voddie now might as well get on the wagon, naw they’ll just skin themselves harder to keep up the addiction.
Fundamentally a complete misunderstanding of addiction as well as a terrible way of trying to nudge the culture in a different direction.
If they wanted to sort it there’d be marketing more attractive alternatives to binge drinking culture here, getting the public involved and at least funding more stuff to do without alcohol.
as well as actually use the minimum pricing to fund more support and research into battling alcoholism as well as substance abuse. To try help those they say they wish to help so much.
The fact this isn’t a tax is absolutely mental to me tbh. I could understand it if it was a tax with the deficit and that but this is just mental
Can anyone guess who definitely won’t be getting my vote for the first time in 12 years? 🤔
Carlisle Asda Manager dances a wee jig.
Making the public pay more for stuff a few months out from an election doesn’t seem wise to me.
They probably are doing this for genuinely decent reasons, but I’m fed up of being hit in my pocket by politicians . The answer of every problem in society seems to be to “price out the plebs”.
People are focusing too much on the alcoholics who will drink themselves to death regardless of price.
I’d be interested to see the results of this on the more casual drinkers over the long term of 10-20 years and how reducing their alcohol intake has benefitted their health.
Unfortunately everyone wants answers now so policies like this get a lot of criticism.
It’s a great start, hoping for further increases in the future. Nothing good comes from alcohol.
65p a pint isn’t too bad
Funny to see all the alcoholics in here lmao
Doesn’t help addicts. Drains an already on its knees nightlife by attempting to discourage spending by people who drink socially. Exists solely to put more money in the pockets of retailers. Yeah, real good job.
This only lines the pockets of Supermarkets
I don’t drink, I don’t care!
Surely given that everything else is more expensive than when the last unit price was set and income hasn’t gone up in line with that, surely anyone who is going to be put off drink by the minimum unit price has already stopped buying.
So what’s increasing it going to do except just rip off everyone that drinks?
Stop taxing me FFS.
I don’t drink but I think this is unacceptable. Another case of a government nanny state.
The Scottish government trying their best to make this country a more difficult place to live in by the day at this point. If people have a drink problem they’ll still find a way to drink, all this does is punish the vast majority of the public.
Then you have to ask yourself why this country has such a massive issue with drink and drugs even in comparison to the rUK.
Yet another law that wasn’t in any manifesto, imposed on us. Honestly, so sick of the SNP now – just get them out.
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Ah yes higher costs of goods, exactly what we need during a cost of living crisis.
I got a litre of Smirnoff the other day for £19, I think the new minimum price will be ~~£26~~ £24.38 which is quite a rise.
Not sure why it didn’t just rise with inflation to begin with.
I’d understand this more if the money went into health care options for addiction services. But it’s just more money for the retailers.
Cue the usual suspects lecturing us on why this is completely fine and justifiable.
And how nobody would ever think of buying drink online or border-hopping to avoid this.
Carlisle is struggling as it is with all the extra traffic from Scotland from people on booze cruises
I don’t see how it can cope with this
/s
As a non drinker, I welcome this increase.
If they ever bring in a bombay mix MUP, I’ll riot.
Just another tax grab.
It really really should be a tax with the money funding alcohol related illness and social issues
In its current form it’s kinda fucking stupid
For those of us bad at maths, does this affect only home drinkers or will it change pub pints too (not that they need any excuse to raise prices).
Money grab from retailers and the government.
Raising the minimum unit price with inflation right now is really stupidly unnecessary. The cost of living crisis has already caused a decrease in disposable income that will impact the amount the average Scot can spend on alcohol anyway. There seems very little justification to increase MUP with inflation when the inflation itself leaves people with less money to buy alcohol.
This is just going to lead to more people on the border going to England and bulk buying
Yass half price tennents in edinburgh
I thought 50p was OK. It was enough get rid of the very cheap ciders and the loss-leader deals but 65p seems like they are pushing it too far. We know there has been inflation, and I think 60p would have been a fair increase, but 65p feels like they really wanted 70p.
And, of course, it’s brewers and retailers who pocket the extra cash
Why do cunts actually go on about essential items now when this is brought up?
Like I’m genuinely serious to why anyone who defends this by hitting out with alcohol isn’t an essential item?
Of all the ways to defend rising minimum unit pricing this is the fucking most insufferable.
A, who the fuck cares if it is, or isn’t essential to sustaining my life?
B, why do people talk like weird commissars of the USSR when saying it? As if I need the communes permission to buy outside of the essentials?
Like just seems like a specific personality loves the government stepping in on these matters when the stuff they should actually be sorting out gets left time n time again.
Alcohol abuse in this country needs to start being treated as a civic matter,
I,e we the people do more to look after our friends n family and do more to change the culture from within. Rather than hoping for short sighted legislation to do anything after failing time n time again.
this nanny state bollocks on public health thats been happening for 2 decades now is beyond a joke.
10pm licensing never worked, it just meant people stocked up even more Bev than needed because it wouldn’t be available later. Minimum pricing didn’t do anything either.
Folk going to the Clubs n Pubs which having worked in hospo for 10 years now I’ve seen plenty binge drinking disasters and regular people who wouldn’t say they’re alcoholics going out every weekend ,saturday night and get mangled.
It just means for the vast majority of binge drinking / regular social drinkers are charged more and will not change their habits because its so ingrained in the culture and their habits.
Alcoholics are most definitely not going to go, aw well thats £25 for a bottle of voddie now might as well get on the wagon, naw they’ll just skin themselves harder to keep up the addiction.
Fundamentally a complete misunderstanding of addiction as well as a terrible way of trying to nudge the culture in a different direction.
If they wanted to sort it there’d be marketing more attractive alternatives to binge drinking culture here, getting the public involved and at least funding more stuff to do without alcohol.
as well as actually use the minimum pricing to fund more support and research into battling alcoholism as well as substance abuse. To try help those they say they wish to help so much.
The fact this isn’t a tax is absolutely mental to me tbh. I could understand it if it was a tax with the deficit and that but this is just mental
Can anyone guess who definitely won’t be getting my vote for the first time in 12 years? 🤔
Carlisle Asda Manager dances a wee jig.
Making the public pay more for stuff a few months out from an election doesn’t seem wise to me.
They probably are doing this for genuinely decent reasons, but I’m fed up of being hit in my pocket by politicians . The answer of every problem in society seems to be to “price out the plebs”.
People are focusing too much on the alcoholics who will drink themselves to death regardless of price.
I’d be interested to see the results of this on the more casual drinkers over the long term of 10-20 years and how reducing their alcohol intake has benefitted their health.
Unfortunately everyone wants answers now so policies like this get a lot of criticism.
It’s a great start, hoping for further increases in the future. Nothing good comes from alcohol.
65p a pint isn’t too bad
Funny to see all the alcoholics in here lmao
Doesn’t help addicts. Drains an already on its knees nightlife by attempting to discourage spending by people who drink socially. Exists solely to put more money in the pockets of retailers. Yeah, real good job.
This only lines the pockets of Supermarkets
I don’t drink, I don’t care!
Surely given that everything else is more expensive than when the last unit price was set and income hasn’t gone up in line with that, surely anyone who is going to be put off drink by the minimum unit price has already stopped buying.
So what’s increasing it going to do except just rip off everyone that drinks?
Stop taxing me FFS.
I don’t drink but I think this is unacceptable. Another case of a government nanny state.
The Scottish government trying their best to make this country a more difficult place to live in by the day at this point. If people have a drink problem they’ll still find a way to drink, all this does is punish the vast majority of the public.
Then you have to ask yourself why this country has such a massive issue with drink and drugs even in comparison to the rUK.
Yet another law that wasn’t in any manifesto, imposed on us. Honestly, so sick of the SNP now – just get them out.