Oh well, I can pay a few more quid for my fortnightly bottle of Riesling because it saves lives or something…
14 quid a bottle of bells is tough but not too mental. 18 quid is fucking aff the scale. The policy is not a bad one but needs to be combined with other shit and 18 quid is way too much
Is it annoying for me? Yes, I’m going to spend more on the same stuff. Will it help society as a whole? Dunno, I’m no expert in this and I’ll be dammed if I’m gonna read anything about it. Am I going to do anything about it? Yeah probably not.
September? Hell of a long time to wait for the new prices!
My home insurance, car insurance, energy bills, and food shopping have all went up massively. Adding an extra tax on alcohol is just piling on more expenses. I won’t mind it if the money raised when into rehabilitation or charity to help problem drinkers. It doesn’t. It’s not a well thought out policy, and putting it up during a cost of living crisis is tone death.
Visited a family member in the south of France last year. Had one of the best bottles of red wine in my life. €3.50
Didn’t meet a single drunk. No blokes waddling the streets with beer guts and pink faces. No brawls. No binge drinking. There were a lot of French people there, mind you, but nowhere’s perfect.
Essentially another poverty tax.
Rich people living off their interests and rental estates, this is just a fart in the wind to them.
Everyone else, enjoy the extra cost of living tax
If I’m an alcoholic and I need to find an extra £25 quid a week for my fix then I’m spending £25 quid a week less on food, or heating, or on my kids, or whatever I need to to continue feeding my addiction because I’m an alcoholic and I cannot help it.
Pointless increase. It doesn’t deter drinking. It just makes people poorer. Paying an extra circa £1.20 for a 4 pack of Hobgoblin is horrifying when it already went up and the cans got smaller previously. An extra 4 quid on a bottle. Horrific increases. How fucking far do the powers that be think we can be stretched with literally everything going up up up except wages? What’s the long term thinking here?
Utter bastards.
Stop voting for this mob ffs.
Let’s not go patting ourselves on the back yet. The rate of alcohol deaths has risen yet again but not as much as expected. Not exactly the win that the SNP are pushing.
I wrote my thesis on the introduction of MUP in Ireland and used Scotland as a case study. My research showed it led to problem drinkers buying spirits over beers or lower ABV products… not the intended effect I’m sure.
Is this the SNPs doing or something else? The tax system is a joke in Scotland, we clearly can’t run ourselves. Income tax is a joke. Second property tax is a joke. Why are we paying much more than England for tax in many regards?
I get the aims of this – and don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of having a minimum pricing model – but the fact that it’s just extra cash in the retailers’ pockets has never sat right with me.
I imagine it likely runs into reserved matters, but I genuinely think unless it’s a tax Intake that’s ringfenced for the NHS or social services that try and tackle alcoholism in a meaningful sense, it needs done away with.
So how much is a bottle of tonic gony cost?
Guess I’ll will just have to buy my alcohol exclusively from amazon going forward.
And the rest I’ll just brew at home. Which I recommend everyone to try it’s easier than you think. And much much cheaper than buying similar shit in Scottish shops from September, or even now.
right, whisky is like a 6bn quid industry for Scotland, with something like 90% made above the Highland line..this won’t fuck that up, will it?
This is simply extra taxation. Just like the sugar tax. It hits the poorest the hardest.
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Thanks SNP.
They should put the number of people that are still alive because of the policy on there.
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/26-07-2023-no-place-for-cheap-alcohol–scotland-s-minimum-unit-pricing-policy-is-protecting-lives
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Oh well, I can pay a few more quid for my fortnightly bottle of Riesling because it saves lives or something…
14 quid a bottle of bells is tough but not too mental. 18 quid is fucking aff the scale. The policy is not a bad one but needs to be combined with other shit and 18 quid is way too much
Is it annoying for me? Yes, I’m going to spend more on the same stuff. Will it help society as a whole? Dunno, I’m no expert in this and I’ll be dammed if I’m gonna read anything about it. Am I going to do anything about it? Yeah probably not.
September? Hell of a long time to wait for the new prices!
My home insurance, car insurance, energy bills, and food shopping have all went up massively. Adding an extra tax on alcohol is just piling on more expenses. I won’t mind it if the money raised when into rehabilitation or charity to help problem drinkers. It doesn’t. It’s not a well thought out policy, and putting it up during a cost of living crisis is tone death.
Visited a family member in the south of France last year. Had one of the best bottles of red wine in my life. €3.50
Didn’t meet a single drunk. No blokes waddling the streets with beer guts and pink faces. No brawls. No binge drinking. There were a lot of French people there, mind you, but nowhere’s perfect.
Essentially another poverty tax.
Rich people living off their interests and rental estates, this is just a fart in the wind to them.
Everyone else, enjoy the extra cost of living tax
If I’m an alcoholic and I need to find an extra £25 quid a week for my fix then I’m spending £25 quid a week less on food, or heating, or on my kids, or whatever I need to to continue feeding my addiction because I’m an alcoholic and I cannot help it.
Pointless increase. It doesn’t deter drinking. It just makes people poorer. Paying an extra circa £1.20 for a 4 pack of Hobgoblin is horrifying when it already went up and the cans got smaller previously. An extra 4 quid on a bottle. Horrific increases. How fucking far do the powers that be think we can be stretched with literally everything going up up up except wages? What’s the long term thinking here?
Utter bastards.
Stop voting for this mob ffs.
Let’s not go patting ourselves on the back yet. The rate of alcohol deaths has risen yet again but not as much as expected. Not exactly the win that the SNP are pushing.
I wrote my thesis on the introduction of MUP in Ireland and used Scotland as a case study. My research showed it led to problem drinkers buying spirits over beers or lower ABV products… not the intended effect I’m sure.
Is this the SNPs doing or something else? The tax system is a joke in Scotland, we clearly can’t run ourselves. Income tax is a joke. Second property tax is a joke. Why are we paying much more than England for tax in many regards?
I get the aims of this – and don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of having a minimum pricing model – but the fact that it’s just extra cash in the retailers’ pockets has never sat right with me.
I imagine it likely runs into reserved matters, but I genuinely think unless it’s a tax Intake that’s ringfenced for the NHS or social services that try and tackle alcoholism in a meaningful sense, it needs done away with.
So how much is a bottle of tonic gony cost?
Guess I’ll will just have to buy my alcohol exclusively from amazon going forward.
And the rest I’ll just brew at home. Which I recommend everyone to try it’s easier than you think. And much much cheaper than buying similar shit in Scottish shops from September, or even now.
right, whisky is like a 6bn quid industry for Scotland, with something like 90% made above the Highland line..this won’t fuck that up, will it?
This is simply extra taxation. Just like the sugar tax. It hits the poorest the hardest.
You are all welcome to buy Alcohol from England.