Ban on sale of energy drinks to teens and 100,000 more dental appointments under Labour plans

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1. I absolutely hate the energy drink “culture”, it’s so fucking weird to me. That shits not good for you, it should not form a regular part of your diet or lifestyle

2. Are either of the main parties gonna offer anything besides banning things?

3. It’s not already illegal? I’m routinely carded by self-checkouts.

4. would they prefer kids to knock back an espresso? as they have the same amount of caffeine.

   I although I do find it weird that energy drinks are demonised yet coffee gets a free pass, people drink them for the same reasons.

5. Has always been a draconian law. Just educate kids about sugar and close the dumb loop hole in nutrition labels. A bottle of coke is obviously not 2 servings

6. I think this is the most absolute non-policy they could have come up with.

   It will not swing a single vote. 

7. Speaking to my dentist a while back, he asked me whether I drank energy drinks or not, I told him truthfully, “no, but I used to”. He replied “Good. Energy drinks have produced a fabulous amount of business for dentists all up and down the country you know”.

   If you’re absolutely going to buy an energy drink, please make sure that it’s a sugar-free version. But bear this in mind that the metric fuck tonne of acid that they pour into these are still going to obliterate your enamel even without the sugar. If your still deadset on consuming them regardless try to ensure that you’re consuming something alkaline afterwards. 

8. I do like an orange Lucozade when I’m extremely hung over. And a McDonald’s. I let myself go when I’m on a rough hangover…luckily not often. Ban those fucking things yeah, great idea. Plz don’t ban lucozade tho.

9. Don’t vote for authoritarian groups like tories and Labour!

10. Why are they banning 100,00 more dental appointments?

11. I’m fascinated to know how they are going to get an extra 100k dental appointments.

    Are they going to redo the NHS contract so it makes financial sense (rather than suicide) to go back to nothing but NHS clients rather than private?

    Because that’s what it’s going to take.

12. Here is me thinking there was already an age limit on purchasing energy drinks for under 16s

13. Good call. As a teacher, the amount of kids rocking up to school with litre bottles of lucozade or similar is fucking depressing, especially when you know you’ve got them 1st or 2nd lesson by which point they’ll be bouncing off the fucking walls and you’ll be expected to deal with them.

    I’m fairly convinced that a reasonable amount of the ADHD diagnoses among kids are down to diet. Of course a kid whose breakfast consisted of a litre of energy drink and a packet of sweets is going to struggle to concentrate in lessons.

14. I thought this was already a thing , but turns out supermarkets have already been doing it voluntarily for years now.

15. Coffee or tea? All that’s at stake is a percentage of your spending potential, this is a distraction and 100,000 is a joke and also a limit.

16. I’m not a teen nor do I really know any teens. Are energy drinks really a problem? I see people posting about Prime but I thought it was more of a joke about how awful it is.

17. Ban ban ban… nanny state on all sides of the political spectrum. I detest it

18. Good to see that the incoming Starmer regime are focusing their fire on the issues these matter – crackdowns and banning things

19. Arent energy drinks already banned for under 18s? Everytime I buy one at the self service checkout at Asda I have to wait for someone to come and do the ID check.

20. I lived with a guy in uni that used to go on and on about how “authoritarian” the sugar tax was 🙃

21. You know instead of banning energy drinks for these kids, they should teach about the impact of such products in classes, it’d be more effective to allow them to decide this is bad for themselves rather than enforce a draconian way of stopping them from drinking such products. If this belief comes from themselves and their research then they are more likely to avoid said products.

22. I remember years ago having to go to the doctors and he asked me “do you smoke, take drugs, drink alcohol or energy drinks?” and thinking blimey if he’s lumping energy drinks in with that lot maybe I should quit.

23. I work in youth services and the number one issue that needs to be tackled at the moment is not energy drinks, it is absolutely disposable vapes however.

24. Because these are the two major issues in the uk at the moment…

25. Labour are always such dipshits about stuff like this.

26. Fuck Prime, but isn’t it a coconut water based drink? Not like it’s a Monster.