The tories have had a grand idea - a hike in alcohol taxes so that people who can now afford a few drinks by the skin of their teeth in our ever more impoverished society will not be able to do so any longer!Will this control binge drinking? - Well, do high prices for drugs reduce the number of addicts? - Of course they don't! It is quite possible that 'the law of unintended consequences' will kick in and crime might actually increase to fund the binges.
Let us be kind to Cameron and co and assume that this is not just a Gordon-style tax hike and is a genuine attempt to curb alcohol abuse.
The simple question would be to ask why the obvious remedy is not used - HEAVY PUNISHMENTS FOR THE GUILTY!
I utterly despise the leftwing idea that 'all must be punished in order to rid us of a social probem caused by a readily targetable few'.
