Time, Please!
You can look at this article in a number of different ways.
Firstly, it is good that MPs are trying to do something about Britain’s booze culture. Whether or not this latest idea is enough, is another matter altogether.
But it will be the responsible drinker who is hit as well. Why should everyone have to pay more (or get less) because of the people who drink too much and end up causing trouble? It is the same as ordinary folk having to spend 20p to spend a penny (there is a paradox there). Why should you be penalised because of people who enjoy smashing up public toilets?
Drinking is something that a lot of people enjoy without bothering anyone else, but there are others who use it to cause many problems in our society.
At the moment, the amount of cases of hospital staff being attacked by drunks is horrendous. Doctors and nurses who work in the accident and emergency department of a hospital are there to try and save lives. Being hindered in their work by people who have drunk too much is dangerous and unacceptable. When you think about problems like this that are being caused by binge drinking it is obvious that the government needs to do something; but it has to target those who are most to blame.
The other thing to consider is this; if someone wants to drink badly enough they will not be deterred by prices! It may make them swear and complain, but they will still go ahead and buy it.
I think that the best thing the government can do about the binge drinking problem is to spend more time educating people. If a greater number of drinkers are made aware of the damage they are doing (both to themselves and to others), then it may just serve as a wake-up call.
One final tirade that I feel I must have is about microdermabrasion. I mean, why is it that we are in a society today where this is passable, and where you can ride the tube in rushhour and look around you and see about a million ads for different kinds of cosmetic surgery. And now they are directing these ads towards adolescent people. Really there is no cause why someone in thier twentys should even consider ’having to look years younger’, I mean don’t people have better things to spend thier time doing or fretting about these days? If they don’t then I really think we need to look at what we consider important!