Minimum Alcohol Pricing

[SandyCromarty]

Tennents Lager is best served to a horse on a hot day.

 

[Alan Twelve]

On 13/09/2024 at 14:26, Todd_is_God said:

Possibly, though not without merit as I am certain they have floated that idea previously.

It's entirely without merit. There's nothing in the article that supports the headline and the picture they've used. Which should perhaps give unionists pause for thought the next time you read a story criticising the Scottish government, or you're mocking people taken in by Daily Mail Farageist lies. Although I'm sure it won't.

[Todd_is_God]

1 hour ago, Alan Twelve said:

It's entirely without merit. There's nothing in the article that supports the headline and the picture they've used. Which should perhaps give unionists pause for thought the next time you read a story criticising the Scottish government, or you're mocking people taken in by Daily Mail Farageist lies. Although I'm sure it won't.

It's not. They have floated this before. That's a fact. Not directly referencing it in this article doesn't mean it wasn't implied in the material used to write this either.

I'm also not a Unionist.

[s_dog]

This is just a continuation of the Government's consultation on restricting alcohol marketing that's been on the go for at least a year.

The only link to the Record's nonsense is the part on reducing the visibility of branding by restricting the sale of branded merchandise like umbrellas, t-shirts, mugs and glasses. So pint glasses in pubs is very much made up by the Record and they'll be delighted to have reeled in so many with their story.

[Alan Twelve]

1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said:

I'm also not a Unionist.

Yeah, that shoud have been a separate paragraph, as it was a general point and not aimed at you specifically. My bad.

[Todd_is_God]

4 hours ago, s_dog said:

This is just a continuation of the Government's consultation on restricting alcohol marketing that's been on the go for at least a year.

The only link to the Record's nonsense is the part on reducing the visibility of branding by restricting the sale of branded merchandise like umbrellas, t-shirts, mugs and glasses. So pint glasses in pubs is very much made up by the Record and they'll be delighted to have reeled in so many with their story.

Here is an article from January 2023 that echos the same

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10064864/snp-plan-ban-alcohol-logo/

Either 2 separate papers have fabricated the same idea 21 months apart or there is truth in what the SG are mooting. 

[sparky88]

2022 Scottish Government consultation paper on alcohol marketing. 

https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-restricting-alcohol-advertising-promotion/pages/10/

Suggesting that branded pint glasses might be going seems well within the scope of this paper 

[s_dog]

I'm not going to repeat what I've already posted but if you want to ignore the fact it only mentions sales of branded materials and makes no mention of marketing inside pubs and leap to the same conclusion as the likes of the Sun and Record, well that's up to you.

[SandyCromarty]

On 14/09/2024 at 23:22, Todd_is_God said:

Here is an article from January 2023 that echos the same

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10064864/snp-plan-ban-alcohol-logo/

Either 2 separate papers have fabricated the same idea 21 months apart or there is truth in what the SG are mooting. 

The vast majority of the print media, including your local rags, are owned by tories.

[parsforlife]

1 hour ago, SandyCromarty said:

The vast majority of the print media, including your local rags, are owned by tories.

There's almost no such thing as local media beyond facebook groups(and we all know how wild they get) what you get is a locally assigned reporter for a massive group.

[Wee-Bey]

Local media and town papers are now just generic shite owned by the same 2 or 3 arsehole organisations with virtually unreadable web pages due to pop ups and ads. 

[Todd_is_God]

I reckon some* people are in for a surprise when they see the price of their box of beer at the end of this month.

I still see quite a large number of people whenever this is discussed on social media who seem to think it only affects cheap tramp juice.

To give an example, the standard price for 15 x 440ml cans of Heineken in Tesco, in England, is currently £15. That excludes any clubcard offers or multi buy discounts which often bring the price closer to £10.

The same pack in Scotland (which is already £16.50) will soon have to cost £21.45 and, of course, clubcard offers or multi buy deals are not permitted.

Spoiler

*a lot of

 

Edited Wednesday at 16:19 by Todd_is_God