The Battle of the Booze

Forget Battle of the Buff, this is the real issue we have to worry about. It’s been in the air for a while now, but now the govt is planning a white paper on it. Basically the idea is to try and work out what will happen if they double the price of alcohol and try and make ‘drinking as anti-social as drink-driving or smoking’. Men who drink 4 pints in one siting once per week (surely this applies to 90% of the male UK population?) are now regarded as 'hazardous drinkers' The only reasons I can think of for this are:

1. The govt wants to a quick-fix scheme to save money on the NHS and is greedily eyeing up the money they think they might be able to suck out of drinkers.
2. It’s phase 2 of the campaign to turn the UK into an Islamic country?! Phase 3? Haven’t a clue – compulsory veils for all women over 15?!?
3. Gordon Brown just wants us all to believe he is (what we all think anyway) a dour, non-drinking, tight-fisted Scotsman who hates to see everyone else have a good time.

Prohibition has never worked in any country its been tried in. Just to name a few The US and Norway in the 1930s and the Soviet Union’s campaign in the late 1980s all failed…will the UK be next?