* Some alcohol monitoring group were demanding a law to make it illegal to give under fifteens alcoholic drinks or some such thing, sure enough out came the old chestnut about the frogs giving their kids drinks and how they grow up to drink sensibly, as though plying drinks to english kids would do the same. Then the BBC dragged on some middleclass mum to tell us she gives her kids drinks and how they won't grow up to be binge drinkers cue middleclass kid saying how they won't binge drink when they grow up (eat those words later you dumb prat).
Why the BBC indulges in these general to contrary particular as if it proves anything is a complete mystery unless everyone is so dumb they are impressed by such ludicrous antics, come to think of it they probably are.
What is more perplexing is the governments refusal to admit their may be a problem with their drug of choice. The spokesperson put up did a pathetic attempt to deny the figures look bad or had got worse since 'New Labour gives you cheap booze' have been in power. I can only assume their stock portfolios are stuffed with shares in suppliers and purveyors of alcohol. Presumeably everyone's happy as can be sat behind their curtains stuffing cheap booze down their throats. The other possibility is that if booze went up in price the government would loose much needed taxes from trips to frogland to fill up white vans and four by fours with cheap frog plonk.