Government targets Liverpool drinkers
The Government is to spend millions of pounds sending a team of anti-alcohol “experts” into Liverpool after the Department of Health branded the great city the booze capital of Britain.
The Liverpool Daily Post, which seems to swallow anything these days, has printed a press release about the worrying news here. The Post goes on to claim that drinking men die 20 years younger than teetotallers – a claim which is so full of crap that it hardly bears mentioning.
What is happening to my beloved Daily Post, which seems to be turning into a peevish, puritanical propaganda sheet?
The Govt’s National Alcohol Support Team (is that NAST-Y for short?) are to get £34m (about $70m for my American readers) to come up with ways of stopping people drinking in Liverpool and surrounding districts.
The police have promised to do their bit by pushing for Alcohol Disorder Zones (where pubs have to pay for policing work if anyone causes trouble after drinking there) and challenging all new licences.
These are worrying times for Liverpool drinkers.
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Rob. I have doubted you in the past and, yes, you are a nutter but now I have have seen the light, hearing tonight about the mother and child being denied service at Tesco because the child wanted to buy a bottle of Jack Daniels’s BBQ SAUCE!
Beer girl - June 10, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Beer girl, I am glad you have seen the light. Tell me more about Tesco, I missed that one
southportdrinker - June 10, 2008 at 9:32 pm
What a load of ****. I would prefer to walk the streets of Liverpool on a Friday or Saturday night than Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth, Southport or most beer sodden cities. Sent an email to our MP asking why a pint of lager is 1.72 and a pint of diet coke 2.04. Political response which amounted to ‘it’s the breweries’! Reminds me of my college days when we were told in economics “if whiskey is cheaper than milk, give the kids whiskey”. As I’ve said before, it’s not the beer drinkers who are causing the problems but the ‘vodka shotters’, ‘Stella freaks’ and a culture of could’nt care less kids with no respect for authority or other people. OK, I sound like an old moaner and yes I am, but don’t knock scousers. We are the friendliest people in Britain.
jmensa - June 10, 2008 at 10:09 pm
What a nonsense!! Is there any more problems in Liverpool than anywhere else? I often go out in Liverpool and feel very comfortable with the way things are thank you very much
DavidH - June 13, 2008 at 8:55 pm