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There's a limit
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 1:26 am
by Gob
A law to set a minimum price for selling alcohol in Wales has been unveiled.
Ministers believe tackling excessive drinking could save a life a week and mean 1,400 fewer hospital admissions a year.
Pricing is seen as a "missing link" in public health efforts, alongside better awareness and treatment.
Under a 50p-a-unit formula, a typical can of cider would be at least £1 and a bottle of wine at least £4.69
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A typical litre of vodka, for example, would have to cost more than £20.
The Welsh Government has not yet decided what the price will be, however.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-41682666
My predictions? Booze cruises to Bristol, a rise in homebrewing, and the price of dope goes down.
Dear god, lucky I'm returning to the nation of Kernow, not to my home country Wales.
Re: There's a limit
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:37 am
by ex-khobar Andy
I don't recall the price of a beer in Wales 45 years ago but I will never forget that my very first legal pint (
The Swan With Two Nicks in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire on July 21 1967) cost me 11 1/2d in the old money which equates to just less than 5p today. During my University years I had a vacation job at a wine merchant - baseline whisky, gin and vodka were 2 pounds 4 shillings and eleven pence (GBP 2.25 nowadays) which was almost all tax. The premium whiskies like Johnnie Walker Black Label and Haig Dimple were more expensive; and these prices were for the standard bottle which was, IIRC, around 750 mL. So 20 quid for a bottle of vodka does not seem outrageous, especially as your typical pint of bitter in a pub is now around GBP 4 or eighty times what I paid then. If spirits had risen the same as beer then a liter bottle would be around GBP220 by now.
Re: There's a limit
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:24 pm
by rubato
Norway uses extremely high prices to control drinking. It appears to work. Of course you have a lot further to go to cross a border.
http://www.pintprice.com/
Top 10 most expensive countries
Greenland £7.19
Norway £6.87 ($9.02 in real money)
Qatar £6.39
United Arab Emirates £5.80
Israel £5.55
Djibouti £5.48
Singapore £5.40
Sweden £5.00
United_Arab_Emirates £4.86
Guadeloupe £4.80
yrs,
rubato
Re: There's a limit
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:27 pm
by rubato
They used to have "booze cruises" to the continent didn't they? Maybe those were soccer matches.
yrs,
rubato
Re: There's a limit
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:37 am
by Gob
rubato wrote:They used to have "booze cruises" to the continent didn't they? Maybe those were soccer matches.
yrs,
rubato
Oh god.....