Ministers are proposing a minimum price of 45p a unit for the sale of alcohol in England and Wales as part of a drive to tackle problem drinking.
Which part of it is fucking illegal under EU law do these knumbnuts not understand?
It comes after pressure has been mounting on the government to follow Scotland’s lead, where 50p has been proposed.
Sigh:
First the policy has been challenged by wine-producing European Union nations such as France, Italy and Spain amid claims that it breaches EU law on free trade.
The EC itself has already said “we have a problem with the compatibility of minimum pricing plans under community law”.
So… Which part, precisely, of it is fucking illegal under EU law, do these cretins not understand?
But… I thought ALL E.U law was BAAADDD!?
Or did I get that wrong?
They want to belong to the EU club, they have to abide by the rules. 😈
I glean immense satisfaction when the monstrous egos of the puritans get severely bruised by the regime they suckle from. 😉
The problem, as I see it, is less about EU rules, and more about the fact that the people who will be affected are not the people that the government want to crack down on. The whole idea is so badly thought out. The binge drinkers appear to be a problem, so the government thinks that it needs a way to deal with it. So they come up with a solution that will have no effect whatsoever on the actual problem, but will piss off everyone else. What more proof do we need that our democracy is broken?
Or that MPs are just earth-shatteringly stupid?
“Which part, precisely, of it is fucking illegal under EU law, do these cretins not understand?”
The part that’s drowned out by them screaming ‘but thing of the childreeeeen’.