Oh, this should boost the English economy in the border towns such as Shrewsbury, Chester and Bristol.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood won’t rule out a tax on junk food if her party wins the assembly election in 2016.
She told BBC Sunday Politics Wales that money raised from such a tax should subsidise “good quality wholesome food” for people.
Sigh… The idea of the booze cruise to France clearly hasn’t got across the Severn, has it? What does this puritanical moron think people will do if they can get their sugary drinks for 20p per litre less across the bridge? Oh, no, of course they won’t buy in England. Just as many of us never dream of nipping across the channel for booze and baccy. Doesn’t happen. We all cough up our sin taxes like good little boys and girls.
All of which is quite apart from the fact that what people put into their bodies is none of the fucking politicians’ bloody business.
It would be even better for English retailers if the Welsh (as they say they want to) introduced minimum alcohol pricing 😉
Indeed. Bring it on.
Part of me would really like one of the Celtic nations to try this on and end up with egg all over their faces.
A bonanza for the border towns looks to be in the offing. Makes me wonder if the mobile chip wagons will converge at the border as well. Or even a reefer truck flogging Ginsters pasties out of the back. The border between England and Wales on the A465 to Abergavenny for example could end up as a junk food trading post. The Welsh Assembly will be inundated with cases of beef burger trafficking and conspiracy to evade the taxation on a sausage roll. When the state goes mad it goes very mad.
What is good quality wholesome food? Sounds like she wants to subsidise Aunt Bessies Yorkshire puds.
Contrary to what we are told, ‘healthy’ food is just as affordable as ‘junk’ food. And as you say, it’s none of their business what we eat.
What is “good” today will, doubtless be “bad” tomorrow. The new puritan crusade marches ever on.
They should look at Carlisle before 24 hour licencing.
22:30, every night, but more at the weekends, the A47 and side roads were FULL of pissed up Cumbrians, racing to get “last orders” in Gretna, Ecclafechtan, or Annan, which were 23:00 or even 00:01.
They do not think this will happen, in general, when the chavs white lightning is available at half the price, over the border, and a bus ticket that costs less than half a bottle?
Hell, it would be worth hiring a transit and bringing it back for the whole scheme!
Well, I am talking Scotland, but Wrexam is only a fart and a sliped disc away from Chester.
Have all thes antis had labotomys or what?
They are the thickest bastards I have ever met/heard of in my bloody LIFE.
They just appear incapable of thinking in more than one demention.
(And NO, that is NOT spelt wrong DEMENTion is EXACTLY the correct spelling of what they have.
Hear hear if you want a nice greasy kebab on the way home after a night out what the hell has that to do with politics or politicians!
I am old enough to remember when there was no Sunday drinking in Wales, unless you were a club member. The first pubs over the border in England were stuffed full every Sunday, and this was usually their busiest night. I am thinking of investing in a kebab van and moving to the border, there is a killing to be made.
This bonkers woman thinks she can form a Welsh energy company that can buy energy cheaper than anyone else and sell it to the Welsh people.
Of course that will be against the rules of the EU, which these ‘independent’ types prefer over Westminster. Can no politician ever look a bit further up the tiers of government than the one immediately above?
Plaid, like the SNP seems to consist entirely of christian (euw) nannies & dictators….