I shall be saying something about the budget when it happens, but early reports are that Alastair Darling will increase taxes on drink. If these are true he must be barking mad. Making the non-violent sensible drinking majority pay more will simply remind them what an empty-headed incompetent bunch of weasels we have running the country.
There is NO evidence that increasing the price of drink will stop street violence. The dross will get their hits somehow and in the meantime the civilised world is paying less than a pound a bottle for good wine, £5 for a bottle of scotch.
There is PLENTY of evidence however that increasing taxes helps a spendthrift government stagger on from month to month.
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