The telegraph wrote:Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, is under strong pressure from 10 Downing Street to "make an example" of whisky, gin and vodka drinkers when he makes his Commons statement next month.
Under the "nuclear option" plan for increasing duty – designed to appease the health lobby and show that ministers are serious about tackling the problems caused by binge drinking – the cost of a bottle of spirits would rocket, along with the cost of spirit-based alcopops favoured by young drinkers.
A bottle of Bells whisky could rise from £14.79 to £23.73 while Gordon's gin, another favourite of middle-class drinkers, would increase from £12.79 to £21.17.
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There you go...
The chancellor is under strong pressure from unelected health campaigners to make an example of drinkers...
Well, drinkers, don't say the smokers didn't warn you... these are the same people that managed to get tobacco taxes increased to make an example of smokers....
These are the same people that want to make an example of people that enjoy fatty food...
And who pays for all this lobbying? Who pays for these unelected health freaks to tell us how to live our lives and what we can or can't drink...? We do, our taxes pay for all this shite yet none of them ever asked us what we think...
Because they think they know best...
They came for the smokers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a smoker;
They came for the obese, and I did not speak out—because I was not obese;
They came for the drinkers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a drinker;
When they came for me there was no one left to speak out..
Time to speak out...
