These people are cretins. I'm not saying there's not a drinking problem in the UK but that is the shittest example chosen specifically to try and persuade people that booze is comically cheap ever, and they pull it out of the closet every time there's this debate. After reading that paper I then heard some fucking old goit on the news basically making a really blase off the cuff comment suggesting that due to these ludicrous prices people are getting drunk on less than a pound.
You can't say that. It's inaccurate with absolutely no fact to back it up. You can't get drunk on 66p or whatever she said you could in my experience. However people are getting away with just saying crap like this because as alcohol is seen as something that is harmful you can say whatever you want against it,but as soon as you say anything 'for it' the people that are trying to pass the legislation automatically reach for the statistics to back themselves up as saviours of keeping Britain healthy!
Here's the truth about the 23p can in my opinion. It may not necessarily be true and I'm not even suggesting it is but from being around beer a lot I have far more experience than some MP on the telly that probably has half a lager on Christmas day:
I don't know how many of you are utter lightweights but has anyone ever tried getting drunk on Savers lager? It's 2.2%. You literally can't get drunk on it. It's impossible. Alcohol-wise you'd have to drink about 30 cans to feel even tipsy, by which point you've flushed so much water through your system you will have urinated all the booze out. I reckon you could drink 12 cans of that stuff and pass a breath test driving. Like I say, could be bollocks but I know from personal experience I doubt it is. In fact I think at some point I'll prove it. (not sure I could get through 12 cans of piss water though.)
Basically what I'm trying to say is, if you work in the house of commons and you haven't got a fucking clue about peoples drinking habits, don't make condescending comments about their culture, you've never lived it! Stick to your fucking half a shandy.
I can't stand it when you get these hard line 'anti drink'/'anti smoking' er...'anti any type of freedom or fun' characters on their high horse on telly. Regardless of whether there is an issue with binge drinking in the U.K, using an example like that is absolutely ridiculous. I meet so many people that believe absolutely in what they hear on the news and in the papers that this is why the respected media can get away with such utterly pathetic examples. They'll stick in a 'you can get a can of lager for 23p' in because they know that some people will be shocked by that. I've met these people as well. People that get concerned when their husband has more than two pints at a party. People that probably at some point in their like have had an acquaintance or colleague called Gerald.
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