So there isn't a massive problem with alcohol in scotland?
Or is it just that you don't care about other folks plight as long as you can have a drink to help blot out the misery of your own existence.
That's a large part of why society is in the mess it is today. Nobody gives a **** about others. It's all about self. I blame Thatcher. That's where it all started or at least when it started to get a lot worse.
Obviously the alcohol ban would have to be done in tandem with a major drugs crackdown.
Done in isolation it wouldn't have the full desired effect.
I agree with D Red alcohol is a big problem in Scotland. To many people abuse it' and then there is alcoholism.
But there will never be a ban on it
Aye - very true.
Saw a stat recently that said the bookies in the UK (Online / betting shops etc) made something like £14 billion in profits last year - aye, nae million - BILLION.
The wifey that runs Bet365 got paid something like £250million in salary/bonuses etc last year - that was just her!!
No wonder the government dinna want to clamp down - that some amount of coin in taxes to them inna. Mind you maist of them base themselves in Gibralter or wherever to aviod paying any f'uckin tax too.
Aye - its a f'uckin mugs game right enough. A modest affordable flutter now & then fine - I dinna do it but each to their own - but too many folk canna keep it at that leve & its utterly ruinous in those situations...