The Daily Dose: No.5

~ Booze In The News ~

Welcome to today’s alcohol-free offering of information, inspiration and fun to keep you motivated and moving in the right direction 🙂

Drink Up

In a rather clumsy headline, Britain’s Times published an article last week entitled ‘Boozing is meat and drink to coffers of the Treasury’.

I could only read the first two paragraphs because I don’t subscribe to their content, but the gist of it is pretty clear and pretty depressing.

Apparently, anti-alcoholists have long thrown around monstrous figures concerning the cost to the country that is alcohol, in terms of hospital care, policing, criminal justice and welfare services. They often claim that alcohol abuse is costing Britain more than £20 billion each year.

It turns out, however (if you believe the Institute of Economic Affairs, wot did a study), that the direct costs of booze to Blighty weigh in at around only £4 billion, whereas taxes on alcohol bring in a ‘healthy’ £10 billion+.

“We can safely assume, therefore, that the last thing the government would want to do, financially and fiscally speaking, would be to reduce drinking in any shape or form.“

Not that that’s likely to happen in any significant way for the foreseeable future, but nevertheless, it bears thinking about.

Britain’s economy would seriously suffer to the tune of £6 billion if everyone stopped imbibing tomorrow.

Of course, that doesn’t even take into account all the jobs that would be lost due to booze related industries suffering, including pubs (obviously), restaurants and supermarkets (think of those huge drinks sections).

Not forgetting all the nurses and doctors and carers and counsellors who treat the huge numbers of sick and dying drinkers on a constant basis.

Moral of the story, patriots: if you love your country… keep on drinking. Cheers.

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