Gordon Brown and his cronies pushed for the relaxation of the drinking laws to be able to fill the Government coffers with tax revenue from alcohol. They lost the revenue from the smoking ban and needed to find a way of filling the gap—so Blair’s Cabinet, at Brown’s proposal, relaxed the alcohol laws knowing full well what this would do. It was a callous disregard for people’s health and safety.
The binging culture is costing the economy something in the order of £4 billion per year from sickness, and hangovers producing mistakes—and Brown and his cronies don’t seem to care as long as the money keeps coming in. Doctors and Police are complaining bitterly they have to pick up the pieces, but Brown just shrugs.
Just on this issue alone Brown is a complete disgrace. This is Brown’s version of ‘Socialism’.