I’ve just heard David Steel talking on BBC Radio 4’s Question Time about the problem of youths drinking and the loutish and violent behaviour that often results. As I expected, he proposed putting up the price of alcohol.
I regularly see and smell young teenagers smoking skunk marijuana at bus stops and in parks. If kids of 15 and 16 are able to buy skunk weed at £120 per ounce, does anyone seriously think that hiking the price of booze will be a cure for their drinking habits? It is just nonsense and such a policy that will hit everyone including those adults who do have a sense of personal responsibility.
Lets shove these louts into boot camp or the army for a year or two and then we’d see how fast they learn a sense of discipline and responsibility.
