Cheap Booze

MPs wish to ban supermarkets from offering cheap alcohol deals and they also want to ban fresher weeks at universities as they believe that both contribute towards a binge drinking society: However, the bars in the Houses of Parliament are subsidised due to the fact that there is not duty on any of the alcohol which is sold. If Members of Parliament wish to influence the drinking habits of their constituents should they not set an example by increasing the price of their own booze? Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, was famously photographed playing a drinking game known as "bunnies" in her pyjamas at Oxford University. As a teenager Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, drunkenly set fire to a greenhouse full of award-winning cacti and Brown, while student rector at Edinburgh in the 1970s, fought against a proposal to cut student grants because recipients were spending too much money on alcohol. He is said to have demanded to know how much money university officials themselves were spending on drink. David Cameron, the Tory leader, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, and Boris Johnson, the London mayor, were members of the exclusive drinking and dining society the Bullingdon Club, infamous for its acts of drunken debauchery, while at Oxford University

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YouTube | July 24, 2008