The Tories have unveiled radical plans to crack down on the binge-drinking culture.
They would treble taxes on alcopops and strong lagers and ciders, outlaw 'loss leader' sales in supermarkets and strip takeaways and food stores of late-night licences.
The Tories are supposedly the party of small businesses yet they are putting forward policies that would force many food outlets out of business by forcing them to be closed when there are hungry customers wanting to buy food.
Exactly what is it that gives him or his future ministers the competence to micro manage business to the extent of telling them what they can discount, when they can open and where they should place their products?
It doesn't make much sense to transfer the blame for obesity and public drunkenness onto the people selling food and drink, rather than those consuming it. However shops don't vote whereas consumers do so it makes a lot of political sense to blame the retailers rather than say increasing penalties for public disorder or treating being drunk as an aggravating factor rather than a mitigating one when someone has done something wrong (as we already do for motoring offences).
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Exactly what is it that gives him or his future ministers the competence to micro manage business to the extent of telling them what they can discount, when they can open and where they should place their products?
It doesn't make much sense to transfer the blame for obesity and public drunkenness onto the people selling food and drink, rather than those consuming it. However shops don't vote whereas consumers do so it makes a lot of political sense to blame the retailers rather than say increasing penalties for public disorder or treating being drunk as an aggravating factor rather than a mitigating one when someone has done something wrong (as we already do for motoring offences).
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