UK Supreme Court Allows Scotland to Effectively Stop Poorer People Buying Alcohol

>Britain’s Supreme Court has allowed Scotland to become the first country in the world to set a minimum price for alcohol, after a five-year legal battle. The measure is intended to bring down levels of drinking and related harms in the country, but is likely to only affect those on low incomes, critics argue.

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I think killing the poor would be more effective.

why are poor people allowed to spend on alcohol? its a drag on the nhs

They will just steal it now.

This is what they did with cigarettes. It would be a real pain in the ass if this took off.

Welp. I guess it's time for rural Scots to start making barrels of "sheep dip" again.

So basically, Prohibition 2: Wee Ninny Boogaloo.

Go ahead, keep taking away all escape methods from the lower classes. See what happens when they are forced to face reality.

6 apples, 6 oranges, 6 lemons, a bag of raisians, 6 large potatoes, cut and mash up and in a plastic bucket. Add yeast to a cup of tepid water and sugar. put lid on bucket. 2 weeks later you have something that tastes not good but strength of beer.

Begin to experiment with freezer distillation to produce home made breezers.

Half the jakies who try this recipe will sell on to more fucked up pals and begin to attract customers.
5 years from now some piss sodden drunk currently sleeping behind a bustop in Maryhill will be on Dragons Den.

Or make it at home. Very easy, much cheaper than any shit they sold before. Just takes time.

This.

Every time in history the government makes decisions like this, people just bootleg. Some sheep rancher is going to make a fortune on bathtub gin or potato vodka.

I don't think freeze disillation works. Some of the ethanol gets trapped in the water ice. I've tried it, and it didn't concentrate my stuff in any appreciable way. There might be a method to crush the ice the right amount, maybe. But even that didn't work. Tried maybe half a dozen batches.

as a Scot I am interested in your fine moonshine recipe my good man.
How can I make this concoction more palatable?

>but is likely to only affect those on low incomes


good

Making your own alcohol isn't very hard. You can even make it 96% alcohol, over twice as strong as the 40% vodka/whiskey/cognac etc. you buy legally.

Politicians and judges really are some of the stupidest people alive.

Scotland
YES!

>£12 for a bottle of Frosty
This kills the cheap wizz

I don't know about you, but I feel safer. Thanks, government.

Maybe, maybe the poor wouldn't be so poor if they didn't waste money on luxuries. Why do poors drink, smoke and go to resturaunts so much if they're so poor?

it's to help them work harder at all those jobs that don't exist in scotland

>inb4 yet another cross-border invasion of desperate micks

Fuck off we're full.

>alcoholics have to pay more for their fix
>they became malnourished or homeless because of the price increase
>Scottish government has to spend money solves these issues
Fucking retards.

Most likely it'll be malted barley new make and Irish style Potcheen. Nothing as refined and filtered as vodka.

>They think taxing something into oblivion will stop people using it
>They haven't learned from drug bans
>They haven't learned a damn thing
Isn't Scotland the same place that has outlawed smacking and has a named person for every child? They complain about muh oil shekels and yet this is where the oil money goes.

Pathetic.

>taking a shot with your imaginary air gun
>take an imaginary sip of your favourite alcoholic beverage to celebrate
at least I have my TV licence

I suppose you could mix it with some cola. Carbonation can take the edge off bad flavours.

It is now cheaper for me to invade england and pillage corner shops than it is to buy drinks in scotland.

>snp out can't come soon enough

We can’t “kill the poor”, user.

And risk you Scots infecting us with more leftism? Haven't you done enough damage to the entire UK with your nanny state bullshit? Wasn't that long ago that we had handguns banned because feelings got hurt and Andy Murray was a retard.

Fix your shit.

I think Scots are good people and have cute accents. I'll buy some of you a round

Alkys are going to buy booze no matter the price. Fucking retarded move.

Now the Sc*ts will buy their booze from England, yes yessss yes yessss *hiss* yesss

m8, there's loads of homebrew beer tutorials on youtube.

YES

so they put taxes on labor to prevent people from finding jobs. thanks good to know

whiter than you muhammed

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Abdul bin Haggis please can you Fuck ibn Off.

>has a named person for every child?
What does this sentence mean?

Watch as the poor become steadily richer until they can afford booze again.

silence angrel monstrosity!

its only the first batch that you have to wait for. once you got the production going you can drink whenever you want. its very easy to make a plastic alcohol still

>first place in the world
Quebec set a floor price on beer a while back.
This lead to a huge drop in prices (lowest in Canada anyway).
Premium brands lowered the price since they knew they couldn’t be undercut by garbage-tier swill.

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>Doesn't know that England is more Celtic than Nordic viking rape children of Scotland with their haggis tits and ugly faces
Fuck off you inbred.

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Literal inbreds.

When you "kill the poor" do the people that were above those people become the poor?

don't be mutthurt nigel

Anyone feeling entrepreneurial could set up cheap booze shops on the English side of the border and cash in.

What happens with booze bought online? Business based in England, delivers to Scotland - is it this easy to defeat? Seems like only booze bought in pubs is going to be affected.

Way to cause more class warfare UK. Fuckin posh pricks.

>We can’t “kill the poor”, user.
Have you tried running it through the computer?

that sounds a lot better than Alberta's system

Liquor distribution is controlled by the Government, so they basically charge whatever they want to the liquor stores. Booze here is expensive as fuck.

PLEASE

I can support this. How can we further meme this into fruition?

>100% pure Celtic
The only reason your SNP exists is because Alex Salmond got dumped by an English whore.

Not even joking, you're that buttmad.

...

What's the black market like for liquor in Alberta?

>When you "kill the poor" do the people that were above those people become the poor?

Hmm, yes, yes they would.

LMAO
>ten years down the road the leadership is fell
>the smell of liquor pervades their parlaiment
> so drunk on BBC clips must be cut
> the "elite" can't understand what happened

begone hideous angloblin, stop screeching at me

Eat them.

LOL. Clever.

Fix your shit you cucked little lefty nanny state cunt.

God you Scots ruin everything, cancer and you need to be nuked.

It works to bump a 5% beer to 8% although it doesn't help that it will also concentrate off flavors. I had some success with some hard cider I made, but imo you're better off just using a higher abv tolerant yeast and boosting with some added sugar.

As a former social worker, this horrifies me. How do Scottish CPS workers prioritize and sift through the unchecked deluge of reports because "My assigned child has a scraped knee"?

somebodys sweetheart got HAGGISED didn't they my little angoblin?

Same as moonshine?

>try for a 5th

toppest of keks to you

Bit of a silly question, but are the excess profits going to the manufacturer, the reseller or taxes?

Read it, they cannot implement it, the Scottish government has waste millions on this bullshit, like they've wasted millions on other schemes, like how the Scottish NHS had a massive loss of money under Nicola STIRRgeon's watch yet those retards still vote for the Scottish Cuck Party because they're idiots.

IDIOTS that deserve death.


There isn't an ounce of Celt in you Nordic blue eye'd shits. You're more Anglo than England is, you hideous inbred skirt wearing tranny leftits.

Get back behind Hadrian's wall where you belong you scum! SCUM!

Yep, this plan is moronic.
Anyone even vague familiar with alcoholics know they'd rather skip a meal than drink less.

5x lel

This is good, alcohol is degenerate. In my state you can only buy alcohol from Alcohol Beverage Control stores from 10-2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also hard liquor is banned completely.

Yes. The term came from the practice of old home distillers in Scotland storing their whisky in barrels labeled "SD" or "Sheep dip" to throw off tax agents. Sheep Dip is also the name of an above average blended malt scotch that I recommend.

That isn't moonshine m9. Moonshine is the end product of illegaly distilling the mash of your fancy.
If you want to get into home brew I'd suggest looking up Joe's Ancient Orange Mead Recipe or Edwort's Apfelwein, both are easy to do and hard to fuck up. You can even do them with bread yeast if you take care of your wort.

White Sharia demands prohibition faggot now get up on that roof.

Homemade hooch and bathtub gin incoming.
It's really not that fuckin hard to make alcohol.

Fucking Utah. You are simultaneously the most retarded and most based state in the union.

First country in the world? I'm pretty sure we have this in Canada already. In addition we can only buy drinks for home from some special stores (in Ontario at least)

kek

Alcohol needs to be banned for everyone. There aren't any benefits and it kills millions of people. It's degenerate, it makes people fat, and it makes men feminine. Alcohol stops test production for up to 3 days. It also increases costs for a nationalized healthcare system. It's time to ban it.

I work at a liquor store in Vegas. I couldn't understand why the Canadian tourists would come all this way just to buy Canadian whiskey for their vacation. Then one of them told me what a fifth of Black Velvet costs back home. Fucking disgusting.

>the government knows best!
the absolute state of the UK
christ

Fucking puritans, you're on par with durkas. Please die, you offer no benefit to humanity and you waste our oxygen.

>Set price of fat, sugar, booze and coffee to 10 fifillion bongity boos
>People die from Ishmael s brothers toxic bootleg
Yes this is much better, thanks nanny state

>makes men feminine
That's the hops in beer, friendo. Not the ethanol.

This is a devolved matter affecting only Scotland. This court case is Scottish oil money being put to work.

Enjoy it.

>drive over to bc or Saskatchewan
>stock up
>drive home
Plus your gas is cheap

>begging your government to raise taxes on your drinks and thanking them for the health benefits

Isn't alcohol outlawed in parts of Canada with those Canadian Indian natives that drink mouthwash?

mysterious spike in knifecrime incoming

The Scots are too pissed out of their heads to even notice. Given drunks buy 3ltr bottles of cider, Special Brew, or Buckfast "medicinal" Wine, this is going to have 0% effect on the nation's perpetual alcholism. Slapping 50p on the till price is not a deterrent to a country dragging along on welfare, they'll just skip the shortbread every other day now.

your socialism is cancer and will fail.

>Scottish socialism is cancer and will fail.*
ftfy and I agree.

It's not about being a puritan. Things that can be melt in the bedroom are fine, but things like alcohol affect society. You wanna know why nu-males are a thing? Alcohol is a big part of it. It's a depressant and stops testosterone production for up to 3 days, while letting estrogen enter your system. Alcohol is making men fat and womanly. Is this really the society you want? A bunch of fat and girly men all for a drink that isn't even real fun?

Censor television because it offends the UK'S new muslim majority.

This will simply create a large black market in peatreek....

Navajo nation is one place, but that’s in the USA.
Nah, here they just too poor and isolated. Some tribes have no roads connecting them to the outside world. Just the occasional plane or ice road truck.

>Not knowing you can get prescription alcohol on the NHS
>And opiates
>Also pizza
The system works

>He says whilst shoving a happy meal down his fat fucking gullet
Please go away, you Americans of all people should be the ones arguing the case against the state getting involved in personal freedoms. Then again Puritan prudes were always and will always be pathetic, hypocritical cuckolds that should have been gassed, not given a country to ruin.

So what was that documentary I saw where there's all these Native Canadians (that are whiter than the Irish) going into stores where it costs 500 billion Canadian dollars to buy a shot of Vodka? What the hell Canada.

Men have been drinking alcohol since the dawn of civilization. They aren't going to stop. Remember how well Prohibition in the US worked?

>Not knowing you can get prescription alcohol on the NHS
Sodium Oxybate and Diazepam are not alcohol.