UK Politics General Discussion

[DiogoJ42]

Latest idea is to ban the sale of beer by the pint. 3/4 pint only will be the largest you can buy.

Can we riot now?

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

Latest idea is to ban the sale of beer by the pint. 2/3rds only will be the largest you can buy.

Can we riot now?

That's not true. The idea is 2/3rds as the standard/default unit you can buy. You can also, always, just buy another one...

The government has no plans to remove pints as the largest serving size of draught beer, but former Tory cabinet minister Lord Vaizey told the BBC he thought it was "a good idea" that should not be "dismissed out of hand".

Source: BBC News - Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints - BBC News

Small beer: Study calls on government to shrink pints

Cambridge University found serving beer in two-thirds of a pint glasses led to a 10% drop in drinking.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Poisson]

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic springs to mind....

 

[Squiggs]

So, importantly, not something under actual consideration by the government.

The way that the news media cover academic studies is truly baffling sometimes.

 

[DiogoJ42]

So, importantly, not something under actual consideration by the government.

The way that the news media cover academic studies is truly baffling sometimes.

But it is exactly the kind of thing they would do.

 

[Benzin]

Doubt it'd be worth the hassle of annoying the amount of people and businesses.

But gets people up in arms over something that wasn't likely to be even considered anytime soon. Good old news media strikes again.


As for the "not bribes honest" stuff, if Starmer earned the most of these ever, does that say more about his tastes or did others not report every gift to them?