Crackdown on middle class wine drinkers

Times Online (UK) ^ | June 5, 2007 | Richard Ford, David Rose and Patrick Foster

[gpapa]

Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt.---snip--

“We want to target older drinkers, those that are maybe drinking one or two bottles of wine at home each evening,” a Whitehall source said. “They do not realise the damage they are doing to their health and that they risk developing liver disease. We are not talking here about the traditional wino.”

[popdonnelly]

Way to go, Brits. Crack down on wine drinkers, not Islamics.

[mnehring]

It may be interesting to note that the Islamists may want a crack down on wine drinkers.. maybe this is a way to pander to them, not just avoid going after them...

[ken5050]

“plonk”..ping..

[kinoxi]

"The officers were quite within their rights to break down the door, arrest the couple and take their children away from them. The misses had left a glass of wine on the front porch step and it could clearly be smelled from the street."

Paraphrase of future article.

[Savage Beast]

Install a camera on every telly. Not only can you watch how much wine everybody drinks, but you can watch everything else they do too. Thought of that?

[granite]

ping

[lesser_satan]

And so it begins. Hopefully I’ll be long dead before we reach the end of the road we’re on: a communal dining hall, with asexual pod-people in gray jumpsuits and Devo-upside-down-flower-pot-hats eating their government-provided ration of soy-gruel and before heading outside to do their government-mandated calisthenics and then heading to work at the broom factory, which will have a huge, big-brother-style image of Hillary on every wall.

[VeniVidiVici]

Install a camera on every telly. Not only can you watch how much wine everybody drinks, but you can watch everything else they do too. Thought of that?

I thought they did that already. Oh, um, never mind. Carry on.

[brivette]

We are Devo.

[BipolarBob]

They do not realise the damage they are doing to their health and that they risk developing liver disease.

Yes I do. I'm doing it anyway. Knowingly. So leave me the hell alone.

[Red Boots]

We want to target older drinkers, those that are maybe drinking one or two bottles of wine at home each evening,” a Whitehall source said. “They do not realise the damage they are doing to their health and that they risk developing liver disease. We are not talking here about the traditional wino.”

No, they'll leave him alone, and go after the law-abiding middle class. It's so much easier, you know.

[Aria]

Funny. I’m at the hospital due to an issue with my mother. The person next to my mother had kids visiting and one was encouraging their mother to drink some red wine. The visitor said that Mr. and Mrs. Mondavi drink a bottle of red wine a day and are in their late 90s. I’m wondering if it’s true.
I also heard one of Michael Savage’s favorite calls - a blind guy in New York whose Italian father made his own red wine and for lunch would have red wine and cheese. Father lived into his 90s. As I recall that the father drank quite a bit more than just a glass at lunch.
So...not so sure that SOME red wine isn’t better for us than none at all.

[HaveHadEnough]

"We want to target older drinkers, those that are maybe drinking one or two bottles of wine at home each evening,” a Whitehall source said.

Two bottles of wine a night? Those aren't older drinkers, those are older drunks.

[omega4179]

1-2 bottles of wine IS damaging to the health. Its at least a six pack.

[Mugwump]

“Install a camera on every telly. Not only can you watch how much wine everybody drinks, but you can watch everything else they do too. Thought of that?”

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Sure! George Orwell inadvertently laid out the whole plan in “1984.” It’s just 25 years late, that’s all...

[R.W.Ratikal]

People who believe smoking and drinking wine are unacceptable are unacceptable.

[Paul Heinzman]

“We are not talking here about the traditional wino...” who robs and harasses people to get his or her booze, but the working people who buy it legally.

[ModelBreaker]

Two bottles of wine a night? Those aren't older drinkers, those are older drunks.

That was my thought also. They're gonna be a tough nut to crack. If they've gotten to middle age without having everything fall completely apart, it's going to be hard to convince them they have a problem.

[mylife]

Vivienne Nathanson, the head of science and ethics at the BMA, said: “It is not the nanny state. It is about informed choices.

It doesnt sound like choice to me.