In a further erosion of civil liberties the centralised Labour Soviet appears to me to be on a mission to introduce some limited form of prohibition. Nanny Government has already begun manipulating the press and media with a whispering campaign designed to demonise drink to the point where a gullible sheep like electorate will accept yet a another law designed to do nothing other take away individual choice in favour of dour Scottish Presbyterianism.
As an example of the media spin being applied to this I would cite the recent horrific car crash in the Cotswolds that killed six people on Friday 7th March 2008. All of the reports have made much of the fact that one of the drivers had a previous conviction for ‘Drink Driving’ with headlines such as “Six die in road horror blamed on convicted drink-driver” and “Crash man 'had drink conviction'”. All the reports clearly imply that ‘Drink’ was the cause of the accident, however there is no report that the driver concerned was over the legal limit at the time of the crash. I am not advocating that drinking and driving is in any way acceptable or that anyone should be allowed to irresponsibly kill others on our roads my point is that there is no evidence that alcohol was the cause or was even a contributory factor to this accident.
The Labour media spin masters have let this rumour and innuendo (for that is all it is) persist as it is another plank in the platform they are building to limit alcohol sales.
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