DRINK UP LADS

[Lou Barron]

Like most of you guys i like my liquor but i dont drink to get drunk i like to enjoy a few ales or a G&T or a wine .Inthe old days i use to drink to enjoy myself and have a good time and i just love partys .To some of the younger generation they get drunk and start to fight or cause trouble .We were no angels but i think that we could handle our drink a lot better than they do these days .That is one of the biggest problems inNZ these day drugs and booze the cause of family violence

[Rocky]

Every year they add tax to beer and people just cant afford to go out anymore what they can afford is to buy cheap imported boooooze from that guy down the road with a tranny van you know the one every council estate in the country has one never worked 15 screaming kids out till all hours the brokendown cortina MK1 that he claims is being restored

This guy wont pay taxes on what he earns from selling his cheap imports and supply will be enough for the whole estate causing more pubs to close bar-staff out of a job so they end up buying off him as well its been happening for years and getting worse every year the price increases will not cut the drinking they will drive the drinkers to buying imports

The next thing they do is spend more money on advertising campaigns telling us that the "criminal gangs " are making a fortune off of everyone that they supply


Clear up the problem cut the taxes on booze and baccy the importers wont be able to make a profit after paying diesel and ferry fares more people will buy from regular stores and pubs creating more bar-staff jobs and pubs opening up again and everyone happy again only one thing left to sort out who wants the job of shooting the drug dealers stuff the human rights brigade

failing all that i suppose with 45p per unit i can start drinking carling what will that be about 10p per pint

[Tony Wilding]

Whenever the Powers in charge make a decision, its allways the innocent who suffer most. we are on very limited incomes in most cases, there is talk now of VAT rising to 25% every week we have to stretch our budget, its totally unfair that an MP can buy cheap subsidized drinks, they earn a fortune compared to us, plus there endless expenses, plus i believe they have a smoking room there, all the time they get preferential treatment they will never treat us fairly. am afraid we will never win. and they know it.

[happy daze john in oz]

Couple of years ago the Uk gov added an increase in tax to the 'Alcopop' drinks. Ready made such as Bacardi Breezers etc. This will stop the kids getting drunk they said, here in Oz we folowed suit. So the kids went out and got bottles of Vodka and downed that before going out. Now two years later sales are at the level they were before the extra tax was added. Why am I not surprized?
But we have a new drinking fasion here in Oz with the younger ones, 'Gooney' drinking.
A cask of wine is suspended from a rotary clothes line. The drinkers stnd underneath and the thing spins. When it stops the person nearest the cask has to drink from it until the others say stop, then spin again.

[Ivan Cloherty]

John reminds me of 'African Roulette' when the candidate stands naked inside a circle of native women and they spin you around, whichever one you stop spinning in front of gives you a blowjob, down side is one of them is a cannibal.

[Keith Tindell]

The quickest way to cure the problem, is to pay plod overtime to come into the town centres in force, or wherever the problem drinkers are, arrest all those being a nuisance, set up next day courts (like they do for football hooligans), and fine them ,say £200. If they ask for time to pay, grant it at £50 week. Do that every weekend, and in no time they wont have any money to go out at weekends on the p***. We have to stop being so bloody soft. KT

[Lou Barron]

Here in Dunedin we have a university and in recent years the students (not all of them )have been the worst offenders of drunk problems setting fire to start fires in the sreets burning sofas and causing a lot of damage even peltig empty beer bottles at the firemen and police .They have tightened up a lot now but it still goes on .It is noying to see them loading up a trolley in the super market with booze .I have told my sons if you drink behave yourself have a good time and enjoy it