Solution to New Zealand's Drinking Problem
RECOMMENDATIONS
* Only people aged 20 and over can buy alcohol at off-licences.
* Bars and clubs to stop selling alcohol at 2am, with some extensions to 4am for those with a one-way door policy.
* Powers for police to immediately close bars and clubs that breach liquor laws.
* Drunkenness in a public place punishable by an infringement notice.
* Increase excise tax.
* Lower excise tax on low-alcohol drinks.
* Powers for Government to ban some drinks on health grounds.
Ban the sale of beer in all shops and bars. Altogether including equipment to produce homebrew.
Ban the sale of cheap wine. Make it illegal to produce or import wine that costs less than $NZ50 a bottle. It tastes like shit anyway. New Zealanders need to grow up and treat themselves to better wine.
Ban the sale of all spirits. Including especially those cheap pre-mixes. Gone.
The only alcohol available in bars, shops and supermarkets should be champagne. Abundant amounts of champagne. And that sparkling shit served in New Zealand I repeat is NOT champagne.
Champagne is a happy drink.
Switch the entire country to getting plastered on fine French champagne.
And if you can't afford it then you shouldn't be drinking at all. You are entirely the reason for the need for change in the first place and are ruining it for the sensible people.
posted by Cactus Kate at 11:11 AM
7 Comments:
I don't thin so, Cactus. Can we at least retain a voddy or two for those who don't like champagne. Actually I wrote a stuff blog on this and some of the wowser faction that are pushing to tighten up incredibly on booze, raise taxes etc. One professional anti-liquor campaigner, Prof Doug Sellman contends alcohol is more dangerous than Fantasy (GBH) - a Class B drug. Hello? I sense nanny state on the march again thanks to a taxpayer funded campaign aimed at telling us what to do.
What do you mean people don't like champagne?
For fuck's sake I was going to send half a dozen over to your place!
Hmmm... is it true that exquisite chamagne results in an exquisite hangover? I'm keen to conduct an experiment, but it will have to be your shout.
I would also add single malt scotch to the list, no less than 12years old.. the scotch that is, not the person drinking it... although...
KPete
Aww come on... I'm quite fond of some of the $30 bottles of vino round. Certainly ban the Marque Spew and the like but leave the averagely good stuff.
mind you to qualify that. That is $30 bottles of wine at the cellar door not in a bar (where it becomes at least a $50 bottle)... so maybe I do agree.
nah... I'm happy with my $11.99 (on special) a bottle Pinot noir.
Before you ask... I'm a 30 something who prefers red over white.
I was at the Food Show on Thursday and the $5 glasses of Piper Hideseck were delicious.
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