Letters / The poor will suffer
Where there is alcohol, misuse alcohol will be purchased, regardless of cost! Wealthy families will breeze through it, unaffected as they have the means to pay (Health board welcomes alcohol price ruling; SN, 15/11/2017).
Poor families will suffer more than they do already. There will be even less money for food, nappies, clothes and other essentials; alcohol will still be purchased!
I cringe at the narrow-mindedness of this policy and the obvious lack of its supporters’ understanding of the reality of its impacts.
Folk advocating this policy must have breezed through life, blissfully unaware of or refusing to acknowledge those trapped in situations that can’t be solved by selective choices from supermarket shelves.
They should have solicited the views of those that have dealt with child/family deprivation at the sharp end, seen the impact of drink/drugs and their cost v the sacrifice of child welfare!
If dependency were controlled by cost then consider the vast number of drug addicts that cannot afford the gear, go on crime sprees to fund their habits.
Cost doesn’t work there (even with the threat of prison sentences) so why the heck do these sanctimonious, ill informed souls believe it will work with booze?
Stella Winks
Trondra
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