"Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink."
-e.e. Cummings
I thought this was so perfectly fitting after these reports came out about Scottish hospitals admitting over 36,000 patients due to alcohol related illness or injury in 2009, and over half of all Scottish prisoners saying they were intoxicated whilst committing the crime they are serving for.
As a result of these stories, political talk is being screamed. Labour is saying if they form the next government of Scotland, then the price of alcohol will surely rise in an attempt to curb crime, illness, 'anti social' behaviour, and death.
Perhaps the Scottish, and indeed all of us, need to exercise a bit of self-control instead of having a government/economic policy force us to have empty pockets if we want a night out.
Hooray.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hOcNCUcbiA2xdCQh6P96FZVbNlvQ?docId=N0094561298375019852A
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/concern-at-volume-of-spirits-scots-are-drinking-1.1086697
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