I know I shouldn’t extrapolate from a few face book comments to tar an entire group with the same broad brush, but this recent post to the CAMRA group on face book convinces me that some people really aren’t paying attention. In fact they’re obviously paid so little attention that the battle to save booze from the same fate as has so far befell smoking has probably been lost already. How after all the bans we’ve already seen can anyone still ask “IS this advertising ban going too far” rather than “how do we stop this lunacy dead in it’s tracks”? More depressing none of the few comments say out right it’s insane or a bad thing, they just suggest other targets it should be applied to, “no take them, they’re much worse than we are”. The article being commented on is the usual MP’s considering banning alcohol advertising and considering putting bogus health warnings on alcohol, that everyone reading this I’m sure are familiar with. Just as well that the whole Tobacco controls being a slippery slope is a myth and it’s all pure coincidence that they want to apply all the same measures to alcohol, nope no slippery slope here, move along nothing to see.
In the face of such idiocy, I’m off to the pub.
