http://idealgovernment.com/2009/04/cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://idealgovernment.com/2009/04/cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up/comment-page-1/#comment-2791 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:15:58 +0000 http://cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up#comment-2791 When I were a lad in the mid 80s I did all my underage drinking in the pub. Me and a mate sitting quietly, supping a couple of pints of Banks’s mild of an evening causing neither trouble nor offence to anyone. Oh happy days…..

]]> http://idealgovernment.com/2009/04/cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up/comment-page-1/#comment-2790 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:28 +0000 http://cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up#comment-2790 Say by simply letting them drink, so that it was not in any way a piece of bravado?

]]> http://idealgovernment.com/2009/04/cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up/comment-page-1/#comment-2789 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:03:04 +0000 http://cheers_thisll_cheer_you_up#comment-2789 I have a much more cunning solution to the issue of underage drinking. Tax alcoholic drinks not according to alcohol content, but against their sugar content instead. Hence alcopops zoom up to 5 quid a bottle, with cider not far behind…

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