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Leo the Neoprohibitionist 8 years 9 months ago #1

TheBeerNut
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I'd seen various comments from Leo Varadkar over the years about minimum pricing and restricting access to alcohol: the usual neoprohibitionist rhetoric. His remarks at the launch of the new National Drugs Strategy on Monday show that he's going to be all-out with this political catnip now he's in charge:

&quot;An Taoiseach&quot;:3p0cea50 wrote: We need to face up to that as a society. The solution is not prohibition. The solution is denormalisation, making sure that alcohol is no longer treated as a normal grocery, something that you buy in a shop as if it were like buying fruit or buying a pizza. It’s not. It is a drug. Prohibition won’t work. But we must make it less normal[/quote:3p0cea50]Link.[/url:3p0cea50]

We've been saying that denormalisation has been the neopro's strategy since the beginning, but it's still a bit chilling to see it set out like this.

They won't be happy with the advertising ban, structural separation and minimum pricing either, mind.

Leo the Neoprohibitionist 8 years 9 months ago #2

andrew Offline Posts: 3334	I'll have a chat with him about it next time I see him in The Headline...

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TheBeerNut Topic Author Offline Posts: 11663	I knew you could get this sorted for us.

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andrew Offline Posts: 3334	I think he's heading down later for a pint of the Cloudwater/Brewdog collab.

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TheBeerNut Topic Author Offline Posts: 11663	I didn't think the Taoiseach's job was that well paid.

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andrew Offline Posts: 3334	Apparently it's a claimable expense.

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