It Won't Work.

The cheif medical officer for England and Wales wants to introduce a minimum price of 50p per unit in order to feter binge drinking. I cant see this working as it will hit the middle class wine drinker disproportionately as against those who swill dirt cheapLager. I would have thought that a clampdown on some of the really cheap booze deals might be more effective but I would have thought that any government would be wary of introducing measures that might increase unemployment in the licensed trade even further in the midst of a recession