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If any trace of alcohol was found in your system, extra penalties would apply over and above any that were imposed for the original crime, and even if you were found innocent of that you’d still suffer the penalties for breaking the drink ban. BUT, if anyone saw you drinking alcohol, they could call the police, and if they came round and found that you’d been imbibing you’d be immediately arrested and subjected to whatever sanctions the law decreed – fines, community punishments, and finally imprisonment for severe or repeat offences.īut more to the point, if you got arrested for any other crime, then as soon as you were picked up your records would show that you were barred from drinking, and you’d be automatically breathalysed. If you lose your drinking licence, nobody would try to monitor you. (You could have a points system like driving, or simply a yes/no status.) But if you commit a crime while tanked-up, courts would have the ability to withdraw that right for a set period, instead of or in addition to any other penalty. Everyone who’s old enough is allowed to drink without any legal restriction, just as now. The drinking licence solves that because it focuses on the troublemakers, not the innocent. Decent football fans have for decades been paying the price for pissed-up Old Firm thuggery while others enjoy a beer at their social events. Some wee old pensioner who never hurt anyone in his life, living alone on a poverty income, might cherish the wee nip of cheap supermarket whisky he allows himself on a Friday night or a hot toddy for the cold, only to find one of his few pleasures taken out of reach by minimum pricing because of the actions of some scumbag neds. (There are often wider social causes determining which of those groups someone is in, which obviously need to be dealt with too, but it seems a worthwhile thing in its own right to make the streets safe while we’re doing it.)Īnd the thing about all the current approaches is that they punish the good people as well as the dickheads. Some people can get off their face a thousand times and never cause anyone any problems beyond a bit of off-key karaoke or slightly excessive hugging, whereas a couple of vodkas turn others into monsters.

A drinking licence would be a purely notional thing, and everyone of the required age would have it by default.īut the problem with alcohol is that SOME people can’t be trusted with it and some can. We’re not suggesting a test, nor a card you have to carry around and show at the bar before the publican will pull you a pint. We’ve got a much better idea: the drinking licence.īooze kills vastly more people in Scotland every year than cars do, and we don’t let people get behind the wheel of a car if they can’t handle it, so why should a bottle of nasty cheap cider be any different? You can blanket the country in CCTV cameras, but that’s costly, labour-intensive and it only treats the symptoms, not the cause. But what to do? You can make it more expensive, but that only affects poor people.

Everyone knows Scotland has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and has done more or less forever.

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See what you think.įor once we won’t trouble you with a torrent of stats. To give you an idea of what we mean, we’re going to start off by outlining a personal pet idea we’ve had for years, and which is an attempt to tackle one of Scotland’s most toxic problems – alcohol abuse. It’s a simple concept, it’s cheap to implement, it doesn’t punish the innocent and it seems like it’d work. If there’s something you’d like to talk about in front of a sizeable audience, drop us a line.

We happen to be on the left of the political spectrum, but that’s neither here nor there while Scotland’s politics are at the mercy of the whims of voters elsewhere.īut just for a change of pace at the weekends, when there tends not to be much happening, we thought we might try having a space where broader ideas can be debated outwith the framework of the constitutional debate or party politics.

We’re not aligned to any party, and our primary goal is to see Scotland become a national democracy in which all voices can be heard. Here on Wings we don’t tend to deal very much in specific political issues, other than independence.

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