Pass the sick bag someone, I see that Nanny is now having a go at the drinking habits of pensioners.
The BBC's Panorama programme, no doubt at the behest of Nanny, decided to ask Sheffield University to model the effects of a 50p per
unit minimum price.
Statisticians estimated the effect would be 50,000 fewer alcohol-related
deaths in England among over 65s, over the course of 10 years.
Suffice to say this will now feature on next Monday's Panorama which airs ("oddly" enough) at the same time as Andrew Lansley (who thought minimum pricing was bollocks) has been sacked and the Home Orifice is saying the following:
"We will introduce a minimum unit price for
alcohol, ensuring for the first time that alcohol can only be sold at a
sensible and appropriate price.
The proposal has the backing of the Royal College of Physicians and the
Association of Chief Police Officers and could mean 50,000 fewer crimes and
around 900 fewer alcohol related deaths per year by the end of the decade.
We will consult on the level of minimum unit price in the autumn.”
There you have it ladies and gentlemen, Nanny has made her mind up and is using the BBC to do her dirty work for her by pre empting a "hue and cry" over pensioner deaths from alcohol.
In the programme, according to the
Telegraph, Sarah Wadd, director of the Substance Misuse and Ageing Research Team at the
University of Bedfordshire, says:
“We might be on a cusp of an
epidemic of people drinking problematically in old age.”
"
We might be"???
That doesn't sound very scientific to me!
Dr Richard Aspinall, a liver specialist at Queen Alexandra Hospital in
Portsmouth, said:
"We think of a very visible social disorder,
consequences of young people binge drinking on a Saturday night in our town
centres but what’s much more hidden is quiet, below the radar drinking at
home and it’s very easy for people to drink more than they are actually
aware of, to get above the safe limits.”
Nanny pretends to be concerned about the welfare of pensioners, that makes me puke!
Were Nanny to be really so concerned about pensioners welfare and well being, she would address the following issues:
- The lousy level of pensions
- The disgraceful "quality" of care being provided to the elderly by public and private healthcare organisations
- Discrimination being practised against the elderly by the NHS in terms of speed and quality of treatments offered
- The patronising treatment of the elderly by society as a whole, and most specifically the state
- The right to assisted death with dignity, as and when someone (not necessarily elderly) wants it etc.
Nanny will not address these issues, instead she will focus on Cameron's fetish of minimum alcohol pricing.
As and when I start to enter my final years I can assure you that the thought of ending up in one of Nanny's homes, on a drip wallowing in my own shit, unwashed uncared for will most certainly drive me to drink.
I want no part Nanny's system for the elderly and will most assuredly (if I am still physically/mentally able) end my days with dignity with a bottle of vodka and a box of pills before Nanny can get her bony hands on me!
This country offers elderly people nothing but misery to look forward to, Nanny should be subsidising their drink not taxing it!
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