Anonymous

Last Sunday this was the headlines on The Sunday Post’s front page.

“Scots flooding across border to snap up cut price alcohol”

Where apparently alcohol was being bought in “bulk” by Scots when in England.

Apparently this was during trips to England, so people are not specifically going to England just to buy alcohol in bulk then ?

As in the same alcohol that if bought in bulk and then consumed excessively it then has a detrimental impact on your health as it can be deadly.

According to the Sunday Post “soaring alcohol prices in Scotland” are then “driving shoppers online and over the border into England in search of bargains”.

But wait what is happening in England with alcohol consumption ?

Well today it was reported on the BBC website in their UK & Health sections (but not their UK Politics page) that:

“There has been “a catastrophic rise” in deaths caused solely by alcohol in England over the past four years, government figures suggest”.

“More than 8,200 people died because of alcohol in 2023 – a 42% rise on 2019 – with the North East having the highest rates”.

“The Alcohol Health Alliance UK says alcohol consumption could be reduced if a minimum price for each unit was introduced, as in Scotland“.

Wait what ?

“Alcohol consumption could be reduced if a minimum price for each unit was introduced, as in Scotland”.

Of course the BBC being the BBC added into this article that “During the pandemic, deaths caused by alcohol rose sharply across the UK” yet this specific article was only supposed to be in relation to England only.

You know I’m beginning to think that it’s certain parts of the media in Scotland that are the real hazard for public health in Scotland and not the Scottish government , who they, certain media, always blame.

The Sunday Post communicating to it’s Scottish readers where they should go to get “cheaper alcohol” in bulk and thus encourage more alcohol use , to then instigate a similar “catastrophic rise” in alcohol deaths to exist within Scotland as exists within England , where it is now reported that there is a “catastrophic rise in deaths caused solely by alcohol in England”.

(Though all of the media in Scotland have tried their best to promote this ridiculous story in the past, as in that many Scots were travelling to England to buy ‘cheap alcohol’ due to minimum pricing by the Scottish government ).

I know the UK is very very bad for Scotland, but there’s no need for their media to try to drive us (as in encourage and incite us), in Scotland, to drink (excessively) ?

Or is there ?