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Professor John Robertson OBA
From Road accident statistics related to alcohol and drug misuse: FOI release, published today, with the data grouped for statistical validity in revealing a trend, into 5 year set averages, we can see a dramatic reduction in the years after the last Labour Government:
- 2004/2008 11 556 collisions
- 2009/2013 – 10 117
- 2014/2018 – 7 843
- 2019/2023 – 4 392
With particular regard to collisions impaired by alcohol, we see an enormous decline from 412 in 2015, one year after Scotland lowered the drink drive level, to only 230 in 2023.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
MUP has decreased alcohol consumption in Scotland. Less people in ill health and dying. The Scottish Gov is funding proper rehabilitation rehab facilities £250million, over five years. The young are drinking less. More education and hard facts.
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When the first report of the impact of MUP was published, the vile Scottish media scoured it to find something which when presented without context would damn MUP.
What they latched on to was that MUP had no effect on the drinking behaviour of the heaviest drinkers. They still drank as much even though it was more expensive. Ergo, MUP was deemed a failure and this was accompanied by performatively angry members of the inhospitality industry fulminating agains what they saw was an ‘attack on the alcohol trade’.
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