Las notas de prensa de la Libertarian Alliance, think tank liberal británico, son impagables. Las escribe Sean Gabb. La última, a propósito de la intención del gobierno de subir los impuestos al alcohol, fijar precios mínimos y restringir su publicidad. La copio entera:
"These measures, if adopted, amount to an attack on the poor. The ruling class politicians who continually whine about alcohol will not be affected by minimum pricing or the abolition of special offers. I might add that none of them can be affected by such laws. Income aside, anyone who lies his way into Parliament can look forward to round the clock drinking in the Palace of Westminster of untaxed alcohol."But the measures will hurt poor people, for whom alcohol will become cripplingly expensive and hard to find. They have the same right to drink as the rest of us. Bearing in mind the problems willed on them by our exploitative ruling class, they often have a greater need to drink.
"The claim that drinking 'causes' public disorder is nonsense. Alcohol does not run about the streets. People do. If people are making nuisances of themselves, the police should be instructed to stop behaving like New Labour's equivalent of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and to start protecting life and property again.
"The claim that drinking makes people unhealthy is irrelevant, where not a lie. People must be regarded as responsible for their own mistakes. Anyone who bleats about increased cost to the National Health Service should consider that drinkers already pay more in taxes than the alleged cost of treating their specific illnesses.
"We oppose all controls on the availability of alcohol to adults. Better England free than England sober."
