I understand a charity called Alcohol Concern is saying (according to the BBC) the age when alcohol should not be given to children under any circumstances should be increased to 15, from 5 now.
I understand the Grip Water given when I was young had 4% alcohol and shandy under 2% was sold with the soft drinks. I may have this wrong as it is memories from many years ago.
I understand that some give a small drink to children or with water at special occasions so as not to make a big deal out of drinking. I am sure this works with some and not others, but this is probably the case with whatever you do. I understand that the Minister said it would be very difficult to police, though you wonder about some of these groups, do they want every second of every person watched, perhaps we do not have enough CCTV cameras, which in some cases are fine, but footage should only be used where a crime has been committed. They also want the price to go up, well that will give the Government more money to waste, or perhaps they think the extra should go to groups such as theirs.
In the past I made home-made wine and a bit of beer, but with the reduction in prices and my other interests this has stopped and I feel more did make wine and beer at home in the past, so is it just the measurable amount of alcohol (that bought) that has gone up but overall gone down. Not all home-made came from kits and who know what kits were made and how many failed. So are their statistic correct. After all at school I was told the oil in the North Sea would run out in the 1990's and in 1985 by the year 2000 there would be 2,000,000 who were HIV+ and 1,000,000 dead, the insurance companies excuse for increasing male life insurance premiums by about 50%.
Anyway, what I wonder is, has this charity over stepped the mark and become a pressure group not entitled to tax exempt status? I understand there are organisations that are classed as pressure groups as they lobby for a change in the law. I hear charities doing the same thing but they keep their charitable status and so are subsidised by the British Tax Payer.
When a charity as with any organisation anything said is only being said by a proportion of that group, usually the stronger character types from the organising committee. Ian
I understand the Grip Water given when I was young had 4% alcohol and shandy under 2% was sold with the soft drinks. I may have this wrong as it is memories from many years ago.
I understand that some give a small drink to children or with water at special occasions so as not to make a big deal out of drinking. I am sure this works with some and not others, but this is probably the case with whatever you do. I understand that the Minister said it would be very difficult to police, though you wonder about some of these groups, do they want every second of every person watched, perhaps we do not have enough CCTV cameras, which in some cases are fine, but footage should only be used where a crime has been committed. They also want the price to go up, well that will give the Government more money to waste, or perhaps they think the extra should go to groups such as theirs.
In the past I made home-made wine and a bit of beer, but with the reduction in prices and my other interests this has stopped and I feel more did make wine and beer at home in the past, so is it just the measurable amount of alcohol (that bought) that has gone up but overall gone down. Not all home-made came from kits and who know what kits were made and how many failed. So are their statistic correct. After all at school I was told the oil in the North Sea would run out in the 1990's and in 1985 by the year 2000 there would be 2,000,000 who were HIV+ and 1,000,000 dead, the insurance companies excuse for increasing male life insurance premiums by about 50%.
Anyway, what I wonder is, has this charity over stepped the mark and become a pressure group not entitled to tax exempt status? I understand there are organisations that are classed as pressure groups as they lobby for a change in the law. I hear charities doing the same thing but they keep their charitable status and so are subsidised by the British Tax Payer.
When a charity as with any organisation anything said is only being said by a proportion of that group, usually the stronger character types from the organising committee. Ian
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