The end of the booze cruise is nigh!
It seems that it’s worst than I thought. I reported yesterday that the EU were going to introduce warning labels on alcohol. Well it seems that Finland, who currently hold the Presidency of the EU, plan to harmonise tax on alcohol upwards, i.e. towards the member state that has the largest tax. Currently Sweden is the highest but the UK can’t be far behind.
The end of booze cruises is nigh!
What will become of the low duty beer port of Calais when there are no longer any British alcoholics wanting to visit?! There’s nothing else there of interest!
To think that Customs will have to start catching real criminals instead of confiscating day tripper’s cars (luckily they’re not allowed to do that anymore anyway). And ferry companies will probably go broke!
Looks like we’ll all be supporting the proposal for free wine (reported yesterday). It’ll be the only way we can afford it.
July 8th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Warning labels? Extra taxing on alcohol. I don’t know, but the Finnish are beginning to sound to me like Americans, where everything needs a warning label because otherwise we are to stupid to know and, at any rate, we need to be scared of everything we drink, eat, see, smell, put on, drive, experience, and think…
July 13th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
There’s a big difference between the Finns and the Americans. Finland does it to stop people hurting themselves, America does it to stop companies getting sued.