THIS IS THE BLOG OF COLIN JONES, RHYL TOWN COUNCILLOR: BODFOR WARDl
The opinions expressed in this blog are entirely my own and not the views of the town council.
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Yesterday the Daily Post front page story was about a Rhyl teenager who was the victim of a ‘glassing’ incident last year in the ZuBar night club, West Parade. The young man has had six operations and may not recover sight completely; his attacker admitted to being very drunk at the time. In the same newspaper: a middle-aged disabled man who was more than twice the drink-drive limit crashed into the back of a parked car, and his mother who was his passenger died of her injuries.
Drinking alcohol can increase your aggression and/or decrease your powers of concentration. To the NHS, police and social services, the cost of dealing with problems caused by alcohol is said to be in excess of £20 billion a year in UK. The money is taken out of the pockets of taxpayers (and we are all taxpayers of one kind or another). I believe that it ought to be taken out of the profits of the alcohol industry instead. The cost would be passed on to drinkers of course, and they for the first time in history would pay the real price.
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