Just watching an old Simpsons episode - prohibition is coming to Springfield, and it got me thinking how would the UK cope if there was a TOTAL absence of alcohol where NO ONE from the bottom to the elite of society could get so much as a sniff(not even on the black market). No BEER, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER - NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL!

a.) Would it affect you?
b.) Do you think this could lead to social upheaval?

JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER!

Sobering thought

Like the Smoking Ban they would still have it in the Commons Bar.

Proper home brew would be nigh on impossible in the city with the price of fruit and veg, leaving many resulting to industrial alcohol.

The rest of the population would be on drugs with people seeking an alternative form of intoxication and a snowball effect through an 'if you can't beat them join them' approach to dealing with coked up w4ankers.

Edited by johnfirewall (28 Apr 2015 8.18pm)

I'm tee total so I would be ok.

I'd suggest that it would increase the harm caused in society by alcohol, have little impact on demand and supply, create a source of huge income for organized crime, create a massive black market run by gangs, reduce the reliability of quality and ultimately create wide scale corruption in society through organized crime.

This is exactly what happened with the UK's drug laws, which is what happened when the US implemented prohibition in the 20s.

The law is incapable of implementing morality on people.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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and a generation later somebody like john F kennedy would be the head of State

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