Its Bubba Jay:www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45342682So the UK is trying to ban energy drinks cos of the high sugar amount that leads to obesity.
I mean of course there's alot more to it than obesity but is obesity really a problem?
StarSmoke:I am so very glad that I live in the US and not the UK. I don�t really drink energy drinks (more of a coffee person) but just the fact that they feel they can ban people from drinking what they want is outrageous. You can still buy plain sugar right? So what is the point? I already knew I didn�t ever want to live in the UK when I discovered the whole backlash against the nazi pug guy and he�s STILL fighting with them about it.
No freedom of speech. No freedom of choice. Who knows what else... man I�m just glad I live here haha.
The PM has been heavily critisised for proposing the ban. The problem they are addressing is under 18's getting wild on the drinks and also getting fat. Red Bull and Monster and Relentless are carefully concocted with sugar, cafine and other natural stimulants, none of which are illegal or banned from children.
A law would have to be specific enough not to ban all beverages and general enough that they can't just rebrand and reformulate. The task is probably more difficult than BREXIT.
The other thing the PM is doing is increasing the tax on shopping bags from 5p to 10p. A no brainer as all the work getting the tax on the things has already been done.
As for people not shooting each other in the UK. People stab each other instead and also do have street gunfights quite regularly.
There are different laws for different ethnic and cultural groups in the UK. Small matters are settled in Sharia Courts if both sides agree. The Muslim areas have Sharia Police patrols tolerated by the real police since they can't police those areas anyway.
You don't hear a huge amount about this in the mainstream media as people tend to get locked up if they report on it.
The UK government is leaning on Zukerberg to have him 'fact check' Facebook to keep such stuff off his site. It's called Hate Speech. We have Free Speech here, you can say anything you like as long as it's not Hate Speech which is any speech that might offend one of 5 protected groups, I'm serious. Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Disabled and Politicians (from memory, one of the groups might be imigrants).
Also if what you're doing causes a mob of angry people to start smashing things up then you are arrested for Breach Of The Peace. I was threatened with this once when I had a village hall full of people chanting at me to shut up and go away.
As for the police, they are being commercialised. They must make money. The Association Of Chief Police Officers wrote a document called Paying The Bill, where Bill also means police. The police must find ways of getting money out of people, to invoice them. They invoiced me £390 and tried to invoice our village £22,000 to allow some bands to play in the park.
This explains why the police won't do anything if there is no one they can bill at the end of it.
Solution is to double the tax on plastic bags and propose banning energy drinks.