When beer is cheaper than water, it’s just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in a pub.There you have it folks, the neo-prohibitionist groups that are funded by government get their dishonest message repeated by government. The neo-prohibitionists have used exactly this line, despite the fact that it is completely factually incorrect.
We can now categorically state how fake charities work:-
1. Someone creates a pressure group. Calls it a charity.
2. Political party in power thinks it's an excellent idea and funds them to keep doing it.
3. Charity gets to repeatedly spread the message, throwing money at PR while enjoying the "good guy" status of being called a charity (while not being so).
4. Charity can make a load of foul-ups while remaining distant from damaging the government. If they really foul up, the government can just drop funding.
5. Once government feels they can sell the public the policy, once the fake charity lies have been repeated enough or have been tweaked enough, they do so.
That's why I'm so against fake charities. If there are things the state needs to do, they should properly be called government departments, subject to Freedom of Information act requests and people should be clearly aware that the government wants these things done.
"factually incorrect"
ReplyDeleteThat's how low we've sunk, when it's no longer PC to say "an outright lie" any more.
it's more that you don't have to spend more than a few minutes of work to find out that it ain't the case. So, either Cameron, the prime minister of the UK is happy to repeat a known lie, or spent absolutely no time checking the facts. Either way, we have someone as PM that ain't up to the job.
ReplyDeleteBTW UKIP should hit this hard. The MP for Totnes would like to see a 50p duty on alcohol (min price of a bottle of wine: £6). As she seems to be the tory voice on alcohol, I think this is coming.