Cameron: No “silver bullet” on binge-drinking
Alcohol March 31st, 2008has an interview with the Conservative leader where he touches on what a government he leads would do about binge drinking:
"What we want is a continental social drinking culture,” he says. “But you don’t get there just by changing the law, or increasing taxes, you get there by a big cultural change.
“It’s about how we bring up our kids, what we teach them at school, about how our businesses behave, about how supermarkets behave, about how the media behave and until we think about it like that we won’t actually crack it.”
Personal responsibility is also a big point for the MP.
“That is massive,” he states. “In the end the one word that sums up politics for me is ‘responsibility’. And this is a classic example.”
In broad terms this seems very similar to the alcohol strategy that the government is pursuing.
Further reading:
- - when education spokesman he argued for more use of ex-users in the class room.
- - the Conservative's Social Justice Commission's recommendations
- - quotes from the Commission's paper
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