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After Scotland clamps down on cheap booze, B&Q Glasgow launches new summer garden range:
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Have you tried to run your car on neat alcohol? It might take off! :D
Much better to drink alcohol, of course, using potatoes from your veg patch?

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I appreciate the amusing side of this but for those living south of the border, be aware of the creeping paralysis of state intervention again exemplified by the nanny state neo Stalinist Scottish government.
After a days hard work either on the cars or on the grounds, a nice drink of cider was something to look forward to.A bottle of cheap UK made cider was £2.09, now it's £5. This is an additional tax on the ordinary person which, in the short term anyway, can be circumvented in my case by a 60 mile round trip to Carlisle. At least the fuel duty goes to the UK government rather than the Krankies running things up here.

What has this to do with older cars, I hear you rightly ask? Well, it's worth considering that Government intervention in motor vehicle development in the UK has been its continual paralysis. First there was the Red Flag act, then there was the horsepower based tax. This made Britain the home of small bore long stroke inefficient engines which, apart from the colonies, were just about impossible to sell to a wider international market.
Next we had the enforced mergers of all the major UK transport manufacturers - cars, planes, trains and ships, under the misguided policy that this would give the resulting state manipulated monoliths "a future". Our next phase in this catalogue of abject failure is the move to electric vehicles. So, the next time you hear any politician say they are legislating to distort any market for "our own good", if you get the chance, remind them that their catalogue of previous state manipulated failures is round their collective necks like a whole flock of albatrosses.

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I do hope the experiment in Scotland is resisted with all possible effort so that it is soon turned round. If it goes the other way, the Welsh soon to be Parliament will not be able to resist the urge to follow suit.

A super tax on fags has not had a the impact they expected those who insist on burning money from a fag packet will never see the stupidity of their habit.

The government in Scotland is on to a winner along with all the shops pubs and supermarkets just over the border. Syd

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This is all getting very serious.

I am looking forward to seeing Neil playing his Distillaphone in the Town band at the Concert on Saturday.

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