Alcohol price mess-up

It LOOKS as though the SNP’s much-vaunted alcohol Minimum unit Pricing legislation has joined most of their other attempts at meaningful legislation and policy – in the dustbin.

A new report shows MUP has made little or no difference as its promised improvements in health, employment and crime fail to materialise.

Since its introduction, MUP has cost citizens around £71 in increased prices. Proponents of the scheme wish to see the Minimum unit Price increased to at least 65p and possibly higher if it is to be more effective. Wouldn’t this be adding another rung to the inflation ladder along with the onslaught on motorists?

What a way to run a country when Westminster is there to pick up the tab for financial disasters such as the ferries and aluminium smelter – and a massive deficit. Just imagine the mess an independent Scotland would be in without it?

national bankruptcy doesn’t bear thinking about.

GRAHAM WYLLIE, Airdrie,

Lanarkshire.