Lib Dems issue challenge to labour on minimum pricing
November 5, 2009 5:20 PM
Originally published by Scottish Liberal Democrats
Originally published by Scottish Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrat Justice spokesperson Robert Brown MSP has called on the Labour party to make up their minds about minimum pricing.
Mr Brown made the call after speaking in a debate about minimum pricing in the Scottish Parliament. Unlike the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats are clear that minimum pricing is not the right answer to changing Scotland's alcohol culture and will vote down the proposal at the vote tonight.
Commenting after the debate, Mr Brown said:
"Labour need to make up their minds about minimum pricing. Today's vote could have sent a decisive message to the Scottish Government that minimum pricing was dead in the water, but Labour bottled it.
"Minimum pricing is becoming a distraction. I'm worried that the SNP Government is becoming over hyped about the previous Executive's success with the smoking ban. They appear to be more focused on searching for their own major and totemic policy on alcohol, rather than the real issues that drive people to drink in the first place.
"It's time that we ended the speculation about minimum pricing. We need to leave the path clear for us to focus on changing the culture of Scotland's damaging relationship with alcohol."
What would you like to do next?
-
Subscribe for updates
Follow the party's activity on...
- Twitter:
- Liberal Democrats
- Facebook:
- Liberal Democrats
- YouTube:
- Liberal Democrats