Proposed law change making booze available all year sparks binge drinking concerns
Kiwis could be able to grab a pint 365 days a year, including religious holidays, if a proposed change to our alcohol laws passes – but health experts fear what it could mean for our binge drinking culture.
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty is pushing to change the law allowing licensed bars and restaurants that are already open to sell booze without a meal on Anzac Day morning and religious holidays, Easter and Christmas.
Angry Christian Boozer, Labour MP Kieran McAnulty, demands more booze!
“I went to mass on Easter Sunday and if I wanted to have a pint with my family afterwards, I should be able to”, snarled a blurry eyed McAnulty.
Personally I despise boozers and the booze industry, their continual attempt to be able to sell booze at every second of the day should be resisted, not enabled.
The damage booze causes every single year in NZ is $7.5billion dollars worth of social harm.
I have zero religious reasons to keep booze away on Christmas, Easter or ANZAC Day – it’s just nice that the booze barons are kept at bay for a couple of days a year.
McAnulty is considered a ‘rising star’ in the labour Party which suggests the Labour Party doesn’t have a functioning definition of the word ‘star’ or ‘rising’.
Fuck the booze barons and their enablers.
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This will be Kieran McAnulty’s interview style in 10 years if he carries on the way he’s going
https://youtu.be/SirutCHZ-QI
Perhaps he should be reading his bible verses instead of going out for Sunday beersies after church
Galatians 5:19–21: “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: … drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Ephesians 5:18: “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery.
Yet religion controls you! No, you stick to your invisible flying wizard and I’ll order another Tokyo dry, at least I can physically hold mine
You enjoy your Tokyo dry bert. But remember to have a cup of tea and a lie down once in a while and keep taking your pills.
Amen, god bless and all that crap, now get down on your knees again.
Order up another bertie, the big brewery boys love ya for it. And keep singing your’s and Mr McAnulty’s anthem.
Here it is for ya. C’mon! Get it down ya!
https://youtu.be/K5kmSgCPpXw
There’s a nice civilised practice in Cheshire, UK, for example, of dispatching house guests to church on a Sunday morning, with recommendation to then adjourn to the local hostelry, for a pint in a tankard, or a gin and bitter lemon, before partaking of the literal leg of the lamb, or real English mustard with a bit of beef.
And then there’s New Zealand booze artists.
And there are the times when we would prefer that they did not even exist.
Kieran may be yet another politician showing us that he lives a sheltered sort of life, or he may just be vote- gathering from certain boozy elements, but his drink-after-mass posturing looks a pretty cheap shot.
For fuck sake people can buy alcohol almost everyday of the year and we have bottle stores on every corner especially concentrated in low socio economic area for maximum financial impact. People can do what they have always done, stock up and buy in advance. And if this is considered to be archaic so are many other things like the British royals who we still bend the knee to and many different cultural beliefs are considered to be superstitious. Alcohol is still one the the biggest health and social killers in our country.
Bloody Hell. I had no idea he was either a boozer or a Mickey Doolan
How uncivilised!
He can still do both however without the need to open everything up over Easter unless of course he can’t exercise restraint and has to skull anything that’s around the place as soon as possible.
He could complete the stereotype and drive that bloody red ute over the Rimutakas while pissed.
That could end a star from rising for a while.
(Take a note Chris Bishop – there could be a gotcha in it).
Oh god no!! Tell me that the labour party has not only got no actual working class people and true unionists in it, but is now attracting the religious idiot classes? It’s bad enough that there is nobody in the party I grew up supporting that has ever done more than a bit of mucky work while at university.. Now we have to put up with god bothering morons.. “rising star”? More like rising scum.. Just take a look across the Tasman boys and girls, and then I dare you to tell me that this brand of idiocy is really the answer to what ails us… Just how totally bereft of common sense, and moral fiber has it gotten in the “Wellington bubble” that we can’t go a single day without being able to fill up on “piss” whenever the urge, or the addiction dictates… ? I’m no fan of the power that the Traditional churches have over how we live our lives.. But I’ve always supported the idea of having one day a week when the booze don’t flow.. Seriously, if that’s such a problem, then organise supplies for that day, or get help for your addiction… Lest we forget.. These are the same people who welcomed American fundamentalists to spend huge amounts of money to make NZ into the most backward country in the western world when it comes to a common sense, and humane approach to drug laws. Now they want us to turn to alcohol.. So how much money are they making out of the misery that alcohol abuse has caused ? Principled and moral? You must be joking!!
Yep. Surely there’s more important things for him to be banging his drum about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcZlqYcQ10
He could help Faafoi to do his job for starters
If he can’t wait to get home to have a drink, he should carry a hip flask. His wife can drive the car. Or he can walk home from church, or weave. You can get to anywhere in the world from St Patrick’s Church in Masterton, so he should be able to make it home ok, sober or not.
This, sadly, is the policy that will win them the 2023 election.
I laughed at the headline! Laughed out loud, snort-laughed! I laughed even more at the liberal use of the word ‘booze’ in the article! Thanks for the great Thursday lols but seriously…
The first time I got kicked in the arse by my mum was the first time I used the word ‘booze’. I was about six years old. My friend at school had taught me a new word and I was trying it out. ‘Booze is another word for beer’, she had told me, authoritatively. Coming home from somewhere, walking up the steps to the house, dad not home when expected probably, my mum said, “I don’t know where your father is”. Six year old me piped up helpfully, ‘probably at the pub drinking booze’. BOOT! Truth hurts.
Alcohol does cause harm in this country. We shouldn’t be wasting energy, time, or column inches to liberalising regulations around it. We have far bigger fish to fry. The Mew Zealand Labour Party, in government, continue to disappoint.
To Mark
‘But we arent allowed cannabis causing 3 times LESS harm than alcohol.
This country is a joke.’
SO FUCK OFF THEN! See how much weed the Chinese government allows you to smoke.
After all they shoot drug dealers in China.
Long live the Dalai Lama. Fuck the Chinese Communist Party.
Terrible priorities!!
Another complete waste of expensive MP’s time if it gets the time of day in Parliament. Agree these expensive MP’s seem to be becoming totally detached with the real world problems that their successive parties have caused in NZ society. Wake up!!
Why are they terrible priorities? Because religion above all else? Give me a break. The Friday night late night is a thing of the seventies! A person should be able to purchase anything they like, seven days a week. The fact that religious groups can have monetary transactions on a Sunday proves this. If you believe in religion good luck but why should the rest of us be punished if we don’t believe. Do others have the right to hold the moral high ground and if so based on what, which one of the multiple gods do they believe in? Love to go out for Sunday beersies.
I trusted politicians and held them in such high esteem, especially those willing to vaccinate publicly in solidarity. But mate, the photo doesn’t lie: those eyes, sullen and distant, the sweaty forehead of need, the clammy complexion. We’re here for you, KMac
First the man takes a drink,then the drink takes a drink,then the drink takes the man.Mr. Macanulty must be on his 4th.Cheers!
“Fuck the booze barons and their enablers.”
Summed it up perfectly.
When the Shipley government “liberalised” licencing hours it was to bring about a cafe society or so it was said. What did we get–an out of control drinking society. Time to close bars at 11 pm and get rid of booze outlets on every corner of our towns and cities.
The power of the lobbyists.
7 deaths on the roads this Easter would suggest that more alchohol availability over the Easter break might not be a good idea.
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