Sugar Tax

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

You'll pay 10p more for your classic can of Coke from today, just showed a Scottish bloke on the news stockpiling Irn-Bru in his loft.

10p on a can, can't see it having much of an effect but if the government can find new ways to tax it's all good for them.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Unfortunately the thick couch potatoes with no self control ruin nice things for everyone else.

 

[Toast]

You'll pay 10p more for your classic can of Coke from today, just showed a Scottish bloke on the news stockpiling Irn-Bru in his loft.

10p on a can, can't see it having much of an effect but if the government can find new ways to tax it's all good for them.

Be arsed getting into the loft everytime I fancied a can of pop like.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Be arsed getting into the loft everytime I fancied a can of pop like.

They'll be going for £2 a can by next week on the black market, Irn-Bru are changing their recipe to reduce sugar.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Be arsed getting into the loft everytime I fancied a can of pop like.

Pop? WOOL

 

[harris78]

Took my kids into the Local Pizza Hut and they have stopped selling ‘full fat’ fizzy drinks. Should have seen some of the blurts having full on melt downs over it. Funniest thing I’d seen in ages

 

[Eggs]

..won’t impact me, never been one for sweet fizzy drinks and fortunately brought my kids up the same. Dreadful stuff.

 

[Abraders]

..won’t impact me, never been one for sweet fizzy drinks and fortunately brought my kids up the same. Dreadful stuff.

I tend to only have them as a 'treat'

I drink way too much tea/coffee though

 

[SiEdmo]

They'll be going for £2 a can by next week on the black market, Irn-Bru are changing their recipe to reduce sugar.

seriously, FFS, ive already lost two of my favourite drinks (lucazade/Ribena) as they have changed the recipe, not that I am a big irn bru fan but there is going to be nothing left

i drink water all week and on a rare occasion fancy a drink like this (hangover normally) and due to stupid people letting their fat kids drink 2ltrs a day, i cant

 

[COYBL25]

Unfortunately the thick couch potatoes with no self control ruin nice things for everyone else.

IT`S MY RIGHT TO MAKE MY KIDS OBESE AND FOR THEM TO DEVELOP TYPE 2 DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE, WHEN THEY`RE OLDER.

 

[RobC]

Think this will affect the poor more than anyone else and won't make any difference to obesity as its the cheap [Poor language removed] food and lack of exercise that's more of a cause. Tax take has already been revised down to £275 Million from £500 Million so not the earner many thought. The tax is simply passed onto the customer.

 

[evertondotcom]

Boozers aren't doing full fat coke as the pre mix soda anymore.

I bet Coke Cola and Pepsi have taken a huge hit.

 

[Baines' left foot]

IT`S MY RIGHT TO MAKE MY KIDS OBESE AND FOR THEM TO DEVELOP TYPE 2 DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE, WHEN THEY`RE OLDER.

Basically this.

It’s because of the likes of Kelly-Ann, 37 who sits at home watching Jeremy Kyle all day as a ‘full time mummy’ who got a first class degree at the university of life. She drinks a full 2 litre bottle of Pepsi every day and smokes like a chimney and is a strain on the NHS due to her own poor lifestyle choices. She is fuming that the nanny state is interfering with ‘are lives again’. Thinks the world owes her a living and is generally a mardy cow.

 

[Joey66]

..won’t impact me, never been one for sweet fizzy drinks and fortunately brought my kids up the same. Dreadful stuff.

Nor me as a diabetic!
In fact the many pop companies have been selling sugar free drinks for the last six months to avoid the tax!

 

[Eggs]

I tend to only have them as a 'treat'

I drink way too much tea/coffee though

...without sugar I hope. I like filter coffee but not the instant stuff.