Should smokers and binge drinkers be charged for using the NHS?

[Gandalf]

No, Lewisham

Anyway, shut it Billy-No-Mates, your loner views aren't wanted here

Anyway, I just find it interesting that Miles offers up an opinion on a country that he hasn't been in a couple of years. It's not so much this issue, more that his view is garnered off second hand sources, I thought something similar when he was talking about immigration over here.

Anyway, not that it matters, as the right-wing dictator he is he has no need to answer to me, the little man

But the country wouldn't have changed that much in the few years I have been away. Excessive drinking has been a problem in the UK for as long as I can remember, and I was part of that for a time. I have seen the havoc myself and a news article simple reinforces my views in that regard, even if it is the Daily Mail. You can go to the BBC and see similar articles about Brits drinking to excess too. The problem exists and I don't see why you are taking issue with my perspective.

I didn't say I disagreed with you on this, there is a binge-drinking problem, however of course a country changes. Also the media will always play things up, do you really think there's paedophile Islamic fundamentalists waiting to stab grannies to death & record it on their mobiles?

I actually think one benefit of the recession is that it has decreased marginally the 'booze Britain' behaviour, as a lot of them can't afford to go out to a city centre & get pissed & violent. They're doing at home on the cheap now

No, I don't believe that there are too many peodophile Islamic fundamentalists to be worrying about. One of the first things I will do this summer when I come home is to go downtown at 3am for a kebab and check and make sure that there are lots of drunk people. I might even count them. I will also be on the lookout for thieving Romanian gypsy children which I have never seen before. I heard about them in a BBC documentary and they seem to be a new thing that has developed in my absence. Not to keen on the sound of them. I think the scariest thing about Britain would have to be the traditional indigenous children. Apparently they roam the streets like packs of wolves and eat old ladies.