Drink plans will hit jobs; Yourview: Comment OF THE DAY.I AM becoming increasingly concerned over the potential job losses with the SNP SNP Scottish National Party Noun 1. SNP - (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily proposal to increasealcohol prices. Firstly. it would add to inflation which would increase interest rates and hurt families and businesses. Secondly, as we have seen in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. , shoppers are flooding out of the Republic into the North for the cheaper prices of alcohol and the "booze cruise
Booze cruise " to England would cost thousands of jobs up here. Thirdly, and mostimportantly, the announcement byWhyte & Mackay that it might not invest in its bottling plant in Grangemouth because of this tax rise would mean job losses. Kenny MacAskill is wrong on this issue as he is on so many. Michelle Smythe, Edinburgh CAPTION(S): LITTLE CHEER: People will head south to stock up on cheap booze |
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