Sadly, the general drinking populace are generally incapable of understanding 'in moderation' and come up with things like 'alcopops don't count'

I'm not convinced that a majority of people are like that. Certainly there's a loud cohort who make people's lives a misery on a Saturday night, but I don't think that's that many people out of the whole population.

The GMC aren't bad - but you end up with some doctors advocating tougher and tougher measures on alcohol pricing, because of the alcoholics they see, without seeming to realise that this is have a large affect on ordinary people, without making much of a difference to the actual alcoholics.

(Don't get me started on the "You shouldn't be allowed to smoke in your car..." stuff that came out a couple of weeks ago.)