This last week from the
BBC:
The new scheme [pretending - because it is against EU law - that there will be minimum pricing], which will be in force before the World Cup, requires retailers to use a complicated formula based on alcohol duty and VAT to calculate a floor price.
Those readers of mine whose memory has not been obliterated by the copious consumption of beer (other beverages are available) will of course remember this
from January of 2011 - 3 years ago:
Under plans to be unveiled by the Home Office today retailers will be banned
from selling drinks for less than the value of duty and VAT owed on them.
It's enough to turn you to drink...