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You learn something new every day - "a Thunderclap"

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Grannyknot Mon 18-Aug-14 12:23:36

I'd never heard of this but (if I understand it correctly) it's a way of sending a message to your MP (or whoever) via social media in one massive "thunderclap" instead of petitions. Fascinating stuff going on there in the web-universe. This is called "crowdspeaking":

"#21billion – AHA Day of Action on Alcohol Harms

Will you contact your MP to highlight the levels of alcohol related harm in your local area?

One person is killed every single hour by alcohol. Each of those people is a loved one - a parent, a brother or a sister, a friend and tragically, often a child. Annually 1.2 million people are admitted to hospital due to alcohol related causes and countless others see their health damaged because of it. The impact of alcohol all to often affects innocent bystanders through its role in child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, family breakdown and crime and disorder. It tears apart families and damages entire communities and as well as the human toll, it costs the British economy £21 billion every year.

The Alcohol Health Alliance is holding a national day of action on the 5th September to draw attention to alcohol related harm in the UK. We want politicians to realise how very real the problem is, and to commit to supporting measures to reduce levels of alcohol related harm. Will you contact your MP to highlight the levels of alcohol related harm in your local area?

If you have 2 minutes: Join our Thunderclap".

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/13795-21billion

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Grannyknot Mon 18-Aug-14 12:24:22

"One person is killed every single hour by alcohol". How scary. How sad.

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HollyDaze Mon 18-Aug-14 13:09:50

I think the government are starting the slow grind over alcohol the way they did with tobacco; it was reported on the news that alcohol will carry warning labels. It will be interesting to see how far they take this.

Given the number of pubs that are still closing down, it will fall to the outlets selling it to start monitoring their sales.

A drunk staggered into our local supermarket and tried to buy alcohol and the woman on the till refused to serve him - he became quite aggressive and the lads stacking shelves had to go over and prevent the man from getting too close to the woman on the till; I felt very sorry for her and she was brave to refuse him - I also felt sorry for the lads who weren't really employed for this purpose and were probably worried about where this incident was going to go.

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Grannyknot Mon 18-Aug-14 13:17:16

Our local Co-op has a big poster that reads "Are you sober?" behind the till and it goes on to say that people who are not sober won't be served (with all the legislative references to back up their policy). I've never seen anyone who has had too much to drink cause problems in there!

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rosesarered Mon 18-Aug-14 14:10:13

I will not be bothering my MP on this subject [ he is useless anyway.] However I have not seen any of that drunken behaviour where I live.I know, I should get out more! I get a bit tired of all the dire warnings aimed at the wine drinking middle classes though.

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janerowena Mon 18-Aug-14 14:24:53

A 61 year old friend of mine has just died of liver failure. He was a tv producer/director and his work dried up in 2008 and he started drinking. He was only ever a social drinker until then. But having been married to an alcoholic for many years, and now he runs a pub!!!! with his girlfriend, I will sign anything.

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