Will the SNP ban Guinness glasses?

While Sir Keir Starmer is trying hard to ban fun, the Scottish National party is hot on his heels. Now it transpires that, er, pint glasses with logos are proving too offensive for the Nats – with a possible crackdown on the horizon. Priorities, priorities…

The SNP government has, it emerged, ordered experts to investigate the impact of a ban on branded pint glasses, t-shirts and umbrellas in an attempt to get a handle on alcohol-related deaths – which in Scotland rose to a 15-year high of 1,277 mortalities in 2023. In a bid to cut the figures, SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray informed parliamentarians that Public Health Scotland will examine the effect, um, alcohol marketing has on the development of dangerous drinking habits. Not that employment prospects, a flailing healthcare system or, say, deprivation have anything to do with it…

In a rather curious twist, this could see the distinctively-branded Tennent’s lager glasses (amongst others) phased out in order to tackle the country’s drink death problem – and, as a result, Gray’s proposal hasn’t quite enthused everyone.