Sugary Drinks

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  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 998 Connected

    We are being constantly controlled with each passing months and years losing more and more of our own rights and decisions. I have always drank sugar drinks, and never had any of my blood sugars too high or for it to cause concern. I can't stand the zero and non-added sugar versions as I can taste the sweetner in them and its absolutley disgusting. But I have sugar drinks, but don't have alot of other sugar food. So everything is moderation and comes to the owns persons choice.

    If anything all this is going to do is squeeze us all further with money, for which were already struggling. It comes down to leaving people to make their own decisions, not making decisions for them.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,814 Championing

    Yes that's how I feel like its the choice element ok if you choose to drink litres of coke obviously its bad for you but so is everything thats put in our food plastic wrappers pesticides ect next it will be chocolate things that we may consider a treat i dont know me personally makes me uneasy 53 soon 54 I can feel these little changes could lead to bigger thimgs

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 998 Connected
    edited October 5
  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,160 Championing

    Don't IKEA give free refills

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,405 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    It's doubtful they will be now @Amberpearl

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 998 Connected

    Surprised they don't have oxygen tax yet

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 295 Empowering
    edited October 5
  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,551 Championing

    Tea and coffee refills are still allowed. Black, milk-based, and even sweetened versions aren’t automatically classified as HFSS.

    The ban only applies to sugary soft drinks that meet the HFSS threshold. See link below, issued in 2023, but it’s a forward looking document that confirms the 1 October 2025 restrictions.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/restricting-promotions-of-products-high-in-fat-sugar-or-salt-by-location-and-by-volume-price/restricting-promotions-of-products-high-in-fat-sugar-or-salt-by-location-and-by-volume-price-implementation-guidance

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 295 Empowering

    I'm actually drinking a cherry Pepsi as I'm reading this topic.

    It does seem like the government wants more and more control over our lives as time goes on.

    Btw I can't tell the difference between natural sugars and sweeteners.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,487 Championing
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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,814 Championing

    I love the way you break everything down you write so beautifully and always bring clarity thankyou

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,551 Championing

    Thanks Catherine. I always try to check out the facts and figures to see whether things like the sugar tax, introduced back in 2018, are actually making a difference. From what I have read, it has done absolutely nothing to control childhood obesity. The rates are still rising, even among children born long after the tax came in.

    And now we have this new law banning sugary drink refills, but only in shops over a certain floor size. So apparently you do not get fat if you go to a smaller shop. It feels less about health and more about VAT, when a refill is free, the Treasury misses out.

    I am dreading the budget too. We all know it will not be about putting anything back into our purses, just finding new ways to take more out.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,814 Championing

    I know its going to be harsh and the worry for Digital ID i do know united nations have written to them on concerns of UC and disabled people im sure echr have written as well m

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,160 Championing

    What's all this digital id

    Government knows us all from the national insurance numbers

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,551 Championing

    NI numbers do identify us ,they have always been used for tax, pensions, and benefits. But they’re basic. They sit in government records and don’t follow us around. No tracking. No linking across systems.

    Digital ID is a whole different thing. It’s live, portable, and plugged into everything, from banking and biometrics to travel, health, and government services.

    There was a thread on Digital ID last week, worth a look it had some useful points.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,814 Championing

    I feel so scared today woke up early hours panicking heart racing head racing ive tried ao hard ti fight the fear and losing fifi has destroyed me today i am really scared for the future they are saying Digital ID will tackle illegal immigrants it won't its be rolled out in western countries

  • Starman
    Starman Online Community Member Posts: 1,181 Empowering

    I agree that freedom of choice seems to be diminishing quite quickly. People really need to make up their own minds as to how they live their life, as long as it's legal of course. However…..i do understand this would be a touchy subject, an argument of, well if we reduce numbers as re. people being treated on a massively overstretched nhs can only be a good thing etc. It does bother me slightly, say as why should someone who smokes say 40 cigs a day, then gets lung cancer, why should i as a taxpayer help fund their treatment, when they have obviously contributed to their illness?! I don't know, i suppose i can see an argument for both sides to this.🙄

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,551 Championing
    edited October 7

    Catherine, I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way. Losing Fifi is heartbreaking, and when everything else feels uncertain, it’s no wonder the fear feels overwhelming. You’ve been fighting so hard to stay steady, please be gentle with yourself today.

    And yes, the way the Labour government is selling Digital ID as “keeping borders safe” is shameful. It has nothing to do with immigration. Even if the borders were closed and not a single immigrant entered the country, they’d still be rolling it out. That’s just a cover story.

    This is about giving the state deeper access to our personal lives, tracking, linking, and centralising information that used to stay separate and private.

    Honestly, I think it’s another one of their schemes that will end up shelved once the public sees through it. Nearly three million have signed the petition already.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,814 Championing

    Thankyou I needed that yes so hard without fifi so hard just sitting here i try get motivated thankyou x