Centilitres of Alcohol versus Units of Alcohol

This one made me chortle. A nice crisp winters morning at work, nursing a hangover from a Tuesday night which got far too alcoholic, far too quickly.

The UK’s Conservative Party has said that the ‘units of alcohol’ should be scrapped because it’s too confusing.

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health bod in the Tory Party, wants us to start measuring our alcohol intake by measuring the number of Centilitres of Alcohol in a drink.

So, just as we get used to ‘units’ we will have to change under a Tory Government.

Now for the really stupid part. What’s the difference between a unit of alcohol and a centilitre of alcohol? Absolutely none. In an act of cleverness, the UK ‘unit’ was devised to be a Centilitre. Why change for the sake of it, if what we have does the job perfectly well.