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Seriously they should, it would be better for them. They dont because sports and extra curricular come after 3 PM (if they start later that all starts later too) and also cause it fits parents' work schedules. Except theyre teens, they hopefully should be able to be trusted to be more independent and go to school by 10 AM.

It's never been so easy to slowly kill yourself lmao

how many people are dying of cafeine

are you being sarcastic? this is war on drugs and oppression of children, im sorry that it's unappetizing to you, its still a systemic injustice. banning drugs isn't an effective way to reduce their harm on society, and this is being done out of the belief that children are subhuman

In a vaccuume, this is a good policy choice. In the context of English politics, this is something of a mistake. Living standards are in decline, more and more pensioners are freezing to death each winter, and the capitalists and blue-bloods are needling for any opportunity to privatize the NHS. If Labour actually lived up to their name (or at least were just cynically savvy), this ban would come alongside a package to actually work on and improve these problems.

Instead, it's just gonna be perceived as an austerity government doing a little bit of nanny state policy on the side, just because they can. Torries will use it as a rally cry, like the big-gulp soda thing in New York was, and most people will remember this as Labour electing to tinker at the margins rather than actually govern to anyone's benefit.

To be clear, this is a good policy. But it's a good policy being done in the most self-sabotaged manner possible.

They cant stop kids from vaping, this ban isn't worth shit.

I fucking detest energy drinks but any bill that bans them and not freely traded caffeine powder and or bills is going to be worthless

I used to do that as a teen.

I still do, but I used to, too.

Way cheaper, if I ever decide to start taking caffeine that's what I'd do

As long as youre not taking them by the handful they can be nice when you want caffeine but tummy hurts

that sounds obnoxious, never met a fingerprint scanner that wasn't finicky as hell

like, if you're gonna do it, then scan the barcode on my driver's license like a real surveillance state, not the stage-play stuff you see in movies

surely there's not a difference between the toxic sludge marketed to minors and a cup of tea?

Energy drinks are way worse than tea though. 55g of sugar per can and some kids will drink two or three of these a day.

Now you accidentally tripped over very based idea, tea embargo for all Brits.

I don’t think the children are drinking tea. Because of woke. I used to mix tea and instant coffee together when I was a kid cos I’m weird

It's Britain. The majority of the people there might actually put a cultural cornerstone like tea on a higher moral pedestal than your average adult liberals put state sanctioned ridiculous restrictions on children on. Anywhere else, you could attempt that, and people would laugh, and teenagers would protest, but ultimately no massive resistance would take place if laughing it out didn't work. Because when authoritarian and pointless nonsense only affects children, no one actually sees it as a fundamental violation of freedoms and civil liberties. But in the UK, people might actually do something if the government tried to restrict who's allowed to buy, brew, and drink tea. Because Brits love their tea and see British tea stereotypes as a Valued Cultural Institution.

living in england already does this