www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11152307
Seems the media have now caught up with this story ( after us of course on here )
But they seem not to be able to see that :
Stiff G&Ts would be around 80% more than a pub measure. 9 units per day
Half Bottle of Red Wine at 14% would be around 6 units per day
That is 15 units a day and x 7 = 100 units a week which is THREE times the 32 units that doctors suggest as the safe limit.
Now if we take into account that anyone who drinks UNDER exaggerates the real damage and I would suggest that Tony probably once getting to HALF a bottle would finish it ( I certainly would do if I was stressed !! ) so that could double to 12 units per day putting him on 150 units a week which is basically ALCOHOLIC level.
The fact that by 8a.m the next morning he was fighting fit for his day of work meant his liver worked overtime from 9p.m for 11 hours so that he was not drunk by the time he started work. He was probably only drunk behind closed doors from about 8p.m to when he went to sleep at 12 midnight. So no one ever saw the effects of his problem drinking.
It is staggering to think that we went to war FOUR times on the basis of a Prime Minister who was abusing alcohol like this - and that he kept it hidden from people including Alistair Campbell by doing it at home behind closed doors......It makes Charles Kennedy look positively healthy on it and open about his problem.
Blair has admitted he used alcohol as a prop - which is the definition of being an alcoholic according to the NHS - e.g the need to self medicate
Truly the most disturbing memoir of a UK Prime Minister for many years.