No it's not. Ale hasn't been brewed commercially for thousands of years.
If you mean beer, then it's debatable.
If you factor the quantity of beer that has been produced at low strengths in this country and add that to the lower quantities of high strength wheat/trappist stuff, it'll probably still be lower than lager.
Also, on the high street, in a chain pub, the lager is stronger unless you pay for a 'specialist' beer, so by money spent versus how pissed you are, lager is better for blindness and numbness.
I don't like lager, I'm an ale fan, can't really not be with my dad, but if I want to get shitfaced quickly, I'll drink highly nitrogen emulsified lager, it's cheap and does the job.