gusmac wrote:
grandad wrote:
The government are not telling people that they can't smoke they are just making sure that non smokers do not have to suffer because of it.
I don't smoke and I drink in moderation.
Tell me grandad, if you went to your local and all you could drink inside were soft drinks, would you be happy if you were told to stand outside just cos you wanted a quiet pint and natter with your mates? or would you take umbridge and go elsewhere?
Now picture this: everywhere is the same story. You have to stand outside or shut up and put up with it.
Do you then just go home, forget your mates and enjoy the company of the very people you went to the pub to get a break from? Let the powers that be deprive you of the little pleasures that make life bearable? or do you toe the line, order a coke, put up with being dictated to and convince yourself its all for the greater good?
These are the choices we smokers in Scotland were stuck with 15 months ago and the same ones being imposed in England today.
When they close your local because its not making money, as has happened to countless pubs up here, remember this day. You wanted it and you got it.And before you all say it
NOBODY HAS EVER PROVED THAT ANYONE DIED FROM PASSIVE SMOKING. It may well do, but there is no proof.
There are lots of lies, distortions, unsubstatiated rumour and half-assed opinions passed off as proof, but no proper proof.
NOT A SINGLE CASE where they can say with certainty that anyone died because they breathed in second hand smoke.
(not even Roy Castle)
Believe it or not lung cancer killed before Walter Raleigh and will still be killing long after tobacco has gone.
I wander what they will blame then?
Last shift I worked I spotted five pubs with for sale signs. Not the trendy city centre types with the smog inhaling fashion show outside of an evening. No, they were your local average working class boozers.
Imagine that. The Labour party closing down working class boozers? Of course, now they're pandering to middle class, pseudo intellectual chattering class types they can afford to dispense with the votes from a few working class types can't they?
Incidentally, the funny thing is that three months before the smoking ban a pub landlord, the Black Swan in leith, went into the press telling us all how it was such a good idea, he hated smokers and his pub was going smokefree three months before the ban, that's how much he supported it.
His is one of the five pubs closed waiting for a numpty to try to make it work without smokers littering the pub. How I laugh.
Now we turn to ID cards, which will limit our liberties even more. Imagine, another liberty restricting measure from Labour.
Well the asshole who tried to blow up Glasgow Airport on Saturday was no less than a Junior Doctor in a local hospital. He works here. He's been registered with the GMC since 2005. What part of his identity did we not know about? How would an expensive ID card system have prevented the Glasgow attempt?
Of course it wouldn't. ID cards will not make us safer. They were never meant to. It's just a Labour wheeze to bring about the totalitarianism that was highlighted in 1984. What Orwell intended as a warning, Tony Bliar read as a recipe.
Remeber the Glasgow attempt was foiled by security measures and surveillance by the police. Expensive measures all. This is where the money wasted on ID cards should be spent. This would help to make us safer.
And, if we finally resolved the 7 day war that's lasted 40 years, the debacle of Palestine and Israeli occupuation, then perhaps the fertile breeding ground for Islamic extremists would be curtailed.
Bliar and Bush are largely responsible for the increase in extremists. They gave fuel to their cause through their interventionist and expansionist foreign policies.
We need to sort this out soonest.
Just to make this post relevant to taxis, I'm away to ma work noo.
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