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*****Since
this tragic death and many other incidences of violence
instigated by this smoking ban there has come into our
possession a copy of what was recommended to politicians
by the experts.Ian Stuart Gray is the Principle Policy
Officer Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
H has been in charge of smokefree policies for 20 years
and has been the recipient of several awards for model
practice. So he obviously is well respected by New Labour.
So much so that he
was the CIEH representative in all matters concerning
the governments proposals for smokefree legislation.
In particular he considered the government's published
proposals in detail and he carried out consultations
amongst the CIEH membership and other individuals and
organisations with environmental health interests. He
wrote the formal response on behalf of the CIEH to the
government's consultation and he made both written submissions
and oral presentations to the House of Commons Health
Select Committee. He was the principal contributor to
the national guidance document implementation of smoke
free legislation in England issued by the Local Authority
Coordinators and Regulatory Standards (LACORS) He designed
and delivered training packages for both local authority
service managers responsible for securing compliance
with the smokefree legislation and for the officers
who were to be authorised to carry out the enforcement
measures under a training contract CIEH as with the
Department of Health. He further states that Section8(5)
of the Health Act 2006 provides that it is a defence
for a person having control of a smokefree premises
or vehicle to show that it was reasonable for them not
to comply with the duty to stop persons from smoking.
It has been the advice of theCIEH that the occasions
on which this defence is raised are likely to be unique
upon their own facts and therefore are not likely to
be something upon which general advice can be given.
The examples which CIEH have provided HAVE INCLUDED
THE FOLLOWING
In relation to premises:
where it is claimedby a person who hascontrol or is
concerned in the management of smoke-free premises,
and is therefore required to cause a person to to stop
smoking,and the issues raised were that is that he fears
for his personal safety in this matter. If he alleges
that he considered he would be in genuine fear for his
safety or reprisals (loss of custom?) for asking a person
to stop he could offer this as a defence.
Now that applies to
every publican in the country.But when the councils
use bully boy tactics they fail to tell publicans about
these recommendations by the experts. But then they
would wouldn't they? Although this is the get out clause
that the MP's used so that they can smoke in the many
Parliamentary bars!!
Mr Gray further states
that when advising the Government he understood that
before signing it in as law the MP's would sign a statement
declaring that in their opinion the legislation is compatible
with Human Rights. If they signed that in their honest
opinion it did not infringe the Civil Liberties of 12million
people ,then they should not be MP's.It would show they
have no idea of the hardships this would cause to 12
million + smokers and the dangers faced by people who
have to implement this unjust law. The Italian High
court has thrown out this legislation on exactly those
grounds and we hope the English Judicary will show the
same justice to us. If Gordon and co will allow them
to !!.But as usual Gordon ignored the experts they had
hired with taxpayers money and went their own way. Leading
to untold stress violence and loss of trade for those
who pay their wages. Smokers will remember come election
time.
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Gordon’s
visions are becoming more dangerous by the day. To-day,
(New Years Day), headlines state that his new plans
for the NHS include barring treatment for any person
who does not come up to his idea of who is entitled
to care in his NHS. Anybody who smokes, drinks or eats
too much may find themselves being turned away when
needing medical treatment. He is in fact telling Doctors
to tear up the Hippocratic Oath and treat patients who
come up to his vision of who deserves treatment. So
if you like a smoke or are fat or have a tipple then
you are in trouble. His idea of curing the Health service’s
dismal record is to punish the sick, regardless of the
fact that they pay NHS contributions and therefore have
a right to expect treatment. Obviously the Doctors will
be told not to take your word that you don’t do any
of these bad things but to ‘check’ you out. So if you
have cancer, or some other terrible illness, but you
are naturally fat, it will delay your treatment while
it is established if you are telling the truth. His
new contract, for the NHS, is that it is your duty to
keep yourself healthy He will sign this contract on
your behalf and if you break it then you must go away
and find somewhere to die. This is his idea of solving
problems in the NHS. Tell the people to go to the gym,
and tell the bugs, that are killing people who do get
admitted to hospital, to go away. What does he intend
doing about all the youngsters with Chlamydia? Send
them for the new re-virginalising operations? Or will
he simply ban sex!! Is he going to tell his Friends
who run the supermarkets to stop selling foods loaded
with fat and risk losing their donations? No way. Or
is he going to tell all those MP’s, drinking & smoking
in the many Westminster Palace’s bars and restaurants,
that they will be refused treatment if they get sick.
No way. They come under a different set of rules to
the rest of us which is why they alone are allowed to
smoke and drink and be gluttons whenever they feel like
it. Take a look at the wine on offer to Gordon’s guests
at No 10 !! You pay for it.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this lot are
spending so much time creating new laws to take away
all of our civil liberties, and now our health care,
that there is little time left to run the country. It
seems he has been put in His place by big business and
told to control the people and play his dictator games,
leaving Them to do as they will. He has taken their
orders and just concentrates on bullying. Is that what
we expect from a leader? To just tell us not to smoke,
not to eat too much, not to drink too much; To get as
much money from us by stealth taxes and fines. These
are all things tried by other people, Hitler, Stalin
and their ilk. They all lost in the end and so will
he. His own party will see sooner or later that he is
going to lose their jobs and perks for them, and they
will oust him. It’s up to you to bombard your MPs to
tell them Enough is Enough. More and more people are
getting sick through the stress of trying to survive
under this shambles of a Government. All the propaganda
they put out, that it is hedonists that are crippling
the NHS, that all the crime is committed by people just
to get money for drugs. Does he not know that burglars
have rent and bills to pay, or that they want designer
clothes and have the same bills to pay as the rest us?
How much longer are you all going to put up with this
lot. At the moment the only party that is attempting
to safeguard our civil liberties is the Lib Dems who
are opposing the intrusive ID cards, that Gordon so
badly wants. Or his masters so badly want! So why not
give the Lib Dems your vote. They cannot possibly be
any worse than this lot of corrupt sleazy bastards.
Send Gordon back to the Pulpit and let him preach ‘the
end is nigh’ back in Scotland. He might learn something
there. The Health care in Scotland and Wales is far
better than it is in England. Many lifesaving drugs
are available there, that are not in England, and furthermore
Wales doesn’t rake in billions in prescription charges!!!
Does Brown have any idea of how many NHS drugs are posted
from here to the folks back home, in other countries,
that do not contribute to the NHS? It is not rocket
science to go to a GP and ask for drugs and then post
them home, either for relatives or sale on the black-market.
But if he starts checking on those, he might fall foul
of Labour’s PC laws. (Does not discriminating against
fat people come under any PC laws? So the NHS has a
further burden put on it.
But having said all this I would like to remind you
that we told you in July that the attack on Civil Liberties
would not stop with the smoking ban. I hope there are
plenty of fatties in Ash!!!
Once
upon a time there were but 10 Commandments
 Now
the smoking police are adding their own - It has been
reported in the Morning Advertising that a pub with
a beer garden has placed a smoking ban enforcer on the
door to ensure that smokers are only allowed 5 minutes
of smoking time and then they go back inside the pub
and spend some more money, by order
of the management. Will anybody use this pub? Not any
of our readers I HOPE!!
I
suspect the smoking guide lines will soon be thicker
than the Bible, with far more Disciples to boot!
What
about cigar smokers? or are they banned?
She
only asked for a light!!!!
 Obviously
this headline is taking the piss out of the powers that
be . But if you look at the viciousness in the police
woman's/man face, it shows you the Britain of today.
It's not hard to imagine the future. It shows that New
Labour's guff about political correctness.What a load
of********* the look on this policewoman's/ man face
(who is a civil servant and apparently human) shows
what Labour means by PC:-
Public
Compliance!! you will obey or else we will set the animals
on you. And we are not talking about the poor horse.
that doesn't seem to be
enjoying it as much as the police woman/man?
Brown's
Dream is our Nightmare -
TOTALITARIANISM! THINK OF YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE. IS
THIS THIS THE TYPE OF LEGACY YOU WANT TO LEAVE THEM?
ALTHOUGH lABOUR IS TAKING OVER YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES
AS WELL NOW.
Now
police are told they can use Tazer guns on children
"You'd
better hope that nappy isn't wet you punk, or you will
really feel this", " and if I catch your 12
year old brother smoking he'll get some as well !!"
This
is the type of policing we used to see in other countries
that were run by tyrants and despots, not in the UK.
All our freedoms were hard fought for over centuries.
Electrocuting our children? How do they brainwash the
police into doing this? Its a good job we don't have
chimneys anymore or they would be pushing children up
them again.Look at this picture and the picture earlier
, of Dixon of Dock Green on horseback and you should
feel very concerned for your children. It seems that
the first thing they do now to new police recruits is
to operate on them to remove their conscience.Do the
police not realise that their children and their childrens
children will have to live in this world that they are
happy to help create..
OH! YES, SECOND HAND
SMOKE IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
Daley
Thomson banned from promoting Little Chef's Olympic
breakfast
...not
because it's unhealthy but because 2012 chiefs have
already signed lucrative deal with McDonald's
Much
better to live a healthy lifestyle . At least I thought
that was the aim of the Olympic committee. To promote
a healthy life style to the young. Can you imagine the
scene as 10 athletes go past at 50mph. One official
to the other " was that the 100 metres?" "No"
said the other," they have a special on for a big
Mac and fries!!" Don't these bastions of our sports
know that this is the worst type of diet to encourage
kids to eat? One burger full of fats & sugars &
growth hormones will do them far more damage than a
whiff of smoke that is diluted before it gets to them.
And that's a fact!!
But
the real reason Daley can't earn a few quid with Little
Chef is because The Olympic committee has done a deal
with another of New Labour's friend, Bush's, country's
company McDonalds .I wonder if Big Mac will win gold
in the Caber Tossing?!!. They have the power to do this
because New Labour passed yet another law making it
illegal for Daley to advertise the Olympics for any
one other than Big Mac. It is now a criminal offence,
punishable by a ?20,000 fine to advertise without the
Olympic committee's permission and fee of course. Police
can seize goods such as advertising material, with the
aid of Hazer Guns no doubt,! and then charge for their
time!! Advertisers risk prosecution and being sued if
they use words such as 'summer', 'games' and 2012'.
Can you believe how much time this took on taxpayers
money to work this act out? The mind boggles How will
Tony's friend Cliff Richards get on with his famous
" we're all going on a SUMMER holiday " song?
So now New Labour are not only banning words such as
freedoms and choice from the English language but lots
of other words too. We will soon be back to 'children
(as they deem us to be) should be seen but not heard'.
Well I don't fancy a greasy big mac but I am now stopping
for a smoke!!
Peoples
Jury
 So
Gordon is going to listen to the people is he? He is
going to take the peoples views into account before
making decisions and yet more laws that affect peoples
lives in so many different ways. Rarely for the better.!!
Or will he cherry pick' the answers, as they have done
with the smoking ban? His lackies have been telling
the media and therefore the public
that 80% of the public agreed with the smoking ban.
Well neither I, nor any of the 1000's of signatures
of 'real people' that we have collected, have
been asked and do in fact, disagree with the ban. 30%
of our survey signees are in fact non smokers and want
their right of choice given back to them. More importantly,
they want New Labour to honour their Manifesto pledges
on this matter. As a member of the public,& therefore
a member of the peoples jury, I wish to state my view
of politicians. Namely, that I always know when a politician
is lying. His lips move!! When Gordon talks of truth
he does not say " this is the Gospel truth"
does he? As he tells us that he wants us to live by
his Presbyterian values it would be nice if he led by
example. Surely obtaining a persons vote by lying to
them constitutes a crime in itself. Obtaining by means
of a false pretence, contrary to one of his many laws!!
I am sure that we, the jury, would find him guilty as
charged. Gordon, I rest my case! And I suspect smokers
in their millions will show New Labour come election
time.
November
2007 Oh!
what
a week Dictator
Brown
is having. All the skullduggery is catching
up with them. They made our lives a misery with all
the scare tactics to enable them to close down our lives
with the ever invasive security. The absolute misery
at airports when we try to escape this poxy country
for a short break to see how much freedom other countries
have. Waste of time rub downs that serve no purpose
except to degrade us and our loved ones Xray machines
to look through our wives and childrens clothing! takiing
off of shoes (sometimes) Do they not know what the so
called terrorists look like? And who does he employ
to do all these degrading things to us .Yes you've guessed
it. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!! SECURITY? A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.
SIMPLY
TO GET US USED TO THE FACT THAT THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY
LIKE TO US!
So they tried the normal cover ups & lies as usual
waiting for the media to move on to another story. They
did only this was another story of Government incompetence.Once
you get past the big brother tactics which we allow
them to force upon us you see just how incompetent they
are. The Inland Revenue lost all this informance they
have been stockpiling on us. How did they lose it? In
the post they said. IN THE POST? WE COULD ALL HAVE TOLD
THEM THAT THE POST IS VERY UNRELIABLE. Thanks to Government
policies. Thats why we use other methods. oh! it wasn't Postman Pat's fault after all.It was their trusted illegal security staff? They pry &
spy on us,obtain all our details and
then bloody lose them!! And
this is the lot that want ID cards. For security of
course. Could it be, maybe, that some civil servant does
not like what is going on in England and simply wiped
the discs clean. What a lovely thought eh? the best
laid plans of mice & politicians oft go astray!!
Cos they would tell us if this is the case wouldn't
they ? Then we come to another beauty?
Funds for Gordons
moneybox! We have a very generous donor who gives £600000
but doesn't want anything in return, so he puts it in
someone else's name. A couple of lowly paid workers are
claimed to have donated it. And, they also didn't expect
the odd peerage, or contract or two. It has since been uncovered that in fact Mr Abrahams does need a little help via the Friends of Israel and of course our English government who don't have many friends but plenty of undercover donors Every day the amounts
get bigger & bigger. Some poor sod has to resign
and say it was his fault. But that did not satisfy the
press. Although the Sunday Mail did not say who tipped
them off about this 'nice little earner'. Another person
with a conscience, maybe, that didn't want to bring down
Gordons wrath on himself ? Not only was it devious, it
was also illegal. But Gordon didn't know about it of
course & ' he wouldn't lie to you baby' because he
is a devout christian and wants open politics. Why would
he be interested in a mere £600,000, He leaves
that piffling amount to his underlings. Especially, illegal
dealings that the press were not supposed to find out
about. Anyway it's no problem. He has said sorry and
is going to return the money & check the books, no
doubt to see if there are any other discrepancies. Being
the clever man that he is, he has also solved the overcrowding
in prisons with this one. Because if all the bank robbers
& other criminals would follow suit, and appologise
and give back the loot when they are caught, there would
be no need for expensive prisons and even more expensive
lawyers and judges. As the old proverb says 'it takes
a thief to catch a thief'. Or a criminal to solve the
crime problem. So all you criminals out there, please
write your letter of apology addressed to Justice Minister
Jack 'many hats' Straw. give the money back, and with
a bit of luck you might be home for xmas!!. That will
stop 'call me Dave' Cameron from pestering Gordon with
silly questions like 'what are you doing about the crime
rate?' I bet the Tories wish they'd have thought of this
novel way of emptying the prisons!!
Then we had the Armed forces criticising Gordon for the lack of funds for the troops that are risking their lives for his policies, or rather his lack of the courage to refuse to back whosever policies they are in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are plenty of European Governments that have refused to send troops into battle, in a war based on lies. The new Spanish leader pulled his troops out. But Gordon doesn't have that sort of courage. Nor will he share any of his secret funds with the brave soldiers who are doing his bidding. If he was to just take £1 out of the fines he is raking in from his war on motorists, and donate it to the armed forces, we would have the best equipped army in the world. Yet he has the audacity to put a £15 surcharge inthe courts on all the other fines for the victims of crime. Regardless of the fact that in many of these cases there are no victims. Just another cash grab. Give this to the soldiers they are most certainly victims. Victims of his policies. We have not heard of any cutbacks to the politicians money have we? Or we could give him, and his gang, a rifle and send him out to show us how to fight this war on a shoestring. Not much chance of that happening though!! He has impersonated Stalin in his surveillance society, Hitler in his Smoking ban edicts, Mussolini in his food dictates (although he doesn't have the courage to take on Tesco & Sainsbury's, and the like, on thier GM in our food chain, against the peoples wishes by the way!), BUT not Ghengis Khan just in case he is given a rifle and sent to Afghanistan!! But then he doesn't have a personality of his own, or any idea of what running the country is all about
Extra* It has just been revealed, by Gordon? no no, don't be silly, by the London Evening Standard, that Tescos donated £11 million to the millenium dome via LLM (A LOBBYING COMPANY JOINED TO THE FRIENDS OF ISRAEL) WHO WERE THEN SAVED £40MILLION WHEN MINISTERS WERE PERSAUDED TO DROP PLANS FOR A TAX ON SUPERMARKET CAR PARKS. NOW YOU SEE HOW GORDON WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. HE DIDN'T LEARN THAT FROM HIS FATHERS PULPIT!
  
This is Gordon hard at work hustling up a few quid for his money box. With all his hunter gatherers.Lord Levy , the Friends of Israel, The property devoloper and secret donor Mr Abrahams who is seeking planning permision for a new shopping plaza,and the new fundraiser Mr Jon Mendelsohn. They look particulary chummy. But then who wouldn't be chummy with Mendelsohn with the funds he can pull in! This is the way Gordon's government runs.Hard work by the look of it!! You however will just have to be content with our" petition your MP". button
November
2007
Already the ban is starting to bite. Many pubs are facing
ruin, much to Brown's delight. Any publican that hasn't
yet woken up to the fact that pubs are going to be a
thing of the past, deserve to lose their business. They
have just rolled over and done nothing i.e petitoning
their customers or joining sites, such as ours, to help
to protect their livelihoodsThe only way the Government
can take over our lives is because of the complete apathy
amongst the electorate. Is England really this braindead?
It would seem so. All they have to do is to petition
their MP's and ask which party is going to stop this
erosion of our way of life and then vote accordingly.
Publicans are if only they would realise it in a position
to canvas all their customers who in turn could enrol
their own family freinds and work colleagues into getting
rid of politicians who won't represent them in the way
they want them to. Wake up before it's too late. Brown
is unelected and intends to stay this way if he is allowed
to. Wouldn't you if you could justsneak into a top job
and keep it? Gordon Brown made sure that nobody else
challenged for PM .How he did this is anybodies guess.
There must have been at least one other Labour politician
who felt he was up to the job but sadly lacked the courage
to run against Brown. The recent turnaround of Lord
West proved that. Stating his beliefs on radio and 1
hour later, after a bollicking from Brown changed his
mind. That is the future of this country. One mans view
Thats how most dictators begin. This man is the nearest
that England has ever come to having a dictator rule
us. Wake up England.Think of your children and your
grandchildren.
All in all it hasbeen a rough ride for Gordon but he will not admit he is not up to the job. He is fuming that somebody was audacious enough to start prying and spying into his dealings. Now he knows how we all feel with all the invasions and snooping on our private lives. Not nice is it Gordy. And we don't have anyone sneaking us £100 's of thousands of pounds through the back door. His integrity is shot to pieces yet still he hangs on unelected and unwanted .He is such a control freak that he knows full well about all the dirty and often illegal money grabbing that is going on. How can someone who is so biblical be involved in these dirty politics. Surely he above all the others in his gang should be truthful.
It seems he only likes the parables in the bible. We all know that the real meaning of a parable is an untruth so is it any wonder at the way he behaves?He has been brought up on parables and all his visions of how England should be run is on a porridge and parable base.
This last week in November he has become a laughing stock in Parliament by his fellow politicians. He has been referred to as Mr Bean. At the same time he is thinking of declaring war on Iran (on a shoestring no doubt) How can we possibly allow a man like this to carry on in this job. He has declared war on the British people with his dictatorial rule by attacking all our Civil Liberties. He blames it on terrorism. Well if the definition of terrorism is the loss of our freedoms by force then New Labour has proved itself to be the biggest terrorist organization this country has ever been threatened by. Never has a country been taken over with so little resistance by it's population. We are behaving like lambs and deserve what we are getting. Bombard the MP's. We want a change now. Gordon will fold under pressure like most bully boys. Tell him we don't like his visions .They stink. They are bloody parables.
In the commons this week he was asked what he would like for Xmas."A day off "he replied. Yes you are right, everyone could see what the reponse to that was going to be!. Everyone but Gordon that is. " well take plenty of days off ,PLEASE" was the response in the House. Amid much laughter, even from his own side he walked straight into the trap with his answer. Funny yes.But this is the man who wants to negotiate a war where many people will lose their lives. Taken in this context it's not so funny is it. The man is a walking disaster. He has no wit whatsoever. There are no jokes in the bible only parables. You cannot rule the lives of millions of people on quotes from the pulpit Sling him out. Let him go apply for his father's old job. He has been indoctrinated all his life for that job.We don't want to be converted.We simply want to get on with our lives with as little State interferance as possible. This is one life that we get, it is not a trial run. It is hard enough to get some pleasures out of it amidst all the financial day to day struggles, caused by his ilk, without him taking away those small pleasures. Like having a smoke and a pint!
We must tell him at the ballot box that everyone else saw George Orwell's 1984 as a horror story. Gordon and New Labour think it is the new,New Testament. He read it with glee and thought " now thats what I call power" He spends every hour of his life bringing 1984 to England. We are the most spied upon country in the world. He really thinks that is what his job is all about. Well come election time, if he allows it, we must tell him and his successor Enough is Enough!! Since New Labour have been in power they have spent the whole of their tenure bringing in new laws to take away our hard won Civil Liberties and apart from starting a war on lies, have done very little else. Nothing that can be seen to have enhanced our lives. I will be very careful who I give my vote to next time.There are 12million smokers out there who are voters +many non smokers who want their lives and choices back.Make your vote count. With that many votes ,you ,can dictate to the politicians the meaning of Civil Servants and make them work for you, instead of against you. You can make this a better country for yourselves, your children and your childrens children. Preach our gospel in as many places as you can. Not Browns Gospel. You pay the politicians wages make them earn them!!! Under Brown England is just Fine Fine Fine, Fine for parking your car!, Fine for having a smoke,!Fine for dropping a piece of paper! Extra Fine for not being able to pay a Fine!! etc etc etc!!!
And now for another of our 'Masters', as he loved TO CALL HIMSELF
'
It was this big, trust me I'm a politician.Would I lie
to you baby?'
 Michael
Howard
was, as he often told us on T.V.,
the most successful Home Secretary for many
years. He was talking about the crime issue. Quote:
'During my time as Home Secretary 1993-96 statistics
show that the crime rate was down' This was very true.
Is this the first politician to tell us the truth? Can
we finally believe what our rulers tell us? Sadly no!
The real truth is somewhat different. In 1993 the Open
Borders policy came into force. Dave West & I were
among the forerunners in the cross channel Booze &
cigarette trade.. Indeed, we were the first British
company to open in Calais. This suddenly provided a
ready made way of making a living for many
thousands of unemployed people in
Great Britain.
Thousands of vans cars & trucks from Scotland ,Wales,
Ireland and the whole of England descended on Dover,
Felixstowe & Hull.
England & France had seen nothing like this since
the Normandy landings of World War II. The queues were
endless.The ferries were running at full capacity 24/7.
Britain was alive again. There were parties galore.
Hire companies did not have enough vehicles so they
put in large orders with the manufacturers, Garages
were selling millions of gallons of petrol & diesel.
So any tax that was lost from beer & cigarettes
was more than compensated by the petrol etc taxes. The
people who had previou his job issly been robbing houses etc suddenly
had jobs and a way of earning money almost legally!
So the only real recordable increase in crime was a
bit of tax evasion which as said was made up in other
ways. The supermarkets were forced to reduce their vastly
inflated prices on beer from £28 a case to the
present day prices of £7 Who benefited? The British
Public THAT'S WHO!!! BUT POOR OLD MICHAEL DIDN'T KNOW
THIS DID HE? Come on Mick give credit where credit is
due. Stealing somebody else's credit is stealing just
the same. You would have made a great New Labour politician.
Any way the moral (now there's a new word for today's
politicians) of the story is that booze & cigarettes
put Britain back on it's feet again New cars mortgages
etc, less crime smiling faces. Surely a lesson for the
politicians. Give the public a chance and it works.
Is this really so hard for them to work out. Simple
economics that the voters understand and demand. Leave
the health issues to the gp's You are supposed be getting
the country on the move. Give us our freedoms and earn
your money. Come on Dave Cameron show New Labour how
to do it.Oh! yes and what about Michael's other great
idea, to take away driving licences from young criminals.
If they had one in the first place that is ! BY THE
VERY DEFINITION OF THE WORDS YOUNG OFFENDERS DID HE
REALLY THINK THEY WOULD CARE? No they would just have
driven anyway but without insurance. What world do these
guys live in? You can bet your bottom dollar that he
voted for the ban!!!
First
rebel publicans go to court
 In
November, the first of the publicans to be prosecuted
for allowing smoking in their pubs will go to court.
First up is Hamish Howitt in Blackpool. The Council may
have thought it funny to have a smoking related issue
be scheduled for 5th November but Hamish has had the last
laugh and officially changed his name to Hamish Guy Fawkes
Howitt. He will appear at 10am at the Magistrates Court,
Bonny Street, Blackpool. There will be a fair number of
us outside the Court to give him our support and we have
a few colourful ideas in mind. We also expect plenty of
press and TV coverage so if you're able to come along,
do so and join in.
Next up is Nick Hogan from Bolton due in court on 12th
November. Both of these brave guys are putting their businesses,
livelihoods and families on the line for what they believe
in which is that the law restricting smoking in pubs is
wrong. They want to run their businesses without draconian
legislation. By extension, they are therefore standing
up for my rights and yours.
If
you can't get to the Courts on those days but want to
show your support, please write to them, with a donation
to their legal costs if you can, or email their MPs.
Hamish
Howitt, The Happy Scots Bar, 9, Rigby Road, Blackpool
FY1 5DE
Nick
Hogan, The Swan, 2-4, Churchgate, Bolton, Lancs
Other looming prosecutions will follow for Tony Blows
in Herefordshire and Dana Hewitt in Walsall. We wish
all of them success.
Rebel publican
updates.
Hamish
went to court as scheduled and reluctantly took the
advice of his solicitor to plead guilty. The judge fined
him 100 pounds on 5 counts of allowing smoking in his
pub, plus costs of 2000 pounds, plus of course the Victim
Surcharge of 15 pounds. Another 7 offences were held
back for future consideration should Hamish be charged
again.
Hamish
left the court and gave interviews to the press and
BBC TV on the court steps. He said he would continue
to allow smoking in his pub as his conscience wouldn't
let him throw people out into the cold, the wind and
the rain. Then it was back to the pub where everyone
lit up with the TV cameras still filming and was later
shown on local news and BBC News 24.
Sure
enou gh, 2 days later, the officials went back to visit
the pub and Hamish will be back in court in very soon.
This time he will speak for himself and plead not guilty.
Nick
Hogan's case was adjourned until January. He said "It
was -4 degrees last night. You can't throw people outside.
It's just wrong."
He
added " I want to make this clear. I am not permitting
smoking at the pub.I am advising people that they risk
getting a fine if they do smoke. But what I refuse to
do is physically remove people from the pub for smoking
because it could amount to common assault."
Surely
this is a way forward for other publicans? The Government
thought they were pretty smart to get the landlord/publicans
to do the policing for them. But, if a publican forcibly
removes a smoker from the pub, it could be classed as
common assault or a breach of Health & Safety rules
regarding putting your staff in a possibly dangerous
situation.
Hamish guilty article
Hamish charged again article
Frightened
to death: Why it's scare stories that are the real menace.
Click here to read article
Sleepwalking
into a prison state
click here to read article
or
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Topical cartoons
And more Guy
Fawkes news....
This is a short article from
the Independent which tells of yet another British tradition
going up in smoke. And with Christmas approaching, no
doubt there will be similar stories, as there were last
year, of stupid reasons being given as to why our traditional
celebrations must be changed or cancelled.
The Guy Fawkes bonfire is the
latest victim of the anti-smoke culture. In Slough,
the local council has launched a "Cleaner, Safer,
Greener Slough" campaign, to make people think
responsibly about the environment. Having done so, they've
cancelled the bonfire that was to have graced their
5 November celebrations, arguing it would be "hypocritical"
to have a clean-air campaign and a lot of dirty smoke.
They cancelled it last year as well, replacing it with
a trampoline act, which, let's face it, isn't the same.
This year they'll have fireworks, but next year will
doubtless substitute some coloured ribbons on string.
A spokesman said: "There is a lot that goes into
the fire. It takes a lot of time to burn and it all
goes up into the air." These people miss nothing,
do they?
Anti-smoking
ban march at Bristol a success
Last Saturday, there was a demonstration march against
the smoking ban in Bristol. Although the number of marchers
was small, the message went out loud and clear that not
everyone is in favour of the ban or believes all the lies
about second hand /passive smoking.
Some people joined the march as it made its way through
the streets and there were quite a few shouts of encouragement
or drivers hooted as they passed. Many leaflets were given
out promoting freedom2choose.info,
a group opposing the ban and asking for smoking sections
to return to pubs with adequate ventilation. The march
ended near the council offices and was reported on in
several local newspapers, as well as local ITV and BBC
tv and radio.
The numbers of marchers may have been small but it's a
start and from little acorns?.. Credit to all of then
for making a stand.
There may well be another demonstration early next year
and details will be put here once known.
Any Person Found Celebrating Xmas Will be Liable to a Fine or a Term of Imprisonment by Order of New Labour
Impossible? Think again. It has already happened in England. In 1644 during the English Civil War the Puritan faction in Parliament decided to flex their fundamentalist religious power felt by bringing in laws to ban Christmas. They objected to the binge drinking and the debauchery that accompanied the revelries of Christmas. But the Puritans also objected to the name Christ Mass which had a ring of Catholicism to it. Now this was offensive to the Protestants that were now in power. So the name was changed to Christ Tide and was only for one day.of FASTING!!!
Oliver Cromwell (one of Gordon's heroes) and his gang, showed that once in power they can do as they please. New Labour has done nothing but bring in new laws since they came to power. Gordon Brown has strong puritanical views on just about everything hedonistic, such as alcohol and tobacco.
Cromwell's ban was no idle threat. For the 'sin' of celebrating Christ's birthday on the 25th December in the traditional manner, there were penalties. A man or woman could be fined and put in the stocks. No one was allowed to take a holiday. Government officers, sheriffs and justices of the peace forced shops & markets to open, and business to carry on as usual. In London, soldiers patrolled the streets and seized any food they suspected of being stored for Christmas celebrations and anyone holding or attending a church service faced penalties. For 18 years, England was a barren country, without Christmas celebrations.
Be warned, as we have said over and over, it is not just about smoking. Everything that can bring total subservience will be used. Brown's vision is far more severe than George Orwell's ever was. He has no ideas of his own, just a whole load of other peoples, Hitler, Musolini, Stalin all rolled up in one bundle of controls. Why? Ask your MP via our MP's button at the top of our page.
The point of this story is the fact that any thing can be made a criminal offence, any person can be turned into a criminal overnight by simply doing something they have been doing, quite legally for years, and paying tax on .i.e smoking a cigarette!!
Crime is on the increase, we hear stated continually. Of course it bloody is. New crimes are thought up daily. Since New Labour have been in power, they have invented thousands of new crimes. Sooner or later one will encompass you. It's the old 'divide & rule' bit. All Labour seem to have done since coming to power is laws & wars. The populace is still living in fear of losing their jobs and homes..They are being ruled basically by one man and his little band of chosen 'Yes' men such as Jack Straw and co. Why the hell we have the rest of the MP's on the taxpayers payroll I really don't know. They are simply there as a smokescreen to make it look like a democratic parliament. They have no say in anything. So long as they get their cash they are not going to rock the boat. Is there anyone out there who can honestly say that their MP is doing a good job and is representing their problems and wishes in parliament? I doubt it. If they were to watch the parliament channel on TV they would see their man asking silly questions in an empty chamber. "Would the right honourable man please tell me why my constituents are having all their rights taken away by this party?" they stand and blubber. You would think someone would tell them that the right honorable gentleman had left the house 2 days ago! You only get 30mins a week at PM question time and thats just about shcoolboy banter and jeering. Then it's all back to one of the many bars for a smoke and a drink and to work out how much they can claim for second homes and the like when much of the country is wondering if they can get or keep one home. Thats what takes up most of your MP's time.Getting all the perks of the job and making sure not to rock the boat. Who's fault is it? YOURS. YOU ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN AND JUST THINK WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT. Thats what Brown & co have done to the populace. Dumbed them down just by showing them that he doesn't care what they think. So long as they keep paying their taxes and fines
New laws on illegal immigrants say that you will get a £10,000 fine if you unwittingly employ an illegal immnigrant and unlimited fine and imprisonment if you knowingly employ them. Rightly so but, does this apply to all those illegal security guards the Home Secretary tried to cover up? What do you think. Ha, they say the media have moved on from that, so don't ask silly questions just do as we say, not as we do. And so it goes, every one against each other, the smokers and the non smokers, the workers and the immigrants, doing the jobs cheaper, and worst of all, the ones who say it doesn't affect me, the ones who sit on the fence, who don't yet realise, that if you sit on a fence you get splinters in your arse!!
First they came for the Jews & I did not speak out because I was not a Jew
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me - and by then there was no one left to speak out for me
The German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemoller
So just sit back people and let your children and your children's children's freedom just drift away
? Another smokescreen.
 In
the lead up to July 1st and the ban on smoking in confined
spaces, the newspapers and various spokesmen repeatedly
said that it would be good for the pub trade. Hoardes
on non-smokers would be flocking to the smoke free pubs
having stayed away before. Sales were going to go up and
there was no way that trade would suffer.
This was said even though the early figures from Scotland
and Ireland showed that this wasn't true, but why should
that bother anyone? Cover the truth in a smokescreen of
lies and the public and the publicans will believe it.
The ban itself was based on lies. It was frequently quoted
that the majority of the population wanted a total ban
on smoking in pubs despite the biggest surveys stating
to the contrary. It was, and is, even more quoted that
second hand smoke is a killer with even 30 minutes exposure
to someone's smoke having a detrimental effect to your
health. Again, completely untrue as the biggest surveys
based on the most extensive research showed that there
is no increased risk to your health. The World Health
Organisation's own study showed no danger and they were
one of the big drivers behind the ban, so they tried to
bury the report. So a couple of misleading facts about
the pub trade wouldn't be too much of a problem.
The truth is now emerging and below are some links to
articles saying how the trade has been hit in Ireland,
Wales and Scotland, as well as the bingo halls.
The first one though is of a pub closing in Chazy Heath,Reading
and the sign on the door says it all.
With an extra cold winter reported, it is safe to assume
that smokers will be less likely to put up with standing
outside in the cold and rain and may prefer to stay at
home, thus hitting the pub trade profits even more. How
many more pubs will have shut by the Spring?
And
do the Government care about the pubs closing, which
results in job losses? Do they care that smokers have
to brave the elements to smoke their legal and heavily
taxed product, even the OAPs who may have served and
fought for their country? Do they care about the reported
increase in date rape drugs being put into unattended
drinks? Do they care that the only social life some
people have may have been wrecked as they can no longer
smoke in a pub or bingo hall? Some disabled smokers
are also affected, no longer going out as they feel
a burden to be trundled out in their wheelchairs by
a helper when it's cigarette time. Do the Government
care about any of this? No, they don't yet but when
it's voting time they will be made to care.
reading
pub closure
report
from wales after 3 months
report from Wales after 6 months
irish
sales down and 1000 pubs reported closed
Rank
bingo halls profits down
London after the smoking ban
Gordon Brown - our unelected leader...unfortunately!
The "Brown
bounce" showed no sign of ending and the new Prime
Minister enjoyed continuing popularity,until the change
of heart over a general election, and the "Brown
bounce" became "The Brown Bottler". Part
of his popularity was off the back of 10 years as the
Chancellor of the Exchequer where he built a reputation
for financial prudence.
His speech at
the Labour Party Conference appeared to some as if he
was a new leader for a new party. Promises were made to
deal with immigration, the NHS and street crime and many
appear to forget that this is the party who have been
in power for the last 10 years. Couldn't more have been
done in that time? He has also promised reviews into 24
hours drinking and reclassifying cannabis despite that
changes were only made a couple of years ago. The figures
show that drunken street crime has fallen in this time
and there has certainly been no upsurge in problems from
smoking cannabis. So why tamper? It couldn't be that he
wishes to continue the type of policies that have seen
civil liberties eroded more under New Labour than under
any other government.
The conference
at the time was judged as a success and Brown & Labour's
popularity rose in the polls (until the election fiasco)
but if you look around, therewere at least 2 items of
great significance .
Firstly, many
items of debate were stifled as dozens of motions submitted
for discussion were rejected. Austin Mitchell, labour
MP said it was "crazy" that motions on important
topics could not be talked about. Another MP, John McDonnell
said Mr.Brown was "closing down debate" in the
party, cutting him off from its members and the wider
population. Out of 120 motions submitted, 96 were turned
down. If free debate is not allowed at the Labour Party
conference, what hope is there for ordinary people to
have their say and be heard?
Secondly, one
newspaper studied Brown's speech and found it littered
with lifts from speeches made by Democrat politicians
in the US, although this claim was denied.
Please read the
relevant article below and make up your own mind. To me,
it shows a lack of originality to rehash other people's
speeches and it's bordering on dishonest to not come clean
about it.
And then the
election issue hit him and hit him hard. His repeated
claims that it had nothing to do with the polls fooled
no-one. His continuing to ignore claims for a referendum
over Europe has also done him no good at all and fairly
quickly, Brown did not appear to be what many thought
he was. The referendum had been promised but it appears
the Labour manifesto for the last election stood for nothing
as another promise was broken, similar to the smoking
ban which was to exempt pubs that don't serve food and
private members clubs.
He seemed to
have emerged from the Northern Rock fiasco unscathed,
despite it being the first run on a bank here for over
100 years with some of the trouble going back to his time
as Chancellor. But the man no longer appears untouchable
and even at the conference, he may have felt a little
uncomfortable to see the pensioners protesting outside,
reminding him of how he dipped into the pension pot to
the tune of billions of pounds - a decision that has affected
the pensions of many and seen some company pension schemes
collapse.But overall this seems largely forgotten.
Similarly, it
appears to be forgotten that he voted strongly for the
war in Iraq and would have been closely involved in the
lies to the country that influenced public opinion. Even
now, some reports state that he may be considering backing
the USfor possible precision air strikes against Iran.
He certainly refuses to categorically rule it out. Imagine
the probable consequences of that!
Another episode
that seems to never be mentioned is that it was Brown,
in the early days in his post as Chancellor, who sold
about half of the UK gold reserves. Not only did he sell
them against expert advice but he sold them at the wrong
time and in the wrong way therefore costing the UK billions.
The low price the gold was sold for is still referred
to as "The Brown Price" in gold dealers circles.
Financial prudence at its worst.
Many of his budgets
were announced as tax cutting whereas the truth showed
he gave with one hand and took more away with another.
He should be better known forthe 66 underhanded stealth
taxes that were introduced.
 Another
example of Brown not coming clean is the Smith Institute,
named after the late John Smith and describing itself
as "an independent think-tank". This is an established
and operating charity and it hosted over 150 meetings
at 11, Downing Street while Brown was Chancellor. It comprises
of trusted Brown advisers and meets for policy brain storming
sessions. Figures filed with the Charity Commission show
that the Institute has received more than 2 million pounds
in 7 years, a figure that grew as expectations rose that
Brown would become Prime Minister. Complaints have been
made to the Charity Commission that it breached the rules
governing tax-exempt charities that are barred from political
activities and the Conservatives have also complained
after a subsidiary group held a meeting there on how to
defeat David Cameron. Key figures in the Institute deny
that it is specifically Brownite in its thinking and denies
wrongdoings. In December 2005, Mr.Brown's office said
the then Chancellor had "no financial nor any formal
relationship" with the think-tank. Hard to believe
with the choice of venue. Harder to believe when a large
chunk of Brown's fighting fund for the leadership campaign
came from donations from those in the Institute, and harder
still when it employed Ed Balls, a Brown right hand man,
in 2004/5. Just for good measure, the writer of the Brown
speech at the conference, lifted from previous speeches
made in the US, was Bob Shrum who was paid by the Smith
Institute to advise him on political strategy.
The eight month
investigation is still going on. Again, see the articles
below.
 And
then it came to light that the election that never was
cost Labour over a million pounds in unnecessary preparations.
What a waste of a lot of money.
Pensions
scandal under Brown and Labour
Brown
sells off 400 tons of UK gold reserves on the cheap
Brown
and his re-hash speech
Smith
Institute link 1
Smith Institute link 2
One
million pounds spent on the election that never was
 We,
the people, may be finally waking up to the man but what
do people who actually know him say about him. Below are
excerpts from articles in The Times, Time magazine and
from ePolitix.com
Mr
Brown's admirers have described him as intellectually
awesome, physically impressive with broad shoulders, morally
impeccable and seriously committed. Critics call him dour
and a "control freak" possessed of "Stalinist
ruthlessness
The criticism in 1998, allegedly by Mr Blair's former
spin doctor Alastair Campbell, that Mr Brown was "psychologically
flawed" hurt then and still echoes now. It has long
been observed that Mr Brown does not have Mr Blair's easy
charisma and nobody seems sure how the British people
will warm to him.
People who meet Mr Brown say that while he is fun and
gregarious with his infamous small inner circle and others
he trusts, he can be awkward with strangers. Some find
that endearing, an antidote to the vacuous smarminess
of many modern politicians, but some in the Labour party
will be anxious. For all the problems Mr Blair accrued
during his premiership, he never lost his ability to work
a room
As partygoers at Labour's Manchester congress discovered,
Brown doesn't do small talk. In interviews, too, he repudiates
seductive sound bites in favour of considered responses
that can leave eyelids drooping as the 10th subclause
gives way to an 11th. Presentation is important, he concedes
in an interview with Time
Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown
a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top
civil servant and Brown's permanent secretary at the Treasury
for 4 years, remarked of his management style at the Treasury
"You cannot help but admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness
of it all." He added that Brown had a "very
cynical view of mankind and his colleagues". Of discussions
with Cabinet colleagues, he said Brown's "view is
that it is just not worth it and 'they will get what I
decide'."
Mr Clarke is the ideal person to ask the question. He
has worked alongside Mr Brown in Cabinet (to say he, or
indeed anybody else, works with Mr Brown is laughable
and that, of course, is part of the problem) and knows
his strengths and weaknesses.
In our pages today, he is vicious about the Chancellor
- "deep weaknesses...can't work with people ...totally
uncollegiate...an image of slipperiness...not a risk taker...deluded..."
Baroness Morriss of Yardley who worked alongside Brown
when she was Secretary of State for Education said "Gordon
was the last Cabinet colleague you'd have thought of suggesting
a drink with".
David
Blunkett said Brown "is so driven that he sometimes
barely sleeps or eats. I...was bemoaning that I had only
had 5 hours sleep and Gordon thought that was rather a
lot. He's politics,politics, politics." Proof of
commitment & dedication or obsessive?
Neil
Kinnock labels him not "Capability Brown" but
"Justice Brown".
Craig
Hoy, writing on ePolitix, said former colleagues of Brown
say he can be stiff, or just plain rude to those outside
his tribal inner circle.
Mary
Ann Sieghart writing in the Times summed him up as "impatient
with people he doesn't rate and bears long and bitter
grudges against those he believes have crossed him, or
even disagreed with him. Brown is notorious for his low
threshold (for boredom) and when pressed for decisions
on areas he finds tedious, he procrastinates."
Nick
Robinson, political editor for the BBC ended his article
in the Times by saying "Those hoping for an end to
Mr.Blair's wars or a libertarian shift away from Mr.Blair's
laws are likely to be disappointed." "Mr Brown's
ideas have always been shrouded - sometimes by baffling
jargon, occasionally by tactical silence, always by a
tendency to work in secret with a few close friends..."
In closing, his
parliamentary record makes interesting reading. Based
on statistics from www.publicwhip.org.uk , his voting
record since 2001 shows the following:-
He has never
voted for a transparent Parliament
He has never voted for equal gay rights
He voted very strongly for the Iraq war
He voted against investigating the Iraq war
He voted very strongly for ID cards
He voted very strongly for student top up fees
He voted very strongly for replacing Trident
Overall, he has
voted in 18% of all votes held since 2001 - well below
average for MPs.
Gordon Brown
- our leader - but hopefully not for too much longer.
"Medical lies" - always
question what you read .
Elsewhere on this site, we have
said that the argument that second hand smoke is harmful
is false & that the biggest study failed to show a
link between it and an increased risk of lung cancer.
We have said it is a falsehood, and that even the World
Health Organisation's own study was buried because it
too couldn't show the results that they wanted it to.
They are partially behind the crackdown on cigarette smoking
in the UK as well as other organizations such as the big
pharmaceutical companies who rake in millions of pounds
from smoking cessation therapies. The government have
done a deal with some of the largest of these companies
and receive money for the NHS from these nicotine replacement
sales. So everyone, except the smokers, are happy. If
a smoker dares to state that the studies often quoted
and accepted as medicial fact are wrong, baseless and
basically lies, they are seen as a crank and refusing
to accept what is taken to be a truth.
We say 2 things to this.
Firstly, history shows that sometimes
the best tactic is to tell a bigger lie and tell it repeatedly
until it becomes accepted as fact. Every time it is told,
a little bit of it sticks in the minds of the public and
it is no longer questioned
.
Here's an excerpt from an article by John Henry Westen.
Well known former abortionist Bernard Nathanson, the co-founder
and first president of National Abortion Rights Action
League, after leaving the pro-abortion movement, confessed:
"Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the
public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions
was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly
fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took
root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many
that we needed to crack the abortion law."
Now fast forward to recent articles on the TV and news,
many on the dangers of alcohol and obesity, all designed
to soften us up before new rules come in force - further
restrictions on our freedom to choose what we eat and
drink.
For the last 20 years, it has
been the accepted fact that men mustn't drink more than
21 units of alcohol and women no more than 14. These figures
came from medical experts, so they must be right, surely?
But what if, 20 years later, the experts admit that they
basically made the figures up. Plucked them out the air!
But we believed it, we accepted it as fact. As we are
starting to do now about obesity and the national epidemic
that is going to get worse and worse over the next couple
of decades. It has had so much media coverage recently,
it just has to be true, doesn't it? Please read the articles
below to see how facts have been pulled out of the air
for alcohol consumption and for obesity, assumptions have
been made & figures twisted to get the dramatic end
results that make the headlines & make us accept what
is to come. I wonder how long before the truth also comes
out regarding the junk science over passive smoking?
Safe
drinking units made up Link1
Safe drinking units made up Link 2
The
truth about the obesity epidemic
Jack "Flip Flop" Straw
- "What a tart"
Jack Straw, now the Justice Minister,
is one of the great survivors of NuLabour, possibly due
to knowing when to change his mind over large issues and
when to change sides.
Although he joined the Labour
Party aged 14, he later became the left wing leader of
the National Union of Students at the height of political
unrest at student campuses after leaving Leeds University.
When he first started at Leeds in 1964, he joined the
Labour Society. In 1966, he was elected Chairman of the
society. His first act at the annual general meeting was
to change the name of the society to the Socialist Society
to show that they no longer supported Labour.
He has even shrugged off revelations
about his left-wing past - including that infamous trip
to to Chile as a student in 1966. He insists he was not
there to sit at the feet of Marxist opposition leader
Salvador Allende.
Recently released official papers show British diplomats
were so concerned with the young Straw at the time, that
they cabled London to warn foreign office officials that
their future boss was a "troublemaker... acting with
malice aforethought" and accused him of "childish
politicking".
Well, we'll let him off and put it down to his youth.
He later became a political advisor
to Barbara Castle in 1974. At the time, Harold Wilson
was the Labour leader with a tiny majority and he was
worried about Edward Heath and Jeremy Thorpe forming a
Conservative/Liberal coalition government. Castle was
in charge of the Department of Social Security and she
was asked to look into the personal social security file
of Norman Scott, allegedly the boyfriend of Jeremy Thorpe
to look for any potentially damaging material. Straw was
given the job but reported back that the file was missing.
Subsequent leaks to the press implicated Straw had done
the leaking and he still refuses to talk about it. The
journalist Barrie Penrose states this to be the case.
Straw was also fingerprinted by police in 1976 in a second
enquiry over a leak on Child benefit, and as to who had
leaked sensitive Cabinet papers. Newsnight, the BBC programme,
have taped interviews with Harold Wilson who confirmed
that Straw thought his career would be finished if his
name came out.
Let's fast forward to more recent
times.
His statements on crime - such
as expressing zero tolerance for "winos, addicts
and squeegee merchants" - have regularly seen him
attacked as illiberal. How embarrassing for him that in
1997, he had his own brush with youth crime, when it was
revealed his 17-year old son William had sold cannabis
to a newspaper reporter. He took his son to the police
station to face up to his crime and was painted as a typical
father trying to do the best for his child. But would
he have done this if the newspaper (The Daily Mirror)
hadn't threatened to go public with the information?
More embarrassment followed. In 2000, Straw's brother
- also named William - was fined for indecently assaulting
a 16 year old girl.
Reportedly, there was a bit of flip-flopping over the
Iraq War.
As foreign secretary, Straw was, of necessity, signed
up to war in Iraq, but he fashioned for himself an ingenious
get-out in case things went wrong. On the eve of war,
when there was no realistic chance of turning back, he
sent Blair a confidential memo suggesting that, after
all, maybe Britain shouldn't join the Americans in invading.
This has allowed him to distance himself from a conflict
in which he played an intimate role.
But the man himself, although
responsible for sending troops to fight in Iraq, is the
son of a conscientious objector and who avoided military
service during World War 2 and he refused to join the
Combined Cadet Force at his school in Essex as he said
he was a conscientious objector too.
During the past decade, much
has been said of Labour MPs either being a "Blairite"
or a "Brownite" with quite a gulf between the
2 groups. No problem for Straw. He was Blair's campaign
manager 13 years ago, then did the same for Brown this
year. Is that why he's still got a good job? Flip-flop
man strikes again, as he did on changing his views over
Europe, turning from the euro-sceptic he was in the 1980s.
At the recent Labour conference,
Straw announced that the government may introduce legislation
to protect "have a go heroes". This has not
only upset the police but has drawn criticism from those
who say why was nothing similar ever mentioned when he
was the Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 - just another
ploy to attract the floating voter when there was talk
of an election?
Mr.Straw likes to remind us of
his personal heroics in tackling muggers and burglars.
Looking deeper into his past exploits we found a couple
of other examples.
Quoting from an article in The Times:-
Jack the lad
- Mr Straw's cuttings file brought more occurrences of
his crime-busting exploits
- Neighbours recall an 11-year-old Straw in the late 1950s
berating an ice-cream seller for illegally sounding his
chimes after 7pm.
- Mr Straw, described by one neighbour as "a toffee-nosed
boy nobody wanted to play with", said he did not
remember the event
- In 1999, as Home Secretary, he accosted a youth who
was spitting from a Blackburn railway bridge. "I
thought, 'You can't just stand and watch this'."
Mr Straw said. "He gave me quite a lot of lip, but
after a while he calmed down."
- Later that day he was forced to admit that he was accompanied
by armed protection officers. Mr Straw’s spokesman said
that he did not remember the event.
Looking a little to the future,
Straw is expected to rubber stamp at the next EU meeting
in November, a law that will pass without debate. Under
new european co-operation, european authorities – including
government departments, police and councils - can demand
intimate background details on UK citizens, whether as
victim, witness or suspect in a crime. This could include
minor traffic offences. Until now, a court order would
have to have been obtained and worries exist that this
sensitive data could fall into the wrong hands.
In closing, it was Tony Blair
who was reported to have said "What a tart"
at the end of a phone call with Straw. For once, I agree
with him.
What's
next?
A
lot of people feel that the smoking legislation that came
into force on July 1st was over the top and unnecessary
but some others took this as an opportunity to go even
further. The law was mainly about smoking in enclosed
spaces - so why did British Rail rush to ban smoking from
all station platforms, even uncovered ones, quoting a
bye law from the 1965? This now means that it is "illegal"
to stand on a deserted, windy, open platform and smoke
while you're waiting for your delayed train.
There
were exemptions for hotels to have designated smoking
rooms - but again, most of the hotel chains went ahead
and banned it from all rooms. Hospitals and councils joined
in, banning smoking from all outside areas including open
air car parks. Some councils now ban smoking within 5m
of the buildings.
Even
football grounds got involved and smoking is banned from
all grounds bar one - good old Halifax Town still allow
it in certain parts of the stadium. A spokesman from Carlisle
United, who banned a supporter for the whole season for
smoking, said " New Football League rules, implemented
ahead of this season, mean that stadiums around the country
must remain smoke free". A spokesman for the Football
League however said that it was up to individual clubs
to manage smoking issues. It was neither national law
nor a law imposed by the Football League, simply further
examples of organisations deciding to take the over the
top laws even further. Several other clubs are also taking
away season tickets from repeat offenders.
Our
worry is, where will it end? What else is being considered
to get in the way of us living our lives as we choose.
As our Government gets bolder in curbing our personal
freedoms, it seems to encourage others - doctors, senior
police officers, judges etc - to come up with more and
more things that they think need attention. The smoking
box has been ticked as done, but further restrictions
will come. You may see below, ASH in New Zealand and Australia
aren't happy yet and now are pushing for both places to
be absolutely tobacco free by 2017 and cigarettes won't
even be sold! Food and alcohol are the next targets here
as well as the growth of databases that will hold too
many personal details about us.
Listed
below are a few examples, some very likely to happen,
some already here and some a possibility for the future.
Newspaper Articles
on this topic
Is
Britain going crazy? Is this Gordon Brown's "Vision"
?
Below
are a few links to newspaper articles from the last few
days.
Despite most people being worried about street crimes,
shootings and stabbings, it appears there are nastier
elements of society that need cracking down on - kids,
OAPs and smokers.
The common denominator here is going for the softer targets,
especially those that generate income from fines. And
if they are not being clamped down on, the very young
and very old are being put to good use to enforce the
law.
8
Riot police called to pub for 1 smoker.
10
year old fined & fingerprinted for writing on a wall
in crayon
Lorry
driver fined for smoking and littering... by a Dog Warden!!!?? Link
1 Link
2
84
year old fined for putting rubbish in a litter bin
Geriatrics
with speed cameras
And
the complete opposite to using OAPs to enforce the law,
what about 10 year old judges?
link to article
If
you are one of the many who is not a big fan of our Prime
Minister, clink on the link below and punish the PM.
Punish
the MP |
Victim
of Smoking Ban
Soon
the Government to decide if it will be mandatory for
folic acid to be added to bread and/or flour. Should
ministers decide to back the recommendation, it would
amount to the first mandatory fortification of food
since the second world war