Smoking bans KILL businesses - FACT!
So who needs Camoron, Clegg or any of the otherS
who waste their time in the House of Commons trying to sort out this countries many problem-most of which were created by this governments predecessors who also sat in the House of Commons, but purposefully set about destroying this country bit by bit! I only need to mention the Human Rights Act & Immigration and it won't take you long to join up the dots to see where Blair got us, and worse still, where we are going to end up. Bankrupt.
There are many who attend that chamber who shouldn't be there, for varying reasons too. Many of them are elected because they are of the red persuasion, many because of the blue area they are 'standing in' come election time and some for the simple reason that the voters want neither red nor blue. The common denominator is that once they attain this MP status they simply forget all about their constituents and do whatever they feel like doing, vote the way they think things should be not what their consituents (who actually put them there) think.
... and here is the news... Luxembourg... err... I went Dave
We now have a prime example of such an insidious creature. A woman that has gone from reading the news to creating the news - by flitting off to Luxembourg to 'do her own thing' under the guise of representing this country. Why is she still in a job?
"I'll have 20 silvers please Mr Patel"
Anna Soubry has left the studios that gave out the news and, off her own bat (though I bet we paid for the flights etc) tootled off to Luxembourg to assure a group of people that they have OUR support for even more tobacco control, even though we have shelved the ridiculous plain packing idea. It appears that we don't need the other 600+ MPs any more as "SuperSoubs" is a one woman government!
Broxtowe contains all these constituencies:
Area Constituency MP
| Attenborough | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Awsworth | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Beeston | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Bramcote | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
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| Chilwell | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Cossall | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
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| Greasley | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Kimberley | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Nuthall | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Stapleford | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Toton | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
| Trowell | Broxtowe | Anna Soubry |
Broxtowe is an area of nigh on 70,000 voters and she only scraped in by 309 votes but I'll wager that she never asked one of the 70,000 or even one of the 309 who ensured her election if they minded her doing her own thing in Luxembourg. She certainly never asked any of the seven people I know in the Nottingham area. There are plenty of smokers in Nottingham and I would imagine that when this bit of news gets around the place, attitudes toward her will change dramatically!
Bill Cash (House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee
) is rightly furious that this junior minister of no real consequence has simply sidestepped his committee and gone striding off to Luxembourg with so much as a by-your-leave. When does she "get her cards" for such gross misconduct I ask?
As Liberal Vision states:
"Quite how one woman – sticking two fingers up to the UK democratic
process – was able to waltz into a room and declare she was negotiating
on behalf of the United Kingdom – when, in fact she clearly had no
authority to do so whatsoever - will be beyond most people’s
comprehension."
And as our friend Chris Snowdon says:
"The problem with Anna Soubry is not that she is necessarily a bad
person. In another role, she may have some merits (and I have defended
her once before).
She is, however, a politician and is the latest in an unbroken line of
inexperienced MPs parachuted into the superfluous role of Minister for
Public Health, a junior position created in the late 1990s. The list of
previous occupants is a Who's Who? of where-are-they-now?
non-entities such as Dawn Primarolo and Caroline Flint. Like those
before her, Soubry wants to make a name for herself and 'public health'
offers plenty of headline-grabbing opportunities to do so."
Anna Soubry is simply the latest 'caped crusader' who thinks she holds the salvation card to the nations smokers-who aren't actually a problem but have been demonised to such an extent that people now genuinely think they must be a problem! Chris mentioned past puppets in Primarolo & that obnixious thing named Flint.
Primarolo-defunct Flint-defunct
Who's next?
I remember when the Shisha bars/cafes/lounges were first ever mentioned as an exemption as they were/are purpose built businesses-the purpose being that smokers united to... err..... smoke socially. Flint was invited by a business owner, holding a shisha pipe, to try shisha and promptly started screaming like a Banshee "They're trying to kill me, they're trying to kill me" before scuttling off down the Edgware Road! Of course, the shisha owner was trying to do no such thing and was totally bewildered, but the Flint creature was simply trying to amplify the non existent point that SHS kills-shame really that she didn't run into the middle of the Edgware Road-amid all those marvellously healthy, invigorating exhaust fumes then she she could have really 'felt the force'!
Talking of shisha businesses it is now abundantly clear that local councils are hell-bent on eradicating such empires as the latest prosecution was for allowing smoking to occur in a tent! Yes, a tent. A rather large tent actually, a marquee which was deemed as an enclosed space by Tower Hamlets local council EHOs.
Now we all know that a tent is a piece of equipment used for pleasure but the owner used it as a premises for his shisha business-silly boy. We already know just how corrupt the system has become with regard to any possible smoking related prosecution so I am very surprised that Mr Dabir Ahmed even thought he would get away with this silly attempt at swerving the law. Bless him, his efforts cost him £1,225 + the inevitable costs for his efforts.
Tower Hamlets (starring role in the short film "Ghetto's of London") is the area where certain loonies decided they would be implementing Sharia Law-and probably the same place that a much needed uprising of the people of this country will begin!
I say "a much needed uprising will begin" because it now transpires (despite all protestations beforehand) that the anti smoking brigade are now complaining that non-smokers have to endure endless columns of putrid, all enveloping,
death delivering plumes of smoke in beer gardens-in nice weather! Well upon my soul, where else are smokers supposed to go? As complainants have been told at my local pub, "if you don't like sitting out here because of the smokers then go inside where they are not allowed". It's as simple as that. If people han't moaned so much about smokers and then got the pubs to themselves then we wouldn't have this apparent problem now.
Of course a beer garden is for the use of ALL patrons of a public house-not just the chosen few, so for the very few that do complain about smokers I simply say, "look, you got what you wanted, you got smokers expelled from the pubs so why do you feel the need to sit out here with them? You don't need sunshine, you got your little ray of sunshine as from July 1st, 2007!" I suppose we will have to have a parliamentary debate on this matter as well, but this is what this stupid law created-and it need never have been like this.
We need massive support for Philip Hollobone's (MP) Private Members Bill to be introduced in the autumn for this is to have the smoking ban amended so as to allow the decreasing number of Working Mens Clubs to use a separate room for smokers. And before you all start screaming about staff, there is a thing called choice ..... it's something that occurs in a democratic society (though I'm not sure what Camoron's interpretation of DEMOCRACY actually is?) WMCs are struggling to survive.
They are the places where people of all ilks go to socialise, as decreed by one Reverend Henry Solly some 150 years ago. WMCs were once thriving businesses but although they have declined slightly since the late '80's', the smoking ban has electrified that decline since 2007! Read all about the clubs in this excellent book, you'll be amazed at just how much you DIDN'T know. More than 700 clubs have successfully claimed business rebates, which tells you just how much damage the smoking ban has done and is still doing!
Of course we all now know just how much of a coward David Camoron (Hitler did at least have one ball !) is as far as defending his people goes. OK, so plain packaging has been shelved but so has our supposed refendum on the completely corrupt EU. And while he has ministers, junior ministers, backroom staff, cleaners & waste bin emptiers galloping around europe on missions of mercy with regard to possible cigarette legislation in the future and, worse still, doing that 'galloping' as they see fit, then we can be assured that this country will sink even further into the abyss.
Perhaps "SuperSoubs" thinks that with plain packaging coming into being, the entire world will be saved..... but until then she should be sacked!
all the way down to Arnott 
for persecuting smokers (who won't necessarily hold court to cancer) and enhancing their demise. So, where are plod to arrest these inciters of death, where are the European Courts of human rights to allow smokers to live, unmolested, in mentally stable societies that won't cause this abominable trigger system that enhances cancer cells to rampage and kill?
I have been having a most enjoyable exchange of words with one of my local MEPs, Mr Bill Newton Dunn (an ilLib-unDem for his sins) who cannot understand how I can possibly be 'for' those who choose to smoke when 'we know that smoking kills so many people each year'. I asked for proof of lives saved and received this highly informed answer "How do you measure lives saved ?" Exactly! It cannot be done, therefore to state that all these anti tobacco measures WILL save lives is totally fallacious-but then that is all that TC do-mislead people, simply look at my 'lead portrait' on every blog! So far I have rebutted every argument that he has put forward but one thing he said has stuck in my claws - 
