Meglomaniacs heaven

We now know, indisputably, that Andrew Lansley has renounced all his previous witterings about fairness, equality, human rights & choice  as this so called 'public consultation' (that has none of the general public actually being consulted!) stumbles on until it is decided that there is 'undeniable evidence' that shows plain packaging will be the final 'cure all' of smokers-every one will give up smoking and not one single child will even look at a plain packet of cigarettes-we'll all be too bored by them! The fact that plain packaging, subject to massive court cases in Australia, is now totally irrelevant seems lost on Lansley and the health loonies as they march ever onward with their crazy lifestyle plans where we all live to be at least a centenarian. Plain packaging became irrelevant the moment the tobacco display ban was enshrined in law, but they seem not to have noticed such.
Lansley is fast becoming the king of megalomaniacs as he sees all conquering power before him and sees himself as ruler of all those beneath him thanks to the unwavering support of the anti tobacco legions who instigated this atrocity within our country. It seems we are no longer allowed choice in what we do or how we live our lives as we need to be told when to eat, when to sleep, what to eat, how to eat it, what to drink, when to drink it and how much of whatever we are enjoying......to enjoy!
The health loonies seem to think that we all want to live to be at least 100 years old and I can't figure out why? Who on earth would want to live to that age when one certainly wouldn't be fit enough to go out and do what one could do 50 years earlier. What would you be able to afford with your pension the way the cost of living is rising year after year? You would be consigned to watching TV all day long-the healthy lifestyle channel!
But back to Lansley. One has to ask the question, "what is he getting out of all this?" I blogged, somewhat tongue in cheek a couple of weeks ago, that Lansley was the most dangerous man in the country-now I am convinced that I was right! He is. There is no proof that cigarettes sold from behind closed doors reduce smoking and absolutely NONE that plain packaging will make a ha'porth of difference but our new health Fuhrer is undeterred in his quest for supreme power. A very interesting interview with Andrew Turner of API Laminates lays it all out for us, the damage liable to be caused, the unemployment liable to be caused and the ramifications of plain packaging in the future!

But as I said in a previous blog Lansley cares not a jot about what any of this might do to the economy, in fact the economy must be the furthest thing from his mind as he strives to kill this country off once and for all-and believe you me folks, that is exactly what this ludicrous health drive will do. Let's see what we can get rid of shall we? Well fags are out as they may contribute to cancer, and so might milk, coffee, tea, beef, pork, lamb, red wine & chocolate.....I mean, just how long a list is this going to be? Note here that when I pointed two of these cancer risks out to my then MP, Sir Peter Soulsby [uggh] (a complete anti tobacco warrior) a couple of years ago and asked why weren't at war with bacon & red wine etc, he flippantly replied that "we'll start the campaign tomorrow shall we, after I've finished my bacon sandwich and glass of wine!" (So much for your MP being of any use!) We obviously need to get rid of all the take-away joints for they are guilty of 'making' us 'slob out' in front of the telly and become obese, so that's Chinese, Cantonese, Indian, Mexican, Portuguese, Thai, Turkish and even some Spanish take-away food shops gone. Then there are all the Kebab shops that sell Doner, Kiofte, Lamb, Chicken, Spicy Chicken, Herbed Chicken, Burgers etc and of course we must not forget the good old mainstay-the fish 'n' chip shop. Add to the list MacDonalds, Burger king, KFC and an enormous array of pizza places, all of these will be part and parcel of our failure to meet the BMI figure as laid down by the health gestapo of this once great country. How many of such shops in London alone? A quick check over at Yell.com lists 8 such places in Islington alone - and they don't list every business! You see we have to remember that Lansley's NHS reforms are highly dubious, in fact so dubious that many Tory Mps and ex Tory MEPs doubt his proposals working at all! So a possible 60,000 businesses could be set to close simply to assuage the thirst of our health omnipotence. Think of THAT in cost terms to the country!
The government and the health lobby are well on the way to eradicating our pubs with their smoking ban and consistent taxing of alcohol and we know that the cost so far is circa £27bn-yes BILLION.....and they haven't even started on food (above) yet! It is no longer a war on tobacco, it is a war on free thinking spirits. It is an exercise in state control-but it is failing, as it was always doomed to do. In the latest report a mere 12% of Wigan smokers managed to quit completely-and that's only after a 4 week state controlled period. God forbid they should actually give us a figure after a proper 12 month period !

When you actually look at the reform proposals I think you would agree that Lansley hasn't really got a grip on reality which immediately makes me think that this new found love for hatred of all matters tobacco is simply a giant smokescreen to hide his inabilities of creating a simple but effective NHS reform.
The problem with this scenario of course is that in seeing a way of 'covering his very dubious NHS tracks, Lansley has turned himself into a Lord God of all matter health, he is in megalomaniacs heaven-and still very, very dangerous indeed.

It's a rotten law, a rotten country!

Announced today that we are in a 'double dip', a recession that is, apparently approaching the disastrous proportions of the 1930's. Well, we can certainly thank the Blair/Brown years for our sad financial demise and even applaud them for our complete lack of 'gold reserves' - that we sold at probably the worst possible time and, of course, the worst possible price. But it is another piece of the jigsaw of legislation that Labour pushed through that will see the end of this country as any sort of financial power in the economic world - the Smoking Ban, the worst law implemented since the Clockmakers Tax of the 1790's which promptly saw clock production cease.
Of course the anti tobacco army have marched gloriously onward in their attempt to eradicate smoking in this country simply because 75% of the population don't smoke;ie, they had a natural 'weight advantage' to start with.
We have an indoor ban which has crucified the pubs & clubs with more than 10,000 gone since mid 2007-at God only knows what cost to a government so far up the health lobbyists backsides I'm surprised that they are still easily distinguishable from the Patel's in the corner shop!
We have the lunatic fringe now wanting plain packaging, though of course there is absolutely no point enforcing such as cigarettes now have to be hidden behind 'closed doors'-for the sake of the 'chiiildren'. The fact that kids espy thousands of gaily coloured sweet packets which lead to major dental problems  and obesity seems to have escaped such as Lansley who is on a one man mission to save the sinners smokers from themselves.
We also now have another section of the lunatic fringe wanting to ban smoking in cars, err, private property but they seem to want to ignore that fact just as they want to ignore the fact that the children are already travelling in the most toxic of all our problems. I have friends who have died from the effects of exhaust fumes but not one of my many aquaintances has succumbed to cigarette smoke!
We have yet another, more extreme set of lunatics wanting to ban smoking in parks & other open air areas-now just how are they going to manage/police that I wonder? A park is a public area, paid for (out of our taxes) by the public, for the public-so do they now want to take on the discrimination laws?
It really must be a case of getting all priorities wrong when it comes to this smoking ban and the financial state of this country for we are now in a 'double dip' recession, yet we happily start on the next £27bn in the un-winnable war against smokers.  The latest 'public figure' to come out against the ban is non other than ex Sex pistol John Lydon who simply says "Give people the choice." Now I don't see much wrong with that idea-do you?

Just think about it for a minute.
Thought about it?
Think of how many people would return to the pubs to drink, especially when non smokers had their own pubs, likewise smokers.
Think of how many jobs it would create as pubs started to become busy again.
Think of how much revenue this cash strapped government would once again start raking in-I don't seem to remember there being any form of recession pre smoke ban-do you?
Think of how much money Government would save on funding these terrorist quangos like ASH who have no regard for 25% of the population! Terrorism:- Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians). Isn't it strange how ASH fit the description so nicely-it's a fair cop guv! Even stranger is the fact that government have no qualms about financially supporting this terrorism against its own people and as Dick Puddlecote says here, "It's quite a staggering sum, too. Total budget in financial year 2011/12: £468,462.06" - and that's only the Smoke Free South West mob!
Amending the smoking ban to encompass that which should always have been encompassed (CHOICE) would see this government starting to claw back £millions that have been needlessly wasted over the past 5 years. They only denied themselves £254m in 2010.....and all in the name of an ideology nurtured over the decades by a group of extremists hell bent on the destruction of this country, yet, if everyman & woman was absolutely potless smokers would still find a way to smoke-for you either smoke or you don't. All this idiotic ideology needs to stop for the sake of sanity and the sake of our rapidly failing economy for make no mistake folks the smoking ban, in all its horror, will bankrupt this country. The Labour party made one horrendous mistake by backing one of their own (Donaldson), the Coalition have made a bigger one by not amending Labour's atrocity in law-making!

PM10's & No10

Isn't it truly magnificent when the media actually start releasing, in all innocence of course, the truth about our wanton pollution problems? doesn't make you feel that you have a government and a system that you can trust!

I speak of course of the marvellous revelations that pollution from cars, lorries, buses etc; even power plants kill 13,000 people per annum. With another 6,000 tacked on from EU pollutants we are getting rid of 19,000 people per year-and no one has lit a cigarette or pipe yet!
The article explains how soot particles in the air (PM10s) invade our fragile respiratory systems and slowly poisons us: Quote- "The MIT study estimated air pollution was costing at least £6 billion a year and possibly as much as £60bn. Most of the cost is generated by the cardiac and respiratory diseases caused by inhaling the minute, sooty particles from car exhausts." 
Now this takes some comprehending for we are used to having smoking related costs of £2.7bn thrown at us from every vantage point possible but air pollution figures simply drown any such numerical arguments! 'at least £6 billion a year', more than double smoking costs to the NHS! But the other end of the scale is monumental for we hear that the figure is as much as 'as much as £60bn.' Wowee! Now we are talking 22 times as much as smoking related treatments yet smoking, apparently, still remains 'one of the most preventable causes of premature deaths'. Set that against 'emissions from cars and lorries, which occur closer to where people live and work, pose a more serious risk to human health.' and one has to wonder about the enormity of the lies emanating from our 'No 10' about PM10s?  
We already know that Britain has fended off £300m in fines from the EU/SSR concerning air pollution levels yet, as usual, No 10 says nothing about such matters to the people that put them in office yet they continue to condemn those 25% of the population, including the smokers that were daft enough to vote blue!
Beginning to see the hogwash spouted by anti tobacco groups yet?
As anti tobacco war costs keep mounting (approximately £27bn so far) with results equating to nil pointes, you have to debate the sanity of those leading the charge against a legal product. Yes, I am talking about tobacco!  
After much correspondence to, and very few replies from, Irish Health Minister James Reilly wants to extend the ban to everywhere that children could be, might be, even should be but now accepts that 8 years of colossal effort and 8 years of colossal expenditure have resulted, again, in nil pointes!  infact, Irish smoking rates have increased by 2%-now that is Irish!
One has to wonder when this idiotic crusade will end for the costs, on both sides of the Atlantic are astronomical and now we have the news that Bloomberg (N York maggot mayor) & Bill Gates (worm Microsoft) are to donate $500m "to fight tobacco use in developing countries", well good luck with that then for most developing countries have totally corrupt regimes (mind you, we are getting that way ourselves!) therefore much of the £500m will simply disappear into officials pockets-or Swiss bank accounts. Apparently these people (Bloomberg/Gates) are known as philanthropists but in reality they are simply control freaks who want to attack smokers in poor countries where, quite often, the only pleasure the inhabitants have is smoking. They simply use their colossal wealth, no doubt, in part, gained from those who smoke to pursue an ideology that will never come to fruition. Why should people who enjoy a legal past-time be hounded and bullied into submission by a few anti smoking terrorists simply because they (the anti smoking terrorists) abhor the smell of smoke? 
Before the turn of the century a certain Dr Kitty Little began correlating the rise in cancer cases with the rise in industrialisation but she was largely ignored because the anti tobacco squadrons were already being put in place; ie, her research did not suit that which was already on its way for the unsuspecting smokers. But, the good doctors work was hushed up for more than just the smoking/cancer/diesel studies for she exposed the breeding grounds for all these horrible little people that seem to think they have a divine right to run ruin others lives & lifestyles. She wrote about the Illuminati and the book The Truth Shall Set You Free tells you all you need to know about what is going on, way above our heads, in this totally corrupted, power crazed world. Why do you all think that CP students (Common Purpose) have infiltrated our legal system to such an extent that any person accused of a smoking or smoking related crime has very little chance of justice being served for they are now deemed guilty as charged-even if they don't smoke.
The EU directed that smoke ban laws were to be enforced to the maximum to deter would be activist/objectors and we certainly don't need to look very far for proof of that situation! Corruption in our courts is now commonplace as witnesses are not allowed to be called, CCTV footage is deemed ignorable by Kettering magistrates & state employed 'witnesses' are deemed more credible than any 'honest Joe' off the streets! The mere fact that we know a government agent is lying through her crooked teeth seems to have no basis or make no difference in our courts of supposed law! The  smoking ban has been seen as a supreme cash cow to our financially jaundiced judicial system. but, yet again the question arises, why is this discriminatory law still in place in its original form when it is blatantly obvious that it is costing this country £billions in trade and therefore revenue? The answer is simple my friends. The anti smoking lobby have created a monster, a monster that governments have found to be highly lucrative as the legal system has been adapted to reap the benefits. A monster that can produce a never ending series of studies and reports to support its weird & wonderful claims, a monster that happily discriminates against 25% of the population without fear of contradiction simply because the brainwashing has already been done on the majority!
It is only when scientific studies such as this finally seep out that people even begin to question the validity of the spurious claims from such as ASH, CRUK etc. As an aside, did you notice that as soon as a consultation on plain packaging was announced, YouGov produced a survey stating that 62% of the population wanted plain packaging? Now how did Peter Kellner (confirmed anti tobacco loon) know that a survey was needed, who did he survey and when did the survey take place?
The whole plot stinks and nothing stinks more than the latest report on our pollution status, which is where we started out today as government ignore the possible  "£60bn of which most  of the cost  is generated by the cardiac and respiratory diseases caused by inhaling the minute, sooty particles from car exhausts." Again they use the 'premature death syndrome' as a benchmark for fear, but there is no such thing as nobody holds a dated book of lifespans and non of us know when our time is up! In fact, when you investigate the 'science of anti smoking' and listen to such as Arnott, Sandford et al spouting on about 'overwhelming evidence', the majority of it is merely a smokescreen for no one has ever yet produced that death certificate with SHS as causation of death!

Perhaps, in the light of this scientific revelation, government will refuse to produce a death certificate stating C.O.D: Air Pollution!

Beware

The most dangerous man in the country!

( “Glory will be mine!” )

(They’re coming to take me away, ha ha, he he......)

 In my opinion we are looking at the most dangerous man in the country at this present time, the Pol Pot of the health lobby has finally ‘come out’ and declared war on smokers & smoking. Yet, three years ago, this man sat in opposition decrying the anti tobacco measures proposed by Labour - Is this not the height of hypocrisy? Lansley has already proven himself unable to ‘lay straight in bed’ with his ‘turnaround opinions’!

Now let us get one thing straight - before the anti tobacco loons start screaming: I do not smoke cigarettes, pipe, nor any other forms of tobacco for smoking actually makes me sick. Nor have I any ties with or any payment from any form of tobacco company. So there you go, I am simply a normal man on the street, no more, no less.

This war, for that is what it is, on tobacco and tobacco users has reached breaking point and again, in my opinion, this man pictured is heading for extinction; political extinction.

So far the anti smoking lobby have wheedled their way to the ridiculous position of having cigarettes hidden behind shutters, blinds, rolling doors etc just so that children don’t see the colourful packaging, however they allow our kids to gaze at hundreds of brightly coloured sweet packets, which can quickly lead to obesity & major dental problems.

Let us be up front here, ASH et al have forced a law through on the back of lies, fabrications, manipulated statistics & junk science. Yes, OK, the idea behind smoking cessation is logically sound but the practicalities just don’t work out!

I have said from Day 1, that the economics just will not work and that prophesy is now coming true as tobacco control is well and truly out of control.

Brainwashing Labour MPs, non smoking MPs and general ‘do-gooders’ was easy for ASH as they mounted a campaign of ‘anti smoking terror’ quaintly entitled ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, even convincing companies that employees would sue them should they fall ill from any possible smoke related malady. With 75% of the population NOT smoking it was a simple task to whip up a storm of self righteous anti smoking hysteria and when you think about it, it is incredible that this should even occur when smoking rates had declined from approximately 70% (late 1950’s) to just 25% (2005) through natural reduction; ie, people deciding for themselves that they no longer wished to smoke.

The answer is simple: the World Health Organisation, an arm of the United Nations, who have given up all hope of winning the war with illegal drug traffickers. These people have resorted to stamping their authority on a legal product-tobacco! Why? Apparently they need to be seen to be doing something to combat disease & death, but this then raises the question of why they are allowing 4,000 people per day to die in Africa for the want of clean water. So why have the WHO no intentions of laying water pipelines or irrigation for small cultivations etc. instead.

We pay the WHO circa £26m per annum for them to target us re tobacco usage and slowly destroy our own economy. Again I ask, why do they not put that money where it really is needed and lay those water pipelines in Africa

You may raise an eyebrow at the last point but economical destruction is well and truly entrenched as I type for we have wasted nigh on £27bn thus far, on tobacco control, quit smoking projects & NRT products, all of which are funded (in part) by the big pharmaceutical industries who are earning absolute fortunes from this highly profitable crusade. You only have to follow this link to see the amount of money we are talking about here, billions of dollars! Simply look at the Nicotine Replacement Therapy products. They have a 98.4% FAILURE rate yet government keeps spending enormous amounts of our taxes on this rubbish and try to claim fantastic success rates, even though everyone is now fully aware of the truth. The problem for us is that the government only declares a 4 week period for quitting, as a success. This is absolutely farcical as a 12 month period is the accepted norm for complete ‘quit process’. If a mere 5% of those 4 week quitters actually go on to complete cessation then that in itself is a miracle. Of course the only sure-fire quit method for smoking or any other addiction for that matter is good old willpower - end of story.

You have to wonder why, after all the fantastic quit figures issued by various cessation bodies, there are any smokers still smoking in this once free country of ours? The fact that roughly the same amount of people (25%) are smoking now, as were in 2005/6 shows that people who wanted to give up will have given up and those that don’t? ...well, they won’t! Sadly, the anti smoking lobby cannot seem to grasp the plain fact, that many smokers smoke, err, for the simple enjoyment of smoking. Many others smoke as a cigarette calms their nerves, it is a relaxant though of course the anti smoking lobby refute this completely as it does not fit with their ideology at all. They would rather ‘Big Pharma’ issue you with pills & potions! David Hockney explains it all very nicely ,I wonder if Cameron, Clegg or Lansley will even bother to reply?

Before the smoking ban was introduced on that fateful day in 2007, smokers & non smokers managed to enjoy drinking together in our plethora of hostelries - some 65,000 of them. Today we are 10,000+ venues less as smokers have deserted those places which they once supported with no little aplomb. Remember Blair’s ‘spinmeistering’ statement (?) “millions ‘of clean air’ customers are simply waiting to invade the pubs”.

Excuse me but who, apart from the greedy pubco’s , breweries and generally simple could possibly believe that people would be enticed into a pub, via ‘clean air’, to drink alcoholic beverages when they had never bothered with pubs beforehand?

It was incredulous when supposedly learned people rushed to snap up shares in Punch at over £13 per hit. I couldn’t sell mine fast enough, for this wasn’t the signal for the great share price boom, it was the sure fire signal for share price doom! Those of us who bothered to ignore government lies and do their own research would soon realise that Eire had lost approximately 1,000 bars, pubs, clubs etc as the smoking ban hit the industry hard. Consequently the economy nosedived dramatically and the EU had no option but to bail out Eire at a cost of an 85 billion-euro ($113 billion) aid package - and ‘diluting proposals to force bondholders to bear some cost of future bailouts’.

’ Future bailouts? ‘Oh dear oh dear me, not very confident then are they!

Of course it is now well known that the smoking rate in Ireland has risen 2% as more and more people are becoming unemployed, jobs becoming scarcer by the week and therefore they have more time on their hands. However, ever resourceful, Eire is now considered the tobacco smuggling capital of Europe - a title that may well soon transfer itself over here!

You see, neither government nor ASH, wanted the people to know the truth about the damage caused by smoking bans, else why would they produce magnificent reports (all bogus) about “smoking bans having no adverse effect on businesses” a blatant lie, as we have already seen.

Since the implementation of the ban we have had to endure (yawn) the same old boringly regurgitated anti tobacco spiel from Bauld, Ludbroke, Arnott, Duffy, Farren etc etc about how impact on the hospitality sector has NOT been negative. Pardon? Not Negative? Yes, they claim no effect, yet we all now know that Punch Taverns shares have plummeted from £13.68 to hover around the £00.10p mark. Giles Thorley (Punch Taverns) knew exactly when to abandon ship in March, 2010-taking £millions in bonuses with him.

10,000+ pubs, bars, clubs, Bingo halls, snooker halls etc gone bust simply because patronage folded, £millions lost to government in revenue (£254 million in lost taxes, 2010 alone) as punters stayed at home enjoying supermarket beers at a fraction of the cost and £millions added to our welfare payout system as unemployment ‘rocked’ within the industry (comment 2). This is why, thus far, eminent mathematically minded people have now put the cost of the smoking ban at circa £27billion-and rising! There is absolutely no justification for such wastage of tax payer’s money when the easiest solution, then and now, would be to simply allow choice.

Choice for licensees to start with, for who knows how to run a pub best-a licensee or a politician? Under the new law:

Q... were non smokers ever forced to drink with smokers when licensees had choice?

A No! (and vice-versa of course)

Q... were non smoking bar staff (frightened to death by the lies of ASH) forced to

work in smoking pubs?

A No! (and vice-versa of course)

Q... was there ever a problem of returning to the old type ‘SNUG’ room where smokers sat apart from non smoking drinkers?

A No, none whatsoever!

Q... was there ever any need for once profitable businesses to close?

A No!

Q... was there ever any need for previously profitable licensees to file for

bankruptcy?

A No

Q... was there ever any need for licensees to lose their homes due closure?

A No

Q... Did Liam Donaldson threaten to resign if a total ban was not imposed, making the total ban the will of one man?

A Yes!

In fact this game could go on for hours, the truth being that all the misery heaped upon thousands & thousands of innocent people by the extremely poor implementation of the ‘smoking ban’ could have been avoided. The problem is the fact that the entire campaign was one of the best political ‘legerdemains’ of modern times. The previous Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson threw a ‘hissy fit’ and threatened to resign if a total ban was not enforced - so you all know who, ultimately, you have to thank for all this misery. It is rather ironic that the man who caused this state of anti smoking misery is himself, possibly, clinically obese. Off to the ‘fatties club’ with him then, when he has time off from his ’30 pieces of silver’ seat from the WHO that is! He was dangerous, but nothing in comparison to Lansley the destroyer!

Government claimed that a public consultation had taken place with “9 out of 10 respondents demanding a totally smokefree workplace”.

Ah, the only problem with this blatant untruth is that at least 9 out of 10 respondents were from government funded bodies such as SmokeFree NE and others of a similar ilk. The truth was well concealed as media releases (initially) merely trumpeted the overwhelming support for total smokefree zoning.

Similarly the SCOTH Committee report was just shambolic with 14 of the 16 strong panel being either affiliated to or on the payroll of the Labour party, ASH or some other smokefree only organisation. It was this fact which ensured there was only ever one conclusion that was going to be reached. In actual fact, unofficially, they had to stay until they reached a conclusion! In desperation they employed Konrad Jamrozik’s highly flawed study to ‘conclude’ that there was no safe level of SHS (second hand smoke) which, remarkably and amusingly, is exactly what Lansley is stating now! Well, if that be the case then why did the baby boom of the 1950’s create such a ‘welfare problem’ for present day governments? Oh yes, indeed, we are all having the audacity to live longer, how disgraceful when our parents, grandparents enveloped us in smoke!

The myth of the ‘glorious 7^th’ has been born by the medical profession, the ‘glorious 7^th’ being, of course, the supposed 7^th year of longer lifespan of non smokers than smokers. This is simply a figure designed to instil fear into the people that they might die earlier following plan ‘A’ than following plan ‘B’, the plans of course refer to lifestyle choices. Before you go galloping off to determine your own longevity how do you actually know when your time is due? Who holds the key to the ‘great book’ of life & death where all life spans are mapped out and recorded? Why did notorious junks scientist, non smoker and anti tobacco activist Konrad Jamrozik leave this world at only 55 and does that mean that had he smoked he would have died aged 48? Conversely, our very own Bertrand Russell, who led the revolt against idealism in the early 1900’s (think on Lansley) smoked for 72 years and died aged 98. Thus, had he not smoked at all he would surely have lived until being 105! These are the highly flawed and illogical workings of the medically instituted ‘7 year lifespan’ con, created to instil fear into would be smokers!

We have seen the horrendous costs to this country of trying to eradicate smoking. We have clearly seen the hatred of smokers/smoking advocated by government as stigmatisation and denormalisation are engineered at every turn, yet they would not dare to do this against homosexuals, Muslims, Hindu’s or disabled folk-or would they? Lansley is severely endangering the stability of this country with his crusade!

It is a very slippery slope we are treading and the downward spiral shows no signs of coming to an end as Andrew Lansley declares, “We don't work in partnership with the tobacco companies because we are trying to arrive at a point where they have no business in this country."

Pardon me? I will allow you to draw breath at this ludicrous statement.

So now, “LL” (Lunatic Lansley) is the dictator of all matters relating to health and possibly relating to health - and a whole heap more it seems! When we have arrived at a point ‘where they have no business in this country’ it will mean that we have rendered another 80,000 people unemployed, which means another £13m+ per week in jobseekers allowance payments, not to mention all the other benefits people are now entitled to claim. Is it any wonder that the figure of circa £27bn is bandied as the cost on the smoking ban thus far? Thinking about it I have never seen a man smoke 10 cigarettes on a night out and then beat someone up on the way home from the pub! I have never seen anyone staggering all over the place, shouting & swearing at all & sundry because of a few smokes and I have never feared for my life with a smoker behind the wheel of a car either, but all three definitely concern alcohol, yet Lansley deems alcohol OK! Alcohol related treatments cost the NHS far more than smoking related treatments but this doesn’t seem to bother Lansley either as he leads the now personal charge against smokers. He is now severely endangering this country.

That is not the end of the matter though as there are no jobs being created for all these people being made idle through a dictatorial ideology-excepting UKBA of course, for the smugglers are having a field day as previously stated!

Let’s think of the small retailers for a moment, the corner shop people who rely on smokers buying their daily pack who then buy other necessities simply because they sell them in the same shop. The idiotic ‘Gantry law’ (the hiding of cigarettes from view) has proven to be a lot more expensive than ASH declared initially as they were, yet again, trying to deceive MPs & ordinary folk with their anti smoker fanaticism v cost. The Grocer, a most reliable of trade publications openly declared that 15,000 retailers were under threat of closure due to the true costs involved. That relates to another 75,000 becoming unemployed, nearly another £13m per week in Jobseekers Allowance.

How much longer can this go on?

How many more people can this country afford to supplement, for the unemployment caused by themselve’s? How far will this government allow Lansley to take us into financial oblivion?

A Dutch study has already confirmed that healthy, longer living people automatically cost the state more, so why do governments listen to ASH et al when it is blatantly obvious that they cannot afford to? With people living longer these days, governments are struggling with the welfare state costs as it is, yet they happily subsidise a terrorist quango (for that is what ASH are in causing total disruption to this country) to cause them even more financial problems. What are they going to do when losing £10-£11bn per annum in tobacco taxes? Who then funds the NHS? How much does personal income tax have to rise to compensate this? How many people will grow their own tax free tobacco (plenty of advice on the internet!) How much more money will government allow Andrew Lansley to burn on his fruitless crusade? More to the point-how much more can we afford? Answer, quite simply: Nothing!

If Lansley wants to arrive at a point ‘where they have no business in this country’ then is alcohol next for alcohol related treatments cost the NHS far more than smokers do and what about sweet sellers, burger meal sellers, take-away meal outlets, fish ‘n chip shops, cake shops, chocolate factories-oh, the list is endless. In fact the list is so long that more than 50% of the ‘working population’ won’t be working because all of the jobs will have been discontinued due to ideology! Along with all these job losses and mass unemployment the government has managed to lose £16.7bn in tax revenue from tobacco sales! Yet the anti tobacco warriors want more and more until total eradication is achieved-but what will they finally achieve? There is ample room for compromise yet we now find that in a democratic society, supposedly supported by this coalition, that one man’s crusade, possibly for personal fame or infamy, favours dictatorship – at any expense! As I started I will reiterate:

Beware

Andrew Lansley - The most dangerous man in the country!

The Good, The Bad & the idiots!

I find it absolutely incredible that the powers that be still beat the drum against the legal pursuit of smoking-especially when we are faced with severe 'austerity measures' thanks to 13 unlucky years of Labour misrule. That number, thirteen, is unlucky for we now sit in a vortex of financial misery thanks to allowing idiots like Blair, Brown & Darling to run riot with our finances to such an extent that it is almost impossible for us to ever 'get outaa dat shit'! We've even got the one eyed lunatic (Brown) to thank for selling off our gold reserves at a wonderfully low price!

Within those 13 years of misery there have been a number of deaths, most of whom will no doubt have been glad to leave this world of discrimination & hatred, a discrimination & hatred that has blossomed obscenely over the past 5 years. I talk of course, of the 'Health Lobby' who have been seen to move into such a position of power that Governments are scared shitless of them!

The Health Lobby contrived, through pressures of one type or another, to concoct an almost bulletproof facade concerning the death rates from smoking, passive smoking, being near a smoker, living in the same street as a smoker-even the same planet! It made non smokers out to be pious, wondrous creatures who could do no wrong as they trod the path of the righteous. ASH were lauded for 'their' work in revealing this multi-headed monster, yet they were only ever doing their masters bidding from day 1.

Let us consider a couple of points here folks. It is claimed that smokers die younger than non smokers (up to 7 years apparently!) so was Bertrand Russell supposed to die aged 105 instead of the paltry 98 years he did achieve? Henry Allingham died aged 113. Was he mapped out to live to be 120 then-had he not smoked? Do ASH have an ageograph of every single persons life expectancy-including those murdered, killed by acciodental means, during wars, plagues etc etc?

Age is bollocks, pure and simple! It is all mapped out in your genes pre birth so if 'BR' was destined to live to be 105 he bloody well would have done, even though he was a self confessed pipe smoker of some 70 years!

Let's look at the other side of the coin now. labour set up a 'crooked' committee, known as the SCOTH committee, which was to sit in session until they had found a case for there being no safe level of SHS. It's impossible to do but they managed it by ignoring the top 27 studies in the world on the subject and concentrating on the 28th-a study by a little known Austrian anti smoker known as Konrad Jamrozic.

Konrad Jamrozic 1955-2010 (cyclist and rowing keep fit fanatic who died of cancer aged 55yrs.)

Jamrozic somehow came up with a fantastical numerical decision that SHS killed all but the good Lord himself. But! the 'study' was so statistically flawed as to incur ridicule from his peers thus it (the study) was basically discarded-until SCOTH came along desperate for ANYTHING to support their needs. Jamrozics hitherto ignored statistical crap suddenly became all important and junk science just as suddenly became all important as 'the cause'was relentlessly pursued. Amazingly, this wonderfully incompetent junk scientist died in 2010 aged 55. The obvious question therefore is, did he die 7 years before his time or was that his lot on mortal earth? he was an ardent non smoker so he didn't shorten his life which leaves one to conclude that had he been a smoker he would have died aged approximately 48! Also, interestingly enough, Jamrozic died from cancer-yes, a non smoker dying from that which the non smoker tried to convince the world smokers died from! Jamrozic's cancer was a 'sarcoma', which in simple terms is a bone cancer for which there is NO KNOWN CAUSE!

Now let's forward to this year where we find Irelands Finance Minister, also an anti tobacco campaigner, trying to promote yet another smoking cessation aid which simply enriches the pharmaceutical giants at every selling point. "Nico-Bloc" is a very good product he says and we shouls all subscribe to such as it will help us give up smoking. Note that no-one has even asked us if WE even WANT to GIVE UP smoking! Yet again, it is decided that we ARE giving up smoking as it is for our own good. Pardon? Who, in any government, world-wide, has the right to decide what is good or bad for us? Bungee jumping is an exceedingly unhealthy sport-especially when the elastic band snaps! Ski-ing, likewise, as innumerable limbs are broken (including the spine), digging the garden even as many have had heart attacks pruning the flora!



We have another doyen of the anti smoking brigade spouting on about the 'dangers' of that which he himself didn't do, yet he also died from cancer-pancreatic cancer actually. Mr Lenihan left this planet aged 52, so does that mean that had he been a smoker he would have only lasted until he was 45? No, it's all bollocks as both men died when their allotted time time on this planet was up.

It seems very strange, when you actually think about it, that two great men who used their lives for the good of their fellow man (Russell & Allingham) both well exceeded their three score years and ten. They simply did their best for their fellow beings, creating a land where they could be free, a land free from petty dictatorships, a land that was free from personal interference & restrictions of rights, a land where civil liberties were respected.

Now skip to our other examples; dead at 55 & 52 yet they were interefering with all the above! They did not want their fellow human beings enjoying a legal substance (tobacco), they did not want a land where all would feel free, they wanted petty dictatorships to rule, they wanted to disrupt people human rights, they wanted civil liberties ignored when it suited them!

It seems that the good Lord saw fit to remove the evil from society sooner rather than later. man was born to co-exist not war within the confines of his own domain. How many non smokers die from cancer? How many smokers die from cancer? Forget all this crap about 'half of all smokers will die from smoking related diseases'-all of non smokers and smokers will die from heart problems! Once the heart stops beating it doesn't matter whether you smoke or not- YOU ARE SEVERELY DEAD!

What people need to understand is that smokers enjoy what they are doing, they enjoy a cigarette, it calms them, it pleases them, it puts them at one with the world! Non smokers cannot and do not want to undestand these simple facts of life. A smoker doesn't give a shit whether he/she dies aged 68 or 75, 82 or 89 for they are happy people who enjoy that warm, invading feeling as the smoke is drawn down into the lungs. Non smokers haven't got as clue how nice a feeling that is! They don't understand the peace it brings.

This law is so stupid that even the very obvious truth that it is unsubstantiated through true science is being ignored as the health lobby have now assumed an 'all-powerful' coat. But coats can easily be burned, especially if the cloth is costing the country a small fortune everyday there is complete lack of choice. Amazingly, there is absolutely no proof of a single life being saved-and nor will there ever be! However, what is abundantly clear now is that smoking bans kill businesses, kill the will to work, kill the will to live! How many people, good honest folk, have sunk their life savings into something called a pub only to see a government steal their money away from them without any form of recompense? I can think of 4 off the top of my head-£200,000, £90,000, £75,000 & £70,000. Without a doubt the smoking ban and the health lobby will kill the spirit of this country and I, for one, will laugh all the way to the newly built 'WorkHouses'!

Not another Nick Hogan is it.....???

Ever had the feeling that life is about to kick you right between the legs?
Ever felt like the system is out to get you no matter what you do?
Ever felt that the only thing left for 'them' to take is your dignity?

Well folks, I would think that Ray McHale, ex-licensee of the Painters Arms up there in Bradfordland must be feeling pretty low by now after all he has suffered over the past 3 years thanks to the smoking ban and all that goes with.
Now don't get me wrong, Ray and his wife Jill are as law abiding as the next couple, I mean to say, they've run a good steady ship (The Painters Arms) for 5 happy years with no financial problems whatsoever. They even had the audacity to have holidays! But then that nasty ban came in and, as it has done for every pub in the land, turned a kosha business upside down.
Ray & Jill could not see their elderly & infirm customers cast out into the freezing cold nor the wet to enjoy the simplest of all pleasures-a cigarette. They didn't put ashtrays out on display either. What they did do was inform their loyal, elderly regulars that smoking indoors was illegal since July 1st, as he was obligated to do and...err...sort of left it at that! If they brought their own little tin foil ashtrays then fair play to them, neither Ray nor Jill were going to cast them out.
As you can imagine the local council were not too happy with this arrangement and poubced on Ray one fine saturday with two policemen as escorts. Ray politely informed them that he had upheld the law by informing customers they could not smoke indoors and that was that. Basically he invited the EHO's to go nforth and arrest the smokers-which of course they would not do for they do have the powers of arrest!
To add insult to injury Ray then barred both EHO's from his pub and asked the policemen to escort the scumbags off the premises - as his rights entitled him to do
You see folks, that is where the battle lines were obviously drawn. Ray & Jill had made their stance all too clear and the EHO's didn't like it one tiny little bit. I suppose for them (the EHO's) it was a bit like having the old nose rubbed in shite!
That was 2 years ago and the battle has raged ever since with licensee refusing to back down and EHO's unsure of a successful prosection. Amazingly, not once did they issue a fixed penalty notice to any smoker!
The council changed tactics and concentrated on the licensee and his wife and sure enough as time passed they built up an impregnable case against them both-for smoking in their own home, the pub! They had all sorts as witnesses, even a sodding magistrate to ensure the case was strong enough against them and so took the McHales to court.
Let me briefly explain here that two weeks prior to the court hearing Ray & Jill had been forced to leave their home (the pub) as it had been closed by Enterprise Inns supremo's as "non viable". It had been for 5 happy years but one law changed all that!
So Ray went to court and pleaded for himself and on his wifes behalf (Jill was too upset by losing everything to attend)expecting a slap on thewrist for pleading guilty, not wasting the courts time and their current unemployed, homeless status. The magistrates fined the couple approximately £700 on five counts of smoking (in their own home!) which i suppose in this day and age of judicial poverty could be seen as about right-but then came the big boomer!
The council popped up and asked for costs amounting to £4,540 for all their diligence in bringing this/these lawless scoundrels to court.
Anybody thinking back to the Nick Hogan scenario yet?
Nick ruffled feathers and got lumped up with over £10K in costs and then plagued to death by the authorities because he could not pay the monthly penalties from his meagre job seekers allowance!
Anybody joining up the dots yet?
The magistrates have set a monthly sum to be paid by Ray & Jill, irrespective of the fact that they now have no home, no jobs, no savings at all and worst of all, not a lot of hope either!

The organisation Smokers Justice
http://www.smokersjustice.co.uk/page47.html
has stepped in to help Ray McHale stave off the same fate as Nick Hogan suffered. Imprisonment for committing no crime!
Please pop over to SmokersJustice.co.uk and hit the donate button with whatever you can afford folks for Christmas is coming and Ray wants to enjoying his dnner with friends not inmates.
I do know that they have received no state benefits as yet and have not been rehoused so they have rather a lot to contend with don't you think. We need to raise just over £5,000 from blogosphere.....let's go for it folks.

A Tale of Two Cities

We sat around the campfire listening intently as the old man regaled us with events of almost 20 years on this strange little island that was now, irrevocably split in two. Although set in the Carribean ocean somewhere between Haiti and the Bahamas it wasn’t a volcanic eruption nor a hurricane that had split the island in two. It was politics. We looked at him intrigued for how on earth could politics cause a watery divide to appear between the now two halves of a beautiful, almost tropical paradise? It seemed impossible that anything could blight the wonderful island of Heaven.
‘This island is still ruled by English law, as it had been since the 1700’s’, he started as we all craned forward to hear every word, ‘and it still is; both halves of it’ he smiled ruefully.
‘Back near the turn of the century there were terrible times back in Britain when the “Nannies” took over in power. Everybody thought that they would be the best thing since ‘sliced bread’ with their promises of ‘gold, frankincense & myrrh’ for those who wanted to work. The ousted government were shocked at their demise at the hands of the people, after all the “Steadies” had kept the country solvent, unemployment at a moderate rate and crime had actually diminished to an acceptable level; well that is if there is such a thing!
In came the “Nannies”, trumpets blaring, promises galore, the euphoria seemed never ending but things soon started to change and people became increasingly restless for what the people did not know, and the “Nannies!” had failed to inform them of, was that they were now backed by the all powerful medical industries-‘Pharma’-whose seemingly endless source of money virtually carried them into power at the last election. Sure the “Nannies” spent money like wildfire, created jobs for white collar workers and everything seemed on the up, but dark clouds were gathering as the sceptics looked on in dismay. What the rank and file did not know, for the media was capped as never before, was that hundreds of new laws were being sneaked through – all of them costing the people money in fines for the most innocuous of reasons!
Pharma meanwhile, were implementing their strategy as backers of the “Nannies”, through the “Nannies”. A smoking ban was brought in to supposedly protect the workers but it had far reaching effects that the “Nannies” had not even dreamt of No sooner had the smoking ban been implemented than Pharma started the same manipulative strategy on alcohol and drinking, with rumblings that the overweight would be next on their list. You see my friends (the old man paused to sip his beer) Pharma knew that if they could get their ‘quit smoking’ products into the market place they would earn £billions from sales to the ignorant and unknowing. They also knew that in promoting ‘quit smoking’, the government would also spend £billions as a thank you for getting them into power-perfect Win Win situation. The government even set up groups (quangos) to create the pretence that people were voting for all these restrictions, after all, public consultations were a name only. Government, especially the “Nannies” had their own way of producing the results they wanted from the ‘public’-except they no longer needed to ask the public!
Well naturally this smoking law was brought over to Heaven, which is rather bizarre as we grow tobacco plants here and export the leaves as soon as they are ready to go. Apart from tourism the tobacco growing industry here is the mainstay of our economy. How on earth could you have a smoking ban on a tobacco producing island? Of course the English government sent agents over here, armed with ‘no smoking’ signs that had to be displayed virtually everywhere anyone worked except in the fields! Even the ‘thunder-boxes’ at the top of each field had no smoking signs all over them. (The assembled all smiled with the old man at the very thought.)
It didn’t take long before open dissent began, Heaven wasn’t built on hard and fast rules such as this. Bar owners complained about losing custom as soon as the cooler nights came in and the casino was almost devoid of custom from the day the signs went up! Big Alf was not a happy bunny, his business had been killed off in one fell swoop but he was not a man to be deterred by some law imposed thousands of miles away. He went to the island king, Guy.Rumpole Hatsoffu, for advice. Worse still, with the island being 80% smokers the islanders no longer went to the bars at night-time so smoked more at home whilst drinking the local cheapo beer. This in turn begat other problems as family nights included the children partaking of the cheapo beers at an age when far too young to be interested in alcohol! The kids, not to be outdone by their elders also took to sampling the local tobacco produce! Even 8 year olds were trying their hand at rolling up cigarettes on the sly and many competitions were held away from the prying eyes of ever cautious parents. The local doctor was considerably concerned at this drastic downturn in the islands normally healthy standards, he had never treated so many youngsters that had suddenly developed the ability to fall foul of any virus or bug going. He was perplexed. He finally decided that he must consult with the king, although young, G.Rumpole was the man to talk to.
Rumpole was a wise old bird (for one so young). Educated in an English public school he returned to Heaven shortly after finishing so as to sit at his father’s side to learn that to which he was born to learn-to rule his people. His father, Obe Bailey Hatsoffu, was a tolerant man, a wise man who mainly kept his own counsel until providing judgement on island disputes. The one thing he had from all his subjects was complete respect, something he was adamant that his son should earn. Hence he sent Guy.Rumpole out to the tobacco plantations to learn how the people worked, lived, breathed; in other words a crash course in leadership! Obe died two years after his son’s return leaving and island in mourning and a new king of a mere 23 yrs of age.
Guy Rumpole listened intently as Big Alf laid out his plan to thwart the evil smoking ban that threatened the equanimity of the island.
Unbeknown to the casino owner the king had also entertained the island doctor some 24 hours previously and already he had a disturbing feeling the two visits may well be linked.
The island was longer than it was wide with tobacco plantations to the north and south and narrowed inwardly approximately 4/5ths of the way down-similar to a misshapen egg timer. Where it narrowed was also the lowest point of the island, which actually made Big Alf’s plan very simple to execute. G.Rumpole retired to deliberate the proposed plan of action. True, he was now king, supreme ruler of his people, but more importantly he was his people’s protector.
Work began exactly one week after the visits of Alf and the doctor. Guy Rumpole Hatsoffu had deliberated long and hard before coming to a decision. He had checked up on all the old island laws before confirming his decision to himself. He was very fortunate indeed that his father had seen fit to send him to England to forward his education for he had learned much about the way governments worked and the twists and turns used to get what they wanted. Indeed, he was the only man on the island with internet access which kept him up to speed with developments in England. More importantly he was able to keep up to speed with the detractors of the “Nannies” new regime.
He had tons of sand and cement flown into the islands airport plus numerous other necessary materials. The islands one mechanical digger was fully serviced and set to work along with half the tobacco planters from both plantations. He had already sent out a ‘royal command survey’ asking each household if they would rather live in a smoke free/alcohol free environment or remain as the island had been for centuries. As expected approximately 17.5% opted for the life of celibacy. They worked on the south side of the island. Those from the south that wished to continue as they had for time took their families to the northern side, houses were swapped, belongings exchanged and the work continued.
At the end of 3 months sweat and toil the work was almost completed. A concrete dam had been built on each side of the island with a giant trench sitting between. The agents, due to return to England soon had already been moved to the southern tip of the island so that they could complete their work of ensuring that smoke free laws were being observed. They were delighted to find that there was 100% compliance. They never noticed that no drinking went on either! Wondrous reports flowed back to England where the “Nannies” used every media outlet possible to exalt and promote the tremendous work and results achieved by the diligent Environmental Health Officers sent half way round the world.
The great day came. Crowds assembled either side of the great divide. The ‘agents’, safely ensconced 0n the northern shore of the now southern island watched with incredulity as the first dam was opened and millions of gallons of sea water charged along the new channel to smash into the dam on the other side of the island. It was designed, very cleverly, to crumble under the immense pressure thus water poured in from that side too. In a matter of seconds there was a deep channel some 50 feet wide between the two islands with no means of getting across on foot. A couple of muffled explosions saw the other dam slide into the raging waters. There was now a complete separation.
King Guy Rumpole Hatsoffu smiled contently as he saw his tiny nations flag raised on the southern island and then gave the signal for his own newly designed flag to be unfurled and hoisted aloft-without any sign of the Union Jack-but there were two half moons instead of one emblazoned upon it! He turned to his people and announced his welcome to the new island of “Second Heaven” where the people had chosen the path they wanted to follow. New government was already in place and messages had been sent to the British Prime Minister, Mr A.B.Liar that “Heaven” had survived tidal waters but that a new nation had emerged from the storm, totally independent from British rule that had been named “Second Heaven” in honour of the British Empire. It was added that if Mr Liar wished to reclaim his agents from “Heaven” it would be advisable to do so by boat as the airport was now resident in “Second Heaven”.
Within weeks Second Heaven returned to its former equable (Heaven) self as bars flourished, Big Alf’s casino saw a plethora of customers and the doctor mysteriously lost patients as quickly as he had accrued them. The new nation prospered as tourism flourished once more. There were boat trips once a day to Heaven to let people sample the almost monastic life led by the people left there. Industry had virtually died as the tobacco plantation had been mysteriously burned out-the day before the English ‘agents’ had been picked up by the Royal Navy. Fishing in the clear Carribean waters was the mainstay of the ‘Heaveners’ and their lifestyle was simple and impoverished. There was a general air of gloom about the place; no longer a place deserving the grandiose title of Heaven.
King G.Rumpole had survived his first test to be true to his people and he was justifiably pleased with himself. The cost? Enormous, but he knew that tourism alone would repay all that had been spent gaining freedom. He chortled as he switched his internet connection off that night. ‘Who needs “Nannies”’, he chuckled to himself, ‘stick the Nannies and their nanny state where the sun don’t shine! Second Heaven needs none of it’.