... and the T.U.R.D award for 2013 goes to...!

Smoking bans KILL businesses-FACT!

     Yes folks it that time of year again where we wish all our friends, followers and fellow anti-prohibition warriors a happy New Year. It is also 'that' time of the year when we dish out the T.U.R.D award for 2013 to the most deserving cretin on the planet. This year it was an easy job to sort out the winner, in fact there was a severe dearth of runners as no one could match up to this mans despicable actions over the past twelve months (and a lot more I might add!).T.U.R.D of course is simply the acronym for Tyrant Undermining Rights & Democracy and can only be awarded to a person who chooses to use his/her power to the detriment of his/her fellow man - and our winner has excelled in this field I can assure you! Step up to the rostrom please Mr Michael Bloomberg, for your time has come to be crowned "King TURD" of 2013-let's look at some of your inglorious achievements shall we?

  

Do I give a shit? Nope... not one tiny little bit actually!

 

     This is a man that gave up smoking donkeys years ago but then decided, that by using his political muscle and his not inconsiderable fortune, that everyone else who smoked would be worried, frightened, bullied, stigtmatised & financially penalised up to the hilt so that they would find the righteous non smoking path. Smokers rights held no fear for this miserable specimen of humanity for as far as he was concerned smokers should have no rights! It also now seems that those trying to quit smoking also have no rights as, prior to his stepping down from office, he signed the anti e-cig law into force! Unbelievable really. What our T.U.R.D of the year has done is ensured that his successor has one hell of a job to 'unsign' this Bill. 

     As Bloomberg retired from public duty on monday night (tfft I say!) protestors 'lit up' in City Hall in defiance of the man's reign of terror.  on smokers. A fitting end to this dictators reign but as yet no reports have 'filtered through concerning his demise from the SHS that was created for those few seconds! Just look at the list of things banned during his administration: (Thanks to DP)

• Smoking in commercial establishments like bars and restaurants (2003)
• Smoking in public spaces (2011)
• Cigarette sales to those under 21 (2013)
• Sales of "flavored" tobacco products (2009)
• Smoking e-cigarettes in public spaces (2013)
• Cigarette in-store displays (2013)
• Cars in Times Square (2009)
• Cars from driving in newly created bike lanes (2007-2013)
• Cars causing congestion below 60th Street in Manhattan (2007) *
• Speeding on residential "slow zones" (2013)
• Illegal guns (2006-2013) **
• Sodium levels in processed foods (2010) **
• Trans-fats in restaurants (2006)
• Loud headphones (2013) **
• Styrofoam packaging in single-service food items (2013)
• Sodas larger than 16 ounces (2012) *
• Collection of yard waste and grass clippings during certain times of year (2003-2013)
• Organic food waste from landfills (2013) **
• Commercial music over 45 decibels (2013)
• Chain restaurant menus without calorie counts (2008)
• The posting of signs in "city-owned grassy areas" (2013)
• Non-fuel-efficient cabs (2007)
• New cabs that aren't Nissan NV200s (2013) *
• Greenhouse gas emissions (2007)
• Government buildings that aren't LEED-certified (2005)
• Non-hurricane-proof buildings in coastal areas (2013)
• Black roofs (2009) **
• Construction cranes over 25 years old (2013)
• No. 6 and No. 4 "heavy" heating oils (2011)
• Less than a 2-1 ratio of female and male restrooms in new public buildings (2005)
• Cell phones in schools (2006)
• Two-term limits for city elected officials (2008) *

* Overruled/appealed ban
** Suggested/voluntary ban

You have to remember that Bloomberg is the man that promised $1/2bn to 'fight' smoking in Russia & the far east whilst 33%(+) of his Bronx residents lived below the poverty line. Doesn't say much for the mans caring side for his fellow man does it! t!     Also, whilst bars & clubs see their profits drop like a lead balloon we find that, in order to help New Yorks pollution/health problems, the number of yellow cabs driving around has risen to from 10,000 to  approximately 13,000.    All those exhausts spreading all that pollution & causing so much unhealthiness in the city-disgraceful behaviour really when you compare one cigarette with one taxi cab!

                                Compared to all these exhausts a cigarette rates as zero danger!

     Of course the downside of this T.U.R.D's fanaticism is that ordinary 'dumbass' people have been sucked in (no pun intended) by all the hype and are now filing lawsuits against neighbours because the neighbour smokes, and 'that' smoke is invading their airspace.   Lunacy, total lunacy and to my mind there can be only one winner with this-the lawyers, for cigarette smoke wanders lazily upward, not to the left or the right to purposely annoy a neighbour.   Mind you, some crazy americans have now decided that SHS can burrow its way through solid concrete. Just shows you what a carefully orchestrated hate campaign can achieve!

     The good news of course is that the chief, award winning, T.U.R.D has now gone and it remains to be seen what his successor does.  YES ?   NO

     Over here, more trouble is brewing as Punch Taverns/Inns have decided that yet another restructuring is to take place. When share prices have plummetted from £13.68 --> £00.07p what is there left to restructure? On top of that it seems that it (Punch) posted a 68 per cent (68%) drop in annual pre-tax profits. [Great idea backing up the smoking ban you idiots-people are still smoking & drinking-but not in your pubs it seems!] It seems that although 'micro-breweries', that produce 'traditional beers', are rapidly rising in popularity the number of pubs is still diminishing! Now there's a thing folks. My good friend Inez Ward points out quite vehemently that the pubco 'tied' system was errantly wrong well before the smoking ban came in  but one has to realise that many licensees already knew they were being 'ripped off' by their pubco but to compensate for that, they had an abundance of customers-probably 68% more than they have now.

  Data supplied by licensees pegging a keg of Fosters beer at £84.99 on the wholesale market but £150.22  at the pubco price -- a 77 percent markup.

 

     Inez, forced out of her own pub, has now seen off Giles Thorley (who trousered plenty of dosh) and also Ted Tuppen, who staunchly refused to accept that the tied system was anything but fair. I admire Inez greatly for her tenacity in this matter but the 'tied' situation would have rumbled on for decades had the smoking ban not been brought into law. It has risen to prominence now because Ministers want to accept any reason for the great British pub's demise EXCEPT the smoking ban-which cleared out 68% of the pubs regular customers in one hit!
Add to this the simple fact that people are now used to buying a can or ten and staying at home, or their friends home, and you can see where the British Pub is going-down the pan! Congratulations to the Blair administration for bowing and scraping to the World Health Organisation.  Whilst we mention this totally corrupt body that seems answerable to no one, their latest act of lunacy is to want to ban Cinnamon.    Yes... Cinnamon if you please! Apparently, if cinnamon is injested in great quantities it can be harmful to the body-OMG, please tell me something that ISN'T if over indulged in!!! Of course the Danes have gone up the wall about this situation-and I don't blame them in the slightest.

 The Danes favoured cinnamon pastries-banned by the WHO

Now this brings up a rather interesting situation for I distinctly remember reading a report whereby the WHO wished to eradicate a nations tobacco plantations and substitute growing 'paprika'  instead-regardless of the fact that the world markets priced paprika at a considerably lower price than tobacco, which of course would have crippled that countries economy. Now that we find out that spices are dangerous to the human body so what are the WHO going to advise we grow next? As per normal, the so called clever clogs in Geneva have not thought this programme of prohibition through at all and are now finding that all their lies & fabrications are returning to bite them on the old 'aristotle': serves them right of course.
But, the smoking ban is not the only matter that the good citizens of this country should be worried about for, unbelievably, a muslim cleric has now sanctified the raping of non muslim women! At the moment this is aimed at non muslims in Syria, but how long will it be before some bucket brained crackpot declares this 'fatwa' to be equally justified in this country? And it will happen, you can trust me on that.

     Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who earlier lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, in short, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims.
In other words folks, muslims have the 'divine right' (according to their clerics) to take what they want, where they want & when they want - isn't this a return to the troglodyte era? The problem being of course that the muslim fanatics simply want to ensure that theirprogeny far outnumber ours and that they can 'take over' through sheer weight of numbers. Think I'm wrong here? Check out some of the muslim preachers websites etc. Tower Hamlets (dubbed "The Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets.") is already being singled out for experimentation with sharia law-I kid you not! What are our MPs more worried about? a whiff of smoke in a cafe or a pub, or finding the £1/2bn each month to keep funding all these quit smoking organisations that are failing miserably to do just that!
And just to top this all up, the Spaniards, destitute as the country is, have refused top allow any smoking areas within a newly proposed "Las Vegas" style casino complex.

The $30 billion project, dubbed EuroVegas by CEO Sheldon Adelson, was supposed to feature 12 hotels, six casinos, three golf courses, a convention center and a large retail space, which would have created as many as 250,000 jobs.

Of course, we all know that Spain, with its disastrous employmernt record (26.7% and increasing daily I might add) can ill afford to snub such an investment but they have and this shows you the poweer accrued by the health lobby over the past 50 years. Remember this as you lay on your deathbed folks. There were no jobs, therefore no income. There were no state funded hospitals anymore as they had been 'murdered' by accountants and people only had homes because their parents/grandparents had left them to their next of kin. We may well end up living in absolute poverty but that won't matter as people were banned from smoking so that (supposedly) they could all live longer-in abject misery. The 'medical' term "premature death" (of which, of course, there is no such thing) had been long forgotten as smoking had been attacked and they ignored the fact that poverty was the new killer!
Only then will these imbeciles who feel they have to dictate every one elses lives, actually sit down and wonder at where it all went wrong. Would any of them like to start thinking about their actions now-before it is too late or there simply won't be enough T.U.R.D awards to go round!

Why we are a laughing stock!

Smoking bans KILL businesses-FACT!

     Thirteen years of misrule from the Blairites and now thirteen years past (almost) of the new millennium and we can safely say that we (once 'great' Britain) are now the laughing stock of Europe, if not the world. Congratulations to all the politicians of the past 20 years who have consigned us to the dustbin of politics, the dumping ground of any & all humanity that feels the need to move away from their own habitat.
     In only a few days time we will see the start of the influx from Romania & Bulgaria; we have known about it for months & months but what has Cameron done about this situation (?) - basically nothing! And now we have the halfwit schoolboy in long trousers stating:

"Theresa May's proposed clampdown on immigration from the EU is illegal and undeliverable. The deputy prime minister denounces the home secretary's plan to tighten rules on free movement between EU countries, saying the focus should instead be on restricting the ability to access benefits."

     Isn't it time this idiot was put out to grass, retired, exterminated, whatever? If they can't get in 'Nick', they cannot even try to claim benefits you numpty. Just how big do you think this island of ours really is Mr Clegg-the size of Texas perchance? Actually, England is a mere 1/5th the size of Texas so where does this fool think these people are going to live? Perhaps Clegg has finally realised that his worthless stint as 'leader' of a now worthless party is coming to an abrupt end and wants 'to do a Blair' by leaving an unwanted legacy behind like a bad smell - Blair departed leaving the smoking ban in place (a couple of days before it's enactment) leaving God knows how many businesses to die & Clegg wants to leave us with an influx of penniless, scrounging, homeless Roma's & Bulgars, safe in the knowledge that he will receive his deputy PMs pension ad infinitum-while the rest of us scrape the pennies together to pay for these unwanted people! However, the one thing that Clegg is doing correctly is ensuring that more and more people get angry over this governments inability to 'stem the flow' and that more & more people will turn to UKIP. Clegg says it is illegal; ie against EU policy etc..... who gives a flying f**k what the EU policy is (?) we don't even want to be part of the EU thank you very much!
     Cameron, for once, has realised the discontent amongst the people (especially his one time Tory stalwarts) as he has now promised to force the EU Referendum Bill into law before the next election by using the Parliament Act if necessary. The 'Buffoon Camaroon' has finally woken up and realised that he could well be the ex-PM very shortly! One thing is for certain-he has woken up the very real threat of a UKIP whitewash at the forthcoming EU elections! And when you receive emails from misguided fools such as Bill Newton-Dunn claiming that the EU is simply one big family and that East German 'police' should be on our streets then you also know that the Lib Dems few MEPs are seriously under threat too!
But, this is not the only madness in our times I can assure you!
     A GLASGOW pub has become one of the first in ­Scotland to ban a customer from ‘smoking’ an electronic cigarette. Suffolk based Greene King have now confirmed that it is company policy that e-cigs should be 'smoked' outside where real cigarettes are now smoked. So, the greatest weapon that smokers have to ween themselves off the 'evil weed' is now banned indoors because "It looks like a cigarette" Wowee-the mentality of some people is absolutely astounding. They really do not want their best customers in their pubs do they!

 

Just to amplify the stupidity of this company decision, a prominent American research department has now finally concluded that there is NO LINK between SHS & lung cancer-so there you have it folks, we are all suffering social exclusion because of a massive lie and the total corruption of the World Health Organisation. So, when do Arnott, Dockrell, Duffy and all those other anti tobacco warriors be charged with fraud & deception? Come on 'plod', do your job, for they have purposely set out to deceive a nation-not to mention its dimwit politicians! I dread to think how much, in total, this ludicrous law has cost this country although it has been worked out that we are still spending £1/2bn per month on this totally failed experiment. Funny how the Dutch & the Aussies have realised the same and got rid of their respective anti smoking battalions-got the hint yet 'call me Dave'?
FRAUD:  In criminal law, fraud is intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual;
     Well there you have it folks. The smoking ban has been an intentional deception for the effects of SHS on bar workers was the implement used (with no absolute proof of course) and the personal gain is very simple to verify-the massive wages all these people have benefitted by from the very implementation of all these spurious smoke free intiatives.  And anyway, if SHS was so deadly why did the Syrians use sarin gas against fellow Syrians when a few well placed cigarettes would have sufficed?
There was even a poll in the Daily Mail with regard to smoking again in pubs:
POLL 

If scientists' claims that second-hand smoking is harmless are true, should smoking in pubs and offices be allowed again?

  No

  Yes

 Now unsurprisingly the 'NO' vote was higher than the 'YES' vote, but considering that 75% of the population don't smoke anyway and also that the Mail doesn't have the greatest circulation, the 'poll' is basically a waste of time. The mere fact that they asked the question is a major revelation as the Mail has always been pro Gov't and firmly in the anti tobacco camp.

     Now we have heard that courts rule that 'health' trumps all, but now it has been certified that SHS is harmless (as was certified by Enstrom & Kabat many moons ago) it means that the health issue (in law) is a non issue! Arnott, present yourself at the Old Bailey you bitch; "I wanna see you swing" for what you've done to 25% of the population of this country. It's the endgame alright-your endgame you evil minded hag for you have profitted immensely from your anti tobacco crusade, without a care for those who have no other enjoyment in their miserable, depressed lives. And you are bankrupting this country.
     So what is left for these charlatans I ask? Plain Packaging has failed miserably in Australia, most of Europe ignores the ban or ensures that smokers get a fair deal while we press ahead with yet another pre-determined (result wise) review of something that has already cost another government $millions and failed. The Health lobby really do need their legs (funding) cutting off below the knees!
     This is how badly this stupidity has affected our nation-a pub in Preston has been ordered NOT to light its indoor fires anymore as a passer by noticed a small amount of smoke coming out of the chimney (funnily enough, that's exactly what chimneys are for methinks!) and reported this matter to the local council. Along comes an idiot council employee and declares that the fires (which keep the customers warm during winter) now have to stay unlit as any amount of smoke breaks the smokeless zone laws in the city. Well now, I say to all you good people, what comes out of the rear end of all motor vehicles??? Smoke/Exhaust fumes, so I want everyone to phone into their local council environmental office and complain about every bus, lorry, whatever that goes past them and breaches the smokeless zone laws. Let's see just how long this stupid situation lasts shall we?

     No more warm, friendly welcome in this pub!

On a slightly different tack but nevertheless equally as  prohibitionary are muslim leaders now calling for the banning of alcohol sales by Muslims that run their own shops! Yep, unbelievable as it is, this is what they are now demanding-in a country where freedom of speech, expression & choice is supposedly paramount.

      These idiots, although living in this country, want to impose their own sharia laws on any who don't obey their diktat.

     Unbelievably these mentally retarded people think that they can implement Sharia Law in this country when in reality it is this countries laws they have to abide by! Forty (40) lashes for any shop owner who disobeys this diktat apparently, which would immediately render the 'lasher' to prosecution for assault-abh-gbh-whatever. This government has got to stop pandering to all these immigrant based problems. Do as the French did-ban the Burka-end of!

And while we are on this side of a subject a Tory councillor has been censured/reprimanded/berated for the use of the word "Golliwog"!
Cllr Barnett said she thought golliwogs were 'nostalgic, not racist'. She is absolutely correct for I remember collecting all the Golliwog tokens on the Robertsons jars and was chuffed to bits when I finally got the set. I was a child, it was exciting and the word never had any racist connotations from anyone that I knew!  There were a few West Indians moving into the town I was raised in but I never heard of anyone 'slagging them off' or taunting them by referring to them as 'wogs'-it's utterly ridiculous. Golliwogs will never be a racist term for they were invented as a toy for children (in fact there are quite a few "Golliwog collectors" about so they must be 101% racist) and it is only those who feel inferior for some reason or other that feel it is.   I had four Golliwogs-does that make me a quadruple sinner cum racist? The problem in this country is that no one is prepared to put their foot down and state the obvious - except a certain Mr Farage and his anti EU followers. (The loose terms "WOG/S" is an acronym of 'Western Oriental Gentlemen' which of course is exactly what all the coloured immigrants were/are, but to my knowledge there was never any verbal malice toward such people- and since when have the Irish reacted to being generally known as "The Paddy's"? or the Scots "The Jocks"?

A Conservative councillor is to undergo diversity training after offending ethnic minorities with her claim that golliwogs are 'nostalgic, not racist'.

'Diversity Training' ??? at 72 years of age, you have got to be joking, you seriously have! Here we have a 72 year old female, elected to a council that fully supports sexual orientations of all types walking hand in hand along its streets, gay bars in abundance within its boundaries yet takes a totally innocuous statement from a pensioner to task- Brighton & Hove Council (and the 4 that complained) you should hang your heads in shame! It shows just how far this once proud country has sunk into the PC quagmire.

     I wonder sometimes just what other countries do think of us these days, for I remember the Portugese cafe owner informing me quite seriously that "we all loved our smoking ban in England" - which shows the amount of lies told to other governments by our own government. It's obvious that the people of this country have to wake up and get rid of these charlatans who now want an 11% pay rise for destroying this country! No wonder we are a laughing stock!

 

It really is this easy folks!