Scorched earth ?
Rob Layton

Call me cynical but I get the feeling that New Labour seem to be having a go at destroying everything before they are booted out of office by a furious electorate.
As I look back at what they have done, and what they are doing at the moment, it puts me in mind of a scorched earth policy, leaving nothing of any value for an incoming Government to work with.

I still blame the smoke ban, and fascist undertones, that keep people from being allowed to have their rightful say on this issue.
As the economy hits new lows, probably the worst in sixty years according to some sources, its hard to believe the inept way that this Government went about destroying a British tradition to appease some ideological factions in their reactionary Party.

Although you cannot blame the smoke ban entirely for this recession, you can say that it hasn't helped.

The leisure industry was dealt a bitter pill with more to come as people will now have to sacrifice even more to just survive this huge downturn.
Now we cant even have a smoke and a drink to help us swallow other pills they are forcing on us.

It looks like the Americans are planning to commit political suicide by electing the same kind of no hopers that we elected when we put this shower into office.
Do the scenes that we are witnessing from the Democratic rallies seem very reminiscent of the election gimmicks of the Blair Government ?

Remember all the slogans and 'Things can only get better' ?

If those images were not so pathetic they could almost be amusing now.
I cant help feeling that the American voters are falling for the same garbage as we fell for when Britain voted for change that never came.

I also predict that we also see a womann in very high office in America within the next five or six years which ever  political Party wins the Presidency.
Ask me what the outcome will be if I am right and I will say absolute disaster for the world !
Ask me how I arrive at those conclusions and I will tell you in another post.
Till then, take care, and dont say I didnt warn you !

Rob Layton

The feel bad factor
Rob Layton

The Labour party have their work cut out if they want to make anybody feel good these days.
People who once supported them are deserting in droves.
I cant think of any section of the community that they haven't hurt in one way or another.
Do they seriously expect to get voted in at the next election ?
Judging by their blinkered view on society I tend to think that they do !

Many men see Ms Harriot Harmon as a man hating feminist with serious problems regarding her seemingly misandrist views on men, yet she is allowed to take PM'S questions where she made a poor sort of joke about men lining up to get out of the country if she became Prime minister, (many a true word spoken in jest)
Most of the legislation under this present government has been seen by many to favour only certain sections of the community mainly at the expense of people the fem's must see as male supremacists.
One only has to look at the figures to realise that most of what these people say is misinformation.

Any new government should look at the massive waste of money and resources that are being ploughed into women's groups and the Equal opportunities commission.
Laws on taxation and family rights should be looked at again, as well as figures for violence suffered by men.
More accommodation for single males and provision for shelters for estranged males at times of marriage crisis should be also taken into consideration.

Whilst womyn have always been seen as the victims of low pay, scant regard has ever been paid to the millions of unskilled men who have traditionally been used as little more than slaves.
Casual male labour is exploited by people who want an unfair days work for an unfair days pay.
These labourers have never had anyone to speak up for them and had little of no rights for centuries.
They are used and abused, given a few weeks work with bad working conditions and pay and then sent up the road.
If it happened to people in another country the people would rightly be up in arms and want something done about it.

Most of these men were poorly educated as most boys are today and falling way behind the standard of girls of the same age.
Its little wonder that people with sons are wondering if this is to perpetuate the labouring fraternity.

The smoking ban must be modified to include smoking and non smoking pubs.
The present recession is partly due to the unemployment rate brought about in the catering, service, and hospitality industries brought about by the unfair smoke ban.
I predicted this would happen when they first introduced this sad and unfair law take a look at my earlier posts.

I and many people see this government as intransigent and unable to put the mistakes that they have made put right.
The smoke ban was not about smokers health problems, it never was, it was purely a dogmatic ideological ploy that went badly wrong, and being such they cannot, or wont allow themselves to be seen as wrong in their methodology.

They have robbed this nation of fairness, peace of mind, justice, equality, and self worth.
People of other nationalities are seen by many to be the benificaries of a Government that doesnt care about its own people.
'Charity begins at home'

Rob Layton

The last days?
Rob Layton

True believers are never offensive to another religion.
Every religion is under attack today, we are living in the days before the end time.
My Bible tells me that the Devil will Rule for a time before Christ returns to claim his creation.
In that time wrong will be seen to be right, and right will be seen to be wrong, does that have the ring of truth to you ?

All over the world age old traditions are being eradicated under the guise of modernism and so called equal opportunities, this is a ploy to gag people into not speaking against the things that they know are wrong.

Modernists claim to hold the moral high ground, but if you claim that you have morality on your side, they with say that there are no such things as morals.
The things that made our countries great are disappearing and being replaced with chaos, and people still refuse to see the errors of modernity.

No matter what religion or creed the signs are there for you to see.
The enemies of any religion are people who want their own way, not the ways of God.

The people who argue against religion, are people who don't want to follow rules of any description because they fear that they have to much to lose.
Those people have much to gain by setting one religion against another, for obvious reasons.

If you want to carry on doing something that society once frowned upon what better way to get your own way than to discredit the institution that keeps you from your aims and aspirations, politicians have been doing this for centuries.

Science is seen as the truth in everything today, but if you look around you, society is littered with mistakes that science has made.
Programs about nature on television are evolutionised in such a matter of fact way that people take it that evolution is a fact, and not just a theory.
Little or no views are expressed from a creationist perspective on these type of programs, if they are expressed, they are usually ridiculed.

Whenever I see an attack on any religion I know that, the religion under attack are doing the right things, and have touched a political nerve somewhere, so don't be disheartened.
Remember many people can be fooled, but not everybody at the same time.

People of faith should stand together, we don't have to believe the things of other faiths that are contrary to their own beliefs.
We have a lot in common between us, and should protect each other when making a stand against the new order.
We know that the truth will one day prevail for the day of reckoning awaits.

Rob Layton

So much for democracy !

Rob Layton

Blasted treehugers !
Rob Layton

If anyone needed their ears washing out it must be the good Old Labour Party, but we all know that they have selective hearing, they can hear alright when it suits them.

They listen when the fems tell them what to do, they go off like good little boys, to do as they are told.
What a sad bunch off losers they look to so many people.
I visualise most of them as frizzy haired, ear ringed, treehugers, who are to busy minding other peoples business to see the mess they have got us all into, and that's just the men.

What happened to their principles ?
So much for all the socialist rhetoric they used to spout at the conferences, it would be totally laughable if it wasn't such a sell out of everything that the Labour Party once held dear.

Better to lose elections: than your principles I say.

It wont sink in that the smoke ban has hurt them more than they dare admit, but pride wont win Labour the next election.
Yet another massive defeat at another by-election, resignations, and mutterings in the corridors of power and despite all the protests they still refuse to listen to a majority of people in this country that want a fairer way of implementing an anti smoking policy.

The smoke ban has become more than a fight for the nations health,
despite all the misinformation being put out about the numbers of people quiting smoking, people are incensed at the high handed attitude of these people who think they know what is best for us.
This has always been a battle about the freedom of our rights, and it will not go away !

This is not just a battle about a few people smoking, its far more than that, its an assault on the freedoms that people should have in this country of ours.
It starts with one freedom being taken away: and others start going as well.
You may not care about my rights, but you must care about yours.

Mr Brown can reinstate the 10p tax rate, do away with congestion charging, do a u turn on the new car taxes, even finish the war in Iraq but he will still be hurt, by the people that he has hurt.
This Labour regime will be seen in history as one of the hardest and vicious Governments of the twenty first century.
The people of this country will go out of their way to punish the erosion of civil rights that are disappearing every day.

In some ways I hope they don't listen to us about the smoke ban, as I for one enjoy watching their stunned look as they listen to the returning officer read the results, and tell them that they lost their seat.
That 'Deer in the headlights look' is worth all the dreary nights at home that we have had since this shower took away our rights.
Good riddance to em !

Rob Layton.

By Sky News
SkyNews - Friday, June 27 09:50 amPubs are closing down at their fastest rate ever - with those in towns and cities being hit the hardest.

Some 2 % of all city pubs have closed in the last six months, whilst food-led country pubs with outdoor facilities for smokers are reaping the benefits.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) believe the increase in pub closures to 30 a week - nearly four every day - comes down to a number of factors.

BBPA says these include the smoking ban, the economic credit crunch, increased beer prices and temperamental weather conditions.

According to a survey carried out by the association, 1,409 pubs closed during 2007, a sharp increase on previous years.

Pub numbers were down 216 in 2006 after a fall of 102 in 2005.

Rob Hayward, Chief Executive of the BBPA, said: "These figures show the stark reality of the pub trade today, in contrast to the hype surrounding the myth of '24-hour drinking' and extended pub opening hours.

"Pub closures at this rate are threatening an important hub of our social fabric and community history. What we need to stop the decline is support from Government and the general public."

BBPA spokesman Gareth Barrett said: "Obviously the rate is high at the moment but we are optimistic about the future.

"It does take time to get new customers in. We hope to see stabilisation and expansion within the next few years."

Research commissioned by the Publican revealed to Sky News online that more than half of licenses have seen trade drop since the smoking ban in England was introduced.

However, the credit crunch, not the smoking ban, was pinpointed as the primary reason for such a bleak year for many pubs.

The survey of a cross-section of 1,500 publicans, by market research firm CGA, found 52 % reporting a fall in business, while 38 % said sales were the same.

Only 10% said business was up.

What can one say ?
Rob Layton

What can one say ?
Nothing, is the answer.
Looking at the news: it goes from bad to worse.
This country is virtually on its knees, and what can we say, nothing.
They have gagged us with either political correctness, legislation or who knows what they are capable of, if we tell it ,as it is.

The point is; we all know where the problems lye, but if we speak up we are labeled 'Grumpy old men' (another form of gagging)
It seems the only people who are left unprotected by law is ,Grumpy old men.
It seems that everything that is right in society has been made to seem wrong, and everything that is wrong made to seem right.
if you believe in the Bible you could say another sign of the end times was upon us.

I suppose you could have called most of the prophets 'Grumpy old men' most of them were outcasts, Moses was for definite.
I suppose when Noah told folks about what was going to happen he got much the same reaction as we 'Grumpy old men' get today.

Grumpy old men are not prophets, but we have been around the block a few times, and we recognise better than most when we are being conned: because we have been conned so much by politicians in the past.
'Once bitten twice as shy' is the old adage, but some people have short memories and 'Grumpy old men' have long memories.

I wont stop going on about the smoking ban because this is a contributing factor to some of the ills that this nation is facing today.
A lot of people are facing financial hardship and worse in the coming recession that we are facing.
Part of that recession can be attributed to high fuel costs of which this Government take a massive amount in taxation.
If the truth be known, I say that the cost of this Smoke ban is only just being seen.

Unemployment is on the rise, with more forecast in the future, the cost of fuel has rocketed along with food price increases.
I tell you what I think, I think that the Labour Party is just scratching around trying to find other ways to tax us because the revenue has dried up from the massive tobacco taxes they used to impose on smokers.

Other countries within the EU have less taxation on tobacco, when this Government would not harmonise the taxation levels on tobacco to the same level as member states it realised it was on a loser.
People started buying imported or smuggled ciggy's instead of going to the corner shop.
Hence the less dependence on tobacco taxation as form of propping up this economy, as it did in the past.
What I believe they are not telling you is the massive knock on effect that this Smoke ban has caused.

Pubs are closing at the rate of 20 per day, the effects on communities who used pubs for meeting places for people in Rural communities is that they are being increasingly isolated by this and Post office closures, which are having a drastic effect on these communities.
The NHS must be feeling the pinch by now, along with the Service industries.
The unemployment rates must have soared which have to be funded from these previously once booming part of our economy.
And this is just a part of the trouble we face because a few grey faced unhealthy looking, miserable bunch of do gooders want to save us from ourselves ?

If you read previous articles on these pages you will see that this Non smoking lobby has fed people for years with miss-information regarding smoking and its effects.

Smoking is not to be encouraged; exactly the opposite: but trying to stop smoking by these means is not working, and look at the effects on Britain.
If things get any worse we will all need a fag to calm our nerves !
Is the smoke ban to blame for 'air rage' ?
That's another question, but millions of Grumpy smokers wont help your cause Mr Brown !

Rob Layton

The needs of women in prison
Rob Layton

Consider the fact that the statistics showing an increase in female violence rising yet again, and the news that certain charities are pushing for prison reform for women, I can make no sense of the reasoning other than these lobbyists are very vocal, or very influential funding in the criminal justice system to the tune of £36 million pounds a year.

One could be forgiven for thinking that this is just another instance of buying favours.
Rather than going easy on criminals the reverse should be the case for either men or women who commit violent crime.
I read somewhere that prison does not work aprox 61% of young males re offend within two years, I could find no data for women.
Considering that instances of Domestic violence are as high for women as men, I think this is utter madness.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been urged to carry out reforms of women's

prisons set out last year by an official report.

More than 20 prominent charitable foundations joined forces to ask the politician to move forward the proposals, which would phase out most large women's prisons and replace them with small units holding 20 to 30 offenders.

The plan was set out by Baroness Corston in March last year in a
government-sponsored review, but no significant steps have yet been taken to introduce her recommendations.

The charitable foundations contribute £36 million a year to the criminal justice sector in the UK.Those who signed the letter to Mr Straw included lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox, whose has set up a charitable trust called the Antigone Foundation.

Teresa Elwes of the Bromley Trust said: "It is rare for charitable foundations to speak out together in this way but we want to encourage the Government to seize the unique opportunity offered by the Corston review and bring about real root and branch reform to the justice system for women."

It came after the number of women in prison rose to a record high of 4,505 last week.

A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "We are committed to improving the way we deliver services and interventions for female offenders and women at risk of offending, which is why we accepted 40 of the 43 recommendations made by Baroness Corston in her report last year.

"The Government aims to reduce the reliance on prison for low-risk female offenders by focusing on improving provision and interventions in the community.
However, where a custodial sentence is appropriate, we are ensuring the needs of women are understood and prioritised."

A quote for New Labour.
Rob Layton.

I have just discovered C.S Lewis
I found a quote that the New Labour Party would do well to heed.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis

Disappearing compassion
Rob Layton

Is compassion and caring for our elderly disappearing fast in Britain?
New comedy thinks that Senior citizens 'smell of urine' and are the brunt of cruel sarcastic 'humour' if you can call it that

Thank God for blogs, I think somebody reads this blog, but I rarely get feedback, if I do it is usually to say I agree or disagree with the views I have expressed.

My stats would have mattered so much to me when I first started on Blog.Co.Uk
but now it just doesn't matter.

I have found a great way of blowing off steam here.
Whenever I want to blow off steam about maybe a shower of sh*t in a certain council that make an old lady carry her rubbish for such a distance along country roads, I have a way of venting here.

No words can adequately project my anger, and disgust at what our local authorities have become.
But here I can say that I think that these kind of people are unworthy to hold any kind of job in the Civil Services.

What kind of people close care homes for the elderly, close rural post offices that provide meeting places for the elderly in isolated rural areas ?
These are just two vital issues that really matter to people who deserve our respect.
Old age creeps up on all of us so fast that you will wake up one morning look in the mirror and realise these issues affect you !

Pubs are being closed at the rate of 20 per day, another meeting place gone.
Clubs are the same.
Churches have been closing for years to make room for culture centres, another meeting place gone.

All that our Senior Citizens have valued are fast disappearing.
Were the times they went through worth the sacrifice they made ?

Are we such an uncaring loathsome bunch of bast*rds that we can sit by and watch people like this lady be bullied by such a cowardly bunch of sickos ?

If we can sit and do nothing whilst people are being treated like this then we deserve all we are going to get.
Try and stop me thinking and believing that this country is being run by a bunch of maniacal, power mad, totalitarian bureaucrats.

Rob Layton

Brown Horses and Drinking Water
Rob Layton.

It seems Mr Brown has forgotten what the Bible says about leading Horses to water and not being able to make them drink.
Anyone with his upbringing should see that to bully anyone is not a good way to get them to do something.

And here is another attempt to bully people into not starting a life of smoking.
If these people who think these things up were not so bloody pathetic, they would be funny.
Hiding ciggy's under the counter and stopping selling packets of ten cigarettes will not stop any teenager from wanting to be rebellious rather the opposite !

Grabbing a crafty smoke behind the bike sheds was one of the things that attracted myself and my piers to smoke many years ago.
Mr Brown and his cronies threw down the gauntlet to many categories of smokers and this last attempt to stop teenagers will make matters far worse.
Rather than help to stop smokers this Government has done more to harm the cause of the anti smoking lobby than anyone in living memory.

Watch this video to see what young ones think about these stupid measures.
You may not like the language but this is what they think.

The TRUTH about Smoking ?
Rob Layton

The anti smoking lobby have done a great job of demonising smokers.
What is the real truth about passive smoking and is the smoke ban done for the health of the nation or as a result of some inbred hatred of smokers ?
My opinion is that it is for the latter reason.

In Great Britain there is a form of apartheid being operated on behalf of a very vocal minority of people that criminalises ordinary hard working decent people for smoking a legal substance that has been around for centuries.

I was horrified to see how people have been forced to sit outside in public shelters in full view of every passing bigot and made to look like animals in a zoo.
These people were paying the same for their drinks as the non smokers who sit in comfort inside.
Its little wonder that pubs are closing at the rate of twenty per day as a result of this lunacy.
Soon the pub will be a thing of the past, for smokers and non smokers alike.

My aim is not to encourage anyone to smoke completely the opposite as most of the information put out by the anti smoking lobby seems to be spurious at best, this goes a long way to encourage smokers to believe that they can carry on smoking because of the misinformation put out by these people.

The harm to society is being caused by a bunch of self righteous bigots who have divided society into smokers and non smokers.
The latter are being forced to have no leisure time in public places with friends, and criminalised if they do so whilst partaking of a legal substance that this and other Governments benefit from by way of extortionate tax on these products.

One could not be blamed for believing that the amount of penalisation is disproportionate for a smoker compared to that of illegal drug users.
If you are caught using an illegal substance ie cannabis you are far less likely to suffer the slings and arrows of stigma by society than dropping a fag end or God forbid smoke in a Cafe.

The smoking of weed, and 'doing coke' seems to be more socially acceptable to the higher classes, so a blind eye is turned and even rewards given to the people who supply and use the stuff.
No one will ever really know the amount of road accidents or other social evils, ie rape, muggings, or marriage breakup caused by the taking of drugs because they seem to be covered up, or not accounted for in official figures.

If you want to know the real truth about passive smoking you need a true scientific non bias view of this subject not a subjective biased view based on class hatred or political motivation.
This can be found on one of the millions of sites that are springing up worldwide to fight the cause of human rights on the smoking issue.
Read a scientific view and tell me that the anti smoking lobby have not lied or invented facts to back up their case.

The international Liberty Network Website

Gordon Brown or his predecessor must see that this protest will not stop, the people responsible will not be forgiven until they rectify the gross injustice that they have done and modify the ban to a fairer system.
The recent By-Election results will be nothing in comparison to the General Election results if the LABOUR PARTY do not Listen as they said they would !

Sign the petition to amend the ban to a fairer system with choice for every body

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/smokinglicenses/

Rob Layton

Stuff Euro-vision !
Rob Layton

If you want to think about what the rest of Europe think of us just watch the Euro-vision song contest.
Granted we have had a few bad years where the entrants were not fit to sing in football stadium, let alone a European talent contest.
That doesn't excuse the fact that when we have had decent entry's the rest of Europe would rather vote for the worst act than vote for the United Kingdom.

Every vote is predictable as Terry Wogan has proved countless times.
Is it not time that we withdrew from this embarrassing insult to entertainment ?
The only thing that keeps the show going is the often witty comments of Mr Wogan.
It is my opinion that we should call time on this puerile drivel before the British nation becomes more brain dead than it already is.
This show is based on politics not entertainment it has run its course like the EEC.

These people are laughing at the British as they take huge sums from the British taxpayer in grants handed out from Brussels.
Its about time that both were kicked into touch, and let us gain back our national identity.
We have already changed to accommodate the stuff shirts in Brussels, lets see them do a bit of changing to accommodate our traditions and values.

Euro tolerance has done nothing to enhance the betterment of the people of the British Isles rather the opposite.
We have done all the giving and they seem to do all the taking.
So stuff the EEC, and stuff Euro-vision !

Rob Layton

Can you hear the sound of New LABOUR sinking ?
Bi election results are never a good indication of who will win the next General election but if politicians listen they should be able to hear what potential voters are saying.
In this case you wont hear the entire story because voices of smokers have been stifled once again.
As the Labour boat sinks you can hear the usual rhetoric from the usual bunch telling us that their boat wont sink.
The rights of the individual have been ignored by all Party's at this bi-election and the politicians have not Listened
The economy and other factors came into it, but the overwhelming factor that came into it is that many people feel that life has nothing to offer them.
We see what the future has to offer, no holidays, rising costs, and no where to escape because of the Bloody stupid smoke ban !
Millions yes millions of potential voter are bloody angry because you have robbed them of some way to escape from the gloom and doom of your failed attempts at a hypocritical legislation t

HARRIET HARMAN, LABOUR DEPUTY LEADER
"I don't think there's any getting away from it and I make no bones about it, it was a bad result for Labour last night. But I think we have to understand what lies behind it and what lies behind it is people's sense of their own prospects and the fact people are feeling the pinch... People are saying to the government they want their immediate concerns addressed, that food's going up, fuel prices are going up and they want the government to very strongly focus on what we can do to back them up in their standard of living and we will do that."

Glug glug

HAZEL BLEARS, COMMUNITIES SECRETARY
"It might be that the electorate have decided to send us a pretty powerful message but the last thing they want is the Labour Party to turn on itself and be obsessed with our own affairs and not what the public want."

Glug glug

CHRIS BRYANT, LABOUR MP AND AIDE TO HARRIET HARMAN
"I'm not putting any gloss on it. It's a very bad night for us. A lot of people are anxious about their personal budgets, their personal finances, fuel and food costs and they want a government that is going to work at that. I think that Gordon Brown is the right person to take us through these choppy economic waters on a world front."

Glug Glug

Sign the petition to amend the ban to a fairer system with choice for every body

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/smokinglicenses/

Men are Irrelevant  !
Rob Layton

That's it chaps: men are irrelevant, it finally happened.
What we have known for years has finally been made official by the latest vote in the Houses of Parliament.
It makes my blood boil to see the injustices that have been brought about by this pro feminist Government but none more so than this outright attack on the Male sex.

Men have always been cannon fodder, the suffragettes never knew what real oppression was.
The biggest recruiting sergeant for women's suffrage has always been the lie that women have been the greatest oppressed section in society over the centuries.

There is no way to try and tell that to the billions of men who's blood has soaked battlefields down the ages that they were not the most oppressed.
The millions of men who died trying to build roads and bridges for a pitiful wage to try and keep their families alive.
Yes men are an irrelevance today because we are no longer needed to die like cattle, we are no longer needed for the blood sweat and tears that past generations suffered to make the God Damned society we are living in today.

Its little wonder that young boys and young men are reacting in the ways that they are today.
Treat a human being with no respect, and you get no respect in return.
Women were never treated as bad as the generation of young men have been treated since the inception of this perceived misandrist Government.

The signals have been sent out for many years that men are useless, every soap opera, every anti male daytime chat show has put out this message and now the message has hit home.
The gloating fems seem to have won this one, but the old saying seems to ring true at this moment in time. 'HE who laughs last, laughs longest'

The laws and legislation that this bunch of extreme missandrist's have come up with have been worded so that a Government with say less sympathetic leanings to the fem doctrines that spur this lot on, can be reversed and who will laugh then ?
Yes fems, never trust politicians LOL.

Rob Layton

Fathers were last night effectively declared an irrelevance in modern Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020344/MPs-reject-IVF-right-father-Government-defeats-fresh-challenge-fertility-laws.html

Attacking the innocent !
Rob Layton

Is it possible for people to stoop so low as to pick on someone who never did any harm for the whole of his life ?
Human beings the world over have morphed into a hoard of fowl mouthed bullies and once again shown how bad we can be.
Everywhere on this planet people attack him without cause and why ?

Newspapers are full of attacks, the media attack him on a regular basis.
This man had no formal education, never hurt anyone, and always helps people however he can.
Such a person doesn't deserve the outright hatred that is heaped on him.

I know he is big enough to look after himself, but I and many others are sick of  people picking on our friend.
We are not allowed to say anything because if we do we are silenced, or called names.

I know of no one else who has had to go through the name calling and abuse as he has: not even Hitler.
This has gone on for years, and by some of the most prominent people that we have in every country.

Shame on society for picking on such an innocent.
How long will it go on ?

Rob Layton

What the hells wrong with 'Sweetie'
Rob Layton

Now I dont want you to be to shocked by what I am going to say, so I am giving you a warning that I may use the 'S' word.
The BBC is so shocked that the 'S' word was used by Mr Obama that they gave it International coverage on their website.

See the Story

Before I go any further let me say I dont give a damn about who wins the democratic party elections.

Did you read this bit ?

It was the second time Mr Obama had been caught with the word - he used it referring to a factory worker in Pennsylvania in April.

Ms Agar said the apology surprised her but she was more concerned he had not answered her question.

"People in Michigan have to make a decision about who they're going to vote for... [Mr Obama] could take a second to say what he's going to do for them."

My GOD !  its the second time he's used the 'S' word  !

Just think we pay our TV licence fee for such wonderful coverage of a major international political incedent.
I should like to say that  this story may cause many politicaly correct people at the 'Beeb' to have nervous breakdowns:  but for the rest of us mere mortals, this story is a complete waste of licence payers money, and a waste of web space.
Maybe the person who reported this sory should get out and about a little more.
'Sweetie,Sweetie, Sweetie'
Call an ambulance for someone at Broadcasting house !
God these people are unreal.

How to dig holes !
Rob Layton

If you want to know how to dig a hole to bury yourself in you, should be watching the Labour party right now.
The people who supported the smoke ban within the labour party are even beginning to realise what a huge mistake it was.
Robbing people of holidays, a night out in pubs,or clubs or any other attack on civil liberty's is not a way to win the hearts and minds of any society.

The Labour party machine has been so effective in silencing the voice of smokers on this issue, that they have now realised that the same tactics maybe used against themselves someday.

The Stalinist type tactics used to impose and enforce this smoke ban has rebounded on them, for the people that they have marginalised, cannot even say why they voted against the Labour party for fear of the stigma that smokers feel when they speak up for their rights these days.
Smokers have been demonised, marginalised and discriminated against on such a vast scale that their apathy has now turned to anger.

How then can the Labour party gauge the depth of public opinion to find out if the smoke ban effected the Local election and Mayoral election votes ?
Any voter of any political colour can see that on the smoke ban issue alone, that such a flawed policy such as this, highlight's not only the incompetence of Labour legislation on this issue, but a failure to recognise and rectify the mistake of using such totalitarian tactics on its core voters.

There are many other sections of society that the Labour Government have used this tactic on, and this has been a step to far.
People have woken to the fact that the only effect way to hurt the Government: is to hit back at the ballot box.

If you look back at what I said weeks ago on this subject, you will see that on this, and other blogs, that I predicted what would happen at the polls correctly.
This does not make me a political genius, or a psychic, it makes me a good judge of human behaviour.

The Labour party and any other party's who fail to take the smoke ban factor into account, does so at its own political peril.
In digging this hole for themselves, they should try to stop burying themselves by amending this ban to be fairer to all, and by allowing smoking, and non smoking pubs and clubs.
Failure to do so will see a party that you don't want elected being put into power as a huge protest vote cast against a perceived undemocratic authoritarian Government.
On your head be it Labour !

Rob Layton.

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Smoke ban robbed New Labour !
Rob Layton

Guess what, New Labour took a drubbing at the ballot box didn't they ?
What a shock !
I don't like gloating (not a lot), but like many people who warned what the outcome would be, I was right.
I notice that none of the Media mentioned the effects that the smoke ban has had on results of the local election results, probably because they have been briefed by the anti smoking lobby not to, tut, tut, tut.
This indicates that they are not listening again
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The same, if not worse, will happen again Mr Brown, if you fail to act on this stupid smoke ban.
You have hurt far to many of your traditional supporters, and it seems they are unforgiving on this one.

Mr Brown must truly be hurting over the London mayoral elections.
Why do you think an outsider like Boris won it ?
Why, he offered to help amend the smoke ban to a fairer system of licencing for smoking, and non smoking pubs.
Make no mistake Boris and David Cameron, you will suffer the same folly as Mr Brown, if you renege on this one.

The BNP gained on there last results as people deserted New Labour in droves.
Local elections are always hard to call, but anyone could see the effect that the smoke ban had caused on millions of ordinary people who have no where to go for leisure now.

This has never been a health issue, it has always been an attack by a vicious and very vocal section of society upon another less well protected group.
This selfish, arrogant, bunch of do gooders have made a mockery of the democratic rights of the individual, and made a good cause into something to be fought against.

Every smoker I know has been mobilised into action they would never have taken before, because of the mean mindedness of this group of nasty's.
These people robbed people of the right to have a night out at their local, only to find out that by doing so: the pubs are closing by the hundreds, and because of their self righteous arrogant attitudes.
They cut their noses off to spite their own face.

I would like to say to this bunch of do-gooding bunch of totalitarian knowalls.
How do you feel now that the knock on effect is going to be that people will vote for anyone who will right this injustice, no matter what they stand for ?
Remember that you are responsible for everything that your mean minded attitude has brought about.

Make no mistake the smoke ban is bad law, and because you have driven the opposition underground you think that there is no one out here opposing you WRONG !
As the tide of opinion turns inevitably against you, the politicians will turn against a policy that is losing them seats in Parliament, closing pubs, causing unemployment, and an attack on the working class of this country.
This has already started, people are seeing the lies and hypocrisy of the anti smoking brigade.

Yes many people will be watching to see if Boris keeps his promise to amend to smoke ban for London.
These elections have proved that when you attack the rights of ordinary people: no politicians job is safe.
Democracy Rocks !

Rob Layton

Get more people to sign this petition, put it on your blog, ask all you friends.
We need to keep this going to show them we mean business.
This is one of the fastest growing petitions on the net.
Twenty pubs a day are closing down we need to act fast !

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/smokinglicenses/

UKIP Blame Smoke ban for pub Closures

UKIP the United Kingdom Independence Party have seen the carnage that has been caused to the 'Hospitality Industry'

Reasonable people everywhere realise that the smoke ban isn't for the good of the people, or the health of the nation, but an attack on civil rights of certain groups within society.

In using this bigoted legislation the pubs are closing not j