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.
Once smokers respected non smokers, but no more.
I listened recently to a conversation whilst I was standing in a smoking shelter, if that's what you call it.
This shelter was made of toughened glass and faced a busy main road, the people were sitting there cold and dejected whilst their friends and family sat comfortably in the pub.
The conversation got heated to say the least, and turned quickly to the hostility towards this overbearing Government.
This was just one instance in one of the few pubs that are left open now.
The last I heard pubs are closing at the rate of 20 per day.
Soon smokers and non smokers will have nowhere to go because some little bureaucrat who doesn't like smoking or drinking.
Yes it started with a smoke ban, and do you know what is coming next, you guessed rightly a Drink ban.
You think this cant happen like smokers never thought a smoke ban would ever happen.
If they do ban alcohol who will help you to fight the ban, Smokers ?
The demonisation of drinkers has already started, just as they did with smokers.
Watch the television, read the newspapers, they are full off anti drinking propaganda.
Soon we will see the same reactionary overbearing pompous legislation as we experienced with the smoke ban and you non smokers will see what it feels like to have no voice in your own destiny.
To many people it feels like we are under the rule of a tyrannical puritanical, extremist second only to Oliver Cromwell.
If you want to keep your pub open, support the modification of the smoke ban to a fairer system of smoking and non smoking pubs.
This is not a health issue it is a Social issue and a fight to keep open the traditional British pub.
Amend the smoking ban or have no pub, its your choice.
Rob Layton
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/smokinglicenses/
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