Whinging and bingeing…..
During the past few days we have seen a Select Committee sit down with Max Mosley and Gerry McCann and discuss how the media has destroyed their lives by making gross and libellous accusations and allegations against them. It is alleged that McCann’s and Mosley’s evidence would be of benefit to all.
The televised Select Committee meeting appeared to show that the Press Complaints Commission is of little use and certainly not fit for all the purposes it was created to do.
Uncannily this week, the Government’s medical advisor Professor Sir Liam Donaldson is now seen to be recommending that each and every consumers pay a minimum price for alcohol beverages in order to prevent the alcoholism and binge-drinking of the few. It is also mooted that another recommendation is for a ban be enforced on all alcoholic drinks retailing at less than 50p per unit.
The Labour chairman of yet another Commons Health Select Kevin Barron is looking forward to Donaldson’s briefing next week and considers that it should certainly be ‘looked at’.
Yesterday we note that yet another Scot has decided that we need to tax chocolate as a means of tackling obesity and addiction to chocolate. This is considered to be a quite urgent matter.
Scottish politicians seem to have a lot of time on their hands at the moment. There must be prizes to be won this month for finding the most punitive ways to tax the consumer on goods that are already over-taxed..
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March 16, 2009 at 12:29 -
I was so depressed by your run-down of these killjoy taxes that I had to cheer up my credit crunch cornflakes with a slug of brandy again this morning. Feeling instantly more cheerful, if a little giddy, my mood was further lightened as I read the following lines of gobbledigook outlining the HM Treasury vacancy for a Director, Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, c£100k, London!
“The Director will provide leadership in the delivery of the key responsibilities of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, including unblocking delivery obstacles, performance management, performance policy and capacity building and cross government learning on delivery.”
Phew!
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March 16, 2009 at 12:31 -
The outcome of all the proposed overtaxing is likely to be the same as that of tobacco which costs around four times more here than in the rest of Europe.
Packaged in the UK, Golden Virginia, for example, is exported to Europe and sold, tax paid in country of sale, at a vastly reduced price.
An enormous number of UK residents buy their tobacco on cheap trips over the channel or from traffickers in this country, who charge on average about double the European price, free of UK tax. The same used to be true of booze until prices were slashed in the UK.
Here’s a thought, sell the tobacco in the UK at double the European price instead of quadruple and make loads of money here. Why make a gift of it to the people of Belgium, France, Spain etc. when the UK population could benefit from it? Let’s face it, the smokers here are still going to get cancer and the tobacco tax money will help with treatment of that and many other illnesses. And make it illegal to give children pocket money; that should sort them out.
There is little doubt that if new alcohol prices in this country go ahead there will be even more channel traffic and more tax benefits to European countries, excluding ours.
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March 16, 2009 at 14:44 -
There’s not much I can comment on U.K. pricing, apart from mentioning that I get my cigarettes from Luxemburg at 2/3 of the French prices, which is – according to your information – subsequently ± 17% of what you pay. Oh dear …
As for the Select Committee: I found some time yesterday to have a look at the entire broadcast. Well, what shall I say about that? Lukewarm served pre-digested ?
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March 16, 2009 at 15:12 -
Janes and Chatelaine! I would like you both to be in charge of tobacco sales ……………. You will get free ciglets and tobacco for the rest of your lives.
And Janes …………. You will have the freedom to drive your tank on all roads and land.
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March 16, 2009 at 16:47 -
Coco, thanks for the offer of the freedom of the land. I may take you up on it.
Have you noticed I am no longer surrounded by smoke? Also, that I have regained my shadow? Life is bemusing.
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March 16, 2009 at 17:22 -
But to us Janes …………….. You will forever be a shining light. Like a sunbeam!
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March 16, 2009 at 17:49 -
I know that Sir Christopher Meyer has been a diplomatic type of guy for donkey’s years ………….. but I would like to see him take Merry Gerry to task over his faux pas at the Select Committee hearing …………..
In a nutshell Merry Gerry said that Meyer did not think that the PCC route was the one to take! I took this to mean that the PCC was therefore not fit for the purpose it was created for.
I don’t always believe Merry Gerry when he says things ………….. so I am hoping that Meyer did not have this strange off-the-record conversation with him.
I wonder of Meyer has secretly been undiplomatically really pissed off for the Merry one to come out with this?
No wonder Paxman was forced to do a pre-recorded interview with the little sod …………… Clearance was probably on the verge of a coronary watching him. @lol@
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March 16, 2009 at 17:50 -
Glo! One of those errant apostophes has struck my donkey!
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March 16, 2009 at 18:30
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March 16, 2009 at 18:26 -
How could you?!
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March 16, 2009 at 18:29 -
I am just wondering why it is that we have a mob of Scots telling us what we can eat and drink ……….. and now ………. it’s a Scot telling us we can’t even express ourselves on the internet!
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March 16, 2009 at 18:33 -
Hello, goodbye “everybody”. I have too much of the real life going on at the moment. Take care
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March 16, 2009 at 18:41 -
Châtelaine
Good luck with what’s going on. Will you be gone for ages????
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March 16, 2009 at 18:41 -
Coco!
Some of us are Scottish!
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March 16, 2009 at 19:07 -
Psssst! Hi Karen ………… So are some of my blood family ………… but I am keeping quiet about that for the moment …………… So don’t tell anybody!
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March 16, 2009 at 20:23
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March 16, 2009 at 21:25 -
Scottish, surely it’s Scots!!
25% of my family are Scots and I think they’re proud of it
Me, I’m getting sick of so many Scottish accents on the telly and radio – have we been invaded?
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March 16, 2009 at 21:32 -
Maybe someone can lend Mel Gibson a Scot’s accent if there are so many around.
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March 16, 2009 at 22:11 -
I don’t usually call them Scots or Scottish. I call them Haggis, Kilts, Bagpipes or Sporrans ………… irrespective of sex, sexuality, age, status or religion or IQ. ……………… Depending on my mood and medication.
Please may I have a cell in a warm prison with air-con if I get sentenced for saying this?
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March 16, 2009 at 22:13 -
I am not helping Mel Gibson out with anything after the film he made about Jesus. I can’t sleep some nights because of those harrowing scenes.
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March 16, 2009 at 22:18 -
He has the foul mouthed drunken bigot part pretty well nailed down, the only stumbling block is the accent.
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March 16, 2009 at 23:03 -
Errrr ……… Saul! You will end up in a cell with me if Gordie and wee Jacqui catch us!
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March 16, 2009 at 23:20 -
Right! I have just made a decision based upon historical facts.
I think the errrr ………. Roman Brits would not have gone to so much trouble unless they knew what they were doing! I think we should preserve The Wall and make sure that these rude and bossy Scots be kept behind it.
Nice cuddly Scots will still be allowed in and out ……………. But will be under surveillance ………….. like the rest of us.
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March 16, 2009 at 23:20 -
Maybe the Scottish MPs should keep their puritanical thoughts North of the Border.
There does seem to be a scottish clique in government that seem hell bent on making English lives miserable.
One thing I hope a future government will do is finish off devolution properly and limit Scottish MPs to affairs that only concern Scotland.
There does seem to be an inordinate amount of Scottish influence in government affairs.
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March 16, 2009 at 23:44
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March 17, 2009 at 00:33 -
In a past life I was eaten alive by the Picts …………… So Bruney and this medical officer are particularly scary for me to have to think about.
Please help me to get rid of them. They are invading my sleep!
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March 17, 2009 at 00:38 -
I think that when Bruney was very young …………… his ideas about Socialism were OK …………… But when did he become a National Socialist?
Was it Jacqui in her high leather boots? Was it Milly von Band. Was it Mandy the Meddler? Who got Bruney and stripped him of his last few principles?
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March 17, 2009 at 00:42 -
So in a nutshell ……… we will have Scots running the Government for years to come ……….. and the Judiciary will be whipped and stripped into using the Sharia law. Have I got this right before I throw myself down the stairs again?
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