Don’t complain.

 

Plain packaging?

It seems a health minister by the name of Anna Soubry has let the cat out of the bag about plain packaging of cigarettes being introduced this year. I find this indefensible, in that the consultation details have not been released yet. But it would seem that they don’t care.

Ministers are to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes along the Australian model with legislation this year, after becoming convinced that the branding is a key factor in why young people start to smoke.

The legislation, to be announced in the Queen's speech in May, is also expected to ban smoking in cars carrying anyone aged under 16 years. Ministers acknowledge that the ban is likely to be difficult for the police to enforce, but they believe peer group pressure will have an impact similar to the ban on drivers using mobile phones.

Here is Godfrey Bloom’s (MEP)  thoughts on the subject.

 

We really are governed by a shower of wankers.

Here are DP’s thoughts

And Simon Clark’s.

The lights are going to go out.

An article in the Independent newspaper today states the view that "Fracking" for gas won't bring down the cost of energy to the British consumer.

George Osborne's plan to deliver cheap energy by fostering a fracking revolution has been dealt a severe blow after an influential cross-party group of experts said any boom in shale gas production would be "unlikely to give the UK cheap gas".

However all is not what it seems:

But even if vast quantities of shale gas are eventually produced, the report finds that this would be unlikely to have much impact on household and businesses energy bills – although it would be good for the economy. "Despite the support for UK shale gas announced in the Chancellor's Budget, there remains a great uncertainty around the size of the prize and developments in the industry, which could take a decade and are unlikely to give the UK cheap gas," concluded the report by Carbon Connect, a steering group of industry and academic experts chaired jointly by Mr Hendry, a Conservative MP, and Baroness Worthington, Labour's Energy and Climate Change spokesperson in the House of Lords.

What I had to ask is who are this steering group called CARBON CONNECT?

As I suspected, the cross party group is taking their advice from a group intent on decarbonising the energy generation. Certainly not an independent unbiased organisation.

Their aims are reproduced below:

Carbon Connect is the independent forum that facilitates discussion and debate between business, government and parliament to bring about a low carbon transformation underpinned by sustainable energy. We were launched in June 2009, by Ed Miliband MP, then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

For our members we provide a varied programme of parliamentary events and policy research that is progressive, independent and affordable. As well as benefitting from our own independent analysis, members engage in a lively dialogue with government, parliament and other leading businesses. Together, we discuss and debate the opportunities and challenges presented by a low carbon transformation underpinned by sustainable energy.

Our members are committed advocates of low carbon enterprise and ensuring that the UK is at the forefront of the transition to a low carbon and resource efficient world.

If that is a steering group that MPs' are listening to, then I suggest that we'll be heading down a no through road, with no turning circle at the end.

At this rate we can expect blackouts in the future. I despair at the gullibility of our politicians.

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The hunt for the second suspected bomber goes on. Live police transmissions.




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Personally I think he's mostly long gone. However for how long is anyone's guess.

1. You need money to live. The moment he tries to use an ATM machine his whereabouts are exposed.

2. He can't hire a car.

3. Everyone in the land will be looking out for a youth wearing a grey hoodie. 

4. Even if he tries to communicate by computer he'll be tracked.

 5. He daren't even think of using a mobile phone.

It's when, not if.

Good God!

 

I larfed.

Tax disk with sense.

Fed up with slamming into potholes the size of the Grand Canyon? Then you might want one of these.

£1.29 from Ebay.

Note: The sweary word is in full on the real one.

He’s going to glow in the dark. Again.

A couple of years ago my son was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid.

He’s just been informed that his protein levels are low, which is indicative that maybe some cancerous cells have not been totally eradicated.

So he’s made the decision to go back into hospital in July for further Radioactive Iodine therapy.

He’s chosen July as we are all going on holiday to Portugal in June and the metal detectors and X ray machines positively hate him for a couple of months after the treatment. During his treatment he is kept in a room down the end of a long corridor well away from anyone else. Visiting him is for half an hour only and we are told only to speak from the doorway. (Bugger that).

He’s probably going to read this and hopefully I’d like him to comment on this post. (Go on I dare you).

Maybe some of you think that I’m being too flippant about this subject. However I think the boy understands that you have to make the most of what life throws at you. Live for the day.

What Maggie did for you.

An interesting programme on Channel 4 blowing apart the myth that she was responsible for all the ills of society,  that the left promulgate.

It’s an hour long but well worth watching.

A radical film about a radical woman.

Martin Durkin's controversial thesis is that Margaret Thatcher was a working class revolutionary.

Margaret Thatcher – Death of a revolutionary

Obey.

 

Go on.

Join the counterattack on the Left’s effort to revile Baroness Thatcher.
Why not buy a song that will upset the lefties if sufficient numbers push “Ding Dong the witch is dead”, down the charts. It’s only 79p on Amazon.
You can purchase at the following links.

♬ iTunes: http://bit.ly/inlovewithmargarethatcheritunes
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Personally, if I was Maggie, I’d be giggling in my grave. But that’s just me.
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UPDATE:

It's now surged into No. 6 place in iTunes in the last hour.