Oh so plain

They're still banging on about how plain packaging of cigarettes will stop youngsters smoking.

As many commentators on this article stated, "This will just mean that many customers will ask for the cheapest, thus starting a price war and driving down the price."

I do not think this is a good idea, if all cigarettes came in identical packaging it wouldn't make me stop smoking. I also think that taking brand loyalty out of the equation will cause a price war between the tobacco companies. I would no longer go and ask for a specific brand but for the cheapest. This would cause the price of cigarettes to plummet and young people would by them because they are so cheap. Sorry ASH i think your shooting yourself in the foot here!

Time for a fag.

Game

I just came across these paragraphs on another site. They seemed most apt.

I was more than slightly amused the other day to hear a 'loyal' Labour MP referring to the Prime Minister as 'a man on top of his game'. It smacked of the syndrome decribed in the piece below, but more than anything else it made my head start playing with the word 'game'. The word has several meanings, but three above all: a type of meat that is still hunted; a team activity in sport; and a distraction played for amusement, of little or no relevance to big life issues. These are listed in order of seriousness.

Gordon Brown has a powerful whiff of game about him at the moment. Already shot several times, he is hanging upside down until such time as another, better bird can be found - at which time he will be eaten....or thrown away. And yet despite that, you could never describe him as 'a game bird'. Mr Brown is, as everyone but him now realises, a dead duck.

H/T to Not born yesterday

Mmmm. Police.

The world has gone barking mad.

Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns.

Apart from the sheer cost of all this idiocy, by the prick who authorised this prosecution, anyone can see that they're not plods.

Then of course. it's this man again.

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer decided they must face a four-day trial despite critics describing the charges as “a terrible abuse of power”.

I'd like to be arrested by her.

H/T to the Evening Standard

Let them try

They really don't know when to stop digging.

Police are threatening to report motorists to insurance companies if they leave valuables, CDs or even old coats on show in their cars.

They are planning to sneak around car parks and streets checking vehicles for anything that could catch the eyes of thieves.

When are the Police going to go back to the old fashioned notion of catching the offenders? I can't for one minute, see how this is going to get the law abiding citizen on side.

I'm also wondering if in giving the info to insurance companies might be a breach of the data protection act.

No wonder the complaints are up by 25% this year.

Police target the innocent

I've been around for a while in this sceptered Isle and I'm afraid to say that my opinion of the police, as a force for good, is no more.

Michael White is an out of touch TO**ER

Michael White gets a roasting over at the Guardian over his article intimating that Baroness Scotland has only made a silly little mistake.

I don't think we can expect the attorney general to have spotted a dodgy passport.

This is not such an occasion. Labour is short of competent lawyers (they make so much money in private practice today). Scotland is a competent female, black lawyer. A second chance is called for. But don't do it again.

He really gets it in the neck.

Conspiracy, Naaah.

From the Daily Telegraph:

Stephen Hesford, MP for Wirral West, has resigned in protest as parliamentary aide to Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, after she was allowed to keep her job despite being fined for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.

It sounds like an honourable thing to do, but me being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, wonder if he has resigned to take the heat of the Baroness. After all it's filling the MSM and the blogosphere.

I shall watch the New Year honours list with interest.

Lord Hesford of Wirral West maybe.

Gordon's Medal

It's what he should have been awarded.

They're coming to take me away ,ha, ha

Just been over to Fausty's blog and followed this link:

Personality disorders


Seems like they can lock you up without you even having to do anything these days. Bloggers beware!

*Writing this from behind the sofa, as there are some strange men in white coats outside*

I'm stupid?

I might be a bit thick.

Baroness Scotland has only been fined for not copying the documents of her Tongan maid. Surely, if there are no copies of the documents, then how do we know, that she even looked at them at all? Shouldn't she have been fined the maximum?

Even Elvis says NO to the lisbon treaty

A catchy little number from the King.



H/T to VOTR