Monday
Sep262011
Fringe benefits
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 13:30 
Currently in Liverpool for the Labour party conference.
Looking forward to our event at the Cavern Club tomorrow night (see above). I'll have more to say about this and other fringe events in due course. There have been some interesting developments that I can't tell you about just yet, so watch this space.
Reader Comments (7)
The Cavern Club and "interesting developments that you can't tell us about just yet"?
Please Please Me, Simon.
Crikey - you're not going to tell us that Labour repents stabbing its core voter and smoker working classes in the back are you and that in the name of fairness they will amend their own spiteful piece of legislation if we are stupid enough to vote them back in?
"interesting developments that you can't tell us about just yet"?
Could you tell us "For the benefit of Mr. Kite?"
Not to worry ladies and gents, F2C has sent a couple of hard women, (well we could have sent two men but the women at F2C vetoed that Idea) to tickle Simon to the point of death till he fesses up. There's still time to call these dogs of war off Simon!
Haha, all this songtitle stuff, let's be serious. Patricia Hewitt, when 'I saw her standing there' pontificating about what was little more than 'Chains', I knew I was doomed. 'Do you want to know a secret'?, someone once told me it was for my own good, 'She loves you...yea yea yea' I have heard that one before.. Can we really believe there is any 'Help' on the way, amend the smoking ban?, 'You can't do that' is what the Labour party would say. 'I should have known better' than to trust them in the first place. Some say 'I feel fine', I say 'I'll cry instead'. 'Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it look's as though they're here to stay'. I sometimes have to leave a building to have a cigarette and feel like 'The fool on the Hill'. Some of the anti smoking propaganda has got so ridiculous that I feel like I am living in an 'Octopuses Garden'. Maybe 'We can work it out', maybe not.
what is interesting - with all these conferences, networking and events AWT petition has gained hardly any votes at all !!!!
That's because John the docile smoking public are blissfully unaware of the onslaught to their freedoms and feel guilt laden because they enjoy the flavour of tobacco, just as those who enjoy a drink or a bit of fast food will feel once the hand of denormalisation touches their weary shoulders.
As from the 17th of November smokers will receive another slap in the face when the EU's directive on LIP (Lower Ignition Propensity) cigarattes are forced upon them. The tobacco companies do not have to comply but if they don't then the local trading standards have the authority, (and they will use it) to remove all cigarettes from the shelves that do not follow that directive.
This is a step too far but the hapless smoker will no doubt carry on regardless but I see it as an affront to smokers, this is wrong, just plain wrong!