Calm down, dears – plain pack propaganda war lights up Twitter
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 16:28 
Bit early for the likes of Simon Chapman to be adopting such a triumphant tone, don't you think?
Then again, the Australian academic and tobacco control activist is a master of propaganda.
My advice to Chapman and all the other anti-tobacco tweeters (including Alex Cunningham MP) is to calm down and wait for the outcome of the consultation analysis before jumping on bandwagons and smearing the opposition with wild or inaccurate allegations.
That analysis is being conducted by a company called Tonic Consultants which was awarded the contract by the Department of Health last month. As these documents show, Tonic is being paid £42,750 for a one-month contract that began on August 28 and terminates on September 28.
Meanwhile, what we are witnessing, on Twitter in particular, is no more than hot air from tobacco control activists who cannot stomach the fact that, for the first time, different sides of the debate have been given an equal opportunity to respond to a government consultation on tobacco.
It's called democracy but try telling them that.
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Reader Comments (3)
My guess is that their confidence knows that this has been decided all along. They just can't wait to rub our noses in it.
Welcome to the one-sided, upside-down fantasy world of Simon Crapman.
Simon (Clark), remember that Crapman - like his buddies in the Tobacco Control propaganda machine - believes that people only disagree with him because he’s right. Rules only apply to others, certainly not to people who are always right like anti-smoking activists.
Alex Cunningham MP (who came into Parliament in 2010) gives the appearance of a journeyman politician who quite simply treads water. It didn’t take him long though to jump aboard the smoking ban band-wagon, Lord Ribeiro was kind enough to breath new life into his bill to ban smoking in cars with children.
Read these wise words from man with big shiny empty head.
“It’s great news that the Lords voted for the smoking in cars bill to be debated in committee – we are now one step closer to implementing a ban which will do so much to ensure that children lead smoke-free lives.”
I like that bit “…ensure that children lead smoke-free lives.”
When was the last time this drivel spout walked down his local high street and tried not to gulp in carbon-monoxide poisoning from vehicle emissions?
An unimaginative gum-flapper hoping to score brownie points.