Libertarian bloggers join forces to say "No, Prime Minister!"

Thanks to every blogger who rallied to support the Hands Off Our Packs campaign this week.

Following the official launch of our No, Prime Minister site on Wednesday the following posts duly appeared:

Plain packaging? No prime minister! (Bucko The Moose)
Plain packaging: say no to Dave (Dick Puddlecote)
Send a letter to the prime minister for me (The View from Cullingworth)
Friday request (Captain Ranty)
A new way to insult voters (Frank Davis)
Plain packaging (Oh What Now!)
Let’s see if David Cameron is REALLY listening (Redhead Full of Steam)

If I have missed anyone please let me know.

I don't like singling out anyone but the post by Joanne Lincoln (Redhead Full of Steam) was greatly appreciated because Joanne writes mostly about e-cigarettes not tobacco.

She wrote:

As many of you no longer smoke but use e-cigarettes instead, you may be thinking that this is unfortunate but it really won’t affect you. Please, think again.

We have seen just as recently as last week that slippery slopes do indeed exist. Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners. Wouldn’t THAT be fun. And how about finding your e-cigarette, it’s accessories and your e-liquid in bland, generic packaging doubtlessly covered over a legally specified percentage of its available area with dire (and often nonsensical) health warnings? Sound good to you?

Of course not. So, let’s see if Prime Minister Cameron is really listening. It’s very easy to do. I have just done it myself.

There has been plenty of activity on Twitter too. In fact, as a result of people tweeting links to my own posts about the No Prime Minister campaign the number of unique visitors to Taking Liberties has doubled in the past three days.

Even our opponents (Tobacco Free Futures and Tobacco Tactics) have been tweeting about it. Every little helps!

Tobacco Reporter mentioned the campaign here, Plain packaging not a done deal in UK, and we're hoping for more coverage in the trade press next week.

Finally I must give a further mention to Dick Puddlecote because DP has also written these posts about plain packaging:

Berger: "We still won!" and You're the MP: judge plain packaging evidence.

Update: Chris Snowdon has also posted about the campaign – Once more into the breach (Velvet Glove, Iron Fist) – and to the best of my knowledge he was in Spain this week. Word travels.

Comments

[Realist]

But surely every blogger must know that Cameron has no option
but to push through the Plain Packet regulation,to do otherwise would invite the full fury of the real ruling elite. He is not even a Conservative in the true sense of the word more a messenger boy for the hidden powers.