Andrew Neil and the “boss class”

GB News’ Andrew Neil didn’t hold back last night when he took aim at what he called the “boss class”:

We’ve got used to being bossed about during the pandemic, our freedoms curtailed as never before.

Mostly it was for our own good. But sometimes it seemed a bit heavy handed.

What’s depressing is that, as the Covid threat fades and the restrictions it brought are lifted, the boss class is beavering away on multiple fronts looking for new areas in which to tell us what to do.

“Covid,” he noted, “clearly doesn’t offer the opportunities it did for telling us what to do. So the boss class is moving with relish into other areas.”

Campaigners have called for smoking to be banned in pub gardens and outdoor restaurant seating areas in Wales.

Several councils in England want to stop outdoor smoking altogether.

The list went on:

The Government is banning TV commercials for food high in sugar, salt and fat before 9pm.

Police officers in Nottingham are already enforcing an alcohol ban in parks.

Given the incessant attacks on smoking, how refreshing it was to hear Britain’s top political broadcaster include further anti-smoking measures in his list of “boss class” acts.

What a contrast too with the silence this week from our freedom-loving free market ‘friends’ and consumer choice warriors. Not a peep, or even a tweet, criticising the call for a ban on smoking in beer gardens in Wales.

If vaping was similarly threatened that would be a different matter, but smoking? Meh.

The irony is that if smoking was outlawed in beer gardens and other outdoor seating areas many proprietors would probably ban vaping too, even if it wasn’t illegal.

As I have said many many times, if we lose the war on smoking, vaping will be next. Freedom of choice, personal responsibility, property rights - all down the drain in the name of ‘health’.

If you believe in something you have to stand up and be counted, like Andrew Neil. If you don’t … well, silence speaks volumes.

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