tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post7594091030441660395..comments2023-10-25T10:22:52.127+01:00Comments on Home-The last bastion: The shape of things to come…Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-64913915550760849872010-07-22T12:54:10.482+01:002010-07-22T12:54:10.482+01:00Smokers must always plead not guilty, demand to se...Smokers must always plead not guilty, demand to see the cig they allegely smoked, and ask for it to be proved that their DNA is on it. After all, anyone could pick up any fag end and tell anyone that it was someone it was not. We must make sure this message gets through. <br /><br /> Forcing councils to go to these lengths to prove a case will also cost them an arm and a leg and at some point they will have to ask themselves if it is really worth it.Pat Nurse MAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01591807335364002658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4137579179313541352010-07-21T23:24:56.106+01:002010-07-21T23:24:56.106+01:00Pat, I will get back to you sometime tomorrow. Thi...Pat, I will get back to you sometime tomorrow. This is not the first case if it's kind that we have featured, will talk to Phil Johnson as he tried to help a man that lost his job because a jobsworth said he was smoking in his employers vehicle, he was not as he was using an ecig while he drove for his company as he knew it was against the law. He still lost the case because courts believe the jobsworths.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-45064503548807528572010-07-21T15:56:13.493+01:002010-07-21T15:56:13.493+01:00TBY - is there anything we can do to help this lad...TBY - is there anything we can do to help this lady and any other smokers who falls foul of jobsworths?<br /><br />http://patnurseblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/jobsworth-stalks-smoker.htmlPat Nurse MAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01591807335364002658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-11934710179543688822010-07-21T00:06:30.745+01:002010-07-21T00:06:30.745+01:00Sweet FA banned I suspect, they, after all, are ma...Sweet FA banned I suspect, they, after all, are masochists like me and thee, we take whatever our lords and masters dane to serve us with, and I don't just mean smoking.<br /><br />All bow to our masters for they are right and we are wrong and need teaching the error of our ways.<br /><br />Did I mention that I don't mean smoking?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-56187808814527104482010-07-20T23:48:57.194+01:002010-07-20T23:48:57.194+01:00So what are the voters of Denville, New Jersey go...So what are the voters of Denville, New Jersey going to do about it?bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-60890695859842454562010-07-20T21:59:43.116+01:002010-07-20T21:59:43.116+01:00I will have to make contact with them jred, they s...I will have to make contact with them jred, they seem very sound and have loads of experience of tobacco control freakery. I made contact with Dave Crawley a few years ago but didn't keep up but I know that our chairman, Phil Johnson did.<br /><br />We are so fragmented here in the UK and the USA but it seems that the USA [anti ban movement] have more of a bind with each other than we do.<br /><br />This must change. No, this will change!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-86799655915211032332010-07-20T21:48:04.252+01:002010-07-20T21:48:04.252+01:00The folks at the IPCPR are good people to align wi...The folks at the IPCPR are good people to align with. They stepped in and helped with the outdoor ban debate here in Los Angeles after I contacted them...very good people:-)jredheadgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11078082563556309444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5989049570736300962010-07-20T21:45:32.101+01:002010-07-20T21:45:32.101+01:00Oops, sorry Anon, attributed your comment to someo...Oops, sorry Anon, attributed your comment to someone else. My apologies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-37894700498361612102010-07-20T21:23:17.549+01:002010-07-20T21:23:17.549+01:00Thanks for the link JJ, am getting off my head on ...Thanks for the link JJ, am getting off my head on tobacco, wine and wild, wild wome...on tobacco and wine so will have a proper look in the morning...hic!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5547452901934657582010-07-20T21:18:09.129+01:002010-07-20T21:18:09.129+01:00Founded in 1933, the IPCRP provides assistance to ...Founded in 1933, the IPCRP provides assistance to retailers "to fight repressive and onerous tobacco legislation," according to its website.[Ed: Can’t find a link to that website, wonder why?] <br /><br />It's the IPCPR. Here's the url: http://ipcpr.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-82147115461802326782010-07-20T19:55:38.571+01:002010-07-20T19:55:38.571+01:00The BigYin – Yes you’re referring to Dave West of ...The BigYin – Yes you’re referring to Dave West of the Heyjo club in Mayfair. I spoke to him last year and asked him if he was still fighting the ban…apparently he was and has been fined several thousand pounds. I think however the Westminster council have now got the better of him.<br /><br />But here is what I can’t understand; he recently spent over £100,000 on a couple of tickets to attend a David Beckham party…and in the event didn’t go. What a complete waste of money, why not at least fight the smoking ban.<br /><br />I have to say, and I don’t wish to be rude…I don’t think that despite his wealth he’s the most cerebral of people and perhaps he can’t or won’t try and put together some kind of cohesive strategy.JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239651363530826401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-86536977452219322712010-07-20T18:39:20.454+01:002010-07-20T18:39:20.454+01:00JJ I can't understand this either. When the sm...JJ I can't understand this either. When the smoking ban was proposed I thought that 'big business' had a firm hand in how we were controlled, apparently not.<br /><br />One 'big business person, who made his millions from selling cheap bacca products and drink from Calais, and who runs a club in London, refused to back F2C with money in the early days of the ban, he still refuses. He purportedly was doing his own fight against the ban, using Cheri Blair as his lawyer but that came to nothing.<br /><br />No, forget big business, they don't want to know, they are ok in their ivory towers but us smokers are not, we are fucked at every turn, we are vilified, bludgeoned and yet we do not lift a fucking finger...I am mad, to say the very least.<br /><br />I do not think now that the 'vested interests' will lift a bloody finger to fight my corner, I, and my fellow smokers have to do that for themselves...but they won't! They hate themselves for somking, their thoughts about giving up smoking have been tapped by the banners, so much so, that they delude themselves that they can't give up the 'filthy weed' withought the help of anti smokers.<br /><br />I am not deluded, I can see the anti smoker fuckwits as they are...deluded!<br /><br />Sorry for the rant, I'm pissed off, so pissed off that i'm going for an unhealthy 'fish 'n' chip supper.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-16691241972227494912010-07-20T18:23:35.103+01:002010-07-20T18:23:35.103+01:00Whatever happens in that monumental piss-pot of lu...Whatever happens in that monumental piss-pot of lunatic political correctness...will most surely visit these shores.<br /><br />I can never understand why wealthy business people can't pull together a fighting fund - and drag these bastards through the courts - it would only take a few high profile cases to do massive damage to the zealots!JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239651363530826401noreply@blogger.com