In good old Rugby, where this writer spent some of his miss-spent youth (not THAT school folks), there emanated the story of Tom Browns Schooldays many moons ago. An epic tale of schoolboy bullying, floggings and general subjugation. Tom Brown found, to his cost, that being with the bigger boys could be a drag., a world where some secrets needed to be kept secret. The younger boys were assigned to be an older students ‘fag’ or, basically, slave, committed to every whim of his senior – whatever that whim maybe. There is no doubt that as the ‘fags’ grew older they learnt the skills for when they became the older students themselves so as to laud over the juniors.
Funnily enough we have, to my mind, a similar situation here in this present day Parliament as Nick Clegg is the junior to David Cameron in this very illiberal, not so democratic coalition government of ours that seems, after the initial burst of hoodwinking the general public, not to want to restore our freedoms!
Clegg is the schoolboy in big trousers, Cameron is the senior. Clegg is the illiberal liberal and Cameron the not quite so democratically democratic Conservative. With their respective financial ‘gnomes’ they have already cut a giant monetary swathe across the country and given nothing back to the now subjugated people.
There is one thing they could easily do to rectify that situation. There’s one thing they could do to assuage the feelings of nearly 27% of the population – without upsetting the other 73% (apart from the crackpots that is!).
Revisit the smoking ban.
The schoolboy in big trousers has already rail-roaded that idea in his 15 second video because, apparently, bringing back any form of public smoking is akin to reincarnating Albert Pierrepoint!
Why?
Is it not already broadcast widely enough that the smoking ban was brought in on the back of ASHlies, ASHfabrications, ASHmanipulated statistics & ASHengineered junk science?
Is it not already accepted that the whole bloody shebang was a carve up from the start? Is it not known? Only the ignorant total antis seem to be oblivious to the facts. Peter Kellner’s lame begging letter to Vince Cable should show the world that the antis are now on the retreat for even some of the higher echelons of anti-tobacco came out of the woodwork in support against a vehement tide of truth-meisters that put them to rout!
Now, the schoolboy has allowed his secret out into the public domain. The schoolboy that killed smokers hopes in 15 seconds admits that he is a secret smoker as one of his pre-requisites for being stranded on a desert island would be “a stash of cigarettes“. Enter Flashman aka Cameron. Should not this impudent, two faced junior be flogged for such actions, such desires whilst denying his ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ the same pleasures on their desert islands (the pubs & clubs)? Cameron’s ‘Fag‘ enjoys a fag just the same as the rest of us.
So, it seems that it is OK to sit in moral judgement on millions and declare that ‘doing as I say and not what I do’ is the way to lead. Bah Humbug, since when has Clegg regularly wandered into his local every week for a few jars, a chinwag with his mates and a fag? 12th of never maybe?
Conditioned by the anti-smoking lobby the ‘Fag‘ sits, privately, smoking a fag while we lose all our socialising skills, our socialising community centres, our very way of life.
If his dream of castaway ever materialises please make sure the schoolboy has millions of fags around him but no forms of ignition whatsoever!