h/t to Emiliano:-
Andrew Lansley has finally shown the Conservatives true colours-and they are not blue, they’re yellow-a dirty, almost greasy shade of yellow in fact!
In a speech at the United Nations, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has called for governments across the world to work collectively to tackle the rising tide of lifestyle-related diseases. Basically, he set out that international action is needed to make real progress against cancer, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes through collective international action to curb tobacco consumption and reduce alcohol abuse. So now we know where we stand with the lying, cheating, false promise ridden ‘call me Dave’ party. We don’t! They are simply Labour in blue-wastrels and nation wreckers! That is, apart from the 80 or so that do actually believe in freedoms of choice.
But we should have known after the schoolboy Clegg’s 15 seconds on video, likening the smoking ban to the death sentence in repeal terms. We now know that governments pay the WHO monstrous yearly sums… to govern them! US$ 33m to be precise!
So, according to Lansley we need to curb tobacco consumprtion and reduce alcohol abuse – what a brainless statement that is! Basically he means war on the working classes two favourite past-times, smoking and drinking! Take away the pleasures and what is there to work for I ask?
Right then folks, let’s ban tobacco altogether, let’s make sure that no shops sell tobacco whatsoever. It is banned-full stop! Probably only put approximately 5,000 small shopkeepers out of business, but hey ho that’s only another £0.75m on the jobseekers allowance figures every week-drop in the vast ocean of public funds deemed as wasteable! Of course we cannot calculate what the loss of revenue to the government in on sales of all manner of goodies from those 5,000 shops but never mind. That’s sorted the smoking problem out then!
Err no. Smugglers paradise has just opened up as the floodgates open to an ever receptive market of puffers, large & small. The WHO reckon that 11% of all tobacco smoked globally is illegal-well, they ought to congratulate themselves with much hearty backslapping, for who has caused this situation? yes, indeed, the WHO themselves with their idiotic TC programmes! I think I’ll come out of retirement and buy a little white van, in fact an old 1960’s Austin would be just the ticket-a reminder of the good old days. I’ll get plenty of smokes in that and be easily recognisable to all my customers so that I won’t have to have “Smugglers Joy” painted on the sides!
The government rely on smokers for their £11bn, yep, eleven billion pounds, per annum, in revenue. Now where do they and the non smoking anti tobacco zealots think this, or any other government, is going to recover that from? That’s right mugs people, YOU, the mugs workers! You will have to pay anything between £20p-£30p to compensate for the tobacco industry being wiped out. British tobacco jobs account for approximately 10,000 jobs so that’ll be another £1.53m per week on Jobseekers then! Again, we won’t bother with taxation contributions lost to government… well they don’t seem to be!
One rather large problem that government has which no one yet seems to have addressed is a growing population but a diminishing employment market place. Let’s say that the tobacco industry in Britain has gone, another 10,000 looking for work-not going to be easy. Redcar was it? 17,000 jobs gone in the steel industry-and Consett earlier so there’s two dead towns where unemployment is already massive. Cameron is doing his level best to kiss goodbye to Derby via “Bombardier” as well! Pubs are regularly closing, courtesy of the smoke ban, so there’ll be no jobs in that sector! In fact where is there a growing employment sector? Even unemployment offices are being shut down to save costs! More than 600 people applied for one job in Leicester so there was a lot of disappointment around that particular city!
Lansley also goes on about reducing alcohol abuse. Pardon? A very small percentage of people actually ‘abuse’ alcohol; ie, drink too much on a consistent basis-they are known as alcoholics and are normally registered as such. However, the rest of us simply enjoy going out for ‘a few’ (well, pre ban we did) and having a good old fashioned ‘drink-poos’ and a ‘blather’. Yesterday, to my utter amazement, I found out that some committee or other have decided that 6 units (F) & 8 units (M) are considered a weekly norm – anything above that is too much. Eight whole units? That’s 4 pints for God’s sake. my nights out are timed to consume ten pints (well, they used to be, not so sure now!) and I remember the 6 units (F) equalled 3/4 of a bottle of wine. The only conclusion I can draw from Lansely’s declaration on alcohol is that they want to shut more pubs to sell less beers etc, but of course the trouble with that is that more unemployment will occur (soon to reach the 3 million mark) and with still more immigrants soaking up our finances, bankruptcy looms large. So, what will happen when the majority of pubs have gone and smoking has been eradicated, what sort of country will this be? A boring, lifeless, purposeless island where you are simply born to die-“Stepford style” -pure and simple! A joyless island that only miserable anti tobacco/alcohol people will want to live in, where only those happy to completely controlled by the state will derive any enjoyment. There will be very few jobs left as computerisation is taking over everything, trades will die out.
Lansley goes for the throat by chucking in obesity as well-a bit rich really as his predecessor (Donaldson) whose 30 pieces of silver came in the shape of his seat on the WHO, was classed as clinically obese himself! (or doesn’t obesity apply to World Health Organisation members?) So, I would imagine that Kebab man’s future is looking bleak, as is Wongs takeaway, McDonald’s, KFC, McIndians Curry House, Burger King etc, etc for they all help us pile on the pounds. What idiots like Lansley fail to understand is that if 12 million people give up smoking (yeah, righty ho then) that means 12 million people are going to put weight on. Not a couple of pounds-a couple of stones as the body reacts to the total abstinence from tobacco/nicotine! Solving one ‘problem’, yet again creates another, much bigger ‘problem’ – what with 13million already assessed as obese…!
Lansley states:
We need a bold and determined ‘whole government’ approach looking at better outcomes and helping individuals to make better choices about their own health.
My question is simple: WHY?
Why do I need any government determining what I eat-don’t eat, drink-don’t drink, smoke-don’t smoke? In actual fact what the bloody hell has it got to do with them? I might not like what ‘they’ want me to eat or drink. It totally interferes with my own freedoms of choice. And as for smoking? I might enjoy smoking-has that occurred to these people? Aneurin Bevan set up the NHS for all people-not an elite bunch of snooties who junkett around the world polluting the already over polluted atmosphere and deciding other peoples lifestyles whilst enjoying a lunch that would feed half of Ethiopia! How about spending some of this anti- tobacco funding on creating a water pipeline into Somalia/Kenya? – well, they talk on and on about saving lives! According to the BBC (those who NEVER lie) nearly 8 million are due to get wiped out over there courtesy of drought and the consequences of!
Saving lives, yes, a final footnote for the unrealistic (WHO) dummy, Andrew Lansley. Why are you so hell bent on saving lives, ie, creating a system of longevity when we cannot afford the care bills for our elderly now, never mind in ten years time! Remember this too: those who live longest cost the welfare state (NHS) the most in care needs-how soon do we officially go bankrupt? Let’s imagine you have succeeded and we have a miserable country full of miserable centenarians-all miserably unable to work-all miserably costing the miserably bankrupt welfare state whatever it costs to keep them miserably alive, out of a welfare state ‘pot’ that ran out of money decades ago. I think there is going to be an awful lot of ‘stamping on your grave’ – don’t you Andrew?