Darling Ban!

I wouldn't stop at just Darling, I would ban any politician.

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A spokesman for Mr Darling said: "The chancellor made it clear at the time of the budget that his priorities were alleviating child poverty and helping pensioners.

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So why did he get rid of the 10p in the pound tax rate then? This turned out to be a tax rise for _all_ lower paid tax payers.

Alleviating poverty, the only way out of this, is to sack all politicians and live off the state, like they do.

Dave

In message , David Thornhill writes

It does extend to England. It now has a committee and the Morning Advertiser (qv). They ought to give every drinker a chance to show her support.

Darling's policy is prohibitionism, since his intention is to prevent people drinking by making it too expensive for them. Everyone (except him) knows prohibition doesn't work, since people will drink in any case: if they can't get legal booze they'll create a huge black market which will be supplied by criminals.

Once the killjoys make booze prohibitively expensive, there'll be money to be made by passing off fake and adulterated liquor as the safe legitimate product, and that is a danger to every drinker, not just to those who knowingly buy bathtub vodka.

Once the drink trade is in the hands of lawbreakers, there is nothing to stop children buying booze, as has already been found with "personal" duty-paid imports, and nothing to prevent it being sold to people who already drunk.

A perfect example of the Law of Unintended Consequences (which is that any licensing law will have a different effect from the one the legislators say they want.)

Aptly, SIBA will be campaigning with parodies of Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street.

Has anyone in this government understood the consequences of moderate drinkers just packing in? It will be a great loss to the treasury, even I am coming off the evening whisky and at one point, I could drink 3/4 of a bottle a night about 2 years ago. But nothing will stop me from having my 2 pints of real ale at lunch time. I am betting the loss will end up on council tax :-(

I normally read the Mail or more lately, the Express, but recently I have been keeping an eye on the readers of the paper that voted this government in too many times. (the Sun spit) I have not seen one pro government letter since about four weeks ago. It is scandal after scandal with this joke of a guvmint.

Dave

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:50:28 +0000, Dave wrote (in message ):

Yikes.

Well, my arms ache when I read a broad sheet while sat on the loo :-)

Dave

Don't sit on the loo to read it then :) Just tear it up into 150 x 150 mm squares and put it to good use.

It's too hard and crinkly :-)

Dave

I don't want to know about your personal health... :)

Try the Times - it isn't a broadsheet any more. And you might just learn something. ;-)

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:45:21 +0000, BrianW wrote (in message ):

...apart from criticism of Rupert Murdoch.

Thanks, I might just do that on Monday.

Dave