The Talking Clock: Why 12 million British smokers should vote UKIP

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Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Why 12 million British smokers should vote UKIP

UKIP today reveal that the EU wants to ban smokers from even having a cigarette OUTSIDE! According to today's revelations, the EU are "intending to ban all smoking in public places, including beer gardens, parks, festivals" - a plan outline claim that UKIP backs up by providing the relevant policy briefing links.

Godfrey Bloom MEP says of the plan: "Today six pubs will close in the UK. Part of our culture is under threat and now is the time to say enough is enough. These jumped up puritanical dictators must be told where to get off. These bullies seem to have no truck with freedom, liberty or tolerance. Well, in that case we shall have to take it back. And if that means a certain level of civil disobedience, well, so be it".

Many voters possibly do not realise that UKIP have a very pro-choice policy when it comes to smoking. Their criminal justice document 'Rebalancing Justice' states clearly that:

15.5 The UK Independence Party would replace the smoking ban with legislation requiring the owners of premises – such as pubs, restaurants and bingo halls – to provide proper smoke free areas and/or dedicated internal smoking areas with adequate ventilation. If these measures are not possible, the premises would have to be designated all ‘non smoking’ or ‘all smoking’ and advertise this prominently outside.

So, if you're a smoker or a non-smoker who thinks that freedom of choice is an important matter of liberty, you know who to vote for...

Elsewhere on the Good Ship UKIP, leader Nigel Farage has echoed this blog's thoughts of today by pouring scorn over ZaNuLiebour's liberty-loathing biometric identity cards. Mr. Farage also issues a bleak, prophetic warning to libertarians, telling the British people: "If the Lisbon Treaty is ever in force the day will come when as citizens of a country called Europe we will all be forced to carry an ID card".

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Why 12 million British smokers should vote UKIP

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