The Week in Nonsense

The health fascists take this weeks biscuit on the nonsense front. A Merseyside pressure group(?) wants all films featuring a character smoking, to be re-classified as certificate 18. They claim there is proof that people take up smoking after seeing screen icons light up on screen. They are even saying they are willing to go it alone, and impose a ban on such movies throughout Liverpool. So in a city where a young boy can be killed by gang members that can't be caught, and home to some of the most deprived areas in the country, has decided to put all it's efforts in too what I think is the single most nonsensical idea I have stumbled across so far this year. It illustrates beautifully just how stupid these people think we are. Does anybody really know anyone who started smoking because they saw it in a movie? Did Dot Cotton on Eastenders really make fags so glamorous, that legions of viewers took up tab smoking? Of course not. If you are a non-smoker though, don't be feeling too smug. The health Gestapo are dreaming up ideas of such idiocy that it would make your head spin. A leading plastic surgeon, one Peter Mahaffey, told the British Medical Journal, police should carry breathalysers and fine those three times over the drink-drive limit £100.

"I think as a society we have had enough. We need to send out a strong message.

"The levels of drinking and the harm it is causing is depressing. I see people with terrible injuries that they will never recover from. Now is the time to act." He is quoted as saying.

Well Dr Mahaffey, I've got news for you. What society has really had enough of, is sanctimonious do gooders telling us what is good for us, and condoning fines for behaviour they find unacceptable. Think about all the people out having a good time this weekend, and then think of the tiny minority that will cause trouble and get in fights. Target these people with jail time and hefty fines mate, not hard working taxpayers like me and my brethren, who just happen to enjoy a spot of "binge" drinking now and again.

Just who the fuck does he think he is? Even Alcohol Concern withheld support.

Next up is a security minister who goes by the title Lord West. He reckons it would be "silly" not have any communication with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. What kind of communications is he considering having one wonders? "Is the Weather nice in Kabul today?", "Hung any Homosexuals lately?" or maybe they could invite them round for a few illicit beers. Maybe he would like to offer them a borough of London to call their very own.

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