tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post4595921345639958375..comments2023-11-03T23:18:25.999+00:00Comments on BIGNEWS MARGATE: Tory Toffs introduce prohibition in misguided class attack on drinkingTony Flaighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212662248741515725noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-90532448938916078622012-03-24T19:22:07.361+00:002012-03-24T19:22:07.361+00:00And Andrew Lansley's views on minimum pricing ...And Andrew Lansley's views on minimum pricing three months ago.<br />“I don’t like a minimum price, we are acting against below cost selling. My problem with a minimum price, well I have two problems. One is it’s regressive, so there are perfectly normal families who just don’t happen to have much money who like to buy cheap beer or cheap wine. Should they be prevented? No, I don’t think so and if you put in a minimum price, one of the journalists calculated that if you set it at 50p a unit it would add £600 million to the profits of retailers and drinks manufacturers which doesn’t seem to me to be the right thing to do in these circumstances.” So given that this was a LibDem Budget, maybe you ought to join the Tories Tony.Tim Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360638835659673415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-22138353667728072802012-03-24T19:18:45.135+00:002012-03-24T19:18:45.135+00:00Tom
This is a LibDem view of the so-called Granny ...Tom<br />This is a LibDem view of the so-called Granny Tax.<br />http://www.libdemvoice.org/liblink-tim-leunig-granny-tax-does-not-go-far-enough-27764.html<br />Defend that, Mr Flaig.Tim Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360638835659673415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-25860028333267280252012-03-24T14:53:04.683+00:002012-03-24T14:53:04.683+00:00Whatever, I still maintain you would never get the...Whatever, I still maintain you would never get the Mirror criticising a Labour budget, however bad. That said, the Mail's main criticism seems to be of the so called Granny Tax, not that it is not right wing enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-81703195985971130432012-03-24T14:47:53.703+00:002012-03-24T14:47:53.703+00:00Tom, the reason the Daily Mail thought the budget ...Tom, the reason the Daily Mail thought the budget was a stinker is that it was a LibDem budget.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-26246927536638415882012-03-24T12:16:55.496+00:002012-03-24T12:16:55.496+00:00Interesting to note that some of the biggest criti...Interesting to note that some of the biggest critics of the budget are the so called right wing press led by the Daily Mail. Something the Mirror would never do to a Labour chancellor however bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-37221577024105700562012-03-24T00:50:37.429+00:002012-03-24T00:50:37.429+00:00I tend to agree 10.41, but also unwitting victims ...I tend to agree 10.41, but also unwitting victims of a deliberate dumbing down campaign and toxic bombardment more severe than our mainland european neighbours.<br /><br />Don't forget we were still driving on leaded petrol until 2000, even now there is more sulphur in the fuel here than across the briny.<br /><br />They get away with it because of our island isolation, it then becomes a downward spiral, which is what they want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-20774575792417772742012-03-23T22:41:40.991+00:002012-03-23T22:41:40.991+00:00British people are generally more stupid 10:13. ...British people are generally more stupid 10:13. Stupid, lazy & selfish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-59500494269386446732012-03-23T22:30:00.228+00:002012-03-23T22:30:00.228+00:00Tim Clark:
Tory supporting "newspapers"...Tim Clark:<br /><br />Tory supporting "newspapers": Daily Telegraph; Daily Mail, Daily Express; Daily Star; The Sun; The Times and Financial Times.<br /><br />Lib Dem supporting: The Independent and The Guardian.<br /><br />Labour supporting: Daily Mirror.<br /><br />(as of last general election).<br /><br />As for the political bias of the BBC: there's plenty of right leaning and left leaning content in such a large media organisation but it's output is overall moderate. You'd have to be on the far-right to think that it is in anyway entirely left leaning and on the far left to think it is wholly right wing. <br /><br />Tony was referring to BBC Kent by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-71224772374688015922012-03-23T22:13:59.575+00:002012-03-23T22:13:59.575+00:00I agree Tony, it's all about the money. The ol...I agree Tony, it's all about the money. The old bait and switch routine; get 'em hooked then raise the price.<br /><br />The Rockefellers were big players in supplying illicit booze during the prohibition. When it was over, they needed something else so they made recreational drugs illegal, and created a new 'problem' to be milked.<br /><br />In much of Western Europe the booze costs pennies and the youth hardly touch the stuff, so the bingeing in the UK must be down to something other than price. <br /><br />Perhaps it is a form of (temporary) relief from the effects of other toxins we Brits enjoy so much of, such as mercury fillings, mercury and aluminium adjuvants in the vaccines, fluoride in brick tea, radioactive tobacco products, red lead in cheapo milk.<br /><br />The quality of British booze, too, leaves a lot to be desired, because the big guys cut corners to increase profits, so maybe nipping across the channel is the best bet, the tobacco there is cleaner too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-15806664270628028572012-03-23T20:32:31.319+00:002012-03-23T20:32:31.319+00:00Outwith the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, name m...Outwith the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, name me some right leaning mainstream media. It's not so long ago that local bloggers were accusing Rebecca Smith,doyen of local Tory family, of leaning leftward in an attempt to distance herself from her upbringing. And you really must be the only person in the Universe who thinks the BBC is right wing.<br />Tuition fees might be a Labour creation but your Party campaigned at the last elections against rises. Your leader publicly signed the pledge.<br />That said, prohibition didn't work in USA and it won't work here.Tim Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360638835659673415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-32340366848107026862012-03-23T20:31:55.182+00:002012-03-23T20:31:55.182+00:00Outwith the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, name m...Outwith the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, name me some right leaning mainstream media. It's not so long ago that local bloggers were accusing Rebecca Smith,doyen of local Tory family, of leaning leftward in an attempt to distance herself from her upbringing. And you really must be the only person in the Universe who thinks the BBC is right wing.<br />Tuition fees might be a Labour creation but your Party campaigned at the last elections against rises. Your leader publicly signed the pledge.<br />That said, prohibition didn't work in USA and it won't work here.Tim Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360638835659673415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-74959894204515329112012-03-23T18:32:32.539+00:002012-03-23T18:32:32.539+00:00Which ever way you look at it we are all be had ov...Which ever way you look at it we are all be had over left right and centre<br /><br />For those who really want to know how and why !<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7F4_vKb9rAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-76252231044224930472012-03-23T16:20:18.842+00:002012-03-23T16:20:18.842+00:00To be fair Ian I don't think I'd risk a ho...To be fair Ian I don't think I'd risk a homosexual getting drunk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-21055272341490811752012-03-23T16:18:58.022+00:002012-03-23T16:18:58.022+00:00Great idea... and as for making pubs go under, it...Great idea... and as for making pubs go under, it will actually help them. Most (all?) drinks in pubs are already above the rate being set; however it WILL effect supermarkets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-19719897827360063552012-03-23T16:03:09.492+00:002012-03-23T16:03:09.492+00:00I wish it were it true. I can honestly say in ime ...I wish it were it true. I can honestly say in ime as a Thanet Councillor I have not a single alcholic drink paid for by the council or any of its officers. <br /><br />PS support Equal MarriageIan Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07956304869323562491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-90874932983823730032012-03-23T15:52:15.474+00:002012-03-23T15:52:15.474+00:00What U turn on VAT,
Student fees (labours creatio...What U turn on VAT,<br /><br />Student fees (labours creation)<br /><br />Privatisation of NHS I thought it already was privatised with so many fat cats in non jobs on a hundred grand<br /><br />I we have to draw the line somewhere and this issue is class specific for the reasons I've givenTony Flaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212662248741515725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-64593533494667256932012-03-23T15:50:18.620+00:002012-03-23T15:50:18.620+00:00This is a jolly good move by the government in tha...This is a jolly good move by the government in that it will save billions of OUR money being wasted by the NHS every year treating the lower orders who turn up, drunk and bleeding, in emergency rooms up and down the country. Once the NHS is fully privatised, we can then charge these oiks for their disorderly conduct.<br /><br />It may also cause the workshy dole scroungers to get one of the many jobs on offer locally in order to fund their disgusting habits, and that includes smoking.<br /><br />However, it will cause plenty of pubs to go under, excepting the large chain pubs, and we will be relieved of the sight of the great unwashed standing outside tatty old boozers, creating an eyesore.<br /><br />I do balk at the thought of the government interfering in our lives, they should get out of the way of entrepreneurs who might make a killing out of selling cheap beer to the masses. There again, this is something our supermarkets are already doing.Gordon Blimeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267237530615863696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-4265790184624385702012-03-23T15:09:32.004+00:002012-03-23T15:09:32.004+00:00"Anyhoo if Liberal Democrats in the coalition...<i>"Anyhoo if Liberal Democrats in the coalition go big, on this unnecessary bit of class warfare it will be unlikely that I will be renewing membership"</i><br /><br />Wow, this is what makes you turn your back on the Lib Dems? Not the U-turn on <b>VAT</b>, nor the about turn on <b>student fees</b>, nor their inability to stop the <b>privitatsion of the NHS</b>.<br /><br />The above three are all fine... but the 'class warfare' on minimum alcohol price is the thing which makes you tear up your membership card. Very interesting! ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25954340.post-79615009107288452332012-03-23T13:55:28.868+00:002012-03-23T13:55:28.868+00:00I very much doubt this will affect the booze up...I very much doubt this will affect the booze up's after full councils or lunch time tipple at KCC ...or were they made to reduce these ?<br /><br />All parties participate in these tax payer paid jollies !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com