tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post258141693925672948..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Brum FunDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71685232102496488862010-10-07T03:32:32.257+01:002010-10-07T03:32:32.257+01:00Well, precisely, DP. 24 hour bars are to be abolis...Well, precisely, DP. 24 hour bars are to be abolished, provided that the Con Conf can have a bar to 3.30am. <br /><br />24 hour alcohol availability has never been non-existent. Certain places in London (overnight trading places?) have always enjoyed exceptional status, based upon the non 9 to 5 way of life of the workers in those places. <br /><br /><br />It is beyond my comprehension that politicians can be so influenced by reports in the MSM of extraordinary events - for example, the odd person who spews up in the street (oh, of course, always observed by a TV camera). No one ever observes that 99.9% of the people wind their way home without incident. <br /><br />It comes back, once again, to my observation that politicians are <i>emotional</i> beings. They can be smug, exhilarated, excited, depressed, keen, fearful, belligerent, noisy, humble, etc, etc. What they seem not to be able to be is analytical, scientific, erm.... The reason that I have to put 'erm' is that there are far more adjectives which describe 'emotions' and 'feelings' than there are adjectives which describe reality. <br />Facts are facts. Generally speaking, as regards facts, one can only say 'more than' or 'very much more than' (or, obviously, 'less than', etc).<br /><br />I have been thinking about the <i>structure</i> of the conspiracy that wishes to deny us our freedoms. I do not like to use the word 'conspiracy', but there seems to be no other reasonable word to account for the multiplicity of anti-smoking bodies (nhs, health dept, ash, cruk, royal college of physicians, etc). It occurred to me only earlier today that there is one source of this multiplicity, and that is THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER. <br /><br />It struck me only earlier today, when I was having a think, that the reason that there is a massively expensive whole department in the Health Dept devoted to smoking cessation is that the Chief Medical Officer has decreed that it should be so. In other words, the NHS runs hospitals and doctors, the Health Dept, generally speaking, organises the funding, but the Chief Medical Officer's dept has no specific duty. He or She can amuse themselves in any way that they wish.<br /><br />The idea is frightening.Junicannoreply@blogger.com