tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6116246321006775859..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Your Vote Just Became Even More IrrelevantDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-26237493694392565812011-08-09T20:21:04.036+01:002011-08-09T20:21:04.036+01:00Well spotted, Churchmouse. I've just looked up...Well spotted, Churchmouse. I've just looked up the Appendix to 'Nineteen Eighty Four'. It includes the comment: 'The word "free" still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as 'The dog is free from lice' or 'This field is free from weeds'. It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically free' or 'intellectually free', since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts...'<br /><br />Smoke 'free' ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-44652458116403535212011-08-09T20:00:47.138+01:002011-08-09T20:00:47.138+01:00Churchmouse,
Congratulations, you beat me to it !
...Churchmouse,<br />Congratulations, you beat me to it !<br /><br />The fact is Dick, we need all these thousands of unelected bureaucrats because there just aren't enough MPs to man all the committees needed to supervise every deatail of everybody's private life.Ian R Thorpehttp://www.greenteethmm.com/nanny-orwell.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-18504279141688485502011-08-09T19:39:42.859+01:002011-08-09T19:39:42.859+01:00Apropos of everything I assume many will have noti...Apropos of everything I assume many will have noticed the irony implied in the vicious treatment of a pub landlady who had the wrong kind of 'No Smoking' signs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020969/Pub-landlady-hit-300-fine-displaying-homemade-smoking-signs.html, compared with the impunity with which rioters are wreaking havoc around the country at the moment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-18837852281894197822011-08-09T15:13:37.872+01:002011-08-09T15:13:37.872+01:00O/T - e-petition now up: Amend the smoking ban
ht...O/T - e-petition now up: Amend the smoking ban<br /><br />http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/6071<br /><br />More at Taking Liberties.<br /><br />xauntiebanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08526042509662659109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-672766301136522892011-08-09T08:50:10.785+01:002011-08-09T08:50:10.785+01:00Why do so few people see the inherent injustice of...Why do so few people see the inherent injustice of power being wielded by unelected committees of this type? Why aren't people angrier? I don't understand it.Ian Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15436369802742523036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-34215417354449091192011-08-09T00:51:32.581+01:002011-08-09T00:51:32.581+01:00Well spotted, Churchmouse. Spooky! Forget Nostra...Well spotted, Churchmouse. Spooky! Forget Nostradamus – I’m starting to think Orwell was the one with the crystal ball!<br /><br />More seriously, though, I can’t quite understand why all these organisations are still being invited to play a part in tobacco control. After all, they’ll only be preaching to anti-smoking-converted politicians and governments, who are already totally cosy with ASH, Smoke-Free North-South-East-West, the Campaign for Smoke-Free Kids, the Foundation for Smoke-Free America etc etc. So why the need for these extra – no doubt very expensive – consultants when they’ve already got “consultants” coming out of their ears? It isn’t as if they need an over-arching “authority” to pass draconian legislation and encourage smoker persecution – they’re all doing that already without any encouragement! What are these new “consultants” going to do? Pat them on the head and give them a sweetie?<br /><br />Now, if one of the tobacco <i>companies</i> had invited them to act as “consultants,” then I’d be worried!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-83279140958062876462011-08-08T21:23:05.355+01:002011-08-08T21:23:05.355+01:00ECOSOC -- eerily reminiscent of INGSOC (1984).
Wo...ECOSOC -- eerily reminiscent of INGSOC (<i>1984</i>).<br /><br />Word verification: inglactAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com