Complete and utter bathplugs: Alcohol Concern ban the booze bathplugs

Friday, 18 May 2012

Alcohol Concern ban the booze bathplugs

Over to http://www.beerbrewer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/alcohol-concern-cymru-survey.html
There is nothing worse than a lifestyle ban and the quango that is Alcohol Concern want exactly that.

A group of do nothing prod noses who want all the pubs in this land closed, their aim is to price all alcohol out of the reach of people and any excuse will do.

Saving the little ones from seeing nasty images of drink, you name it this quango of religious zealots have used it.

I recently ran a survey on this blog on support for minimum pricing of alcohol, the results are above with a firm 70% against it.

Curmudgeon ran a similar pole a few ago, although his results were 80% against the minimum price for alcohol.

So what happened today? Well fake charity Alcohol Concern Cymru published the results of THEIR poll which allowed them to claim that 77% of Welsh publicans agreed with minimum pricing. Although what they should have stated is that 77% of Welsh publicans who were questioned by their researchers agreed with minimum pricing. Although since it has emerged that they asked one publican 3 times about the survey this does throw into doubt the survey findings.

One Cardiff Publican wrote on my Facebook wall today when I posted about the ACC survey,

"Haha! They phoned me for this one, load of rubbish! In fact, they tried to phone me three times which really throws into doubt their findings... did they ask 600 landlords? or 200 landlords 3 times? idiots...

And lets be honest, you ask most landlords who are currently fighting bankrupcy and are getting smashed by brewery prices "are supermarket prices fair and ballenced" and they're going to say no... I think she told me I was the first person to disagree

That in itself tells me it's crap because I shouldn't be disagreeing with her, she shouldn't have an opinion! it's a survey!"

Hmm so that pretty much discredits the ACC survey, added to that they are unable to provide any publicans who are willing to go on the record to publicly support minimum pricing, every publican I have spoken to is against the measure, seeing it as another excuse for the Health Lobby and the neo-prohibitionists to increase the price of alcohol.
Alcohol sales are already falling, binge drinking is falling, and beer sales are down. Going against the free market and installing a minimum price for alcohol will do nothing to stem the tide of pub closures.
Having our taxes wasted by fake charities such as Alcohol Concern Cymru to produce worthless surveys in order to placate their political masters in Cardiff Bay is just another waste of public money. The minimum price will effect small-scale cidermakers throughout the UK - have a read of the Save our Scrumpy campaign. Once we give into the neo-prohibitionists and let them set the price of drinks where will this end?

As there is congestion on our roads, why don't we bring in minimum pricing for cars? A stupid idea? Yes, but that is exactly what is being planned for alcohol. Think about it.

There you go, ban the booze bathplugs.

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Sort Immigration David Cameron

Now this subject has always been a rather sensitive one to deal with as Mrs Duffy found out when she complained to Gordon Brown and yet its one area that this government – like the last one- has utterly failed to deal with. There are many points to this, which I will detail and also list where the government has gone wrong.

First off we have the huge backlog of migrants going back years, not including the countless "lost files" and ones given amnesty – those that the state knows about anyway – a huge number of dusty files that assorted departments are doing sod all with whilst hundreds of thousands of migrants- if not more - live free and easy and illegally in the UK.

The backlog of cases piled up in rooms, we are told and its probably much higher, amounts to 276,000. Most of the migrants are here illegally and should have been sent home years ago. They include 150,000 foreign workers and students still in Britain even though they were refused extensions to their visas; 101,000 untraced ‘asylum seekers’ left over from when 450,000 ‘forgotten files’ were discovered in 2005; and 3,900 foreign offenders released by the courts to protect their human rights.

Meanwhile the Home Sec. seems more preoccupied in snooping on our e-mails and text messages than keeping us safe from known Moslem terrorists sitting in prisons or subject to control orders and deporting them from the UK. I would add here that if the Home Sec. wishes to know our thoughts on her abilities or rather the lack of, she need only ask the average man in the street who will happily update her.

Next up we have illegal migration, a farce when even ministers have to admit before committees that they have no real idea on the numbers gaining entry to the UK, how many are posing as students, the number of fake collages used by them to gain admission to the UK or it would appear even what day it is!

Oh and that brings me onto the EU, there has been lots of tough sounding talk on controlling EU migration, stopping benefits going abroad and it is quite frankly utter bollocks. The UK has signed away border controls with regards EU migrants and even in the few areas where it has any control like with benefits, the total lack of action on the part of ministers is appalling.

We hear the argument that they are needed etc but we have over 2 million unemployed here in the UK who need jobs and need them NOW. Jobs for our people, not Polish migrants. Action needs to be taken now, not in ten years, or 20 when recovery might happen. Controlling our own borders as a non EU nation would be a good start.

It would also be advisable to deport the endless numbers of light fingered Roma who arrived like some Biblical shoplifting plague to claim benefits, produce endless babies and empty the shops of goods faster than pikey travellers can set up an illegal campsite.

Now then we come to aid abroad, a strange obcession with this government who seem to be hell bent on pouring billions away, whilst we still have a huge national debt that needs clearing. Thankfully the plan to pour even more billions of taxpayers money away by incrreasing aid to 0.7% of GDP was talked down by one MP.

Sadly I fear it will raise its ugly head like a Somali fiddling the benefits system for his 16 non existant wives and be granted more time so this PC lunacy can be passed.

Again when ministers have been questioned on aid abroad, they have had to admit that there is no oversight, no control over who gets the money and that it does little if any good. Indeed stories have hit the press of certain dictators buying private jets, gold plated AK47's and increasing their Swiss bank accounts with taxpayers money. Ministers have yet again been shown to be lacking in knowledge of whats going on or indeed like the Home Sec. even lacking the knowledge as to what day it is.

Quite why this government that talks of fiscal prudence wants to pour billions to support head chopping middle eastern lunatics and African dictators who wear necklaces of human skulls I don't know?

On the subject of waste, you Mr Cameron promised a bonfire of quangos and like your “cast iron” promise on an EU vote, that was a lie. One such quango is the Immigration Advisory Council that was led by former share dealer and car crashing MP Keith Best who infamously stated that migrants were better passport holders than us natives.

That is one bunch of non jobs that promote UK cultural genocide and agree with labours idea of uncontrolled immigration to enforce multiculturalism. A quango well in need of burning.

Indeed Dave, the only real difference between your lot and labour, is that you as yet havent been caught calling Mrs Duffy a bigot but should that happen I would not be surprised.

An open letter to David Cameron

Dear Prime Minister,

I have been a Conservative voter all my adult life, but after the last few years of this particular and rather odd government, I shall no longer be voting for that party until it regains its traditional Conservative values. I shall explain below.

First off we have waste, lots of it and blaming Labour after this amount of time quite frankly just doesn't cut it any more. We all applauded the speech about the bonfire of the quangos that suck billions out of the economy and yet little has happened. We still have for example the Immigration Advisory Quango(formerly run by jailed share dealing ex MP Keith Best, proof that crime can indeed pay!) that infamously said the immigrants made better passport holders than native Brits and the Potato Marketing Board. Seriously do we need a quango that receives taxpayers money to tell people to buy spuds?

Then we have the dire PCSO's, few of which have ever made any form of arrest and lack proper police powers, being little more than uniformed jobs worth quasi social workers resolving or rather failing to resolve neighbour disputes. Indeed whilst police are being cut, several forces are hiring PCSO's.

Not forgetting aid abroad, which still has little if any oversight as to where its actually being spent, continual stories in the press of vast amounts wasted and with the last budget an actual increase in the amount poured into the pockets of corrupt potent antes Swiss bank accounts. Actually increasing the amount is a stupid thing to do considering that the national debt of this UK should be cleared in full, before any monies are thrown away in Bongo bongoland(© the late Alan Clarke MP). You see we are, out of money and printing more to waste in dictators Swiss bank accounts is a rather silly thing to be doing.

Again I feel that the people of this land, the folk who elected you want you to look after their needs, not supply the cannibals in the Pacific isles with gold plated cooking pots.

Cuts would help and yet your spending more even than Labour did.

Another phrase used by yourself upon entering No.10 was that of open government, well there has been talk, quite a lot but little in the way of results. Indeed at this moment we have another state snooping bill going through parliament that will allow ever more bodies of prod noses to look into our lives and e-mails. Although not related to that directly we have also seen a rise in the number of people stopped whilst taking photos of late, in part by over zealous G4S security guards at Olympic sites. Maybe a word in the Home Sec's ear would not go amiss, although I shall come back to her later.

Moving on, we come to what is laughingly referred to as quantitative easing, or in English - printing money to put off the evil day when cuts need to be made. If the books don't balance do what industry- whats left of it that is – has to and cut back to make them balance. A simple list of diversity managers, outreach coordinators, immigrant translators and thousands of other state funded Guardian advertised non jobs and a red pen would save a few billion I'm sure. Borrowing money doesn't work when one is running a home and certainly not for a government.

Add to that the money wasted in EU contributions, helping French and Greek farmers fiddle their expenses.

Which brings me onto the that great big Euro shaped elephant in the room – the EU.

We were promised a “cast iron” guarantee of a vote on Europe to settle the matter by yourself, yet where is it? We hear much complaining from the Tory benches about Labours record on Europe and their failure to grant us the people a vote, yet no vote for the people on this subject from your party. Its not difficult, a simple referendum will solve it. Have you the guts to grant it?

Although I will credit your party with one thing and that is your giving people with learning difficulties a job to do, although I must say that the office of Home Sec. Is probably not the best one for her. Indeed I noticed in the last election that the Tory vote went down, had times clearing immigration at Heathrow been speeded up they probably would have been able to get back into UK in time to vote for you.

Maybe a transfer to some “make work” job taking mail between departments would be more suitable for Teresa May? Just a suggestion. I'm sure the many serving police officers being cut would support me on a replacement in her job?

On a related note, quite how long does it take to deport one Abdul the Not Quite Dead Terrorist to Jordan?

Then we have immigration. Another subject where much finger pointing at the benches opposite is done and little else appears to have been. No tackling of EU immigration, out of your hands and all that. Much talk of taking powers back from Brussels and very very little action. A case of inaction would be more accurate. Much little the whole of foreign policy it looks like, but I shall leave that alone.

Another point that has annoyed me and many other ex Conservative voters is the total lack of support for the beer trade. Your government still listens to the quango Alcohol Concern that misuses the charities act to push a prohibitionist agenda and your government keeps the beer duty escalator imposed by Labour, why?

As it stands one third of a pint gos in duties to Chancellor George Osborne, we pay the 2nd highest beer tax in the EU, beer taxes have been hiked by 42% since 2008 and yet a Conservative government is going to tax more.

A real Conservative government would halt these taxes, indeed slash them. At the moment the beer/pub trade supports a million plus jobs, are you trying to get them all claiming JSA and not putting money into the Chancellors hands?

Since 2008 over 4500 pubs have closed their doors and the best this government can claim re pub closures, is that things are still getting worse but slower than under Labour.

Then we have taxes, ever more of them. Possibly the most bizarre being the so called pasty tax, seriously is that the best you can do?

Need I remind you that a tax on business is a punishment on doing well.

That the state should be small and well run.

As it stands you have failed on these points.

To paraphrase an old saying Mr Cameron, so far you have been weighed and found wanting

Yours

An ex Tory voter.

Friday, 18 May 2012

Alcohol Concern ban the booze bathplugs

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