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Bugler! Well, not bugler that it was good just that I wasn`t able to hear it  Congrats to the chap at the organ  I now have my drugs and slept away best part of the afternoon  I have a feeling I`m going to be eating a fair quantity of bananas over the next few days. It certainly won`t be corn on the cob!  |
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Hi Mort,
Glad to hear you are medicated now - toothache is such a nusiance.
Strangely, our cat broke a tooth and has to have it extracted on Monday. Poor thing!
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I am glad they gave you medication and you could sleep.
They have some liquid food if people can not eat solid food. I don't know if it is any good.
I have a machine to smash everything and use it to make soups. May be you could eat soup with vegetables (or even chicken soup).
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« Reply #4807 on: 19:01:57, 15-02-2008 » |
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Well of course, as tobacco revenues are well down due to the smoking bans the Government has to think up ways to boost income doesn't it? Cynical? Moi? |
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« Reply #4808 on: 19:08:29, 15-02-2008 » |
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Two minds but with a single thought Mort - we posted at identical times More to the point, bearing in mind the obesity and diabetes crisis would be a licence in order to purchase McDonalds or KFC or even a salmonella kebab in Norf Lunnon! You want chillie wiv that? Or, even more revolutionary, buy a licence and get all your fruit and vegetables free! |
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YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! "You've got to get a form, a complex form - the government's good at complex forms; you have got to get a photograph. "It's a little bit of a problem to actually do it, so you have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to being a smoker." That's right, make 'em suffer!  |
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It won't happen.
It would be ludicrously difficult and expensive to implement, involving a big IT scheme and scores of administrators (and part of Big Gordon's macho-man tactics is to systematically underpay public servants and sack them in large numbers - "headcount management"). It certainly wouldn't boost income - the net revenue would almost certainly be small
It would place an intolerable burden on shopkeepers, who would have to check permits every time a customer buys a packet of fags, and who would carry the can for mistakes.
It would be unenforceable (try proving beyond reasonable doubt in a court that the accused has been smoking without a permit) and magistrates' courts have better things to do.
It would dramatically increase smuggling, as people would just bring them in from abroad. HM Customs will be adamantly opposed to this idea.
This is one of those half-arsed ideas that policy wonks who have never run anything come up with from time to time. A few days of headlines and appearances on the Today Programme, and then it will be quietly dropped.
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The voice of reason. Thankyou, PW. Hurr - <cough> - ah!
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Is that a one-off £10 then? Or annual? I only skimmed the article but it doesn't seem to make it clear. £10 per year, which given the price of cigarettes hardly seems much of a deterrent. I've just realised that on the logic of my post above, we wouldn't have had the Poll Tax or identity cards. But they were ideas that came from elected politicians who had something to lose by backing down, rather than from the cadre of "advisers" .... |
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The voice of reason. Thankyou, PW. Hurr - <cough> - ah!
Yes, unworkable. A couple of smart-arses from Lancaster Uni probably. Down by here, all our tobacco is contraband. Brought in from Spain mainly. Landed by frigates off Pembroke or purchased from the back of a van in the swimming pool carpark. The Government are losing millions through smuggling, if they reduced the tax all the smuggling would end. |
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