The fire behind the Welsh smoking ban
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Are Assembly Members Ann Jones, Karen Sinclair and Glyn Davies right to table an amendment calling for Wales' smoking ban to come into force at the same time as in England?Wales was due to break with the fags on April 2nd, but if the tar-happy triumvirate in the Senedd get their way the ban won't come into place until July.
They say businesses on the border will lose out as Welsh people shift their locals over to England.
Whatever happened to taking the lead and making England jealous?
Just one day more of cancer-fuelled fog in our pubs is a day too many.
UPDATE: The amendments were defeated and Wales will have its smoking ban on April 2nd.
But what on earth is Leanne Wood blogging about? She doesn't want to see 'smokers marginalised'. Well, Leanne, I don't want to see my lungs marginalised! Good job there was little support for your amendment, as you predicted.
Labels: Ann Jones, England, Glyn Davies, Karen Sinclair, Smoking ban, Wales
posted by Blamerbell @ 12:08 pm,
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Same old English, always colonizing
Sunday, November 19, 2006
This time it's cultural.
The Department for Culture, Media and Support has been running a project to choose England's foremost icons.
And the rest of the world will be surprised to discover what's deemed to be iconically English these days:
- a cup of tea
- the local bobby
- Fish and Chips
- the oak tree
- rugby
- the V sign
...and even THE WEATHER.
What a petty, misguided and divisive project for a government ministry to run.
Tessa Jowell, if she's serious about this, can come down to the Millennium Stadium in the pouring rain. 70,000 rugby fans, I'm sure, will show her that the V sign is alive and well outside of England.
Labels: England, English, fish and chips, rugby, tea, Tessa Jowell, Wales, weather
posted by Blamerbell @ 9:30 am,
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