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[Bohemian Toffee]

The smoking carriage on trains was always pure carnage.

Generally speaking the best, sociable passengers though.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

DWP the sharp end of Tory stick.

‘They’re heartless’: how one woman fell victim to the carer’s allowance trap | Carers | The Guardian

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[summerisle]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Drugs and rent boys. And getting his own staff to pay out of their own savings for his misdemeanours. Most Tory thing ever...

Think he missed memo you are supposed to just nick policy from Labour and not emulate x2 the likes of keith Vaz.

 

[Eggs]

…Angela Raynor will be relieved this morning. I wonder if the Conservative Party Chair will refer this to the Police as he did with Raynor.

 

[edge]

…Angela Raynor will be relieved this morning. I wonder if the Conservative Party Chair will refer this to the Police as he did with Raynor.

Should do its fraud.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

What happens in years to come when eventually no one is legally old enough to buy tobacco…..it’ll leave a big hole in government taxes and also, you’ll have the farcical situation of middle aged adults bringing tobacco back from abroad which they have legally purchased and having them confiscated at customs for not being old enough to have them.

I don’t think that this is something that any Government in a so called free country should be interfering in. As another poster has already said, the Government are here to control the basics, such as defence, public spending and basic law and order. I’m not denying that smoking is harmful, but tobacco is a legal product and it should be a free choice as to whether or not you decide to consume it or not. You could argue that alcohol is dangerous as well, but they wouldn’t dare gradually stop people from being able to legally purchase it by raising the age to purchase it in the same way as they’re proposing to do with tobacco.

I’d be against such Government overreach whichever party was in power, but the fact that Sunak of all people is proposing this, after breaking the lockdown laws just makes it even worse.

While this is obviously a good idea in health terms, I fear it will have the same unintended consequences as Prohibition did in America - namely increase organised crime. In the end there will be no net benfit. Its pretty much unworkable, at least for many years. Years down the road, I can just see the scene - 45 year old man hangs around outside the corner shop, like kids do now, begging some 50 year old to get his fags for him it's farcical situation.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

…Angela Raynor will be relieved this morning. I wonder if the Conservative Party Chair will refer this to the Police as he did with Raynor.

It is the hypocrisy that is so particularly galling with Raynor case. Millions of pounds in tax avoided by Tories and their donors vs a relatively tiny amount "allegedly" avoided by Rayner. Then that always was "the Tory way", to punch down and obsess over relatively small amounts of benefit overclaims in error by the disabled and carers, whilst ignoring millions lost to tax fraud by the wealthy...

 

[mahermi1]

Should do its fraud.

Will Mr Sunak mention he had been" very brave", after all it was a "matter of life or death"

 

[Moomin]

 

[Tin-Tin]

…Angela Raynor will be relieved this morning. I wonder if the Conservative Party Chair will refer this to the Police as he did with Raynor.

Expect the gutter press to run with even more stories on her now to change the narrative back.

See its all gone silent on the William Wragg honeytrap scandal. Wonder why?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Expect the gutter press to run with even more stories on her now to change the narrative back.

See its all gone silent on the William Wragg honeytrap scandal. Wonder why?

The far left have dribbling over Rayner like Gremlins on Charlie...

 

[summerisle]

 

[Moomin]

The far left have dribbling over Rayner like Gremlins on Charlie...

Telegraph and the Daily Mail are far left now?

 

[Alan Whittle]

Expect the gutter press to run with even more stories on her now to change the narrative back.

See its all gone silent on the William Wragg honeytrap scandal. Wonder why?

Not to mention Michelle Mone defrauding the NHS of millions.