tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post8169206787652668055..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: Nannying fussbucketry of the day - cutting your nose off to spite your faceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-31086877449422139562015-08-17T21:51:36.982+01:002015-08-17T21:51:36.982+01:00I think that you should ask who is advising Mr Ste...I think that you should ask who is advising Mr Stewart.Junican https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405543859782362078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-86701971383799285402015-08-17T20:41:18.832+01:002015-08-17T20:41:18.832+01:00Littering, like health care, is one of those exter...Littering, like health care, is one of those externalities we cater for by taxing the hell out of tobacco products. Sadly it is too much to hope for that a government minister might recognise this. Clarissahttp://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-31686276010948617002015-08-17T18:45:22.392+01:002015-08-17T18:45:22.392+01:00Given that the Government turfed smokers out onto ...Given that the Government turfed smokers out onto the streets, the sensible thing would have been to respond to anticipated increase in smoking litter by<br />providing more bins. But of course I'm forgetting that the smoking ban - according to the huge billboard posters in the run-up to 1.7.07 plastered by SmokeFree England/ASH/Public Health England or whatever other leech on the taxpayer - trumpeted a Smokefree England and Wales. When complaints began post 1st July about litter there was a suspicion among more enlightened smokers (who knew that the basis on which the ban was introduced was codswallop) that the shortage of bins was a ploy to stigmatize smokers even more.<br /><br />Was Kris Hopkins expecting tobacco companies to fork out for additional bins? Did he also approach the manufacturers of drinks companies, fast food outlets etc whose discarded products also produce litter?<br /><br />Before anyone levels the standard accusation that I'm a tobacco industry shill (or perhaps, Simon, your commentators are too polite) I'm merely one of its despised consumers who wonders why the industry isn't already paying more than its share given the amount of duty on tobacco products.<br /><br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com