Monday
Jan072008
Oops, she did it again
Monday, January 7, 2008 From today's Daily Mirror: "Ex-public health minister Caroline Flint has fallen foul of the smoking law she championed. She has been driven out of her Commons office by people lighting up in a designated smoking area right by her window. Now Ms Flint, welfare minister since Gordon Brown's summer reshuffle, wants a room away from the Westminster addicts she forced into the open. Husband and office manager Phil Cole said: "Even with the windows closed the smoke kept coming in."
Article HERE.
Reader Comments (12)
Run! Run for your life!
My God this legislation is producing a bunch of wimps.
Perhaps MPs should spare a thought (from their priveledged positions/ivory towers) for people in crappy jobs where they're exposed to diesel, asbestos, disease, truly hazardous chemical fumes, etc.
Surely these MPs are more at risk from the traffic pollution streaming through the windows than from a few wisps of smoke.
But with that mentality, perhaps it would be best if she - and the rest of the middle class types that are fond of pontificating from on high but never actually 'get their hands dirty' (the poorer sections of society have to actually do the bloody work - care home workers on minimum wage for unsocial hours being a prime example) permanently wore a gas mask,or better still, lived in a hermetically sealed unit with a built in gymnasium and pure oxygen & nutritional supplements pumped through a tube.
Of course, we all know what happens when people live like that. Their resistance to everything in the normal world drops through the floor.
That's where this is all heading, I'm sure. We'll end up with a super-sensitive, ultra-fragile class, and a stonking, strong, hard-working class (of course that'll still be the poorer class, which means they'll still be the ones who have to get their hands dirty and do the real work in society).
Oh wait a minute... this all sounds historically familiar...
Will somebody hand me the big stick that has so mercilessly been used against smokers...so that I can beat this mindless sod of an MP with it!
Serve the silly bitch right!
She will use this as an excuse to introduce wider outdoor public bans,you can write their script for them.
What somebody should do, who has the time to do it, is to compile a comprehensive list of these people and the constituencies they supposedly represent so that come the next election we can see at a glance how they voted on the smoking ban and how intregal and uncompromising they were in the anti smoking campaign and vote accordingly.
Sylvia, I have a list of Labour MPs who opposed the ban on my blog. It's not a very long list... and an interesting little gender-demographic comes to light but I'm far too much of a gentleman to dwell on that.
About half the parliamentary Tories voted against. There's a PRO postcode search-box on the page, where you can check any individual MP's voting record.
Smoke Alarm
Flinty may have the beauty (in some people's opinion), but she ceratinly has not got the brains.
Having witnessed all the expenditure on large no smoking signs outside of terminal 1 at Heathrow (outside being the operative word) and small outdoor, pig pens for smokers at the end of the building - all being totally ignored by Joe public brought some good cheer.
"...husband and office-manager Phil Cole..."
Mzzz Flint claimed a staffing-allowance of £86,147 for the year 2006/7, up from £67,703 the year previous. On top of her ministerial salary, Flint mugged the taxpayer for a total of £136,005 this year. [theyworkforyou.com]
She has no declarations of interest in the members' register. Time for some digging. :-)
Go for it Basil! Dig deep ok?
By the way my local MP Paddy Tipping (Newark & Sherwood) was 76% in favour of the ban according to smoke alarm - Oh boy! is he going to get tired of my opinions.
Mr heart bleeds for this silly spoilt women who calls herself an Mp.I thought Mp's were supposed to have some brains, quite clearly this women hasnt got a brain. Because forgive me if im wrong but i have never heard of smoke being able to penetrate through glass as she is claiming.Perhaps she should champion for the smoking ban to be reversed. If this women so desires fresh air so much stick her desk outside in the cold and in all weathers, like she has contributed into sending smokers outside.She has with others voted on the most draconian law ever passed, totally ignored the fact that people's lively hood would be affected because of this ban. Apart from that we smokers probably pay her huge wages and expenses she recieves for being an mp thats money wasted as far as im concerned. She should get a life instead of intruding into other peoples private lives and spoiling hard working people's leisure time with this smoking ban.
I once switched on "Question Time" after the intros and took an instant dislike to the attitude of one of the panellists and the tone and content of her view. I considered her to be overbearing as well as ill informed and inarticulate. She turned out to be Flinty. How utterly predictable that she should be instrumental in creating a law then refuse to accept the consequences when it adversely affects her..
I once switched on "Question Time" after the intros and took an instant dislike to the attitude of one of the panellists and the tone and content of her view. I considered her to be overbearing as well as ill informed and inarticulate. She turned out to be Flinty. How utterly predictable that she should be instrumental in creating a law then refuse to accept the consequences when it adversely affects her..