Tuesday
Dec012009
Season's greetings
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 
It's too early to get into the Christmas spirit but here's the 2009 Forest Christmas card. Inside it reads:
"This year, 52 pubs up and down the country closed down each week ... Save Our Pubs and Clubs: amendthesmokingban.com".
The card will be sent to the usual suspects including politicians, journalists, broadcasters and - this year - publicans.
PS. If you think this design is depressing you should have seen some of the earlier versions.
Reader Comments (5)
Just to add to the cheerful mood here is a video on YouTube about the smoking ban and all the pubs closing down, against The Special's Ghost Town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIdvCRfrWE
I think that's a brilliant xmas card. As for it being depressing, well smokers couldnt be more depressed than they are since this catastrophic smoking ban.
In fact this xmas card gives me hope that some fine soldiers like Forest and other factions are keeping up the fight.
It looks to me that people in general (fat cats excepted) are going to have a pretty miserable xmas this year anyway, what with job losses and extra stealth taxes, and maybe even the brainwashed antis might begin to see the light at last and start appreciating this type of xmas card.
And maybe begin to realise what type of f.....g fools they've been led into becoming by big govt and big pharma.
One can only keep trying Simon!
Well done.
Good card, very good indeed, but apparently now 57 places are closing per week and this is due to rise to 65 after the New Year - dread to think what next year's Xmas card will look like!
Please could you also point out to these politicians and others on cushy incomes who are out of touch with reality that there are literally thousands of us (not just pub/club-related workers) who are losing our jobs every day. As well as having no work to go to, we won't have anywhere left to socialise and meet our fellow human beings. This leads to increasing feelings of isolation/alienation and I dread to think where it will all ultimately lead. Thanks.
It will lead to a revolution Jenny.
Or it should.
Unless we all want to turn into moslems.
Funny you should use the 'R' word, Ann - I see it appearing more and more in comments on various websites. Wherever it is - if it ever comes, please let me know about it because I am rather bored and unfulfilled up in the northern wastes of Yorkshire and don't want to miss anything! I missed the permissive society of the 60s (far too young) - don't want to miss this! :)