Monday
Oct252010
Did Silk Cut bring Cameron and Clegg together?
Monday, October 25, 2010 Further to the revelation that Nick Clegg's luxury item on a desert island would be a "stash of cigarettes", the Daily Mail reports that "Mr Clegg began smoking as a teenager, when he would take girlfriends to the local ‘caff for a furtive Silk Cut and a glass of Diet Coke’."
The prime minister is also believed to have smoked Silk Cut in the days (not so long ago) when he too smoked.
The question, therefore, is this: was it a mutual fondness for Silk Cut that helped bring Cameron and Clegg together?
Reader Comments (13)
Where is the smoking shelter at No 10? lt is a place of work is it not?
l look forward to the day that Clegg steps outside the front door of No 10 for a Silk Cut moment! :)
This would not surprise me at all since Silk Cut are weak, flavourless and while coming in fancy wrapping are really a waste of time. As for Diet Coke...
Two faced pricks!
Silk Cut for girls....
Which one's Bill ? Which one's Ben ?
(Just don't mention Weed)
The classic middle aged, poseur sat at the end of the bar loudly proclaiming that he's a smoker but thinks the ban is a good thing. Clegg, anybody? The only difference is he doesn't wear shorts, cheap trainers and some gaudy, ill fitting T shirt. Soft soap b******s.
The good thing is he obviously sees now that the ban is not as popular as his 'advisers' have been telling him and feels the need to attempt a 'middle ground'. Added to pub closures, they're now in defence mode.
Our opposition must be shaking with fear when they read some of the comments on here, or should that be shaking with laughter?
Sorry boys and girls, but we honestly need to do better than this. We have first class ammunition supplied to us from the likes of Dave Atherton, and what do we do with it? Nada!
Ash on the other hand, have no real ammunition at all, and they end up beating us every time.
And before anyone comes up with the old adage about lack of funds on our part; you do not need funds to state your case on the internet, and I do not think calling politicians silly names will endear them, or anyone else to our cause.
You're absolutely right, Peter! We should start writing to MPs and Ministers and newspaper editors and the BBC, for example, right now - and bombard them with Scientific Facts. That'll make 'em sit up, and will probably send the likes of ASH scurrying to the hills. Can't think why nobody's tried it ....
An amusing anecdote (continuing comment from dunhillbabe). Silk Cut was the first 'low tar' cigarette. Basically it is Benson & Hedges with pinpricks in the tip. It was introduced in the 1960's. This was before the 'lower tar' fad and health warnings on packets. The first adverts always suggested morning coffee, not a working class idea, and not an idea for men. In those days, most cigarette brands were not 'king size' as, because there was a lot more duty on king size, the king size cigarette like B&H and Rothamans were for the more well off. Benson & Hedges Silk Cut was a milder smoke, more gentle, introduced for..........ladies!
Got plenty of Rothmans in the service, 200 at a time. Overseas, of course. Some used to flog them to the locals. Capstan full strength was the 'Man's' smoke followed by Senior Service and Players. B&H, Silk cut, No. 6 and no. 10's, YUK! 'Standing at the bar' kit, then, was car keys, fags and lighter. Try putting those on the bar now. Oh, how we've progressed.
Those were the days!
We have all read Martin, especially in recent weeks, the Labour Party's response to the Governments proposed cuts. Their response, for what it is worth, is always the same old, same old. "It won't work" they shout. "If you cut Government jobs and quangos we will lose the NHS, the police, the fire-service, schools, etc., etc.."
What they really mean, is they do not have a clue how efficiency works, and they have undoubtedly proven this while they were 13 years in Government, and as good as bankrupted our country.
Because they don't know how run our country and make it work, they seem to think that no one else can do so either. But as we all know Martin, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and that is precisely what I was saying in my earlier post.
Although your remarks can be very witty at times, I do not think it helps one iota, to try and ridicule me, after all, we are "supposed" to be on the same side are we not?
When I spoke of needing to do better, and using the first class ammunition supplied to us from the likes of Dave Atherton, and stating our case more on the "free" internet, instead of indulging in steelyard name calling, in no way did I call for all the old so called "tried and tested methods", which you mention.
If you want to see a first class post by someone who is doing exactly what I called for, then please have a look at Dave Atherton's post on ConservativeHome. It is almost the last post on the page, which you can see
here
STEELYARD was supposed to be schoolyard.
Peter Thurgood, perhaps you where refering to me when you refered to calling them silly names. I assure you I was not, I was being absouitely vehement!
When they blagged the EDM with the whips I new it was lost. The Lib/Cons are shitting themselves, they know that the Health lobby and the Press will blow them to peices if they went anywhere near an amendement to the Ban (plus factor in Spains recent decision to fiost a draconian ban on its population).
It makes me sick to the stomach that any 1st world, 21st century leadership can willfully engage in the demonisation (lets use the real term not the NL lexicon denormalisation) of a huge percentage of its hard working tax paying population - quite frightening.
I will, once againg, press my local MP, Mr Douglas Carswell to Justify for his parties quite despicable actions.