Friday 22 April 2016

Many a true word is said in Jest.

Watching an edition of the satirical program "Yes Prime Minister" from 1985 earlier this week there was a sequence where the characters were discussing, with incredulous humour, the proposals of the anti-smoking lobby. " Stronger warnings on packets, ending tobacco advertising (even at point of sale) tobacco sponsorship and charging more for a pack of 20 than a bottle of whiskey."

30 years later the government proposes to bring in the £15 pack of 20. Some 70cl bottles of whiskey sell for £12.

The real world catches up with make-believe and satire!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

The great struggle for FREEDOM depends upon the one true GOD!

Anonymous said...

The alcohol industry has cultivated the right friends.

Anonymous said...

Freedom Party in Austria wins first round of Presidential election convincingly in major shock.
Right Wing (i.e. they support the indigenous population) parties are on a roll in Europe where, at least some, of the population have woken up to reality.

SerpentSlayer said...

Even if the establishment rallies in Österreich, the German people of that land have proven that the blood of those who resisted Bolshevism 70years ago still runs in their veins. If the Freedom party wins, we will have a Nationalist country in Europe that can ally with Poland and Hungary and begin to arrest the decay of European civilisation.

Anonymous said...

I'd rather believe in God than be obsessed with rounding people up and killing them.

Anonymous said...

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi

Anonymous said...

The blog's slowing down again where's the election news local issue's and so on?

Alf Garnett said...

Well said S,S

Anonymous said...

Why as the blog gone back into sleep mode again?

Anonymous said...

The blog needs updating it's dying off again