Is the £29.5 million better spent from training council snoops to catch a smoker lighting up a crafty smoke just too anti-democracy?
Is it better to go home smelling of smoke than live in a country of spies? Would allowing this trend to continue it will be other areas in our life being spied apon that could affect us all smokers or not?
Note: Any insulting of smokers I will thumb down. This is a question about the lack of civil protection of freedom.
2007-02-15 03:23:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
As a non-smoker I am not impartial but as usual this control freak, tax mad government is going about the smoking ban all wrong. They are going to train an initial 1,200 council workers to be the covert 'tobacco spy's' they in turn will train more who will be empowered to issue on the spot fines. As far as other areas of our lives being spied upon what about 'chips' in wheelie bins? Your home to be visited by council employees to evaluate your tax for improvements you may have made?. John Reid recently stated that anyone saying Britain was becoming a police state was wrong. Really ?
2007-02-15 05:08:21 · answer #1 · answered by Rob Roy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the smoking ban was initially introduced it did not have an immediate impact because the smokers went outside. Of course as the weather became colder people either had to go without or stay at home in the comfort of their own home. As for the non smokers, well, they are happy that they can drink in a smoke free environment but how long will it last? As the pubs close down due to lack of business, it will have an effect on the non smokers eventually because there will be no pubs or clubs to visit. People who said that they would now use the pubs because they are smoke free can't replace the revenue that Landlords have lost, and with the extra taxation on alcohol they will of course purchase less. It is a downward trend unless the government re-introduce smoking into social areas again. You can't have it both ways.
2016-05-24 03:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by Christine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Answer is No !
It is just another method of increasing the cost of Council Tax, by taking a further 1,900 off of the unemployment figures & turning them into local government officers. It would be a different matter if the government provided a similar amount of cash to more important life saving causes by sending a cheque for £29.5 million to the "ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTE" Where not one penny of it would be wasted on extra wages!
Instead councils will now employ even more L.G.O's give them a fancy job title and a salary greatly in excess of the National Average & subsequently in years to come will have to find the funding for the 'Pensions' that this influx of non-essential, parasitic, busy-bodies, will demand.
As a Non-Smoker myself I honestly believe there are far more risks and dangers in this beleagured country "Than being Subjected to Passive Smoking"!
2007-02-15 04:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by DEADMAN WALKING. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Its ridiculous,especially as some councils are making staff redundant due to government cuts!!! This government has introduced SO MUCH legislation,one being the banning of Fox hunting with dogs, are they spying on them to ensure the law is carried out??????The councils are out to make a quick buck if you ask me!!! Its a sad world,full of selfish people!!!!! Just a thought.......................
how many non smokers advocate smokers being spied on, that drive cars, and complain they are spied on with camera's on the roads????????? Or anywhere else come to that???
2007-02-15 03:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Round here (West Yorks) snoops are already being trained. I don't smoke but I do object to ever-increasing tide of restrictions on our liberty. Enough is already enough, though how we can stem the tide is beyond me. My own view is that a move to France won't solve the UK problem but it will sure cheer me up!
2007-02-15 04:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by michael w 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what the hell? since when are they going to ban smoking and where?
its a waste of money to get people to spy on others because if one of these so called spys tried to fine me i`d tell them where to shove it.
Use the money for better things
2007-02-15 03:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO.The police cant manage thier workload now
2007-02-15 03:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we should carry soda syphons and give anyone with ciggerette in their mouth a jet of soda water in the face, LOL
2007-02-15 03:33:56 · answer #8 · answered by Humble Bee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
They shouldn't be.
That's ridiculous.
2007-02-15 03:31:39 · answer #9 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only if you believe in labour's nanny state
2007-02-15 05:35:16 · answer #10 · answered by jonnnboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋