Nanny knows best.

As if the police didn't have enough to do, what with muggings, burglaries, gun crime, child porn etc etc, that lunatic in charge of the country forced a bill through parliament this week banning smoking in pubs. So now, instead of doing what they are paid to do and catch criminals, all those police officers not already collecting tax revenue from motorists will now be persecuting smokers.

Now whatever you think about smoking this law is one step too far. It is a complete abuse of the power given to the government and is nothing more than a publicity stunt designed to make it look as if they are actually doing something.

Just how do they propose to enforce this ban? Say half a dozen of us go into a quiet pub and light up a fag? The landlord will call the police but by the time they arrive we will have finished our fags so where is the evidence? It then becomes the word of one person against the word of half a dozen usually law abiding citizens, who of course will deny smoking on the premesis.

The police will either have to accept our word and leave, allowing us to light up once more, or prosecute and waste thousands of pounds of tax payers money on a case they cannot hope to win because of lack of evidence.

Of course the health junkies are happy because they say that it will stop people getting ill from passive smoking. However there are just as many scientists saying that passive smoking is a myth as there are ones saying it is dangerous. And these health freaks are the same sort of people who drink bottled water because it's safer even though the bottling and transportation of bottled water is one of the worlds biggest pollution hazzards.

This law is just another example of this spineless governments attempts to dictate everything we do. This is what socialism is all about, forcing people to do what they are told, taking away any rights they have and forcing them to accept that the state knows best. The sooner this bunch of liening cheating scum are kicked out of government the better.