[jambutty]

I heard on the news today that some part of Scotland is considering banning people from lighting up whilst standing at a bus stop. Anyone caught doing so will be fined on the spot. I’m not sure whether it was £50 or £80.

So it’s OK for a bus to draw up, spew disgusting, filthy and deadly exhaust fumes into the faces of the waiting passengers and passers by but some unfortunate soul will get fined for lighting up. Words like asylum, running and lunatics come to mind.

I wonder if the general public realises that all these no smoking dictats are nothing more than (pardon the pun) a smoke screen to divert the public attention away from what this government is getting up to. An alternative to burying the bad news.

Remember the rule – divide and conquer. The government gets us all arguing amongst ourselves on issue that are not in the general scheme of things all that relevant whilst they quietly put in place new laws that ties us down just that bit more.