tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1080930810124623271..comments2024-03-29T08:01:51.705+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Manifest liesCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-19811218911820577612010-04-15T01:47:34.296+01:002010-04-15T01:47:34.296+01:00"Political manifestos should be regarded mere..."Political manifestos should be regarded merely as a generalised statement of aspiration rather than a cast-iron list of commitments". This is news to you? Your cynical credentials are seriously battered. Plus you're far too generous: a manifesto is purely for the news headlines and - after the election - for people like Jeremy Paxman and John Humphries to use to grill politicians. It rarely bears any resemblance to what parties will actually do.<br /><br />You sweet idealist!Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-53506960005327724932010-04-14T21:27:28.814+01:002010-04-14T21:27:28.814+01:00Indeed, although some have disputed it, it is my r...Indeed, although some have disputed it, it is my recollection that in the years immediately before 1 July 2007, a large number of pubs provided no-smoking areas including every Wetherspoon's and the vast majority of pubs that majored on food. If it was important to you to drink in a non-smoking area it wasn't exactly difficult to find one. However, many of the current ban apologists seemed content to continue to use pubs and areas of pubs where smoking was allowed, suggesting they weren't really that bothered about it.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-89343009800737146142010-04-14T21:20:46.903+01:002010-04-14T21:20:46.903+01:00Indeed it was, PC. Dr Barrie Craven of the Newcast...Indeed it was, PC. Dr Barrie Craven of the Newcastle Business School produced a <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1319547#" rel="nofollow">paper in 2008</a> which proved exactly that. It was a problem which was solving itself via basic economic principles of supply and demand.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-2916454221819239662010-04-13T20:58:11.301+01:002010-04-13T20:58:11.301+01:00Top marks Curmy
The main reason we still have the ...Top marks Curmy<br />The main reason we still have the total ban is the pathetic cowardly<br />chicken livered stance taken by the<br />smokers,their so called friends and not forgetting the two timing,<br />spineless publicans.Our forebears<br />fought and died for our basic freedom, yet here we have a generation who stand by and let it<br />be cast into the gutter.<br />I hope none of these gutless snides have'nt the nerve to wave the flag of St George during the world cup.They are not fit to lick the studs of the Germans and Spaniards.<br /><br /><br />Old HandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com