So Gordon is still Chancellor then?

[Snoopy]

According to this Sky News report Gordon will be announcing the budget changes ~ shurely shome mishtake?

http://tinyurl.com/yhacjw2

Anywho ~ no matter who announces it the maths are very dodgy ~ assuming an increase in tax on ciggies results in a reduction in smoking, as they claim, surely the reduction in smoking will result in a reduction in tax revenues. Honestly these people must think we are all as stoopid as them.

Personally I am actively thinking about returning to the fold of smokers in defiance of these nannies ~ if the latest lot of quacks in Liverpool cannot do anything for me then there is no point in denying myself a small pleasure any longer.
It certainly is not helping me to live any longer ...... although I grant it often feels like it.

[Barman]

Increased taxes and draconian punishments for smoking have never affected it.... 

All it will do is boost the trade in illegally imported fags or fags imported legally from the EU.

Enjoy it Snoops...