Last weeks news that the Home Secretary fired the Governments advisor for revealing the truth over drugs and their dangers.
What baffles me the most is that this is the scientist they hired to guide them on policy but because the findings happened to be that the use of Alcohol and Tobacco is far worse than certain drugs was fired. Surely this simply proves that they are are ignoring the facts of science in place of putting policy's first.
This has baffled me when later the same day I see a Government paid for advertisement about the Government guidelines as to how much one should drink in any week. Well as the news plays over about Professor Nutt's sacking I thought to myself, why should I or anyone listen to them? After all they don't listen to what the scientists say if they don't agree with it. It is like being told as a child "Don't do that" and your inquisitive little mind would ask "Why?", only be told "Because I said so". It simply proves that this Government doesn't have the balls to discuss sensitive subjects and will simply brush it under the carpet. Pretend it doesn't exist.
I would like to say back to the Government that the more that the reason people drink more and more these days is simply because they can. They enjoy getting drunk and being able to forget their lives because in truth, its no easy place out there. In the bustle of a metropolis like London where you daily commute of six miles can take an hour each way in cramped carriages. When the majority of your income goes to the Exchequer in a tax of sorts. Be it income tax, VAT, or the 80% tax on fuel or Tobacco. It's an expensive place. The levels of stress are high and alcohol is an escape for many. I kid you not, I enjoy a glass of red wine too. But if I want to enjoy a bit more than a glass on the odd occasion that's for me to decide and not Government policy thank you very much. Like it should have been my choice to vote on a referendum on us adopting the new EU treaty. But unlike our fellow Irishmen we were given no such chance.
Meanwhile as they merge us further into Europe I read that the EU now wants to stop us having the right to return faulty goods to shops? When did the EU actually represent the people? Rather than the Eurocrats?
Meanwhile I would like to suggest that the route of the violent problems caused by binge drinking is down to a simple fact. There is no discipline anymore. You have changed the rules so much that teachers have no respect. The kids get away with whatever they want at school. Take a journey by train into London's West End during half term and there are kids everywhere. You will see them on the trains, scribing gravity, being rowdy and disrespect full. I spotted some at Liverpool Street playing around on a custodians golf buggy. A Police Officer asked them what they were doing and they just laughed at him. No respect even for a police officer. No wonder there is a break down in the values of young people today. But then if they get no respect at home, they are not made to show their respect at school and lets be honest, nobody seriously respects Gordon Brown and his policies is there any respect at all? Furthermore, is it possible to return respect to Britain after so long? I like many are pro the return of National Service. Bring back discipline in the schools. Did it harm anyone in my years at school to be threatened with a caning if you stepped beyond the line? The most a teacher can do these days is put you in detention. They can't even expel a child these days as "Exclusion is not fair". Talk about softening the standards. Meanwhile each child leaves school with an A or A* because they can't possibly show a child that they are failing. The schools dare not get a bad grad and slip on the results league and the government has invested billions more on providing an education that results in them not being able to read or write but they all gained the best possible grades? Perhaps rather than sack the scientists and people they hire to offer them facts they might listen. But then that would be too sensible wouldn't it?
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