Jock's Place - Liberal Bansturbators? - Comments

You can be the designated driver then...

Jock — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:45:51 +0000

...and we can go do some primary research on how well they are used in pub smoking gardens!

Patio heaters

Mark Wadsworth — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:33:41 +0000

I've done the numbers. Using a patio heater for one evening is the same as driving 7.6 miles in a car.

Patio heaters

Mark Wadsworth — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:09:10 +0000

Exactly. I am happy to say that all UKIP MEPs (bar one absence) and even the two ex-UKIP MEPs voted against this nonsense.

Patio Heaters

The Poet Laura-eate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:42:49 +0000

The rate our pubs are closing I'd have thought that they wouldn't keep their patio heaters on a moment more than necessary in any case! However since we have deteriorated to a society where people do whatever they feel like until stopped (a trait I've noticed in microcosm via the student community in which I work), I guess we are going to see more and more of this kneejerk reaction - even though it is the deterioration of government/leadership we have to thank for this state of affairs in the first place.

Liberal Bansturbators?

Jock — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:54 +0000

Not quite content with their complicity in throwing smokers out into the cold, it appears some of our number in the Euro-parl are preparing to freeze us off those as well with the idea of a ban on patio heaters. Yes, they may be gas guzzlers, but there are market ways of dealing with that through the taxation of externalities and fuel and so on to make people use them sparingly.

Why shoulddn't it be my choice, say, to save 100% of my vehicle emissions by not driving any longer but have the occasional night on the patio and be able to stay there for an extra hour maybe when there begins to be a nip in the air by cranking up the heater for a while.

Honestly. What is it with some of our people and banning things. It makes me want to declare that I am not in the same party as these people.