Wednesday 26 March 2008

You with the eyebrows, OUT!




A scheme to ban Alistair Darling from every pub in the UK. (More here, here and here.)

2 comments:

Froog said...

I do not approve.

KEITH TOLSTOY said...

No, nor do I really, which is why I haven't signed up to the campaign or put anything about it on my sidebar. Darling seems a pleasant enough guy and I'm not in favour of persecuting anyone (Robert Kilroy-Silk excepted).

That said, I can't agree he's merely doing what every other Chancellor has done:

(1) He's going to raise alcohol duty by 2% above inflation for the next four years. Talk about "sliding down the razorblade of life."

(2) He's put 55p on spirits, a significant jolt to the Scotch whisky industry.

(3) He's doing all this at a time when we're losing 27 pubs a week, a national disaster in its way. If ever there's been a time to treat them gently, I feel this is it.