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FRANK

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About Me


Dedicated to Frank and the Frank's and his families all over the UK who just want a beer and a fag in a pub!Thats a proper pub,with blood and saw dust on the floor,not a fecking health club selling juiceys and crap like that-booze and fags does less harm than facism.
The late great Bill Hicks “I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f**kin mouth
smoking ban what a load or arse that is,i'd rather smoke than eat
whats next,a bloody booze ban,or will the health nazi's just price it out of the working mans reach
Not that I work-works for wimps and gets in the way of drinking
Too much salt? Thats crap,at my chippy it always sticks round the top and you can't shake enough out
What,their going to change pubs into gyms,with bloody lettuce and vegetarian smoothies?
Its up to us to choose what we want to do and what we don't-don't let the health police turn you into weedy wimps-meat,beer fags and betting-thats a burger down the pub,playing the bandit,drinking beer all under one roof
smoking is for cool people anyway,so let the namby pambies play in their juice bars and get the hell out of our pubs
While there's some still open
Gillian Mckeath-eat lentils and get our of our lives
non smoking freedom fighters welcome but PLEEZE,no apologetic smokers
take a look at this web site,they'll do anything for ya,just check your change
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My Interests

Can't smoke won't vote
amend the smoking ban petition
can't smoke won't vote petition

Just 7,500 smoking voters can wipe out Labour's Commons majority
Charles Clarke releases 'doomsday list' of Labour MPs at risk
Peter Thurgood 25th March 2008
A former cabinet minister has circulated a "doomsday list" of Labour MPs at risk of losing their seats if fewer than 7,500 voters switch sides.
Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, warns that because of boundary changes the party needs to lose only 24 seats, predominantly in London and the southeast, to be stripped of its overall majority.
This will happen if just 7,417 people in the 24 seats who voted Labour at the last election vote next time for the party that came second.
Clarke points out that a disproportionate number of these marginals are in north Kent and Essex, prompting MPs to dub the next election the Battle for Bluewater after the giant shopping centre near Dartford.
In most of the seats, the Tory party is the main challenger.
See full article here: Http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/doomsdaymemo.pdf
The Government say that there are approximately 15 million smokers in the UK. I think this is a very low estimate, which in reality is something more like 20 to 25 million.
Nevertheless, whatever the figure, it is still a substantial number of people, all of whom have the right to vote.
Imagine what would happen if all those smokers stood together as a political force, and demanded rights for smokers. Even the lowest figure, of just 15 million, could decide the outcome of the next General Election.
As we all know, smokers have had all their human rights taken away from them, and have been victimised by this Government. In their manifesto, New Labour declared that they were considering a ban on smoking in bars or pubs where food was sold, but they were adamant that a total ban in all indoor public places, was out of the question.
New Labour's record on broken promises is however, only too well known, and as we all now know, this promise was not only broken, but enhanced upon, until there is hardly any place left for a person to smoke. The law, as it stands, states that indoor public places are out of bounds to smokers, but how they define "public" is another thing. How on earth can a "private" club, be classed as public?
When the vote was taken in Parliament, the figures were as follows:
Voting figures for a total ban was as follows:
220 English Labour MPs
45 English Conservative MPs
32 Liberal MPs
1 Independent MP
TOTAL 298 English MPs
Scottish MPs 42
Welsh MPs 33
N.Ireland 11
MPs that voted against a total ban:
44 English Labour MPs
125 English Conservative MPs
6 English Liberal MPs
TOTAL 175 English MPs
Scottish MPs 7
Welsh 1
From a total of 644 MPs, there were 76 abstentions.
The figures show very clearly, that Labour MPs made up the very large majority voting for a total ban, while the Conservatives as a whole, voted against this.
On Thursday 1st May 2008, we will be given the chance to vote in the Local Elections, as well as the London Mayoral election.
This will be the "smokers" chance to show this Government, our local Council, and our London Mayor, exactly what we think of them.
We need to make our voice heard now, louder and clearer than ever. The party who offers to amend the smoking ban, and allow both smoking and non smoking establishments to prosper, side by side, will get our vote.
There are just five weeks to go until polling day. All smokers and smoking rights campaign groups, need to start their own individual campaigns immediately. We need to write to our local MPs, to text them, to email them, to petition them, to speak to them personally, if possible.
The message must be got across. NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE, NO SMOKE - NO VOTE.

I'd like to meet:

drinkers,smokers,free thinkers,artists,muscicians,bohemians,nay'do wells,slobs,dossers,tramps-and sexy babes that smoke.
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My Blog

A smoker’s guide to Europe and beyond (part one)

Currently on tour, musician Joe Jackson reports from Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany My current concert tour started with a month long trip around Europe, during which I was able to obse...
Posted by FRANK on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:15:00 PST

Apocalypse now!

Pete Robinson: Apocalypse now!16 January, 2008 By Pete Robinson I'm both stunned and extremely saddened at the number of once thriving pubs and establishments that are suddenly closing down in my hom...
Posted by FRANK on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:41:00 PST

I laughed my socks off at this

Gordon Brown barred by Yorkshire pubs PM barred by Yorkshire pubsBy Thom Gibbs Gordon Brown banned from pubs in two North Yorkshire towns Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been banned from 105 pubs in N...
Posted by FRANK on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:12:00 PST

Licensee hit with £3,000 fine over smoke ban noise

By James Wilmore One neighbour's complaint leads to massive penalty A licensee has been hit with a staggering £3,000 fine and £800 costs after just one neighbour complained about noise from her pub ...
Posted by FRANK on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:03:00 PST

Beer sales tumble in November

On-trade volumes decline prompts call for halt to duty rise Beer sales tumbled by nearly ten per cent in the run up to Christmas 2007, compared with the same period in 2006. According to statistics fr...
Posted by FRANK on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:35:00 PST

Smoke ban leads Rank to shut ten bingo clubs

So,i pop in for a cheap burger,a cheap pint and a couple of quid in the bandit-but for how long-hey,the smoking bans working is it,not for these 250 made redundant. Smoke ban leads Rank to shut ten bi...
Posted by FRANK on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:52:00 PST

Franks rant volume one-number one

Here's my thought for the day.After a night on the bevvy and a Kebab,I pop in the pub and at some point trip off to the bog to pick my horse's for the day.Read the Sun and have a fag.Landlord goes thr...
Posted by FRANK on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:41:00 PST