Winter Lights Cannabis & Chip Fat

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A pensioner in Poulton-le-Fylde was upset when told that 'Christmas Lights' were now to be referred to as 'Winter Lights' and a whole host of citizens in Preston were proper pissed off with a civic leader who announced that the annual carol concert would not take place this December but be replaced by a multi-cultural, candlelit 'event' in January.

Personally I'm all in favour of a singsong at any time but especially when

'overly timid local government, obsessed with what is now seen as the ultimate virtue - namely, a political correctness that sets out to be all things to all people - forgets that in trying to embrace everything, and by dumbing down to the lowest common denominator, one invariably ends up standing for absolutely nothing and in the interests of absolutely no one.'

I pinched that from a letter to the Independent but it's very good.

Seems that that nice man, Tony Blair is planning a controversial U-turn on his cannabis laws and the reintroduction of tough penalties for potters after an official government review found a 'definitive link between the use of the drug and mental illness'.

A senior Whitehall aide said:

"There is no barrier to reclassification of cannabis on the grounds of political embarrassment. This was David Blunkett's decision, not something agreed by the Cabinet."

I expect there'll eventually be an official government review that finds a 'definitive link between 24 hour drinking and alcoholism'. I suspect that was down to David Blunkett too.

Meanwhile the Conservative Party's own, even younger nice man, David Cameron, has announced that chip shops and restaurants should collect their old cooking fat so it can be used to fuel cars. Mrs B. once filled up with diesel instead of petrol so I hope she's not reading this.

At present 225,000 tons of waste fat produced by restaurants in Britain each year "goes down the drain, where it has a terrible effect on sewers". I expect an immediate response to this from the Blair party. I would also mention that Raul came up with the idea at least three years ago but I don't think Raul was motivated by thoughts of sewer protection.

From a speech by George Bush to the Council on Foreign Relations, meeting at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC Published: 09 December 2005.

"Reconstruction has not always gone as well as we had hoped, primarily because of the security challenges on the ground. Rebuilding a nation devastated by a dictator is a large undertaking."

Dictators are bad news George, I should blame it on that guy Blunkett.

And they wonder why voters have become apathetic!
Oh well - dum dum, a-diddly dum