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Dear Mr Jarvis
Thank you for your email, outlining your concerns with the EU draft
Directive on tobacco and smoking. UKIP, being strongly libertarian, agrees
with your personal rights to take tobacco and the like for whatever personal
pleasure you take from it. We believe that the EU should have no
jurisdiction over us either as persons or as the United Kingdom in these
matters, and that we are entirely able to take these decisions for ourselves
as responsible individuals and as an independent nation. We will certainly
oppose this legislation at all levels, from votes in committee, speeches as
opportunity arises, meetings with industry lobbyists (BAT are in contact
with us), and final votes in the Strasbourg parliament.
In a more rear-guard manner, it may also be possible for UKIP to put down
amendments to the legislation to water it down in progress, or loosen the
limits for such things as milligrams allowed for OTC sales. Unfortunately,
our chances of success in these votes and amendments are small as the three
old parties all vote against us and in line with the EU band-wagon. The EU
is entirely against personal liberty and freedom, and certainly wishes you
to be forced to be healthy in the way it decides for you, which is for your
own good, in their view. Of course, eventually the EU will see fit to ban
all tobacco, let alone other nicotine products, so then only the black
market will exist, much as things went in the USSR and Red China.
As a further fall-back position it may be useful to prepare yourself for the
worst with research into non-EU controlled sources of nicotine fluid and the
like which may spring up in a free market response to the EU Big Brother-Big
Nanny State approach to these things, or even be available now. The UK alone
does an excellent job of regulating such things, and the EU intrusion is as
unnecessary as it is unwelcome.
Please support UKIP by voting thoughtfully in all available situations, we
are the only party fighting the EU on these and all other aspects of being
ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. As you did not elect them you
cannot vote them out, withdrawal is the only way.
On an experimental note, I hope you do not mind if I add that analogous
experience with persons weaning themselves off sugar in hot drinks shows
that a graduated approach can work. To trick is to reduce very slowly over a
reasonable period of time, allowing taste to adjust to each new lower lever
of sugar. Finally, when down to the final half teaspoon of sugar per mug it
may not be possible to reduce it by degrees anymore. At this point one takes
the plunge and drops the final amount entirely and goes cold-turkey for a
few days. Then all of a sudden, one is adjusted to the new taste of tea and
coffee without sugar and there is no need to go back. It is a mental effort
as much as a physical effort. Life without sugar in drinks is more
convenient and cheaper, much as with use of tobacco with harmful side
effects. Perhaps this might be an alternate way ahead if the appalling EU
gets its way.
Yours sincerely
Godfrey Bloom
Thank you for your email, outlining your concerns with the EU draft
Directive on tobacco and smoking. UKIP, being strongly libertarian, agrees
with your personal rights to take tobacco and the like for whatever personal
pleasure you take from it. We believe that the EU should have no
jurisdiction over us either as persons or as the United Kingdom in these
matters, and that we are entirely able to take these decisions for ourselves
as responsible individuals and as an independent nation. We will certainly
oppose this legislation at all levels, from votes in committee, speeches as
opportunity arises, meetings with industry lobbyists (BAT are in contact
with us), and final votes in the Strasbourg parliament.
In a more rear-guard manner, it may also be possible for UKIP to put down
amendments to the legislation to water it down in progress, or loosen the
limits for such things as milligrams allowed for OTC sales. Unfortunately,
our chances of success in these votes and amendments are small as the three
old parties all vote against us and in line with the EU band-wagon. The EU
is entirely against personal liberty and freedom, and certainly wishes you
to be forced to be healthy in the way it decides for you, which is for your
own good, in their view. Of course, eventually the EU will see fit to ban
all tobacco, let alone other nicotine products, so then only the black
market will exist, much as things went in the USSR and Red China.
As a further fall-back position it may be useful to prepare yourself for the
worst with research into non-EU controlled sources of nicotine fluid and the
like which may spring up in a free market response to the EU Big Brother-Big
Nanny State approach to these things, or even be available now. The UK alone
does an excellent job of regulating such things, and the EU intrusion is as
unnecessary as it is unwelcome.
Please support UKIP by voting thoughtfully in all available situations, we
are the only party fighting the EU on these and all other aspects of being
ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. As you did not elect them you
cannot vote them out, withdrawal is the only way.
On an experimental note, I hope you do not mind if I add that analogous
experience with persons weaning themselves off sugar in hot drinks shows
that a graduated approach can work. To trick is to reduce very slowly over a
reasonable period of time, allowing taste to adjust to each new lower lever
of sugar. Finally, when down to the final half teaspoon of sugar per mug it
may not be possible to reduce it by degrees anymore. At this point one takes
the plunge and drops the final amount entirely and goes cold-turkey for a
few days. Then all of a sudden, one is adjusted to the new taste of tea and
coffee without sugar and there is no need to go back. It is a mental effort
as much as a physical effort. Life without sugar in drinks is more
convenient and cheaper, much as with use of tobacco with harmful side
effects. Perhaps this might be an alternate way ahead if the appalling EU
gets its way.
Yours sincerely
Godfrey Bloom
