Bigots

I was unfortunate enough today to catch part of the Jeremy Vine moanfest on Radio 2, the subject in question being about pregnant women being breathalysed to check if they smoked during their pregnancies.
The rights or wrongs of smoking when pregnant I, personally, believe are a matter between the woman and her medical advisor and should left as a private matter between them.
However, it seems that a lot of self righteous bigots amongst the general public feel that the issue is of such a great concern that they cannot control the urge to air their views to us all.
The pure hatred expressed by many of the callers against pregnant smokers made me cringe in my car seat causing a momentary hazard to other road users. One in particular managed to classify all the smoking mothers to be as from the deprived classes (whoever they may be) and went on to say that although she wouldn't wish to admonish these people verbally, her 'look of disgust as her eyes swept from the cigarette to the bulging waistline left the person in doubt of what she thought of her'. Others more simply stated that smoking was a clear case of child abuse and the police and social services should take punitive action.
It makes you wonder why we ever bothered fighting Hitler doesn't it.

Sheer nausea.

It seemed much more dignified in the old days when a defeated prime minister simply scuttled out of the back door of No.10 and his/her succesor entered through the front one. Still I suppose a righteous meglomaniac like Brown had to have his orchestrated five minutes of media exposure although I was rather suprised that, following the example of the Premier League, the anti -libertarian bstd didn't do a lap of honour around Downing Street. Perhaps his puppet master isn't a soccer fan!
As the man partly responsible for the unremmiting war against civil liberties I do hope that the vehicle into which the junior Brown's were decanted was fitted with properly approved E.U. bump seats. Still if it wasn't the eagle eyed Chekists of The Met would spotted it , wouldn't they? ( Sorry, forgot that they may have been off duty if the 11th. May is a pagan bank holiday.)