I was never in doubt that these two jokers would ever care about the plight of a minority group unless that group has a legal tag on it such as "ethnic" "gay" or "wimmin" but now that they have declared war on a group fighting for the right to exist, the time for action has come.
Smokers still remain in their eyes the scum of the world who should be hounded out of existence for daring to disagree with the righteous health obsessed freaks, and for daring to like the smell of that which others turn their nose up at.
Smokers could not unite at election time even though it seemed to me an act of monumental stupidity to vote for any party that plans to continue the persecution. As it happens, some smokers were stupid enough to vote for two of them.
Perhaps I'm being harsh. After all Cleggy and the Moron did make whispered and disguised promises that there would be some amendment to the current stalinist regulations on smoking with the scam that was the Freedom Bill - or Great Repeal Bill shite which frankly will do nothing but make life easier for terrorists while law abiding people are criminalised.
Now that Cleggy has ruled out any amendment, the time has come to show him how much it matters.
Fuming smokers are now planning civil disobedience, but even then they are so politically diverse and fragmented that frankly they can't even agree on what sort of action to take. Some are talking of lighting up electric cigs in public - w0000 - scary - that'll show 'em - especially as there is nothing illegal about electric smoking in public. I've made my views known on that and why I think it's dividing smokers and strengthening the armoury of our enemies.
Our main lobby group is Forest which gets ignored far too often by those in power who have a duty to listen. And as much as Forest works hard for the smoker, and Simon Clark the director is more than able to respond to the anti-smoking industry's spin, I fear it is taking the wrong course of action and gives too many own goals to the other side especially with the use of language.
Now this tells of how the WHO buried scientific evidence that passive smoking does NOT cause cancer but has a protective effect. So why does Forest roll over on the issue of such things as car bans with language such as "smokers should err on the side of caution when children are present" No - we shouldn't because there is nothing to fear.
What we should do, and those of us who are polite smokers always have, is err on the side of good manners. We know that a minority of people don't like smoke and children can't always tell us that - especially if they are very young - so for the sake of consideration, smokers should not smoke in front of children until those children can express their likes and dislikes with language.
And now that the cat is out of the bag and the new ConDem party has shown it's disgust for smokers and refuses to listen to them, the time for action has come. It is the only way we will be heard but Forest, I doubt, would be keen to get involved.
Forest has said that it will not condone law breaking. I think it's a damn good job the women of the last century didn't take the same stance or - God Forbid - we would never have been treated to the delights of Harriet Harperson as a Govt minister.
Bad laws must be challenged and if Forest doesn't begin to challenge them by organising civil disobedience, then this won't get any better for us.
The organisation can rustle up hundreds of people for it's social events where we all get pissed and just forget about our persecution but it doesn't change a damn thing, and it could easily arrange a massive protest but it won't. Why? I have no idea.
So with the lack of any organised group to help us - apart from the more active but totally skint F2C - we don't have much of a chance of getting ourselves heard and showing these stupid and bigoted politicians that this issue really does matter.
With this in mind, I am looking for about 50 smokers for an act of civil disobedience which I promise will not get one pub landlord in trouble. Those willing to finally unite and make a stand, leave a comment here unless you know me and have my email address.
I was going to begin to put comment moderation on because I'm fed up with spammers and because I don't see why I should entertain anti-smokers on this blog anymore but I won't yet.
Meanwhile, Baz, and any other antis who drop by here, your comments on this particular post are not welcome. If one appears. It will be deleted.