Well done Nigel Farage for raising the issue of the blanket smoking ban on BBC Newsnight this evening. It's such a shame that the interviewer - or political correspondent as he called himself - wasn't a bit interested.
The correspondent said that he had been asked by his editor to look into the "political issue of smoking following Nick Clegg's 'confession' on Desert Island Discs." He had no idea it was a political issue at all and neither did he care.
Rather than spend four minutes giving smokers fair coverage and a chance to explain exactly why it matters, he chose to waffle about how no-body gives a shit. He didn't have Simon Clark's take on it as the representative of 12 million consumers, neither did he ask F2C, the smoker's lobby and support group.
No, the prick decided to portray it as a non-issue before even looking into it and backed up his argument by asking busy people in the City - and probably just around the corner from his office - and foreign tourists who frankly haven't got a clue who Nick Clegg is or whether people here care or not about smoking.
What an insult - and they expect us to pay a licence fee for this as well.