Sir Keir Starmer is plotting a nanny state ‘latte tax’ on canned coffees and milkshakes.
The Government has announced it is considering applying a sugar tax to milky coffee drinks and bottled milkshakes as part of a push to solve the obesity crisis.
While freshly-prepared coffees would be exempt under the design of the tax, many canned drinks would fall foul of the rules.
Wrong sort of adults of course. This is the Mothers in Law, insistent upon potty training the general public.
I am waiting to see a fizzy water tax on the grounds that the CO2 injected into the water is bad to the planets climate. This will soon be followed up by the banning of sodastreams, with troops of purple haired obnoxious killjoys going door to door to collect the sodastreams from peoples houses.
Presumably the dairy industry will mount a protest? Will we see cows driven to No 10 to roam around?
My father once worked out that if you dumped enough manure at a few key locations on the motorway network you would practically bring the road transport system to a halt until it was cleared. No idea if it would work though, just something my father claimed.
As the government and voters in the UK relentlessly refuse to stop digging, the swell of schadenfreude from us here in the former colonies is overwhelming.
My father once worked out that if you dumped enough manure at a few key locations on the motorway network you would practically bring the road transport system to a halt until it was cleared. No idea if it would work though, just something my father claimed.
JSO’s recent experiments seem to prove that it does.
MvdR: is there a single former colony that’s not as far down the road to ruin as we are?
The difference being that the cops shut the motorway until they could coax the JSOers down.
If a farmer tried anything similar the police will have the marksmen out.
@Otto – I think you may have missed the double entendre.
As far as I can remember, the plan my father came up with was to fill up a dumpster lorries with manure and then drive down the motorway four a breast. Slow down and then stop and proceed to empty the lorry onto the motorway. Then drive off, leaving a load of seething motorists fenced in by a wall of shit.
Do that in the right places and cause the motorway network to stand still until plod could work out what to do.
Back in the early ’80s, when I was doing an anarchist punk album (yes, really), the studio owner reckoned the easiest way to bring London to a complete halt was carefully to choose a handful of Tube stations and simultaneously throw chains across the tracks to short them out.
Yup, that’d work.
@Rowdy
“MvdR: is there a single former colony that’s not as far down the road to ruin as we are?”
Tentatively raises hand.
I’ll let you know next week
is there a single former colony that’s not as far down the road to ruin as we are?
Canada? The US under Harris? Then there are de African colonies…
@Salamander: It works, if you just use a bit more than just manure. ( Still “stuff that’s been taking up space for Ages on a farm..)
https://nos.nl/artikel/2438464-boeren-dumpen-afval-mest-en-hooi-op-snelwegen-ministerie-veroordeelt-acties
( in dutch but there’s a nice video with …instructional value… )
Just sayin’ …….
I thought sodastreams were a thing of the past due to the them being Israely and all the boycotts.?
“…then drive down the motorway four a breast. Slow down and then stop …”
Anecdotally, the pikeys have been known to do this in order to run horse races on the M11. The race is over and everyone vanished before plod works out what is going on.
Rather clever actually.