Another idea from the UK nanny state. A Health watchdog group has come up with the idea that you should be licensed to smoke, you would have to be over 18, and have an ID card with photo, which you would have to produce to buy cigarettes etc. If you were seen smoking by the police, then they would have the right to ask for your license. No license, cigareets would be confiscated, this would particularly apply to young people seen smoking.

I know, I heard this yesterday as well, what a load of cobblers. These government thinktanks drive me pippy with all these ill conceived ideas. If smoking is such a major health issue (which I don't doubt it is) they should ban cigarettes entirely. But then where do they get the lost revenue from.

They will just tax us on sommat else - like the air we breathe coz they know we need that bunch of muppets they are xxx

And in other news, it has become clear that oral language examinations are too 'stressful' for students and should be dropped.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7249090.stm

Pretty soon, they'll realise that examinations, and possibly even school itself, are actually against our basic human rights... and instead they should just give everyone a licence to smoke at 3 years old an be done with it

FFS! Maybe they could give them a texting test or maybe let them post their exam answers on Facebook instead as they seem to be the methods of choice for future social communication.

Absolutely bloody crazy :curse:

Stressful? They dont know the bloody meaning of the word, oh to be a student again :curse:

No sorry students arnt entitled to have any basic human rights - i'll be out of a job

So its you thats stressing em out then eh?

Oh yes - everyday - i make a point of winding them up

Oral has been abolished for students? What a bummer!

Back in my day, oral only got abolished when the wedding ring went on their finger!

Then the youngster will speak English, and any other language they may be learning, like here. We understand that the Spanish have English classes in the curriculum. The problem is they do not do any oral work because of this they pronounce words the same way as Spanish. i.e. they say all the letters.

Do you think if we all complained about the stress of paying taxes these brain cell containers might drop them?

It would be a lot better if they brought out a licensed to breed law. Anyone caught pushing a pram without the exam pass certificate should have the kid confiscated.

Just think of all the human rights you'd violate if you tried to bring that one in! The right to procreate after the excessive consumption of popular alcoholic beverages. The right to weaken the Darwinian gene pool. The right to claim benefits. The right to appear on Jeremy Kyle...