• Liberal Bansturbators?

Not quite content with their complicity in throwing smokers out into the cold, it appears some of our number in the Euro-parl are preparing to freeze us off those as well with the idea of a ban on patio heaters.  Yes, they may be gas guzzlers, but there are market ways of dealing with that through the taxation of externalities and fuel and so on to make people use them sparingly.

Why shoulddn't it be my choice, say, to save 100% of my vehicle emissions by not driving any longer but have the occasional night on the patio and be able to stay there for an extra hour maybe when there begins to be a nip in the air by cranking up the heater for a while.

Honestly.  What is it with some of our people and banning things.  It makes me want to declare that I am not in the same party as these people.