Bristol Council supportive of vaping

[Postmodern Smoking]

"E-cigarette myths busted by Bristol council as they encourage smokers to turn to vaping"
 

www.bristolpost.co.uk/E-cigarette-myths-bused-y-council-encourage/story-28861394-detail/story.html

[joeten]

We need more of them show as much sense.

[sydsut]

^^^^^^^ wot he said

[Perpetua]

Bravo for Bristol City Council!


How refreshing to see some common sense from this neck of the woods . . . . .

[qsplan]

guess more and more City Councils will go this way... wishful thinkings...

[yahoo2u2]

The issues are not that they have gone the vaping way, but why others have not! At a local level money from Big T is not an incentive. London treasury manage the distribution of funds to councils after they have raised the income from council tax. Shortfalls due to benefit payments etc are then given back to the council as a percentage of income Vs expenditure and population services required such as schools, fire, police. Now its the government that need the big T money to cover whatever costs.

We need more local decent from the government as these will be the people who will have to enforce the laws. I dont think they will be able to ignore the TPD, Lets see if they are different than others.

Bristol City Council is the local authority of Bristol, England. The council is a unitary authority, and is unusual in the United Kingdom in that its executive function is controlled by a directly elected mayor of Bristol, currently George Ferguson. Bristol has 35 wards,[4] electing a total of 70 councilors.

Breakdown of councillors
Labour 30
Conservative 16
Green 14
Liberal Democrat 9
UK Independence Party 1

So they dont have to toe a party "conservative line" and this makes it interesting in the political forces from the main party.

This was longer than I wanted it to be, but I found it interesting, so thanks for posting.

[jtc]

Yayyy good to see our town seeing sense

[nanotm]

its always good when public bodies act for the public good rather than putting cash above them, then again binning smoke free south west was a good start in that regard

[car147]

Good on Bristol Council, who therefore seem to care more about their public than others, well done

[djs]

That's coz I went there and told them wot's wot.

(No Dave, you visited a Vape shop and blew Caramel Clouds in Tesco's car park...)

[nanotm]

Mar 9, 2016 15:07:29 GMT djs said:

That's coz I went there and told them wot's wot.

(No Dave, you visited a Vape shop and blew Caramel Clouds in Tesco's car park...)

would you mind nipping over to the office of the plonkers that "own" the open air space by the science museum and setting them straight as well ? got fined £50 for puffing there last year ..... stupid gimboids they have handing out unenforceable tickets in their efforts to make Bristol smoke free ....

[djs]

Mar 10, 2016 19:58:46 GMT nanotm said:

would you mind nipping over to the office of the plonkers that "own" the open air space by the science museum and setting them straight as well ? got fined £50 for puffing there last year ..... stupid gimboids they have handing out unenforceable tickets in their efforts to make Bristol smoke free ....

I'm scheduled for 2017... any good?

I take it you resisted paying.

[nanotm]

Mar 10, 2016 20:35:57 GMT djs said:

Mar 10, 2016 19:58:46 GMT nanotm said:

would you mind nipping over to the office of the plonkers that "own" the open air space by the science museum and setting them straight as well ? got fined £50 for puffing there last year ..... stupid gimboids they have handing out unenforceable tickets in their efforts to make Bristol smoke free ....

I'm scheduled for 2017... any good?

I take it you resisted paying.

I told them to poke there request for payment where the sun doesn't shine, those feckers are worse than private parking clampers in their devious interpretation of laws and demanding money with menaces, might of helped that I had my mobile in my hand with the camera running though.....

[djs]

Mar 10, 2016 20:38:50 GMT nanotm said:

Mar 10, 2016 20:35:57 GMT djs said:

I'm scheduled for 2017... any good?

I take it you resisted paying.

I told them to poke there request for payment where the sun doesn't shine, those feckers are worse than private parking clampers in their devious interpretation of laws and demanding money with menaces, might of helped that I had my mobile in my hand with the camera running though.....

Nice, Fair play. I'd have done the same. Good for you.