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that's good news and shows that at least one person in Westminster is able to read the details off the impact assessment correctly .....

lets hope it generates the required support to be taken further, of course if we vote out in a few weeks maybe this will be the first of many EDM's to repeal various facets of EU law that are irrelevant or unappealing for the UK, well thers hope at least

it comes from the person making the report misreading the table, the £13bn figure was what the DoH worked out would be the resultant harm to the public purse of implementing the TPD's e-cig section........its even in the official impact assessment publication on the .gov website....

and in one fell swoop they eradicate all hardware newer than feb 2007 from sale in the market place .....

not to mention 1500 hours to lodge a single PMTA for each part of a delivery system (tank /mod/coil) I cant even see tobacco companies going through that nonsense at a couple of million dollars a pop

fertiliser purchase is restricted in a lot of places, also in an attempt to prevent future use for bomb making they removed glycol ethanol from consumer marketplace (because without both parts you cant make a timed fertiliser bomb)

purely because I don't know for certain that the earth is globe shaped as per the images depicted or if it is in fact a curved disc, I'd hedge my bets on it being the former rather than the latter given the available sum of knowledge on the matter but I don't totally discount the notion that popular belief is wrong, after all popular and scientific belief suggests that e-cig use is worse for you than sucking in a lungful cigarette smoke a small but loud fringe groups has maintained that as false and now it seems mainstream science is catching up and seeing through the fog of popular belief, its widely believed that the US gov lies about pretty much everything, and that was certainly proven true about several things, so for this reason I wont totally poo-poo the idea as utter tosh, besides there needs to be a little mystery out there, I mean how do we know the moon is a circular shape when we never see anything more than a semi circle ?

i'm not saying your theory about the earth being flat is necessarily wrong, but the guy there in that video talks out his ass, having watched the videos made from space his claims about nasa not broadcasting things is totally wrong (the first moon mission relayed live footage across the airwaves of both the approach to the moon and return journey from the cockpit mounted camera...

his arguments about the ISS being somewhere in a bunker are barking mad (you can see it as it moves overhead with a pair of bino's or a telescope) his simplistic thoughts on how a gyroscope works failed to take account of altitude or the speed of travel or indeed the effects of gravity (a gyroscope that's fully spun up try's to move in the opposite direction to the force applied, so a person carrying one that try's to lift it and turn left will smash to the ground on the right, and that hurts a lot I've done it but only once)

If he had stuck to a single train of thought and worked through a hypothesis he might not appear to have just escaped a mental institution but unfortunately he comes across as somehone off their meds and in a manic phase of paranoia

all of which combined stands only to totally derail any "proof" he might believe exists because far from presenting the arguments in a logical well founded way he skips from misunderstanding to misunderstanding to outright moonhowling and that's the same with the majority of all conspiraloons (hence the name) if you look closely you can see conspiracies everywhere but only a few of them are really what they appear to be some are just imagined, unfortunately this delusional chap falls into the latter category on pretty much every point he makes

TW was never going to win the case the second the EC commissioner for health pointed out that under the FCTC and Lisbon treaty all tobacco products are required to be subjected to arbitrary rates of excise duty, the court was told not to upset the apple cart or it might just need to shrink in size as the amount of taxation similarly shrunk in size ......

a flurry of legislative releases were published on the EC's website in early April (since removed) detailing taxation rates of £1/ml based on being equivalent to 80 fags (how they work that out is beyond me, 80 fags would last me between 2 and 4 days 10ml of e-juice lasts me a day tops) and they also want to increase that tax rate as the strength goes up.

those publications have all been removed from public view since then but they are due to be implemented on the 4th of April 2017 (the start of the new tax year) perhaps they are only proposals as one advisor suggested to a news paper but given they were listed as mandatory EC directives that's rather unlikely.....

the remaining challenge(s) to the TPD will also fail because the EU is money hungry and its economy has been in free fall for the last 36 months, its hemoraging money faster than the ECB can print it and they need to develop new tax based income streams before the bonds are due for renewal in 2018 or they will be officially bankrupt, the Euro was doomed to failure from the outset, unlike the USA where a pound was a pound and after the revolutionary wars was replaced by the dollar used across the entire continent where its value was equal at all times you cannot combine disparate economies and currencies into a common modle and allow it to hold different worth in each member state, €10 in spain gets you a cd and a pint with a bag of chipsand and an ice cream, in Germany you can buy the pint and the bag of chips and the ice cream but the cd costs €15..... that was the day they all started using the euro and those differences haven't gotten any better since..... bung in Poland where you can buy a house for the price of a cheap car in most other states and suddenly your seeing that they are all totally incompatible with each other and the end was announced before they embarked on the radical process in the first place, only a conqured nation forced to change can become part of a whole without causing huge problems, even the Victorians could figure that out ....