Thursday, August 30, 2012

Two wins for responsible people...

...and two blows against advocates of universal penalty.

Drinking age stays at 18 and folic acid addition to bread remains voluntary.

Great. I don't often applaud parliament but today being at their mercy is just a little less painless.

6 comments:

gravedodger said...

Are we seeing the early signs of personal responsibility making gains in the collective psyche of our once great self reliant nation, here's hoping.

Anonymous said...

"Are we seeing the early signs of personal responsibility . . "

Fat chance. Just venal politicians wanting to appeal to the "yoof" vote.

Lindsay Mitchell said...

Anon, The youth vote is very small. Even if it could be bumped up marginally by this action, appealing to other age groups is easier.

Shane Pleasance said...

And appealing to common sense almost impossible.

Anonymous said...

agree anon, it's all about keeping the youth vote and not doing the right thing. Not wanting to fix the elephant in the room. It's the drunkards who won.

Stephen Berry said...

These aren't as much victories as they are preventing further destruction of liberty