Posted on 02/10/2014 11:49:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
David Cameron is backing a ban on smoking in cars carrying children, but will miss today's crunch vote.
The Prime Minister is to visit flooded communities across the South West as MPs vote on plans to make it a criminal offence to light up in a car in England, punishable by a £60 fine or points on a motorist’s licence.
Three years ago the Prime Minister said he was 'not sure whether it is possible to legislate in that area' and called for a 'change in attitudes'.
But today the PM's official spokesman said Mr Cameron now supports a ban.
'His view is that while he understands the concerns that some have expressed, his view is that the time for this kind of approach has come.'
It means the Cabinet is deeply divided on the issue, with Nick Clegg branding the law 'unenforceable' while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt insists it is vital to protect children's health.
Tory and Lib Dem MPs to be given a free vote on the issue, which means they can vote with their conscious and not the party line....
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Smoking is still legal in England?
Only in approved Muslim hookah establishments.
Anyone know Cameron’s politics on abortion?
If it weren’t, yobs would get rich selling them.
Stop smoking tobacco in cars with children, but, you can light up a big fatty and smoke all the pot you want with the children in the car!
hypocrites!
Geez I was told that my mother smoked Camel nonfilters in the car with me sitting in her lap on the way home from the delivery room.
Several years later, I was outside riding my bike on the pavement, wearing shorts, no shoes, a dead snake wrapped around my neck, with a piece of plywood propped up on a couple bricks seeing who could make the longest Evel Knievel jump.
Now kids are disinfected and sanitized while playing vidja games on the sofa for hours.
The time has come to ban breathing in cars carrying leftists.
He is one of the worst (conservative in name only, pro-homosexual) leaders Britain has ever had. It could not get much worse if Prince Charles the tree-hugging airhead were Prime Minister.
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