Fun Online Polls: Damian Green and silly lyrics

Thank you everybody who took part in last week's Fun Online Poll:

What are the relative prices of a can of strong lager and a bottle of water in a supermarket, accordingto Damian Green?

Both cost £1.00 - 18%
Lager 50p, water £1.50 - 35%
Lager 20p, water £2.00 - 47%

Well done the 47% of you who got it right (or who could be bothered to click the link), the other 53% really ought to pay more attention or learn to cheat.
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There are plenty of songs reminding us that Mary's boy child, Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day, but how about you?

Choose the most appropriate albeit implausible self-aggrandisement here or use the widget in the sidebar.

"Damian Green says smoking ban is un-British"

From the BBC:

Banning smoking in outdoor public places would be "un-British", the immigration minister has said.

Damian Green told the Sunday Telegraph that passing such a law was at odds with the UK's "tolerant and mutually respectful society". It comes after Tory MP Philip Hollobone introduced a private members' bill which would make it legal for people to smoke on privately owned premises again.

Last week French MPs voted to ban smoking in public. The bill, which was overwhelmingly approved by France's lower house of parliament, must now be ratified by the Senate in September to become law. If it is passed, it will be illegal to smoke anywhere in public.

But Mr Green said such the existing UK ban was "very likely" to be lifted. "Telling people what they can and can't do, if they're just walking down the street, is a rather un-British thing to do," he told the Sunday Telegraph, "We're a tolerant and mutually respectful society."

Life in a police state

From The Telegraph: "Police watchdog investigates claims that three officers attacked war veteran"

Also from The Telegraph: "Police shoot man dead outside Guildford Cathedral"

Er, also from The Telegraph: "Damian Green accused of 'grooming' Whitehall mole, claim police"

Ah ... another one from The Telegraph: "Ian Blair poised to publish a book about his years at Scotland Yard" ...Sir Ian Blair is negotiating a book deal worth an estimated £150,000 to reveal all about his turbulent years as head of Scotland Yard.

Quote of the day

Spotted on BBC website by Christina Speight:

John O'Connor, former head of the London police unit, the flying squad, told BBC Radio 5Live he found it difficult to believe the government didn't know about the investigation [into Damian Green].

He said: "If the prime minister and the home secretary were unaware of this police activity - then they must be utterly incompetent.

"And if they were aware of it then that makes them really quite dangerous. So I think whatever way, whatever path they choose it doesn't put them in a good light."*

* I suppose that's a polite way of saying "pathological liars"

Here's hoping ...

Now that Damian Green knows what it's like to be the victim of politically motivated police-state thuggery of questionable legality, should we expect him to ask the Home Secretary to relinquish these powers once the Tories are in government?