Fun Online Polls: Julian Assange and midges

The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

What would you do with Julian Assange?

Allow him to go to Ecuador - 48%
Leave him to sweat in the Ecuadorian Embassy - 27%
Extradite him to Sweden - 11%
Cut out the middleman and hand him over to the Yanks - 7%
Other, please specify - 6%

Good, that's that settled then and I'm with the majority on this one. The turnout was very high at 170 votes, thanks to everybody who responded.
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I've noticed a couple of articles saying that there are more midges this summer because of the particularly warm, wet weather.

This week's Fun Online Poll - have you noticed more midges than usual?

Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.

Bloody asylum seekers, coming over here, occupying our embassies...

Fun Online Polls: Olympics bandwagons & Julian Assange

Your responses to last week's Fun Online Polls were as follows:

Which is your favourite Olympic bandwagon?

Michael Gove - Sell off the school playing fields - 29%
Jessica Ennis - One hour's sport a day for school children - 22%
Mo Farah - End child hunger in the Horn of Africa - 19%
Bradley Wiggins - All cyclists must wear helmets - 9%
None of the above/other, please specify - 21%

Bob E submitted a good one: @Chris Hoy/Gordon Brown: Team GB's medal success is an argument against independence for Scotland." If you think along those lines, it also strikes me that Team GB's success is a good argument in favour of immigration, seeing as of how certain sports seem to be dominated by people of certain races/ethnic origins. We Brits are definitely world class at sitting down stuff like rowing, cycling, sailing etc.

Yippee, I chose the most popular one this week. I thought school sports was a complete and utter waste of time myself, it's the sort of thing which ought to be voluntary/extra-curricular like playing in the school orchestra or joining the drama club etc.
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This week's Fun Online Poll, what would you do with Julian Assange?

Vote here or use the widget in the side bar. Because of the EU Arrest Warrant system, I'm afraid that "allow him to stay in the UK" isn't a realistic option, not that William Hague is too keen to mention this.

Hysterical Over-reaction Of The Week

From The Metro:

Ecuador has temporarily banned alcohol as an emergency measure after 12 people died drinking contaminated bootleg liquor. (1)

Initially the ban was restricted to the coastal municipality of Urdaneta in Los Rios province, where over 100 people have been treated for intoxication (2) from drinking adulterated alcohol.

A 72-hour nationwide dry law prohibiting the sale or consumption (3) of alcohol was subsequently introduced yesterday, after alcohol poisoning cases were detected in at least four other areas across the country. (4)

1) High duties on spirits -> bootlegging, see Pub Curmudgeon for a lengthier exposé. As VFTS points out in the comments, ban on sale of alcohol -> increase in sale of bootleg alcohol.

2) Isn't that the whole point? To get intoxicated?

3) There's nothing to suggest that beer or wine is similarly contaminated, but they've banned the 'consumption' of all alcohol in people's houses? So I can't finish off the last few cans from a multi-pack or a bottle of wine which so far hasn't killed me? How are they going to enforce that, then?

4) Could they not just publish the brand names used by the bootleggers and leave it to people to decide for themselves?