<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fight for freedom a rant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The English pub is dying fast.<br>Strangled by regulations.<br>I think I’ll live to see the last.<br>There’ll be no celebrations</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no where to celebrate<br> no local institutions.<br>Unless before it is too late.<br>A stay of execution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is granted by the powers that be<br>who recognise their foolishness<br>reversing their stupid decrees<br> which have proved their total uselessness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Free the pubs from petty rules, <br>No one can truly understand<br>designed by pettifogging fools.<br>Its up to us we must demand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Repeal of anti smoking laws<br>and simply let the landlord choose<br> what seems to be the wiser course.<br>To allow smoking or refuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The customers will let him know<br> if his decision is correct.<br>Vote with their feet and choose to go<br> to any pub which they select.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where they can smoke or to refuse<br>Acknowledge we have got the right<br>As free born Englishmen to choose<br>Before the last pub fades from sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I may survive to see the last<br> and wonder what will take their place.<br>An old tradition overcast.<br>They will just vanish without trace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless we are prepared to fight<br> to change the governmental view.<br>The pubs are part of our birthright<br> I ‘m sure we are entitled to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Choose to do what we enjoy<br>To smoke and drink and chat with friends<br>Whatever tactics they employ<br>To achieve their stated ends</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Presenting theories as facts<br> in their attempts to frighten us.<br>They try to justify their acts.<br>Which frankly makes me furious</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smoke because I chose to smoke<br>Nobody is coercing me<br>I treat their theories as a joke <br>not to be taken literally</div><div style="margin:10px 0">24/10/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413844" data-title="Fight for freedom a rant de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The English pub is dying fast. Strangled by regulations. I think I’ll live to see the last. There’ll be no celebrations There is no where to celebrate no local institutions. Unless before it is too late. A stay of execution. Is granted by t..."></div> </div> </div>

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