Give un-PC a chance

Why is the Bangkok Post, increasingly, becoming the mouthpiece for the left/green/ liberal/PC movement?

Half of the people in the world who know anything of Donald Trump actually like him. They prefer his political naivety to the political correctness of the left. Isn’t it better that a world leader speaks directly from his own mind? When did the Post last publish a letter from his side of politics?

Plastic bags are a huge convenience. To ban them might achieve something, but at what cost? They are so easily disposed of properly and so convenient to use and reuse. Ban them and we must buy them instead of getting them free. With a choice, I choose the shop which provides the most durable bags. Tesco’s are far too frail to make a decent bin-liner.

People of normal weight drink and enjoy Pepsi Cola and Fanta. Most of the tax to save the voluntarily obese from themselves will be paid by the “normals”. A mass penalty to save a few, and will it achieve anything at all? The normal will pay extra, the fat will stay fat. (Politically incorrect again, sorry fatties.)

We were born as meat-eaters, our canine teeth so testify. Perhaps as a rite of passage they should be extracted. They are quite unnecessary to devour a delicious bowl of bean curd.

The poorest suffer when a carbon tax is imposed. The C02 emissions “prevented” are dwarfed by the single eruption of one of the world’s larger volcanoes. Until we learn how to tax those wicked volcanoes, please spare the rest of us.

Gamblers, and drinkers of alcohol must be taxed. I look for a rational justification, but what is it? Those with a predilection to gamble or to take a drink must pay money to those who do not.

Ditto smokers. Our own health is our own business. As they say, if you don’t smoke, drink or gamble, you may not live longer but it will feel like you do. The shorter our sojourn, beyond retirement age, the smaller our burden on the state. Please, give the easy-going, politically incorrect, a voice.

GEORGE CUPPAIDGE