The author of that other website seems to have struck a rich seam of columnar inspiration in the works and words of Cllr Rev Huw George, Cabinet member for the environment and Welsh language.
Rev Huw’s latest initiative has taken him down to Little Haven where he has imposed a smoking ban on the beach.
Actually it’s not really a ban because smoking on Little Haven beach is a perfectly legal activity so Huw and Co have put up signs to discourage smoking with the hope is that members of the public will approach any recalcitrants and remind them of their civic duty to stub it out.
Anyone tempted to follow this course shouldn’t be surprised to be told to have sex and travel.
The edict also extends to vaping even though only this week the Royal College of Surgeons has come out in favour of these devices as a means to help people to quit smoking.
Anyone who has studied the history of the first half of the 20th century will feel uneasy at this attempt to use state-sponsored social pressure to control people’s behaviour.
As the great liberal philosopher J S Mill said: “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.”
And, with a nod to Mill’s harm principle, Cllr George and his supporters say that their “ban” is designed to prevent children from taking up smoking.
By way of some complicated verbal gymnastics they claim – with nothing by way of evidence to back it up – that, if children see people smoking on the beach, they will come to see such activity as normal and will be encouraged to light up.
While protecting children is a worthy aim, we happy puffers might take exception to being lectured on the subject by the man responsible for the harm done to young people’s prospects by the the dismal performance of the council’s education service which led to the scathing reports by Estyn and CSSIW in 2011.
What Cllr Rev Huw would do well to remember is the injunction “Live and let live” which entreats us to tolerate the faults of others so they might tolerate our own and which encapsulates the concept of liberalism.
And, as a preacher, he will be familiar with the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would be done by.
He might imagine what life would be like if, say, the militant atheist Prof Richard Dawkins was in charge instead of himself.
Dawkins believes that: “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”
Presumably, if he had his way, the “dangerous folly” promoted by Cllr Rev George would be banned in the name of children’s mental health.
It must be said, however, that Rev Huw’s puritanical instincts can be a bit selective.
Take for example his contribution to the debate on a no confidence motion on his leader Cllr Jamie Adams who I had accused of bearing false witness about his visit to the attic at Coronation School.
Rev Huw made no attempt to deny the charge that Adams had failed to tell the truth – instead he told us that the Leader had played soccer for Solva; had been a member of Keeston young farmers; and was “Pembrokeshire through and through”.
This wasn’t quite as near the bone as former leader John Davies’ description of Cllr Adams as “A true-born son of the Pembrokeshire soil” when nominating him for the Leadership at the AGM in 2012, though the echoes from the past are almost as loud.
It would have been encouraging if preacher George had found time during his lengthy oration (he doesn’t do brief) to condemn his leader’s easy way with the actuality.
After all, we wouldn’t want children to run away with the idea that telling lies is “normal”.
Not that Cllr Adams is the only leading IPPG member to be economical with the truth.
Readers will recall that, shortly after the last election, I had to call out Cllr Ken Rowlands for making misleading claims in his election address about the new school for Johnston.
And we mustn’t forget former deputy leader Rob Lewis’ attempt to bamboozle the Ombudsman by claiming that his election leaflets had been produced by a local printing firm when his election return showed that he had bought cartridges and paper and printed them himself.
Which brings us neatly to Cllr George and his 2012 election video (see below) featuring the £300,000 worth of tarmac laid in his ward in the year running up to the poll, which he credited to “positive politics” i.e his influence.
However, when I raised this issue at a cabinet meeting, where I was campaigning for an increase in the budget for car parking on council estates, the leader told me that all this blackstuff Huw was promoting in his election video was down to “routine maintenance”.
Set against all that, enjoying a quiet fag on Little Haven beach seems almost saintly.