Thursday, 14 August 2008
When in a hole... keep digging
As the questions facing the climate change alarmists get more pressing what would you do if you were the European Commission. Would you,
A) Wind your neck in a little. After all the bio-fuels policy has already blown up in your face,
or
B) Organise the creation of a Climate Change DG with its own EU Commissioner and staff.
Posted on England ExpectsVaclav Klaus, a diamond in the midden
Today all political decisions are compromisable, all positions changeable. Nothing is quite what it seems. But there is a speck of light. Like a throwback to the nineteenth century, a politician of conviction and principle. Enter Vaclav Klaus. Second term President of the Czech Republic and a beacon of enlightenment values in an increasingly voodoo world.
Posted on England ExpectsRace Equality Council position compromised?
There was a story in the Northants Evening Telegraph yesterday that would be of interest to Council Tax payers in the county. It concerned a report that showed Northamptonshire County Council, run by the Conservatives, failed to attain even level one out of five for the Equality Standard for Local Government. In February 2007 it had...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.No human damage! and other linguistic shenanigans
A week after the event, and a couple of days after the story started to come out - (what took them so long I wonder?) the Parliament services have finally put out a statement about the collapse of the Strasbourg hemicycle chamber ceiling. It includes the following glorious phrase.
"Fortunately, the incident caused no human damage."
But eurocratese doesn't stop there...
Posted on England Expects
Thursday, 14 August 2008
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