Greener than thou …

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Greener than thou …

"Finally, the BNP accepts that climate change, of whatever origin, is a threat to Britain. Current evidence suggests that some of it may be man-made; even if this is not the case, then the principle of 'better safe than sorry' applies and we should try to minimise the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants."

Oh f*** - they're just as daft as the rest, was the comment on my e-mail.

Utterly mad

The Daily Mail tells us that MEP Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, has suggested that travellers who regularly jet off to the Costas are threatening the lives of others - and do as much damage as thugs who stab people in the street.

Ms Lucas, made the controversial comment during a televised ITV debate about plans for a proposed third runway at Heathrow. She also hit out "binge flying" and people who have second homes abroad. That is, of course, except MEPs like Caroline Lucas who just happens to have a second home in Brussels.

And the reason for not rising up and slaughtering them is?

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Yup! Got it in one!

Gerald Warner is writing good sense on his blog. "The blogosphere 'revolution' is as phoney as our redundant parliamentary system," he says.

This weekend's Blog Revolution is just another of those synthetic metamorphoses that are employed, at necessary intervals, to anaesthetise the British public against political realities. Cyber gang warfare will not restore our liberties. The notion that installing a Tory government - or, rather, the Cameroon-occupied Conservative Party - will repair the damage to Britain is a cruel delusion. We are long past such impostures. The so-called Tories - the modernised, A-List, politically correct, yacht-boarding dilettantes - are utterly unequipped to govern.

Dave's proposal to cut by 60 the present total of 646 MPs is interesting, insofar as it shows he has heard the first rumblings of impending revolution; but it falls 586 short of the public will...

Dave will be elected, as part of the old pendulum game, next year, says Warner:

By 2014 he will conclusively have demonstrated the system is beyond reform. He will not hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, seize major derogations from EU law, repeal politically correct statutes or restore our many forfeited liberties. That is when Britain will finally lose patience with the detritus on the slime-green benches. But do not disturb the "revolutionary" Tory bloggers with such radical notions: they are too busy calculating who will get the Board of Green Cloth in a Cameron administration.

We could not agree more.

Meanwhile, Devil's Kitchen has done a good piece of work. And the reason for not rising up and slaughtering them is?

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A moral crime against the climate

Homeowners who do not to take action to improve the energy efficiency of their properties should be treated as criminals, one of the country's most influential environmentalists said last night.

Dr Richard Dixon, director of WWF Scotland, believes tough measures are needed to force people to cut their use of fossil fuels and thinks governments should consider making it a crime for members of the public not to take measures such as installing cavity wall insulation.

"It's clearly a moral crime against the climate," he says.

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Filling their boots …

The Financial Services Authority held three Christmas parties for its staff costing a total of more than £200,000 at the height of the banking crisis last year. The £214,159.50 bill footed by the taxpayer does not include the regulator's wholesale division of 643 staff, who organised their own departmental parties. 

The FSA was unable to break down the exact cost per head, since it did not record how many staff turned up, but if every employee attended, the price works out at £100 each. One party was held at Madame Tussauds for the operations division, a second at River, in Waterloo, for the direct report arm, and a third at Troxy, Limehouse, for the retail division. 

This was in The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

And the reason for not rising up and slaughtering them is?

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A misallocation of resources

Barely a day goes by without a complaint in the media of British forces in Afghanistan being "overstretched" and, of course, under-resourced.

We have another look at this issue on Defence of the Realm.