A weird and irrational cult has us in its grip. If the Mormons or the Moonies started taking over the BBC and the Government, which then harangued and persecuted us into wearing funny underwear or getting married in mass ceremonies, we would – I hope – rise in revolt.
But the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.
There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
And they are succeeding. Few areas in Britain are now unthreatened by deranged projects to install intrusive, gigantic wind-farms on prominent sites.
This must be one of the first instances of a civilisation voluntarily and consciously going backwards. We might as well rely for our economic and industrial future on tens of millions of hamsters pattering frantically round treadmills. Hamsters only do this by night. Windmills only make electricity when it is windy. See the problem?
For most of us, the truth has yet to sink in. Our old lightbulbs still function, or we have stockpiled a few. And the nuclear and coal-fired power stations which keep our country going have some years yet to run before they wear out or a Brussels decree shuts them down for ever.
But the time is not far away when we will find the irrational opinions of these maniacs being forced upon us unpleasantly in our daily lives. The lights will be too dim to read by. Then they will go off for long periods of the day or night. Our computers will be down much of the time.
The well-off will buy expensive generators and our suburbs will be like Baghdad, with smelly, noisy, petrol-driven motors bursting into life every few hours as the central power shudders and fails.
Even if the prophecies of the man-made global warming cultists were proven, which they aren’t, these measures would be an idiotic response to the problem. Nuclear power, as the French well know, produces no carbon emissions and also ends dependence on Russia for gas and the Middle East for oil. And it works in a dead calm, too.
The lightbulb purge will have a piffling effect on energy consumption, nothing like enough to justify the expense and inconvenience forced upon us. I suspect that it has been designed specifically to advance the cult, to make believers feel good about themselves rather than to do good – the main aim of all false religions.
Why don’t we resist? Partly because, once again, there is now no major political party which speaks for common sense.
The deal with terrorists that truly was squalid
As if to commemorate the original Phoney War of 1939-40, we are now having another one about Libya and Colonel Gaddafi. You normally see posturing like this only at a Paris fashion show, all strutting, pouting and striking attitudes.
Look, there was a real occasion in this country when we did a squalid deal with terrorists. We didn’t even get any oil concessions in return.
In fact we got nothing and they got everything. It didn’t involve the release of one ill and doubtfully guilty person, but the release of hundreds of healthy, wholly guilty criminals and the wrongful elevation of various bloodstained ruffians to taxpayer-financed public office.
This was sanctified at the time as The Good Friday Agreement. I opposed it, almost alone in the British media (perhaps I was also the only journalist who read it) and have ever afterwards been told off by pious persons for being against ‘peace’.
Interestingly enough, Colonel Gaddafi was involved in that too, having given the IRA training and explosives with which it murdered lots of innocent people. But we seemed to have forgiven him for that, without any fuss.
The political party now raging against the release of the supposed Lockerbie Bomber, demanding inquiries and the rest, was prominent in actively supporting the Good Friday surrender.
The government of the USA, likewise, pushed hard for its acceptance. For these bodies to complain about the release of Megrahi is worse than ordinary hypocrisy. It is a special kind of brazen humbug, deserving of total contempt. Anyway, Megrahi was freed to prevent an appeal, which would have shown he was innocent and exposed the reasons behind the whole disgraceful cover-up of the real culprits.
Meanwhile, the truly important national controversy – Afghanistan – goes undiscussed while good men die.
YouTube video every teenager should watch
Personally, I’d impose a mandatory six months’ hard labour, followed by a long stint as a cleaner in A&E, for anyone convicted of texting while driving, and three months for people who use hand-held phones at the wheel. These cretins are consciously taking a heartless risk with the lives of others, and if reason won’t work, then fear will have to do.
But in the meantime, I think all TV channels should give primetime space to the powerfully grim Gwent police video about an airheaded, giggling teenage girl who texts while driving, and so propels herself into a world of horror, misery and lifelong remorse. It is an astonishingly effective piece of realistic film-making.
As an 18-year-old, I caused a serious road accident by my own stupidity. Thank God, I didn’t do major damage to anyone but myself. But I can tell you that this film accurately portrays the appalling speed with which normality turns to disaster and also the strange disturbing peace which can come halfway through the horror, before it starts again. Watch it on YouTube if you can. Make sure any teenager you know watches it too.
* There now seems to be an orchestrated campaign by architects against Prince Charles. Hardly a week goes by without another one attacking him. I think we should all side with the Prince. He is the nearest thing we now have to the great John Betjeman, who saved many fine buildings from being destroyed, and spoke up for beauty against barbarism. Charles may be wrong about many things, but he is right about buildings, and his interventions against ugliness have been a proper use of his influence.
These architects, all glinting efficient types who seem unable to design anything except boxes, go on about democracy. But who chose them, or the hideous and un-British styles they force on us?
* I suspect that many of those who now claim to ‘hate’ Gordon Brown really hate themselves for having voted New Labour two or three times, after being fooled by the Blair creature.
After all, why wait ten years to get so enraged with this terrible Government? Some of us knew from the start how bad it was. What will all these people do for a hate-figure if Mr Brown quits, as I think he will probably do on ‘health grounds’ before the Election?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1211409/PETER-HITCHENS-Windfarms-We-use-hamsters-treadmills.html#ixzz0QJHVRsNR
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