A dark and cold Britain - by Richard... Saturday, December 18, 2010

A dark and cold Britain - by Richard... Saturday, December 18, 2010

Booker, as you would expect, is doing the Huhne energy "plan" in this week's column.

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Afore we go - by Richard...

We cannot leave the Moonbat saga without drawing your attention to this superb piece, which points out that the ghastly man is playing games of his own. Despite his protestations, however, and his false assertions about this site, it is interesting to note that Guardian moderators have deleted every substantive post from "nopressure" and have done the same with the posts from North Jr. Above and below are a selection of the posts.

The Guardian's idea of free speech, therefore, is to permit its columnists to mount ad hominemattacks and then prohibit any response. This is the same newspaper which is championing Assange and his Wikileaks, and is up front about the right to leak sensitive material. As always, any direct contact with this newspaper and its writers leaves one feeling soiled.

As for the moronic Moonbat, we have been sent this little note from him, published in the Guardianon 14 February 2005:

It is now mid-February, and already I have sown eleven species of vegetable. I know, though the seed packets tell me otherwise, that they will flourish. Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule. And it feels wonderful. Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are - unless the Gulf Stream stops - unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us.

Now, of course, as the snow lies deep and crisp and even, the warmists are shrieking "weather", while shutting down discourse, and Moonbat's moderators protect him from his own stupidity. But at least we now know how much the The Guardian really values free speech.

As a mirror-image of the same phenomenon, we have a piece from Monckton today, and very quickly we see the comments section infested by exactly the same group of trolls who so consistently attack Booker. The pattern of their frequent appearances and their relentless pursuit of wrecking tactics look contrived, and it is quite clear that the trolls are working in concert.

This amounts to another attack on free speech as, left to themselves, the trolls will drive other commentators off sites and then populate them with their own views.

The tenacity and predictability of the warmists, however, tells its own story. A failing cult, insecure, embattled and incoherent, is loosing the plot – and thus making up in stridency what it lacks in credibility. As the snow lies, this is their "Battle of the Bulge" – useless but still deadly.

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It came again - by Richard...

In my whole life, I've only ever seen conditions like these perhaps a couple of times – where we've had soft, slushy snow which has then frozen hard and got another layer on top. This makes it exceedingly dangerous, the most dangerous sort of snow imaginable, where you have soft snow on top of sheet ice. A lot of people are going to be hurt over the next few days. Some are going to die, and some are dying already.

The jokes about "global warming" were funny to start with, then they acquired an ironic edge. Now they are not funny at all. And, while the "forecast" splits Britain into a north-south divide, suggesting the snow will fall well south of here, already tonight we are seeing that soft, sticky, deadly layer getting thicker by the hour. So much for the forecast.

And the warmists just don't get it. Or perhaps they do, which could explain the vicious edge to their attacks. Their mantras are not going to survive this winter, and the politicians who continue to promote this lunacy are going to be howled down, ridiculed and rejected. They haven't realised it yet, but this while stuff falling from the skies is a powerful game-changer, a political event of considerable magnitude.

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