The wheels groan on my wagon - by Richard... Saturday, June 11, 2011

The wheels groan on my wagon - by Richard... Saturday, June 11, 2011

"Why vote blue, go green doesn't sound quite so clever any more", is the headline under which the Great Charles Moore writes in the Failygraph today, telling us, "It is time for Britain to walk away from its ridiculously stringent renewable energy plan". I do love the smell of a bandwagon in the morning ... and it is so good to see the great and the good catching up, at last.

But the truth is, it never did sound clever to "vote blue, go green", and it was five years ago that we should have been talking about walking away from the ridiculously stringent renewable energy plan, instead of sucking up to the "green tosser", as so many, so aptly, call the Boy Cameron.

Still, I suppose it's better late than never – and this is what it needs to get the political worm turning. But permit me a wry smile, as the latest Johnny-come-lately comes piling onto the bandwagon. You can already hear the wheels groaning under the unaccustomed weight.

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What did they expect? - by Richard...

If you launch a scheme which is economically illiterate, culturally inept and politically obtuse, there is a fairly good chance that it is going to fail. This is entirely predictable, it was predicted andthoroughly analysed, and still our rulers persevere with their stupidity.

But because they are our rulers, they know everything. They do not acknowledge that they can make mistakes (it is always someone else's fault), and do not have to pay for the consequences of their actions. Thus, they not only never learn, they are incapable of learning.

This seems to be something of a theme, which tends to alter your perspective on what to do with our corrupt and useless government. Certainly, expecting it to change voluntarily is a complete waste of time.

In the meantime, our idiot military brass and their political leaders will continue to make fools of themselves, wasting our money into the bargain, while the "primitive" Afghanis run rings round them. Just maybe, they have more to teach us than we have to teach them.