We've had links to exotic locations worldwide, but we wanted to gauge what impact Ed Miliband is having as Minister for Energy and Climate Change. The Guardian, recently stated that he was pissing people off as we noted last week, but then this week in the pre-Budget statement: nothing.
Still, in the by one's enemies do we know him department, the only thing we can really find is from Bernard Ingham. Remember him? Probably not. He was once Thatcher's Press Secretary now reduced to sniping from that cutting edge and heavily influential publication The Yorkshire Post. But as we see from the ridiculous sniping over the Pre Budget Statement, for both main parties, and the lazy journos who cover them, it's back to the future. Outside the UK, Citibank is effectively nationalised, the EU proposes €250 billion for a recovery package and China unveils another one. But here it's lets do the time warp again: Deficit spending is the enemy of civilisation as we know it. On one hand we have a government that thinks a 2.5% cut in VAT will get people back in the shops, although they are already immune to offers of ten to twenty times that amount. Are you going to buy a new car because you can save £300 on it? Do they know anything about real life? But the next day the Tories have apoplexy over a possible 1% (shock! horror!) rise in VAT.
So perhaps people like Ingham will become listened to again. Dominic Lawson, who screwed things up big time as Chancellor for La Thatcher is pushing his Climate Change is a big con and the Nobel Prize commitee are a bunch of communists book, and his old pal Ingham is generating mucho wind energy, rather surprising when of course he doesn't believe in it.
Is our wild, unspoilt countryside in safe hands? You must be joking. Why, this very organisation – this so-called Environment Agency – is actually proposing to build wind "farms" down some of our lovely
river valleys.
Contrary to what it seems to think, the turbines won't power a thing if the wind doesn't blow. They are also by common consent among those who have studied their economics the most expensive and unreliable option for reducing carbon emissions. What is more, we consumers foot the bill for this waste.
What is this problem with the right and wind? No one is proposing wind anywhere except miles offshore these days, which is a rather windy place and a long way from offending the delicate eyes of people who otherwise seem to think we can solve the energy crisis by building nuclear plants for far more money in a far longer time scale.
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