Ah, another week in Westminster and all is well with the
lunatic world of those running Asylum Britain. Both Tory and Labour ex-Foreign
Secretaries take a turn in the stocks for their apparent arrogance in accepting
cash for access; didn’t we do all this before? But maybe it was a case of
taking bullets for the team? Rifkind possibly intended to draw attention away
from George Osborne reining back his promise to increase minimum wage to £7 an hour,
which looks pretty shoddy compared to £5k a day, doesn’t it? And maybe Jack, the
man of Straw, was keen to deflect attention from the astonishing announcement
regarding a former cabinet colleague.
Yes, that old dinosaur John Prescott has been dug up,
dusted down, re-animated and brought out of retirement as an exhibit in the Unnatural History
Museum – an example of the extinct hominid Homeo hullibilis on-the-pithecus –
in order to be, wait for it, Ed Miliband’s special advisor ‘responsible for
global warming’ by one report. I expect the lithe and sporty Mr P has been
responsible for a fair portion of it over the years but it seems a little
unfair to single him out as being entirely to blame. Mind you he can throw a
mean punch so maybe this is the plan to engage climate change sceptics? Believe
or Big John will lamp you one.
Because it is far more about belief than it is about
science, isn’t it? And Red Ed falls hook, line and sinker for the climate change
message, swallows unsubstantiable ‘truths’ wholesale and Oliver Twist-like, begs
for more. Why? Because listen to the siren call to the young and
impressionable: “Oh woe, woe and thrice woe,” they cry, “we have only five days
to save the planet. The nasty grown-ups burned all our futures!” Even if this creaky
Hollywood premise were true we are either too late, or else we can do too
little - but think of the votes! Personally, I genuinely don’t give a fuck because all that I am will
die with me in a couple of decades from now, long before any changes will affect
my lifestyle.
Except for one thing. Miliband’s absurd target will only
make it more expensive, year on year. He says “The next Labour government
will commit Britain to making our electricity supply carbon free by 2030.” Does
he have the first inkling of a clue about how anything works? Of course not. A
schoolboy Marxist he thinks all things come from the state and is prepared to
repeal the natural laws if necessary to turn policy into personal hardship
for millions. He has no clue about physics, meteorology, chemistry, biology, or
anything else not covered in the Oxford PPE syllabus and in his ignorance will
happily make you pay for every madcap gimmick the Green gurus will dream up and
petition him to adopt.
In Labour’s wonderland, new technology must miraculously
appear without the intervention of humans. Humans who create carbon dioxide
(Prescott alone has a carbon footprint the size of Hull) and all the animals we
eat, which create carbon dioxide and the minerals we mine, transport and
process using fossil fuels which emit carbon dioxide. There is no such thing as
zero-carbon energy unless we rely on direct sunlight alone and preferably don’t employ any of that energy to create even more humans.
Simple Gore-geous!
But beyond simple ignorance there is a massive hypocrisy
in Labour’s pursuit of green credentials and it is the little matter of one of Labour's raisons d'être - equality. In the bright red future, only the very wealthy will be able to afford heat and light and
transport and technology and just as now the very wealthy will be able to choose
how much they want to pay in order that the rest of us may have a share. From sunny, tax-free climes they will occupy the
choicest spots on the planet and watch as the rest of us shiver in the dark.
Somebody said, as a joke “What if we run out of renewables?” Would anybody dare
bet that couldn’t happen under Labour?
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