The stupidity it burns

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Having spent the day in a management training course, which invovled going to the office and thus trains and thus news papers I got exposed to above normal levels of stupid. So I thought I’d do the only “decent” thing and share the pain, so here is the Wednesday stupidity round up. ( I won’t mention Gordon Brown saying “told you so” and that te world needed to bail out the Euro).

Starting with the Metro and following up from yesterday it seems that the Government has announced reforms to the drive for renewable energy (wind farm subsidies for rich land owners) tat will cause our bills to go up by an estimated 160 quid a year, more if they don’t get round to passing an energy bill and getting private investors – that’ll help stimulate the economy all right.

The Prisoner vote thing has come back around again, with the ECHR once more saying banning all prisoners from voting is naughty and our Government (which is stuffed full of lawyers) saying well we’re going to do it anyway rather than just introducing some reasonable cut off point so that there isn’t an “automatic blanket” ban (which would be in keeping with a our radical heritage). Almost as if they’re just picking a fight for the headlines isn’t it. Of course it may be we could just say no without it leading to a fight, but the posturing is we’ll fight and waster even more money.

Another one which keeps coming back round on the guitar is the idea of a Thames estuary airport, now don’t get me wrong I think from so many ways this could be ever so cool, there’s just the slight problem of the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery. Which doesn’t get many mentions in discussions about this plan.

And that’s quite enough stupid for one day, though there’s a lot more out there.

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Reality lag

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I do hope you’ll indulge me in a lightly referenced post, but having just watched the BBC news I have a slight need to rant. Plus if you read many of the blogs I link to you’ll already be aware of many of the things I’ll mention.

The BBC tonight had a “news” article about the problems of keeping the lights on in the UK, due to massive lack of investment in our power infrastructure, so far so good. Then the insanity started, apparently we can subsidise wind power which so far contributes nothing and needs massive conventional back up and pollutes China and actually has very few green credentials. Nukes aren’t allowed to be obviously subsidised as they’re not popular so the private sector has to take all the risk, except of course they don’t as all nuclear plants get massive guarantees from the government and can generally walk away from the clean up. Much as I’m hugely in favour of the private sector dealing with everything the government doesn’t need to if the choice is between paying huge subsidies/back handers to the private sector or just having the state do it, I’d rather the state did it. I would of course also hope that the state would show some hint of competence which might be asking a bit much, but I’m an optimistic sort at heart.

That though I’m afraid isn’t the worst of the insanity, they did briefly mention the cheapest option which is also a very proven design quick to build and low risk – gas powered stations. Ah but you see these can’t be used as the natural gas has to be imported at great cost as in BBC world we don’t have gas shale deposits we could use, well not after the Government stuck their oar in. That of course isn’t all we have the green agenda to consider mustn’t release any carbon into the environment lest it cause more global warming which isn’t happening. So because we can’t possibly use modern gas powered plants due to a Government tied to the altar of the green agenda our only choice is higher bills and huge back handers to the green god and private companies. All to keep promises everyone else is backing away from to tackle a global warming problem which seems to not be happening – and this is parliamentary policy (from all the parties in power) at a time when you’d have thought that anything that could boast the economy (like home built gas power stations and cheap energy) would be leapt on like a dog humping an expensive suit.

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Bad news from Bexley

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I’m sad to report that it’s bad news from Bromley court, the Cunts in Bexley Council have managed to get young Olly Cromwell sentenced to 12 month community service order AND a 5 year restraining order plus £620 costs. As Max says that sounds like Olly can’t attend council meetings so an apparently very obvious denial of his democratic rights. I’m hoping there’ll be a whip round to  help with costs, and I suspect that I’ll have a sudden urge to attend more council meetings.

I’m expecting that Gareth Bacon still won’t comment possibly citing appeals, or failing that both he and James Cleverly will both feel that it’s perfectly acceptable as the courts have said it’s so.

A very sad day for democracy and freedom of speech in Bexley, the cunts!

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