The English Season

The English season has begun with the Chelsea Flower Show. All the local restaurants have been booked for the week since January although the sign that goes up on the Royal Hospital's railings saying that it's sold out went up this year a few days later than usual. A sign of the times one wonders. Are the Treasury and bankers getting nervous about the record level of borrowing for April and the threatened rating downgrade for the Banks? I think they should be and hope that the Treasury are thinking of ways of saving money like refusing to contribute to any more bail outs and to reverse the potentially disastrous Huhne legacy on carbon cutting etc. In relation to bail outs and the EU it is a great shame that the wrecking motion won in the House of Commons today. It is also a pity that the government seems lukewarm on pursuing the extraction of gas from shale. It needs to get a move on deciding how we are to generate sufficient energy at minimal cost. Wind farms and other such heavily subsidised alternative energy sources are not only hideously expensive but particularly in the case of wind farms hideous as well. Why on earth are conservatives so bent on spoiling our green and pleasant land?