Energy

Despite what those like Huhne believe there is considerable doubt amongst the scientific establishment about global warming and about man’s contribution to it. In light of the climate we have been enjoying recently it really does seem silly to rush in and impose another tax, build more fairly useless wind farms, cut back on carbon emissions etc rather than wait say another 20 years to see what the result of the current climate leads to. In the interim the time should be used to carry out further uncontroversial analysis into global warming so that if at the end of the 20 years even the current sceptics are convinced something should be done then we can all support the necessary legislation/taxation. The only thing Napoleon said that I agree with is ‘when in doubt do nothing’. As Huhne is no doubt an admirer of that awful tyrant Napoleon like my French father-in-law (he had an excuse - he was French) one would expect him to follow the little man (about the same size as Huhne?). The 20 years should also be usefully used to push forward the development of/search for alternative energy forms including nuclear.

EU Referendum

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Olympic Tickets

Further reasons for getting out the EU. It truly is a nonsense that the initial allocation of tickets for the Olympics should not be exclusively for those who are paying for the whole show. In other words the taxpayers who live in these islands. As the rest of the EU has not paid a penny to this circus it is incomprehensible that other EU 'citizens' (yes we are apparently now EU citizens although I have to say that I reject being so designated as I was a freeborn Englishman and shall so remain for the rest of my life) should have any right to buy tickets ahead of the rest of the world and in particular ahead of Commonwealth citizens. It is also a nonsense that the EU is trying to impose or has imposed its financial services rules on the City of London and its ridiculous and pretentiously named 'droit de suite' ( a kind of droit de seigneur but instead of getting a virgin an artist gets a cut of the secondary sales of his works). The only reason for these impositions is to reduce this country to a vassal state by ruining the businesses we excel in. However there is a time coming soon when there will be an English rose revolution against the whole EU idea in this country and one which will be won by those who believe in democracy. Down with all eurocrats and the politicains who support them and long may they suffer in hell for their deceit.    

No to AV

The greatest fear with the AV referendum is that the No to AV campaign will be so far ahead in the polls by the time it takes place that those of its supporters who would otherwise make the effort to go and vote will be overcome with apathy thinking the result a forgone conclusion, particularly in those areas where there is no local elections and the like taking place at the same time. It is essential that those who support No to AV win the referendum as the likely result if those who vote Yes to AV win is that we shall end up with a permanent coalition of the left ruling us. It is quite clear that the LibDems would have gone into a coalition with Labour if the number of seats Labour had won would have given a Labour/LibDem coalition an overall majority in the Commons. If AV passes it is quite clear that thereafter and except in exceptional circumstances only the LibDems and Labour could form a majority with an increasingly leftward agenda. Nothing that I have seen about the LibDems gives me any confidence in their governing abilities. Witness the vote today on the NHS reforms at their Spring Conference. Witness that prating fool Menzies Campbell who wishes to take over as Foreign Secretary from Hague. Hague is probably the best Foreign Secretary we have had for over a century even if he is not concerned with fighting the internal political war. Both Straw and David Miliband were capable of fighting the internal political war - a pity though that they were so lousy at being Foreign Secretary. Incidentally I hear that the SAS mission was to take out weapons of mass destruction and not to make contact with any rebel group. If true it is a great pity it failed if the Gaddafis retain power.  

Sea Level Rising

A couple of days ago the BBC's Environment Correspondent Richard Black reported that research shows ice loss from Antartica and Greenland has accelerated over the last 20 years and will soon become the biggest driver of of sea level rise. Scientists calculate from satellite data and climate models (hopefully the flawed Met Office climate model is not one) that the two polar ice sheets are losing enough ice to to raise sea levels by 1.3mm per year. This rise is apparently likely to be significantly higher than the level projected by the IPCC if present tends continue. We know that the IPCC projections are also flawed and thus in my view it can be safely assumed that this is just a scare story and can be ignored for all the reasons that those scientists who poured cold water on the IPPC's findings will explain in full once the report on which Black's article is based is published. Global warming and cooling is cyclical as in fairness Black seems to realise by having said 'if present trends continue'. If sea levels have indeed risen over the last 20 years they will surely reduce as the current cycle ends. That mere man can change the climate is a conceit that has been fully exposed by today's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nature's power is indeed awesome.   

Kevin Maguire

It is difficult to know why anyone should take this man seriously. Sky News often has him pontificating on the papers and occasionally for my sins I watch him do his thing. I have also seen him in the Punch Bowl in Farm Street or did before it was closed for refurbishment or whatever. He is a twerp of the first water and it is very difficult to take anything he says seriously. Guido Fawkes http://order-order.com in one of his blogs today refers to Maguire's story in today's Mirror that some left wing Libyan (a natural supporter of Gaddafi then) he met in London is saying that the SAS squad involved in the UK's failed mission was carrying explosives because it was a sabotage mission to destroy rebel positions and blame the resultant atrocities on Gaddafi's forces to stir up civil war and win international sympathy. Maguire says he's sceptical but the SAS expedition has created huge mistrust, presumably amongst the Libyan friends of Maguire's Libyan friends in London. I doubt that any such mistrust has been created as I think Maguire has been taken in by his friend. Maguire vouchsafes that his friend is left wing without making the connection that as Gaddafi runs what is called a socialist government his friend is or was quite likely a Gaddafi supporter. Maguire surely would have mentioned this if he had asked his friend the question. That  is why Maguire in my view is a twerp. Hague has in my view handled the whole affair with great aplomb and if he had any thoughts about resigning I would urge him not to do so. His country needs him and the stories of him losing his mojo are in my view total bunk. He may not get on with Bummer and La Clinton but who could blame him for that?

Hague again

Following on from yesterday I was pleased to read Guy Walters in the Telegraph today that in his view the SAS mission to Libya was not botched, at least not botched by us. It must be right to have tried to contact those rebels who had asked for talks even if the mission failed. No doubt there will be another opportunity for talks and one perhaps that will not get leaked to the press, at least until it has proved to have been a success. As for the press, they are a strange lot of people. On the one hand they maintain they need to reveal all they find out about everyone and everything to the world but yet on the other hand they like to foster cosy relationships with politicians. The result of these cosy relationships is that they fail to report information about our leaders that we as voters might find not only interesting but essential to understanding what makes some of our politicians tick. The hypocrisy of the press is only overwhelmed by the hypocrisy of politicians. There are of course honourable exceptions but none as yet come to mind. Craig Oliver, the new No. 10 communications chief, is not liked by the lobby as he has not been appointed from amongst their ranks. That is why I imagine we are being told that the spin against Prince Andrew came from Oliver. Maybe it did and maybe it didn't but the wording of the reports looks like score settling. We'll see how the press deal with the report into police pay. If the police authorities really want to bring policing costs under control then they should do away with the useless community support officers, a really bad Blairite idea like so many of them.