Get your hands off of my money
So now there is nobody to vote for in the next election.
There was no chance of me voting for Labour, obviously, as they haven't exactly proven themselves over the past years. And the idea of Gordon Brown running the country for even longer is, quite frankly, a scary one.
But now both the Labour party and the Conservatives (who I would have voted for) are revealing ridiculous new environmental policies that I simply cannot endorse with my vote. And the Conservative ones are even worse than the Labour ones.
It's all expected, of course. Green is the new black, and all that. As this appears to be the biggest bandwagon in history, of course they are going to jump on it. But people are going to believe them, they are going to believe all the myth and hype and spin regarding climate change. And then they are going to accept the crippling extra tax burden imposed by these policies.
We used to have a system for dealing with this. It was called the Green Party. They would do all the enviro-nonsense, leaving the proper parties to get on with proper policies that actually affect us. Little things like crime, education and healthcare. Naturally I'm excluding the Labour party from this as they've done bugger all with those three topics.
But now it's just another excuse to grab more money from us. Politicians aren't stupid (I hope) and surely do not believe the nonsense themselves? Maybe they do, though. Maybe they've had years of people - paid for by the goverment (i.e. thee and me) - telling them that it's all real and can we please have some more funding for further investigations please, that they've started to believe it all themselves.
But now we are truly to suffer from it. Britain is a tiny spec on this planet. It may be overcrowded, but with 60m people on the island, and 6bn over the world, it only makes up 1% of the world population, and even less of its land mass. Even if all the man-made impact stuff were true (which it isn't), what difference would it make? Absolutely none at all, that's how much. I've said it before and I'll say it again; we could shut down all our factories, scrap all our cars and get rid of all our electricity. We could go back to living in caves and growing turnips, and it would make no difference in the slightest to the global climate. So why tax us more? What will it do?
The only real countries that can make a difference are the biggies and the newbies. The US, China, India, Russia. And if Africa ever drags itself out of its rut then that, too. But they won't. The likes of India and China are not going to restrict their economies and growth by adopting anything so stupid. The US won't either, because it doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks, and I admire them for that. Possibly the only occasion that Bush has been right on something, but I suspect oil interests play quite a big part here...
The bottom line is, taking even more of my money will not save the planet, so I want the politicians to keep their grubby hands off of it. The planet does not even need saving anyway.
But now, who do I vote for?
There was no chance of me voting for Labour, obviously, as they haven't exactly proven themselves over the past years. And the idea of Gordon Brown running the country for even longer is, quite frankly, a scary one.
But now both the Labour party and the Conservatives (who I would have voted for) are revealing ridiculous new environmental policies that I simply cannot endorse with my vote. And the Conservative ones are even worse than the Labour ones.
It's all expected, of course. Green is the new black, and all that. As this appears to be the biggest bandwagon in history, of course they are going to jump on it. But people are going to believe them, they are going to believe all the myth and hype and spin regarding climate change. And then they are going to accept the crippling extra tax burden imposed by these policies.
We used to have a system for dealing with this. It was called the Green Party. They would do all the enviro-nonsense, leaving the proper parties to get on with proper policies that actually affect us. Little things like crime, education and healthcare. Naturally I'm excluding the Labour party from this as they've done bugger all with those three topics.
But now it's just another excuse to grab more money from us. Politicians aren't stupid (I hope) and surely do not believe the nonsense themselves? Maybe they do, though. Maybe they've had years of people - paid for by the goverment (i.e. thee and me) - telling them that it's all real and can we please have some more funding for further investigations please, that they've started to believe it all themselves.
But now we are truly to suffer from it. Britain is a tiny spec on this planet. It may be overcrowded, but with 60m people on the island, and 6bn over the world, it only makes up 1% of the world population, and even less of its land mass. Even if all the man-made impact stuff were true (which it isn't), what difference would it make? Absolutely none at all, that's how much. I've said it before and I'll say it again; we could shut down all our factories, scrap all our cars and get rid of all our electricity. We could go back to living in caves and growing turnips, and it would make no difference in the slightest to the global climate. So why tax us more? What will it do?
The only real countries that can make a difference are the biggies and the newbies. The US, China, India, Russia. And if Africa ever drags itself out of its rut then that, too. But they won't. The likes of India and China are not going to restrict their economies and growth by adopting anything so stupid. The US won't either, because it doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks, and I admire them for that. Possibly the only occasion that Bush has been right on something, but I suspect oil interests play quite a big part here...
The bottom line is, taking even more of my money will not save the planet, so I want the politicians to keep their grubby hands off of it. The planet does not even need saving anyway.
But now, who do I vote for?
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