We might start getting somewhere in sorting out most of our problems if our MPs had the work ethic of this MEP:
"I vote in what I conceive to be the best interests of my country and my constituents: the party whip comes a poor third."Just saying...................
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One Roger Helmer is worth a hundred Chris Huhnes. I'm sick to death of this insufferable oaf. How dare he initiate an enquiry just because MEPs of principal vote in accordance with their constituents' and their country's best interests. This smacks of totalitarianism. The man needs to be got rid of before he does any more damage.
k: So Huhne to we turn to, to commit the act of mercy?
I thought you'd never ask. I've read biographies of James Berry and Albert Pierrepoint and I think I know the technique. Would like an assistant though.
k: There's one hell of a queue.....!
Almost the whole political establishment has departed on a mass hysteria regarding 'tackling climate change'. Helmer is one of the few voices of reason. Huhne is a barking mad zealot, a bit like an American TV evangelist.
Reason will return, when the extent of the bills, the utter uselessness of their policies and the blackouts hit.
By that time, Huhne, mind broken in the service of his country, will be safely locked away in a luxury funny farm, still gibbering about CO2.
No cosmic, you are wrong, unless I have missed your intent, unless he is found guilty of perverting the course of justice, the case is still rumbling on, by the time the proverbial hits the fan Huhne will have slithered off to the back benches, retired from politics with a nice handful of non-exec directorships and quango seats or he will be in the HoL and, yes I agree, will still be gibbering about CO2.
What he won't be, in any meaningful way, is held accountable for his incompetence and the damage it will have caused. While there are no meaningful consequences for these arrogant a*seholes nothing will deter them from continuing stupidity.
c: I would like to think that you may be right about there being a backlash over the green agenda. Unfortunately, I don't believe the sheeple will actually wake until it is too late to stop blackouts etc from happening.
PC: Methinks you may have misinterpreted c's comments about being locke away in a funny farm. Are not quangos actually funny farms?
I note that yesterday the police confirmed they have passed papers to the public prosecutions office so perhaps the case will not rumble on much further?
You make an important point about Huhne not being held to account for his incompetence and damage caused. But then what politician is, they just get re-elected and re-appointed to another 'brief' and continue on their merry way. Witness MiliE and Balls..... Witness Maude and Clarke....... Witness most politicians, at election time, telling us they have the cure to our ills, ills they themselves created.
I was being a bit OTT with regards Huhne. I do think he's out of touch with reality and behaves like a religious zealot. He'll slip into well-off obscurity. Anyway, Huhne's just the silliest of a silly crew, The Climate Change Act was passed with a single figure of noes. Kenomeat's point about Huhne's reaction smacking of totalitarianism, I agree with.
I don't believe the costs of the Green foolishness have registered properly, but there are stirrings. It will take blackouts and discomfort. The sly way the costs have been hidden in energy bills has a lot to do with it as has the constant reinforcement of the message by the BBC. It's one of those issues where all three parties are in complete agreement and there's no question of changing anything through a general election. The EU plays a large part as well, and our crew seem determined to be at the Heart of Europe.
Something else which hasn't registered is the cost and uselessness of the recycling measures we have been forced and conditioned into. People go through the ritual of putting things in the right bins. If you ask them the point of it, they don't really know, apart from it's supposed to be good for the planet and you're a bad, or at least suspect, person if you don't do it. I wonder if the point of it isn't the conditioning and ritual designed to make people accept that they are contributing to a supreme cause, which is a far more convenient thing for politicians to have people worry about than immediate problems they ought to be doing something about.
c: Don't disagree with any of that!
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