Sir,
the following was meant to be just a comment post, but then in grew … It is in reference to this paragraph in an article by “flyer”, in INDEPENDENCE Daily, March 1st 2020:
“Day by day, it has become increasingly apparent that the politicians that we supposedly elect to represent us, are really just concerned with fobbing us off with lies and spin while they pursue their own agendas. Agendas that usually consist of self-enrichment by selling us out to the globalists who are just the latest nut jobs trying to take over the world: we’ve been to war for far less in the past.”
Conspiracy by our ruling class? No. Cock up. The ignorant virtue-signallers who get into Parliament are largely to blame. We are presented by the major parties with candidates with university education, supposedly because that education in whichever subject teaches them ‘how to think’. The fact that they lack hinterland is only exposed when they get into positions of real power. Were they to stick to their last then this would not matter so much, but when they go beyond their narrow academic training the limitations of purely intellectual qualifications becomes glaringly apparent. They are then open to manipulation by those whose motivation is, as flyer says, self enrichment.
I have too often spoken about one case which illustrates my point, the Minister for Climate Change whose limited general knowledge meant that he had no understanding of the chief problem relating to the ‘problem’ of global warming, namely the difficulty and expense of storing the product of intermittent and unreliable solar and wind. Let me instead move on to Prime Minister Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, a lawyer by birth and training. His government committed us to reducing CO2 output by 20%, not just from electricity generation but from all energy use. He didn’t understand that electricity is a small part of energy use: space heating is the big user of fossil fuels. He was told of his error but ignored the advice – not just ignorant but arrogant.
This Tory administration has members even more ridiculous. When he was Secretary of State at DEFRA, Michael Gove (English, Lady Margaret Hall), announced a ban on wood burning stoves, proclaiming the coming of the all-electric house. His worship of a teenage ignoramus, unmocked by the MSM, is an indictment of politics and journalism. He has no understanding that when we burn fossil fuel in power stations we lose energy by turning heat into electricity, then we transmit the electricity along the National Grid, losing energy, then we convert the energy into heat in the home or for industrial processes. Physics tells us that this loss of efficiency is impossible to avoid unless you pipe the fuel directly to the end user. Under Lancashire and Yorkshire there is enough energy to power this country cheaply for fifty years, giving us the edge needed to compete with the USA with its commitment to boost its competitiveness, and giving us time to develop zero-carbon alternatives that actually work.
Using natural gas for generation and space heating/industry is so obviously correct at all levels that someone with a less academic education, like the current holder of the position, should see it clearly, and if he feels lost he can always consult Tamara Margaret Finkelstein, his Permanent Secretary who has a degree in engineering — a hopeful sign if he listens to her. If he doesn’t, current policies will not only ruin British industry, they will kill the old, the poor and the sick.
The solution? Choose people with life experience, don’t stick to the system that elevates people like Blair and Gove into the upper levels of government, connected political animals who are impractical know-nothings when it comes to the real world. Did you imagine that things are different now?
Cromwell was once criticised for letting oiks into his army. Here’s his response:
“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.”
This is from a letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643) That’s not Richard Spring aka Baron Risby, MP for West Suffolk 350 years later, it’s one of the 17th century ruling class who had no right to rule other than birth.
Plus ça change.
Respectfully, Julian Flood
Thanks for this link Jack.,
It wasn’t just the rubbishing that attracted me, but the “heresey” he was advocating about nuclear being one of the few sources of “clean” sustainable electric energy.
Even though the lecture was 2009,I’m sure much of it is still relevant today, but I did wonder about his comment on the non-disappearance of Antarctic ice, when apparently the latest news from there is that an ice berg the size of………….(?) is detatching itself and I guess floating off into the blue to presumably melt.
Anyway nuclear and energy pumps bring ’em on.
I did fancy one of them when I moved into the present property, but it appeared we were talking of anything up to £30k, so I put in a solid fuel anthracite boiler
Anyway I am now completely sold on nuclear, just one thought, he didn’t mention the disposal of radio active debris
Let’s suppose for a minute that the story we’re being told, that human-caused carbon ‘pollution’ was really going to cause temperatures at the surface of planet Earth to rise to the extent that it would cause a climate ‘emergency’ and were one also to believe what Mr. Gove’s energy policy consultant, Ms Thunburg, says, that as a result we’re ‘all going to die’ in the next few years then why, pray tell, is no one talking to Communist China who are building coal-fired power stations at an accelerating rate causing their carbon-dioxide ‘emissions’ to soar to the extent that renders any attempt by what in the good old days was called ‘the West’ to save the planet by dynamiting perfectly good power stations like the one in Tilbury a totally futile gesture!
Long story short, even if there is a global warming problem, the solution to the problem currently being implemented does not solve the problem because it is not being adopted by the world’s biggest carbon dioxide (plant food) producer. (err sorry, polluter.)
Instead what it does is make UK manufacturing uncompetitive when compared with Communist China.
This is simple logic. No engineering or even climate science degree required.
This is global problem (if it is a problem at all) requiring a global solution. Even a political ‘scientist’ should understand that.
(Unless income depends on not understanding.)
Well, at last! A second voice in the wilderness!
I have been screaming from the rooftops about the sheer madness of our ‘climate change policy’………mostly on THIS site and my screaming appears to fall,on cloth ears.
The midget Viking retard seems to have mesmerised the entire UK 4×4 Mothers into leaving Starbucks for a couple of hours and parading their offspring, like brainwashed Muslim kids, into mouthing inanities at the behest of their fat mothers.
I make NO apologies for repeating, for the umpteenth time, that China employs ONE AND A QUARTER MILLION (slaves) PEOPLE IN THEIR COAL INDUSTRY (thousands die every year!) thus underpricing every other country in the world via its cheap energy source – meanwhile, WE are allowing our long-suffering Northerners to live in penury due to the insane policy of ‘energy-suicide’…….the Climate of the world changes minute by minute, year by year, decade by decade and will continue to do so AS A RESULT OF SOLAR ACTIVITY, NOT by Mrs Smith or Jones lighting a stove in the Welsh hills.
We have truly gone barmy!
Michael Keal……a great post which should be posted across the Internet! Thanks!
Michael Keal…..further……..I can assume that you already know that China is responsible for 29% of CO2 Emissions, and GROWING……..and WE? Don’t larf! ONE PERCENT….and reducing.
China the greatest manufacturing Nation,
WE?……grovelling to the EU and demented baby Vikings and going SKINT!
The mind boggles.
Thank you misterpaul I didn’t know that detail. I knew it was bad but that bad! As I see it with nuclear bombs around today’s wars are fought with energy. Not hard to see who the enemy is.
A guy with impeccable green credentials rubbishes the Climate Change Scam here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWahKIG4BE4
Sadly our politicians value the outpourings of an indoctrinated kid more than the reality; it suits their intent to control us by means fair or foul.
It’s as I thought then! Climate change is caused by committees..
The purpose of a gentleman is to be honest and true, and all the other virtues, or at least a good selection.. Would that that were true. A Degree in politics and Philosophy doesn’t do the job. Actually . What does it do ?
Reading Julian’s comments I cannot help thinking there is a deeper agenda as well, which never really gets clarified. Blair was the chief instigator of Common Purpose through matrix training yet hardly anyone has ever heard of it, let alone understood it, but good lord its rife in the establishment now and I for one wish Cummings, Patel and co every success in rejecting i .
There was a time when kalergi, Cultural Marxism, CP and so on could be dismissed as conspiracy theory but now population replacement is in full swing, is it not about time that the electorate’s eyes are opened to the roots and similarity of the marxist/globalist agendas?
That most politicians are not fit for purpose is hardly a surprise. The greater worry for me is the sheer ignorance of the electorate in the respect that their trust in the two( main ) party system has been misplaced for decades and rapidly exploited by the arrival of Blair on the scene.
I hope I live long enough to see him face the consequences but since we’re about the same age, can the powers that be crack on please…
My thoughts exactly
Reinforces my feeling that when it comes to anything technical the majority of parliamentarians are useless.
Indeed. I guess they were not capable of getting a real job.