And another thing…

I thought the next thirty seconds or so were funnier.

Good to see that Gordon is spending his last few months making sure that he’s focusing on what’s important, namely sucking up to celebrities and sending his attack dogs off to the papers to drum up smear stories about David Cameron…

We do not want him busy. the less he is involved in things the less damage he can do.
I think he should take a long, long, long holiday at his own expense.

The Prime Minister’s reported thoughts and utterances on most matters are at total variance with my understanding of the facts.

(That OK, Tom?)

@ Johnny Norfolk

Agreed. Perhaps Gordon would enjoy a couple of months touring the world, taking in the sights of such exotic locations as Thailand, Congo, Palestine, Iran, Honduras, Lebanon and Somalia.

I’ve just been listening to you, Tom, on the Westminster Hour, with Green MEP Caroline Lucas.

She drives me up the wall, that woman. Where’s this figure of “300,000 people killed by climate change” every year? Do you believe that? I don’t. I can’t see how anyone’s death at all can be laid at the door of ‘climate change’.

Climate change/ global warming isn’t happening. The planet has been cooling slightly for the past 10 years, which wasn’t in the ‘global warming’ script – as predicted by the climate simulation models which have been predicting a steady rise in temperatures. The whole thing is complete toss. I just wonder what’s going to happen when it becomes clear to everybody in a few years time, if not already, that they’ve all been duped. Pah!!

Sorry. I’m not having a go at you. You sounded rather sensible. It’s that Lucas that gets up my nose. Pah! again.

Sorry, I meant to say: Where’s this figure of “300,000 people killed by climate change every year” come from? Name three people who’ve been killed by climate change or global warming!

@ Frank Davis

‘I’ve just been listening to you, Tom, on the Westminster Hour, with Green MEP Caroline Lucas.’

I might be wrong, but I thought that was Tom Watson. [checks] I am wrong, although Tom Watson was mentioned at some point. So it was TH who went on about (twice) ‘throwing people onto the scrapheap’, after Caroline Lucas said green policies would create jobs. Not that I have a lot of time for Lucas or her Greens, they were happy to get in bed with Labour and the Lib Dems in Gloucester to score political points against the Conservatives by claiming a monster/massive/giant incinerator was a foregone conclusion (didn’t work). After the June elections, though, it seems everyone’s back to kicking the Greens until they prove useful again (they really are the new LDs).

Caroline Lucas said green policies would create jobs.

As far as I can see, green policies would create jobs in the same way that getting rid of tractors and combine harvesters would create work for farm labourers, and getting rid of cars would create work for porters and rickshaw men.

I’ve forgotten the name of the French economist (Bastiat?) who satirized the stupidity of these sorts of policies.

Yes, it was Frederic Bastiat, 1801 – 1850.

In his “Negative Railroad” Bastiat argues that if an artificial break in a railroad causes prosperity by creating jobs for boatmen, porters, and hotel owners, then there should be not one break, but many, and indeed the railroad should be just a series of breaks—a negative railroad.

Which seems to pretty much summarize Green policies:

society would be “best” if we were regressed to a cave-man state where supply of goods was at maximum scarcity. Then people would have to work as hard as possible for as little as possible and never have to fear outside competition.

Voilà mon (as Bastiat would say), votre emploi vert!

Greens should be lightly boiled and eaten.

Frank Davis
I’ve forgotten the name of the French economist (Bastiat?) who satirized the stupidity of these sorts of policies.
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Ah Bastiat, mon hero.

‘The State is that great fiction where everyone tries to live at everyone else’s expense’.

It’s almost as though he was looking through a future-glass into 2009 Britain.

And how he would have laughed to hear pretrendy leftie commentators describing cutting (read, reducing the rate of increase in) public spending as ‘thinking the unthinkable’. It’s only ‘unthinkable’ because they lack the capacity for coherent thought.

We may not have Bastiat, anymore, but thank heavens we have Dan Hannan.

Frank Davis:

” . . .I can’t see how anyone’s death at all can be laid at the door of ‘climate change’. . .”

Er?

Apart from all those people who died in the heatwave across Europe a few years back. Then there was the flooding in the Indian sub continent, oh! and the Australian bush fires in NSW etc, etc.

But I expect you must be right – Global warming, despite what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists say, and the incontrovertible evidence, simply isn’t happening.

God! Give me strength.