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Posted by michael on April 7, 2010
Brown is the man in charge of MPs expenses. What a mess he has made of it!
Now he wants to change the way parliament works in order to fix the problems he has caused.
When will that man learn that he was not competent enough to run the MPs expenses (judging from the mess that resulted) and that he is not the man to fix the problems he has caused.
Brown has already removed most of our democratic processes by selling us out to the EU without a vote!
Changing what remains for us to influence within our democracy is not something I would trust Brown to manage properly.
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Posted by michael on January 6, 2010
One of the worst things about this authoritarian government we have in the UK is that they cannot bring in laws without emphasising the punishment factor for those who don’t obey.
Recycling organic waste should be something that most people will do, and most people will be pleased to do it.
Instead of a debate on the good reasons for doing this, we have all been ordered to do this , or else!!! This gets peoples backs up.
The natural response to being ordered to do this is to tell Brown where to go!!! New Labour are an elected government. Yet they treat the people as the unelected governments in China, North Korea and other dictatorships around the world do.
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Posted by michael on December 29, 2009
Naturally Labour are desperate to show a class war with the Conservatives helping their rich friends and New Labour helping their poor, lower paid supporters.
The poor, lower paid have of course been the focus of the the last 12 years of New Labour in government?
Actually NO! Labour have failed to look after the lower paid. They have failed to support their union friends.
Living standards for the poor are worse now than 12 years ago.
Child poverty, despite the money spent on it, is as bad as it ever was.
Education standards are lower in state schools!
New Labour like their millionaire friends, to have (several) expensive houses, to be photographed with important people, to jump when the USA tells them to!
New Labour have no right to claim that they care for the poor. The traditional left-wing Labour MPs appear to have been sidelined!
Blair and Brown and many of their ministers would appear to be only interested in living the high life! Now the chickens are steadily coming home to roost and New Labour are beginning to understand that they have isolated themselves from almost all areas of society.
An example of Brown and Labour putting themselves before the country is the refusal of this government to stand down now and have an election.
The UK is in desperate straits. The finances are shot. The debts are huge and will take years to pay back. Public Services are being cut. Decisions are being taken by a government whose focus is on surviving the next six months.
How can that be good for the UK? We need decisive action and long term decision making. Whilst New Labour hang on to power looking for ways to survive, they are putting the interests of the UK after the interests of the country!
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Posted by michael on October 9, 2009
There is a potential disaster heading our way over the next 10 years.
There has been a lot of talk recently about an energy ‘gap’ around 2016. What that means to the ordinary person is that there will be shortages of electricity at peak periods.
Why? Because the investment is not in place for our increasing demand for electricity to be met.
A contract was very recently agreed for four new, latest generation nuclear power stations. All very good but at least three years too late! The first station is due to be operating in 2018. That is if everything goes well and the planning permissions don’t spend years in the courts being granted!
Another aggravating factor is that a number of UK coal and oil power stations are due to be decommissioned by the end of 2015.
New fossil fuel power stations (mostly coal) are needed but global warming and climate change concerns means that they should only be operating with carbon capture technology – which isn’t available yet!
Note that a number of fossil fuel power stations are needed by 2015 just to stand still, ie to replace old stations going out of service .
Renewable energy sources are promising. Wind farms are producing electricity now, and more are due to be built. But wind farms only operate when there is wind! The fossil fuel and nuclear stations can be turned down when energy from renewable sources is available, but the fossil fuel and nuclear stations will have to be able to meet the peak demand for electricity on their own!
Businesses and private homes can do a lot by using electricity efficiently and avoiding heat loss through insulation etc but the real problem is in generating electricity efficiently.
The government has the job to ensure that the lights do not go out. At this moment of time it would seem that they are failing in their responsibilities!
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Posted by michael on July 18, 2009
The White Paper outlining New Labour plans for provision of UK energy and plans for cutting emissions by 2020 have been released.
In essence there is nothing in these plans regarding electricity provision that would cause major political differences.
The announcement for the four new generation nuclear power stations has already been made. A new fossil fuel power station has already been given the go-ahead with the expectation that a working system to capture all hazardous emissions will be developed. So there will be more fossil fuel power stations! Of course there will be problems with storing this hazardous waste, but my personal view is that this is a minor issue compared to failing to provide power to the UK population!
What would seem to be the most crass decision imaginable is to fail to support the only UK company building wind turbines whilst announcing 4000 new wind turbines will be built (offshore and onshore). The result is that these orders will go to European companies and the jobs will be for people who do not live in the UK!
New Labour want to find 400,000 “green jobs” in the UK to help get out of the recession. What better way to support this UK company (which is apparantly going to close) and developing it into a national organisation to turn the UK green by 2020?
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