Tuesday 22 January 2013

Madness Continues

I wonder if David Cameron believing he can repatriate powers to the UK from the EU is linked somehow, in a thought-process kind of way, with school closures? I wonder if the ability to believe patently stupid things is our current state of being (something that would be particularly useful for the Left)?

I mean, in the papers today we have David Bellamy pointing out that he has been frozen out of TV since he said that he didn't believe in man made global warming. Scientists you see, don't deal with fact and experiment any more. No, everything we now know is based on theory, conjecture and consensus. If you can get a lot of people to believe you, it becomes a fact.

Brilliant isn't it/ No more boring experiments and empiricism. It should be OK to get rid of that big tunnel, CERN now. I mean what are they trying to prove? Pity that some of the AGW people work there but hey, science waits for no man. Except it isn't science is it? It is a bunch of vested interest boffins who, having postulated a theory that attracts funds, can't break free of it.

And that lock-in is ably assisted by the legions of well funded lobby groups (often masquerading as charities) such as Greenpeace and WWF, who insist that black is white. When you dig deep into the AGW community you find that the 'thousands' of scientists with 'peer reviewed' articles are in fact just green activists and journo's writing what their community want to hear.

The IPCC documents are rarely what they purport, being mainly political with a little science hidden amongst the ramblings of Left activists. Any scientists who object that their input has been altered to make a certainty of a conjecture are ignored and not invited to contribute again. They are attacked in public and lose their funding.

As Boris Johnson attempted to come up to speed in an article yesterday, it seems likely, as we have known all along actually, that the Sun is the major driver of our climate. And Man really isn't that important. But you have been convinced that the moon is made of green cheese, because Left wing lobby groups told you so.

And Left oriented teachers tell you that for the safety of the children who might 'break an arm' or a teacher 'a leg', the schools must be shut during any snow related weather. This is actually because they are state employees, who are generally kept under feather eiderdowns. They can be sick as often as they like, they can have long holidays, better pay, ludicrously better pensions and not pay for them, without fear of criticism or heaven forfend, the sack.

No, the sin in the public sector is to blow the whistle. If you let on that your colleagues don't work too hard, or fiddle their expenses, you are toast. Fiddling the expenses is OK. So, a bit of snow is an ideal opportunity for some time off. No one else does, just the public sector. The protected species.

I still smile at the nicely dressed, ordinary man on Question Time (a public sector worker) who, in answer to questions about how much better state sector pensions are than private sector employees get said, 'then perhaps everyone should be brought up to our level'. It is the very essence of the Left. It sounds nice, it is very reasonable, very inclusive. But, the dimwit missed the central point. We can't afford to pay for your unfunded pension, let alone give the same to everyone!!

A fireman was moaning about his pension contributions going up, but couldn't grasp that even then, his early retirement with a good pension still wasn't covered by the new, enhanced contributions. He wanted an ounce of gold and he was willing to pay a quid for it.

So there we are. A bit of snow and the Left hurry to do nothing, to bring the country grinding to a halt. And Cameron wants us to stay in, to be a part of a Communist regime called the EU. Because he doesn't want to think about it. To understand an issue. He seems in every way as thorough in his job as Sir Anthony Heywood is in his.

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