In the last week, two major energy companies have announced
huge rises in gas prices, despite their massive annual profits. We have Civil
Servants who can’t add up, and the education establishment has finally been
caught out fudging the exam marking, requiring thousands of children to re-sit
their GCSE’s. On top of that, the police are under the microscope following the
Hillsborough cover-up and we have arrested five Royal Marines and charged them
with murder for killing an aggressive enemy!
I don’t know what our politicians were expecting, but surely
if you send troops into a war zone where they could be killed, especially when many
of the enemy have donned friendly uniforms in order to murder our men, then we
must expect that some of the niceties and codes of conduct will go out of the
window!
Meanwhile our Government’s priority is not to tackle the
obscenity of rising energy prices or to refuse to obey the EU directive to
close down many of our power plants which could leave us once again short of
the energy the nation really needs; oh no, they spend their time discussing
MP’s pay and Gay Marriage!
It’s about time that Ministers took some responsibility and
at least attempted to run the country. It would also be nice if we could return
to a time when local MPs represented their constituents and were not led by their
self-indulgences and personal ambitions.
As it stands we appear to have voted in a political elite
composed of over privileged, chinless wonders who are residing in the place of far
better qualified people, who, given the opportunity, might just achieve
something for the nation, instead of themselves.
Those of us with long memories will recall North Sea Gas, which was going to be almost free!! Away went all our town gas, by-product of the mighty coal industry, which would itself follow it into oblivion twenty or so years later. Then away went all the revenues of North Sea gas and oil, helping to finance the planned Thatcherite destruction of our industrial base while we re-invented ourselves as Europe's financial dynamo- and we all know where that ended!! Because we have destroyed our own energy supply industry we are now at the whim of foreign producers of gas - and while we consider this, can anyone truly say that privatising energy has benefited the consumer in any way? The answer of course is no, but a handful of international crooks are very happy. And where are the small shareholders who were supposed to benefit from privatisation? of course they sold out years ago. I don't understand this story about the EU being behind the closure of Britain's remaining coal-fired power stations, as the Germans are still building and modernising theirs. What has been kept very quiet is the fact that British technology is behind clean-coal burning and flue-gas scrubbing, but as our capitalists are reluctant to invest in anything that does not bring an immediate return, the main users of this technology are -- you've guessed!! -- the Germans.
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