Once upon a time, Britain was a land of enterprise and development. Our brilliant inventions, our exploration and ability to push back the margins in pursuit of better lives for the many changed the world immeasurably for the better, and gave us full bellies and cheap energy. Now, our civil servants – when they are not doing the bidding of our masters in Brussels – spend their time drawing up useless regulations, and even worse, measuring our “ecosystem assets” in pursuit of greenie moonshine. At a time of supposed austerity, bucketloads of cash have been tipped down the sewers in an effort to map out how much of the UK divides into coast, farmland, forestry and so on. The man responsible for this luncacy, Bob Watson, chief scientific adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and co-chairman of the NEA, pontificates that this is a terribly important exercise that will benefit us all.
But make no mistake, the agenda involved is not to make the world a better place. Richard Black, like a rat up drainpipe, of course loves the report, because it fits in with his political creed. Bob Watson is clearly the new hero of the hour, and he quotes him lovingly:
“Professor Watson said this did not imply an end to development, but that costs and benefits of each proposed development could be assessed more accurately in advance.”
Be afraid, very afraid, because finding news ways of stopping economic development IS the real agenda here. Skilfully woven into Richard’s piece are supporting words from all the usual sources he uses – the government-supported “charity” the RSPB and lefty academics included. All of them make it very clear that they want to find new ways to use this loathsome report to halt economic growth and take us back to that pristine age when we were all greenies and at one with nature.
Richard Black is the willing mouthpiece for this dangerous tripe. He thus continues his political campaign relentlessly. I suppose that’s to be expected – what else has he ever done? – but what’s shocking is that Britain is fast becoming the world centre of anti-enterprise because of the greenie poison he spreads.
Who, or what is Tom Fielden? Is he a castoff from Blue Peter? His delivery is so IRRITATING. And his message is just as irritating, too. More freakin’ eco-biodiversity-lets-not-do-anything-in-case-it-isn’t-good-for-us-and-live-in-caves-and-grow-cannabis-and-windmills-and-sing-around-the-campfire claptrap.
And as for Spanish cucumbers, which are harmless after all…
Why is everyone so terrified of everything?
Do they pay scientists and the BBC just to frighten everybody into eco-submission? If so, it doesn’t seem to be working, does it?
Spanish cucumbers only harmless in that they have a different brand of e-coli =-O
Eco-aella? Tapas-coli? It is not the issue that they were from “Spain” (MSM’s distraction line to take) but that they were “organic”, Ha! – which means supposedly good for you, no pesticides or artificial ingredients, sustainable renewable eco-friendly, just natural, and fatal.
Spot on. It’s rarely mentioned that Britain should be far wealthier than it is – not out of any sense of entitlement, but because of the talent it has demonstrated in the past. If Britain were wealthier, many of our current problems would be far less severe.
We’re just not earning enough, simple as that. Don’t expect to hear this message on the BBC any time soon though – smacks of wicked capitalism.
And just to show that a few highly thought-of people still have their sensible heads on, amongst this global spread of pointless and erroneous alarmism…
The green lunacy is just one symptom of the disasterous and irreversible decline of Britain which has taken place in the space of just one generation.
I really can’t think of any historical precedent for this. Quite amazing.
Green lunacy! Just got back from the Scottish borders. Wind farms everywhere, some around Moffat still incomplete – probably waiting for poor Chinese miners to produce more neodymium and ruin their health in the process. And speaking of health, I was struck by how unhealthy some of the people looked. I know their diet is notoriously bad but with some people up the road in Glasgow having an average life expectancy of 54, I can’t help wondering why Cameron is giving cash to India and Pakistan. 54 is a national disgrace.
It’s the pies Barry – obesity. And the intravenous drugs and alcohol consumed by some residents in the “most deprived” (read cheapest to live in) parts of Glasgow. 54 is not the average life expectancy of the population of Glasgow, just the usual abuse of public health statistics by headline-seeking journalists . However your general point is right – charity begins at home. Are you listening, Cameron? (“Nah, its Oasis on my ipod Thats what I’m listening to”)
Many former industrial ares of Scotland are little better than 3rd world nations, the decline is shocking to behold, its not just Scottish land as parts of England are looking like wastelands.
I went back to Grantham where I spent the first part of my life and was truly shocked at the decline. From a prosperous market town at the centre of an agricultural area to a sad neglected dump, it felt like a town on the edge, large areas of once prime farmland now abandoned and the small farms I knew all gone.
Our once great fishing ports now wastelands and where spiv property speculators have built blocks of flats nobody wants needs or can afford. High streets are looking like the movie ’28 days later’ all thats missing are the mindless zombies…oooh wait yes I see them now and they all vote labour, the party of the working man OR workshy/3rd world immigrant as they are now known! We can no longer afford the mad ambitions of these politicians, they seek fame abroad with our money while neglecting us.
Grant, try Camboida or China’s Cultural Revolution.
David P,
Well we haven’t quite reached that stage….. yet !!!!
No, Andrew, that’s true. But the intent behind them are the same.
I believe the reasons we are sliding down the scale of prosperity is due to two things : socialism and the importation of low IQ third world immigrants.
Their IQ is not so low that they do not know how to claim benefits, housing, free school places for ther kids, NHS treatment…They are here for a better life – theirs, not ours.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011qjt9/Newsnight_31_05_2011/?t=21m7s
‘I have been ordered by my bosses at the BBC…’
Know how you feel, Justin; know how you feel.
‘We’ve been told to cut everything..’
Whoa… steady on!!!!!
Not everything, surely?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011dj30
Ok, carry on.
Good questions above and we know the answers.
1. We have a bloated presumptuous elite who have been invited to take up the mantle bequeathed by Lennons lot…and will fight their lost battles by proxy using the media…risk free, unlike their hour in Grosvenor Square in 68.
2. Massage,cod science and body language/signals all indicate that these bath chair lazy doped up old rebels have no energy or courage-but lots of showcases and access ramps to the front of camera, microphone or broadsheet booster seat.
3. That we pay this lot and their champions(sports, celebrities, pop, yoof comedy etc) so much at source is why we`re bled dry…and Europe wants its protection money, so it doesn`t reveal how little these sixties windsocks actually DO…juts weathervanes in a miasma of patchouli and lavender to mask the dope.
That`s why we`re poor-and stupid enough to take any of their junk bond guidelines to life seriously.
Just Chicken-lickens with Jehovah Winess placards circa 1975-but no faith except in their own greatness,entitlement,cleverness and legacy building…we can just clear it up and be happy to pay for that!
Exhibit A..Sue Slipman through Neil Kinnock and through now to Russell Howard!…Chain of Fools as Aretha said!
The grinding noise you can hear is my teeth. Every time I turn Toady on, I think it must be 1st April !
Only the bbc could run a report saying the Border Agency had mislaid half a billion illegal immigrants , without linking it to the next report stating that developers had managed to destroy the South and South West of England . To be fair, the planner they interviewed was pretty scathing .
Backwoodsman,
At first I thought “half a billion” was a typo, but now I come to think of it ………….
Erm, it wasn’t “half a billion” it was 40 thousand; they weren’t “illegal immigrants” they were asylum seekers; and there was nothing in the other report stating that developers had destroyed the South of England.
So pretty much a perfect B-BBC post!
Um…ever heard of a mistake? Not that they have them at the Beeboid Corporation, of course. Oh, no. 😉
And how do you know they were asylum seekers and not people purporting to be asylum seekers? And where exactly are they now if they are asylum seekers? Queuing up at the Home Office to ask for asylum, are they?
Millie,
Of course the utter shambles which is the Home Office and “Immigration Service” doesn’t have a clue how many immigrants , asylum-seekers or otherwise, are in the UK.
Any numbers they spew out are pure guesswork.
What a bunch of wasters.
I would not be surprised if half a million got in in Labour’s years under the radar. The “official” ethnic breakdown of the UK population understates the degree of immigration – and you can hardly expect illegals to include themselves in Census data.
It looks very likely John.
ITV News reported that only 36,000 out of that 450,000 total have had their asylum applications rejected and been removed from the U.K, which is less than 9%. In other words, of that 450,000 total, over 91% haven’t had their applications rejected. Also, more people have gone missing or can’t be traced than have been removed from the country!
They also said that 161,000 were allowed to stay because they had already been living here for between 6-8 years – so not because they’ve been judged genuine asylum seekers but simply because they’ve been here for a few years.
40,000 people, thats over a quarter of the population of Middlesborough.
“thats over a quarter of the population of Middlesborough”.
Or 0.07% of the total UK population, and it’s possible that many of those have “gone missing” because they’ve left the country.
“..and it’s possible that many of those have “gone missing” because they’ve left the country.” How do you know?
How many 0.7%s of the population is accepatable to you then? Is there no limit to immigration to an island as small as ours? Or will you be happy when every inch of the country is covered with houses (and windmills to power them).
Lets have a vote on it, lets put it to the people in a referendum. Better not though because that is democracy and that will never do.
Dez,
Do you really believe the Government figures and, if so, why ?
“Do you really believe the Government figures…”
I think they’re rather closer to reality than “half a billion”.
[no shame Backwoodsman – we all get a bit carried away sometimes 🙂 ]
Dez,
How much closer do you “think” ?
Do you “think” the current system is acceptable and fair to genuine immigrants and current British subjects ?
Or, like me, do you believe the Government haven’t a clue how many people are in this country , full stop and the whole system is “not fit for purpose “. And don’t mention the census, it is a joke !
My God, even the Balding ‘thing’ in her “Ramblings” programme is on about climate change.
“With global warming, we will not see another ice age” Says some wise interviewee, (does he know something we don’t?) and telling us the the young are “totally on board” with saving the planet. That and references to “staycations” – what the fuck’s happening to the BBC? Every fuckin’ breath contains the phrase “climate change” or “global” fuckin’ “warming”.
What a shower – it’s obscene what they try to force down our poor licence-paying throats (well, not mine – I escaped, thankfully
I wonder what happens to a child if he or she is a Global Warming sceptic ?
Come on Grant, I thought you knew.
JHT,
Thanks for that. Brilliant clip. Please BBBC posters click on it !
That’s Paul Whitehouse’s career with the BBC finished !
Here is some information for Black from a Climate Modeler
There are a lot of scientists who dispute Blacks propganda, here is one more who is a full blown Professor. Not a spokesman from Oxfam.
There are a lot of scientists who dispute Blacks propganda, here is one more who is a full blown Professor. Not a spokesman from Oxfam.
Paul Weston scribes on
One Week in the Death of Britain
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-week-in-death-of-britain.html
The way we are going, we will be the first First world country, to the First Third World country of W Europe.
Now its only a matter of the rate.
DP111,
I think , in many respects, the UK is already a third world country, although that is an insult to many third world countries who have never known any better but do have hopes for improvement and, in many cases, are improving.
In contrast , what hope is there for the UK ?
Tom Fielden makes it very clear where he stands on his blog. It’s a “ground-breaking” study, he says.
The bias is most obvious in his choice of word to describe those who don’t share his and Richard Black’s evident enthusiasm for it:
Environment correspondent Richard Black has analysed the 2,000 page NEA report, but already the carping has started.
Speaking on the programme this morning the president of the Planning Officers Society, Stephen Tapper, pointed out that greenbelt land around towns is already well protected, and questioned how such pricing mechanisms would work.
“…already the carping has started.”
carping [ˈkɑːpɪŋ] adj tending to make petty complaints
Stephen Tapper was the planner Backwoodsman referred to earlier. Nice way for Today‘s science editor to describe the man’s contribution to the Today programme!
By focussing on Energy Policy, the Greens really have their fingers on the throat of capitalism and our economic prosperity. Its really clever.
The Politicians ride with it as a short term excuse to raise taxes without electoral penalty, whilst Joe Public hasn’t the slightest understanding of any of it – feed in tarrifs and “energy policy” – just that words like “renewable, sustainable, durable ” sound like good things you should be in favour of. (Sorry the powers off, wind dropped. Its renewable – there’s wind tommorrow, just not immediately, not sustainable at this moment)
Like “the Environment” Got to care about that, all those nasty “emissions”. Corruption of language complete, Master. BBC Green Fellow Travellers work is done.
GreenPeace are gloating over Merkel’s re-election hopes by shoreing up a deal with the ecofacist Greens, declaring Nuclear Power shut down 2022 – effectively calling for the “de-industrialisation” of Germany.
First the Brown Shirts, now they come, the Green Shirts.
Here’s an argument to throw back at watermelons like Black:
How the Precautionary Principle Refutes Itself
The position of Black and all these advocates is that we need to weigh the pros and cons of all development before making any futher advancement. This means that somebody is going to have to prove to them that a given development idea does more harm than good.
The Precautionary Principle is as follows:
When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.
In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof.
With this attitude, millions will die because it’s nearly impossible to prove that all scaremongering about a given advancement is false. The prevention of the use of GM foods in Africa and elsewhere has led directly to mass starvation and will continue to do so, which is what proponents of GM food said would happen. Yet it was blocked anyway because it’s impossible to prove that every single phantom raised was just that. So the Precautionary Principle as advocated by the BBC on development will by default prevent developments that will save lives. But they don’t care to think about that because their ideological opposition to the very notion of development prevents them from considering the consequences.
Can you see the resemblance
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/michael_mann.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/media/images/53112000/jpg/_53112553_d9585d45-a435-41cd-8463-d91d917b7977.jpg
Is he trying to make himself look like his hero?