Friday, 17 July 2009

As ye go to the electorate...

Norwich is soon to be bothered with one of Mr Browns "eco-towns" which will not be "eco" nor a "town" for that matter. I was going to write a suitably harsh appraisal but Simon Jenkins in Teh Grauniad has done it for me. And a good job he's done of it.

6 comments:

Gav said...

Has anyone read the comments on that article? What a bunch ot t**ts.

One person even said that "We need to bring the world's population down to below 1 billion to be sustainable". My message to that person is why not start with yourself?

Faust said...

Gav, was he offering himself up for voluntary euthanasia? Or was he Prince P in disguise?

Field Marshall Watkins said...

"One person even said that "We need to bring the world's population down to below 1 billion to be sustainable". My message to that person is why not start with yourself?"

Because these people tend to assume that they should cull the 'little people'. Forcing the worlds population down to between 500 mil to 1 bil has been a dream of elitists for decades. It is even inscribed on the Georgia Guidestones.

And they intend on making it happen.

Elite Depopulation Agenda

Tomrat said...

"Nobody cares because such energy conservation does not sit on an annual report like a photograph of a turbine."

Brilliant!

We need our own LPUK energy report - I would posit the only thing we state about wind turbines is that we wont support "the technology of the middle-ages" as a means of dealing with our future energy problems.

That prometheus energy idea looks good though.

Kevin Boatang said...

I read that last week and thought it very good. Jenkins is highly involved in planning matters and has some very good views on the subject.

Ecotowns are a joke of an idea, and Labour know they are. But as usual they simply will not back down because they have to stick to their guns.

Planning regulations should only be relaxed for replacement nuclear stations, and then only because of the sheer time scales involved. The 'relaxation' of the legislation for large scale major development is nothing of the sort. It is simply the white flag to business to allow them to do what the fuck they want.

Hence the report it is all based on is written by the former head of Barrett homes and the former chief exec of Kent (I think its Kent). You will notice the complete lack of a qualified, experianced planner in the process of fundamentally changing planning law. This is because of Labour's favourite concept.

Not 'The market knows best', but 'Industry experts know best'. You have something that needs doing, you ask the industry what it would like. The you do it. Problem is, the industry is going to ask for what is best for it, not everyone else.

Hence wind energy. And ecotowns. The only people they benefit are the people who build the bloody things.

Please don't take this as me attacking them arket, I'm not. I'm attacking the skewing of the market by selecting certain people within it to draw up natioanl policy for their own ends.

Brian Barker said...

I see that point 3 of the Georgia Guidestones is "unite humanity with a living new language"

Unfortunately there is no mention of Esperanto which indeed is a living new language.

Can I ask your readers to have a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670

Otherwise http://www.lernu.net ?