Eco-Clowns

Do these people know nothing? Or as is said correctly in Yorkshire, "Dote yer know owt?". Were they asleep in what is now key stage three geography? Hell, I was, and even I know this is a dumb idea.

In fact, if "epic fail" was a GCSE grade then that is what I would have been awarded for geography but, as any fule kno, if you're going to have a town there must be sufficient economic activity with which to employ the residents, otherwise they're going to drive to places where there is "economic activity", which rather defeats the point of an eco-town.

The chances of that economic activity just appearing, simply because the government wills it, are, well... how can put this without saying what I want to say? Not very much, to be polite about it. Unless of course there's that magical cure all known as "taxpayers money" of which there is simply an inexhaustible supply.

But away with such cynicism. With the excellent green transport links in mind, I'm sure the future people of the St Austell Eco-Town can easily get to such rip-roaring economic powerhouses like er... Plymouth and errr... Torbay perhaps? Assuming electric cars will even have that range, or if indeed, we will still have electricity when this lot have finished vandalising the landscape with windmills.

And it seems lucky old Norfolk is getting an eco-town too. Not wishing to downplay the economic significance of Norwich and Great Yarmouth, one has to ask.... What are they smoking? The point being that IF St. Austell and where was it now? Rackheath, wherever that is, were of such economic dynamism, they would already be naturally expanding without government intervention. We have seen this before with the Scottish "government" voting to build power plants where there is zero demand for energy, but behold as they invent new energy demand in the region, just like that.

All this serves is a decaying governments' unconvincing attempts at greenwash, to build houses in places people don't want to live and if they're government designed houses, nobody will want them either. So all this for a couple of years worth of job creation which wouldn't be necessary otherwise, largely at the expense of other, more worthwhile, economic opportunities.

Economics aside, admittedly not Gordons' strongest suit, there is also that little consulted doctrine of "democracy". Yes, we need to blow the cobwebs of that one don't we Gordon? It's right there, in those damp old boxes in the garage, right next to "Justice" and "Economic Prudence". Y'see Gordon, we don't want them, not least the people who actually live there. We don't want your stupid eco-towns or your sodding windmills. Which part of "No", do you not understand?

Anyway, I think my sarcasm processor just melted and my will to live, like the ship illustration, is about to capsize. Suffice to say the LPUK candidate for Norwich North, Thomas Burridge, is said to be "very disappointed with this decision, which has overridden the very real concerns and wishes of the local people."

I wouldn't have been that polite. Since when did that bother them?