The game is up!

Gordon McCreath of law firm Pinsent Masons LLP says "Opportunity knocks if firms seize chance on climate change." Y'damn straight it does. It's just one great big regulatory compliance bonanza. Such a shame I've used my green swastika allowance this week. The article itself is the usual guff about what a marvelous opportunity the recession and climate change is to tax everybody into the floor for the sake of jobs and economic growth.

One is forced to ask, how do these people get where they are? I suppose it takes talent to be that dumb. But the game is up! More and more, the comments on such articles display an angry public who are very much on to them...

I don't object to sensible precautions and economising on fossil fuels - that makes sense from the viewpoint of conserving what we have but the "carbon emissions" excuse is largely hot air, taxation and punishment for having the cheek to run a private, profit-making enterprise.

"The Strategist" is unconvinced also...

OK Mr McCreath now tell us where the money is coming from to fund all these opportunities. Raising risk capital in this country is like pulling hens teeth.

Do you think he'll get an answer? And someone calling himself "Unimpressed one" is, well, er, unimpressed...

Still no ball park figure given for costs but we can expect it to be fairly hefty. Taxes will be imposed and handed back to the 'green' industries - a total recipe for disaster if ever there was. As for jobs these will be mostly in councils and quangos to police this lunacy. Meanwhile the US, and most likely much of the EU, certainly China and India, are likely to reject draconian targets suggested in December. (don't count on Obama or the EU, Ed.)

So we in Scotland, having some of the worst health statistics in the developed world, must wear the hair-shirt of reduced growth and a burden on business to demonstrate to the rest of the world our 'green' credentials. Tragic.

It really does seem the the wheels have fallen off this particular bus, but the last people to catch on are the politicians. Sadly, this is when the worst of the damage is done. TJIC sums it up...

"The perfect storm: arrogant preachy leftists throwing money at useless things - and rational but amoral capitalists running around picking up the money. The only loser is the taxpayer who is on the hook for all that money."

And no-one will be held accountable.