Digested Read : Maya by Alastair Campbell – John Crace
What Happened To 19 Secretive Tories? – LibDemVoice
Charged MPs Still Take Labour Whip – Paul Waugh
Labour Distances Itself from Official Law Firm – Iain Dale
Labour Party’s Solicitor Defends Theft Charged MPs’ – Telegraph
Doing Emotional – Jon Craig
Gordon Brown’s Policy Inventions - Fink
Conservatives Need Clear, Discernable Principles – Fraser Nelson
Union’s £75 Million Lever on Labour – News of the Screws
Cameron Has to Come Up With Something Better – Fraser Nelson
Republican Twitter Kings – Time
Prosecute Racketeering MPs – Times
Yeo’s Pre-Blogged Ambush – Indy
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Sarah Palin said…
“A year later, I gotta ask the supporters of all that, ‘How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’ “
-Gilts (Mar)
As of 28 Jan 2010 +5.8%
What about a radio version? Guido blogs for the blind?
Where’s that beauty from last week, I’d like to see a little more of her, if possable.
Who’s the man with the boyish baby fat face?
A controversial MP at the centre of the expenses scandal has put a SECOND daughter on the public payroll.
Shameless ****** ******** has handed just-graduated Jennifer an estimated £28,000-a-year taxpayer-funded job in her Commons office – weeks after complaining that the girl couldn’t find work.
“It would be suicidal of any MP to employ someone they couldn’t trust,” said Ms *******
Apologies, since mentioning this MPs name in anything other than sycophantic fawning terms is now forbidden
does that mean when they get canned she will also be in line for big fat jucy settlement from joe the taxpayer then?
Nadine you mean?
We covered that last week. Do keep up
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/11/keeping-it-in-family.html
Are you trying to get pretend sued? Show some consideration to your host. How will it look when he has to stalk himself?
More Guy Fawkery here:
Ah….. No need to big up Guido… He is BEEEEEEEG!
I hereby lodge a complaint with Guido that there was no delightful Emily “no-mates” in this weeks video.
Absolutely, clearly the girl to inherit Frank Muirs’ epithet.
Remind us of the Muir epithet plase. He was on the news last night – the Cadbury Fruit and Nutcase.
The thinking mans crumpet
Guido why did you have to say “They don’t get out much. That must have been nice for them”.
Like you would know who they all were and their coming and goings…..
Just why you decided to make that put down of Old Holborn’s friends, is beyond me.
Don’t worry. We plan to get out much much more
at least Old Holborn’s friends aren’t troughing nepotistic piggies like she who can no longer be mentioned in anything other than gushing sycophantic terms
Yes but little did Guido know that Kennedy would reject Kelly. MPs expenses are set to rumble on.
7.07pm,
er, that is good news you pillock. we want the story to have the legs of a giraffe innit. DOH!
try to keep up, eh?
oh and Guido what the fuck is going on? no totty watch for fucking ages and now you have pulled that fit bird emily my mate from the videos.
I thought you wanted the stats to go up?
get a fucking grip will you for fucks sake.
we want totty and we want it now.
thankyou.
We don’t all want to look at Gay Boys online, you faggot.
said the rimmer.
Lmao!
You must be as thick as a thief then.
More than that it is becoming increasingly obvious that the man behind the TAT monica is Guido.
So TaT’s real name is Monica?
That explains a lot….
Engineer is just a very tedious poster who has nothing better to do in his very tedious life.
get back in your fucking box engineer.
do you think I get some pleasure from slapping you about like a bitch in front of all your tory friends? okay, fair enough, I do a get a bit of enjoyment from it; but that is not the point, the point is that if you disrespect top boy then he will jab you up with his blade and chop out your lying tory troll tongue.
I have considered all other options engineer but you are such a lying fucking c’unt that I believe chopping your tongue out would be the only definite way of stopping you from lying.
innit.
tedious – feel free to post some exciting stuff.
said engineer to himself.
who will chair the Labour Friends of Israel now
I’m sure someone else will step up to the plate.
Dad said Hague is a bum boy – what’s that?
I thought it was illegal to record a phone conversation without the person knowing? Blkoody stupid of Gordon to phone the woman on the night that the story goes to press, the Sun was obviously hoping that Gordon would phone her.
GOTCHA
it seems Labour MPs are desperate in both senses of the word
Two words: Margie Moran.
I understood she had been sectioned under the mental health act to stop her speaking against gordon, mandy and harriett!!!!
Moran is still “on the sick”. She’s determined to spin this out until the election.
Smoother. Mind you watching the interviewer bloke I was reminded of:
http://www.chinasmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/men-in-black-edgar.jpg
And why were you (aware that I may have missed something here) protecting the modesty of what looked like an art deco nude?
The joke of the century must be that Jim Devine actually thinks a woman would fancy him. He looks to be in the latter stages of that well-known Scottish condition brought on by too much Buckfast.
Hello?!! Have you not seen his girlfriend???!!
He looks to be in the latter stages of that well-known Scottish condition brought on by too much Buckfast.
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Who says it was sexual? He asked her to guess what she was doing in his dream. I’d have gone with employing a relative or pretending to sue someone.
Look at all those Labour MPs (particularly the women) a few years ago and compare them to how they look now after years on the gravy train. Most of them were a bit fat and ugly to start with but now they’re just fucking gross, bloated examples of greed, cynicism and selfishness.
What an odious bunch of rancid turds.
You fancy me really.
We all do Jacqui – now fook off!
quite fancy your sister.
Less fat or more?
Sara is slimmer than me, but her norks are a lot smaller.
I bet you look like Freddy Krueger when you’re nackig – all them sweaty red rings.
Pre-Pork : http://www.portalestoria.net/IMAGES%20117/jacqui%20smith.jpg
Post-Pork: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0603/1224247947890_1.jpg
Imagine the bow wave off that when you fall in from behind…
I don’t bloody believe it!
Fuck me. It’s Jabba The Smith.
Dave loves Julie….
Beware the sins of the Kirk
the futures bright, the futures …
very bright indeed!
Ker-Ching!
Tim Montgomoron looks like his face has been ironed.
Markie got the sack from his cushy public sector job lol
bit rich OH for all we know your botox has gone wrong or you have seen phantom of the opera for the 1000th time
Blair’s bikes. The wheels came off a while ago.
But where is the gamin Emily?
I think that was her doing the poshest scouse accent you ever heard.
I met her last week. She’s FILTHY
Got any pics Holborn? I’ll pay a pretty penny.
Send her this way, ill clean her up..
Yeah – how come you blokes get the fragrant (if somewhat stilted) Emily and we get some scrubbychubby-cheeked Boris toff-look/sound-alike with suspiciously dark hair?
Be thankful it wasn’t Galley.
via Conservative Central Office fax:
You can stay here and taunt the window lickers.
It’s not looking good for old Jimmy boy Devine, as well as being named and shamed, deselected he is also the subject of two outstanding employment tribunals brought by former members of his staff. Another former employee has begun a defamation action against him, according to the Times today.
cant keep a good molester down!
So?
I know, I have to shag Ffion for him. I’m worn out.
shamone mutha-f
MICHAEL CAN YOU HEAR ME
I still can’t shift the lid from this box Derek. Do they like my video and latest disc? It’s a bit difficult to moondance in here. Did I tell you that I wanted this box to be near Marilyn? Having a laugh as she was 50 years too old for me.
’sfunny, because Acorah would never have got an interview when Jacko was alive. Not only that, but the Gloved One has picked up a scouse accent since he died.
Coincidentally, when Derek was channelling Queen Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482, and a feisty madam who would have made mincemeat of our lot today), blow me, SHE had a scouse accent too!
“FACT – William Hague is gay”
Is this an opportune moment to ask about his ‘working’ relationship with
Seb Coe??
And I thought all that wrestling was a keep fit programme.
Just how many “Party Boys” did Maggie promote?
I fear the bold Maggie is / was a bit of a transgender homosexual.
Wanted to be a man but liked the boaby.
I suppose it means that the Scratchy and Sniffy show are a bit square in this company. Although I fear if any more info is forthcoming on the Blessed Julie he may need a “Cleanliness and Discretion” Commision to sort it all out.
Could I suggest Boris to lead that inquiry?
It’s almost as if the Labour party whips stuffed the party with people who would always be in trouble so they could easily control them….
People 2 stupid for this stuff man, this kind of thinking is like a barrier they cannot break into its like we are living in zombieland uk, you ever watch them dawn of the dead movies?
Thats what we are all like man, small number of survivors stranded on an island of zombies who only care about boozing, beef pies and shit like x factor.
will the ruin sack him ??
wonder if strangs knockin shop is along the corridor , perhaps labour plans were to turn parliament into the Uks first sex zone and sell it off to balance the books .
Nice ending, after all, exactly what does a Marxist postman know about drugs!
he konws how to open an envelope without your knowledge…
lol true Stasi skills
Just to show i watched it. Seen jack straw at the end? He looks extremely laid back. I’ve not felt like that since I went to amsterdam.
Did you go with his son (the dealer)?
yeahhhh maannnnnnnnnnnn farrrrrrrr out
Its gone five. You can go home now.
I don’t think William is tho’
I said : Its gone five. You can go home now.
easy Bill.
Easy Bill, steady now…
Guido,put up or shut up.
I hope I have spelt that correctly
Note to milkman:
One extr pinnt tooday. Having 2 wetabix for brekky lik a strongg blok.
gOrdoN
That’s a damnable lie.
That Dorries bint is as mad as a bucket.
Even so, if to err is human, Devine is a fucking alien.
yes, but she has a friend in jeebus and Guido or we’d have heard all about her repugnant nepotism and opposition ot Kelly instead of nauseating puff pieces and the distractions she is using to deflect from her expenses piggery
Deleting repetitive posts of shite videos. Carry on.
thank fuck for that.
and you can fuck off too before you wear your tongue out on Guidos arsehole, thick as pigshite
said the camel fucker.
So you attack Kilfoyle and his nepotism involving his daughter but ignore and delete any posts referring to Mad Nads, one of Westminsters biggest porkbusting piggies, nepotism involving her daughters ?
You didn’t even have to do a phone call to investigate that one Mr Fawkes you could have asked her while you were helping with her
publicity stunt distracting from her expenseslegal action.You could simply list those piggies like Mad Nads and Kirkbride you and Conservative Central Office deem off limits to avoid these embarrassing ‘conflicts’. Much easier.
And I thought Iain Dale had his head stuck firmly up her fat piggy arse.
He’s clearly a rank amateur.
Look you twat, where has Guido ever defended her troughing? She had a stand-up row in public with Guido at a black-tie event a couple of weeks ago where neither of us backed down to the amusement of onlookers. She sends me text abuse on a regular basis about how fair it all is to call ‘em all troughers.
She is one of over two hundred nepotistic MPs. They are all targets.
You should delete this boring repetitive topic then
The Guy News broadcast is only available to Guidogram subscribers this weekend. In it we report on the guys who went to parliament this November fifth and Guido will also tell you about his week from behind the blog. Gossip? Well if you want to know the name of that Labour MP who revolted Nadine Dorries with his lurid fantasy you’ll just have to subscribe. Thousands already have…
You posted it before
dave really is an iron!
A number two iron?
Should have kept his iron on the ball. Well below par, Dodgy Dave.
Those cops are gay as fuck lol!
I could beat them up easily, like the ones in my yard, they all scared of me. Black belt in Judo, could cripple them all if they wanted a slice.
Thanks for KIP research article guido , Robinson still sniffing his socks !
Ruin sending out soft sell tactical out on scribble letter , not that it should be made a political football . CW awaits his painting of a house with 4 windows , a door , a roof with a smoking chimney (and curly smoke) and a path made out of spent uranium fuel pellets and mum and dad getting coshed by the labour baliffe .
Its nice to see Labour working so busily behind the scenes and cranking the spin factory , you might think that they hadnt created the worst financial situation in the country ever and concreteing over it will some how make the toxic wonk policy work .
CW thinks eds ncuclear plan is flawed as these things have a proven habit of going over budget and with it the “fixed price” leccy . It isnt so much that things have come on since magnox and the new nuclear stations produce less of the waste that takes 25000 years before you can go near it , its the wonk ecnomics wich do not include all the other functions of nuclear that the tax payer has to pick up . But then again if we put into electrical goods a proper off switch rather than “standby” or stopped selling plasma TVs (wich use 5 times as much leccy as an LCD ) , Ed might not need to be in such a rush with glow in the dark technology , eh ed Copenhagen , how much leccy will it be using ? to give the Uk an uncosted solution ??
The truth is Gordon Brown lived in hope that by the time he would have to invest in nuclear energy it would be dirt cheap and he could get pre fabbed reactors from some industrious country.
Gordon seemed to think these things where like simple import export tariffs and goods.
Oh great if labour prefab reactors are on the cards , that will be more expense later on .
reactors by stanislav !
We dont even have solution for all the waste from the previous nuclear era , how do such nutters get to make decisions !
Actually, CW, the ‘waste problem’ was solved about 20 years ago. All that’s left outstanding is the political decision on the location of a deep repository for intermediate and high level waste. Currently, it’s all packaged up (in the case of high level waste, vitrified) in interim stores at Sellafield.
The ‘problem’ is purely political, not technical. We all know who hasn’t been making decisions for the last 12 years.
Gorgon’s bro’ high heid’un in EDF.
Drill it down into a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction zone
Subduction zones could be an answer – the Earth’s ultimate recycling machine.
Alternatively, we could dump it all in the Amazon rainforest. Sounds crazy? Well, radiation isn’t actually that dangerous to be honest, except to the odd long lived species (like humans). Large parts of Ukraine are now a nature reserve and the wildlife, although not unaffected, is doing much better now the people have had to leave. If we dump it in the Amazon, nobody will be able to cut the forest down, and the wildlife will continue as before. Eco win-win! Though I doubt Greenpeace would approve.
Of course, everyone imagines a ton of radioactive waste is a huge amount, whereas in fact a million tons isn’t much bigger than the average semi-detached house.
(Slight exaggeration, its a cube about 70m across, but whatever, it wouldn’t need a massive hole)
Coincidentally, this is roughly the total amount of high and intermediate level waste currently in the UK
Just encase it in concrete drop it into the deep ocean. Is there any actual problem with that or is it just ‘not nice’?
We used to do just that in the 1960’s. However, there’s no way to guarantee that nasties don’t escape from the concrete and contaminate fish or other sealife.
For the same reason, the low-active effluents discharged to sea from Sellafield have been cleaned up by building post-discharge filtering and clean-up plants. Some of these have been operating since the mid 1980’s, and amounts of radionucleides discharged to sea have reduced by 99% since the late 1970’s levels.
It’s all cost a few bob, mind.
Are you absolutely sure about that? Nuclear is not the answer, it’s far too scary. Will EDF pay to clear up the mess after? Not on your life! We’re being railroaded into it like they railroaded us into the EU, thanks a bunch newlabour!
and it will be the taxpayer who is left paying the cost of storing nuclear waste. the the private companies will change hands so many times in the interim that they will evade responsiblility.
which rather makes a mockery of private companies being allowed to make profits at the front end of the deal.
dunnit.
what a fucking carry on.
energy security? don’t make me fucking larf.
the answer to our energy crisis is filtered incineration.
burn the fucking lot, all of the landfill, coal, wood, fucking burn anything.
as long as the emissions are filtered who gives a fuck, eh?
oh, and tidal energy: why the fuck aren’t we exploiting tidal energy when we are an island.
all your talk of nuclear power is nothing more than flawed thinking. you are discussing the worst possible option and one that is only being considered due to the terrible energy planning that both the tories and labour party are guilty of.
fucking useless c’unts.
Tat on the ball again.
Yes, Contessa, I’m sure. Will EDF pay to clean up their mess? Don’t know – it depends if they get the contracts to build new plants, and on what stipulations are placed on them regarding decommissioning.
Might interest you to know that the first of Britain’s Adanced Gas-Cooled Reactors is being fully decommissioned and returned to a green-field site at Sellafield. The project has been ongoing for about 15 years, and is expected complete by about 2015. It’s taking so long because it’s being used as a test-bed for the necessary techniques.
The ‘production’ reactors are defuelled, then put into ‘care and maintenance’ for about 60 years to allow radioactivity levels to drop. That will make demolition much easier – less need for remote handling techniques. Technically, it is possible to dismantle then now, but the techniques and waste handling of the more radioactive scrap parts would increase the costs a lot. Hence the 60-year wait – it’s more about economics than technical ability.
Quite a number of small research reactors have already been totally decommissioned, and their sites released in a fully-cleaned state for other development.
“Tat on the ball again.”
Dirty little fucker.
Concrete cracks.
Perhaps your house is made of oak beams or whatever, I imagine it looking very Knightly. Mine have had concrete in them, and its not stuff that lasts 1000s of years.
We can send nuclear waste into space in an orbit which eventually spirals into the sun. Thick as thieves solution of filtered incineration hasn’t been invented yet.
The government has been dithering about nuclear for years while France produces over 90% of its electricity from nuclear.
The environmentalists have been talking complete piffle for years.
glaswegian, filtrated incinerators can be operational within 24 months.
so that means ed miliband’s rush to build new nuclear energy plants is not based on evidence or energy security but more on gordon brown’s own personal desire to use this policy as a last chance to give juicy contracts to his friends and family.
innit.
gordon brown is one corrupt motherfucker. the new labour’s best achievement was hiding the fact that gordon brown is a fucking corrupt psycho son of a bitch. and he is also a satanist. his lies cost men their lives, so that is black magic, is it not?
seriously, let us be honest: gordon brown is a psychopath.
and tony blair was a sociopath.
what a fucking carry on eh?
my point is this, the nuclear energy plants must not be built. it is an unnecessary and dangerous course of action to take.
and the added bonus is that by stopping the British mainland being contaminated with nuclear waste you are also giving gordon brown and ed miliband and the rest of the new labour war party wankers a good kick in the nuts.
good one innit.
The incredible prohibitive cost of Nuclear, which should clearly rule it out, is hidden in insurance or rather re-insurance of these massive subsidy white elephants.
But the fact is you can cook the books on a Nuclear Plant like you can on all the PPP and PFI schemes with buy now pay 1000 times more later debt piling up in the future but not appearing on the official Government accounts.
It’s yet more off balance sheet dishonest accounting so corrupt Chancellors and PMs favour Nuclear.
Thick as thieves , you claim that filtered incineration is available in 24 months. Where is it being used at the moment and what happens to the CO2 which is produced?
I haven’t seen a convincing report that guarantees that the CO2 can be permanently and safely disposed of.
everyone knows that carbon capture is safer than storing nuclear waste.
try to keep up glaswegian.
you are so slow you stupid cripple.
you are hobbling very badly, do you need a wheelchair?
Actually, TaT, we know a great deal about long-term storage of radioactive waste in deep repositories because a vast amount of research has been done. We know that a stable geological formation with little or no groundwater movement will keep material isolated for far longer than it will take for the radioactivity to decay to safe levels. The Swedes (I think) are operating such a repository in a granite mass in Sweden, the Finns are about to start constructing one. We have suitable geological formations in Britain, but they aren’t near existing nuclear facilities, so there is a public perception problem to overcome.
We know very little about the storage of large quantities of CO2, because it’s only been done on a small scale so far. Medium-scale plants are coming into operation (there’s one in Germany), but there are no large-scale ones. What the long-term effects of this technology will be on the geology, is something of a leap in the dark – rather worryingly.
Apart from all these, probably spurious attempts to cover up the extreme dangers of ‘burying’ nuclear waste, there is also the small question of the possible flooding of nuclear sites, also the small problem of possible sabotage by terrorists! Watch newlabour trying to play down these dangers!
Remember there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! A lot of people believed that too!
tat, thank you for your reply to my question. Unfortunately it is clear that you have a limited understanding of the subject of carbon capture. I suggest you carry out some real research into the matter before making specious generalisations.
The insults you have tacked onto to your reply are of course, beneath contempt.
Engineer’s comments are in my view, a correct view of the current position.
TaT may or may not be right about the inadvisibility of nuclear power. He is correct, however, to point out that Gordon’s mates have lobbied for this and personally have much to gain from it:
Gordon Brown’s friend, advisor and supporter is Treasury Minister MP Ed Balls. Ed Balls is married to MP Yvette Cooper, who, as Minister of Housing was responsible for the new planning laws to speed up major projects, like nuclear power stations.
Yvette Cooper’s Father is Tony Cooper, who, until recently, was chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, which lobbies Ministers on the benefits of atomic power. He is now director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and one of the most outspoken champions of the industry’s ‘green’ credentials.”
Gordon Brown’s brother is Andrew Brown, who was director of media strategy of the PR and UK government nuclear lobbying company Weber Shandwick, former UK chief exec Philip Dewhurst, is corporate affairs director for British Nuclear Fuels…Andrew Brown is now Head of Media relations at EDF Energy… pushing for a nuclear rebuild programme in the UK
I would feel surer of the wisdom of nuclear energy if half the troughers didn’t have their snouts in the contracts.
Then why have they been so damned anti-nuclear for the past decade? This government have tried hard to destroy – and have succeeded in selling off to foreign competitors – most of Britain’s nuclear engineering capability.
They are only ‘going nuclear’ now – a decade later than they should have done – because there is no other sensible, practical alternative except coal.
This government’s energy policy has been a joke for 12 years.
Engineer’s comment of 11.28 is spot on, but I would like to point out a further, little reported issue, and that is that coal combustion produces more radiation than nuclear power stations. Both in the gases emitted by combustion and the coal ash there are significant quantities of radioactive waste.
The lack of a proper representation of trained scientists and engineers in the political class and in the media means that the debate on these issues reverts to dogma, not science.
Glaswegian at 12:02.
You and I are in complete agreement on both those points – spot on.
Sky reporting that Japan will be beaming power from space by 2030
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28Asimov%29
There’s loads of space between my ears that is not being used.
there’s loads of space between my thighs that’s not being used
A couple of Brown’s former secretary’s doing the rounds on the BBC and making things worse. Hahahahahahah…..
Oh – I was overcome by their sensitive portrayal of the Glorious and Beloved Leader, His ‘feelings’ of ‘grief’ ‘n that, together with the laborious and time consuming task of checking every detail.
I cannot lie. I was nearly in tears, – stoppped meself just in time, or the missus would ‘of’ broken down too.
However did ‘He’ manage to ‘run’ the ‘Treasury’ lie machine all those years, – what wiv all them memos and close attention to scrutenising minutiae and checking wot his minions wrote, – ‘n that?
Guesswork? Fantasy?
innit
You did well to hold yourself together.
Its obvious from the crayon scrawl that the pet lamb is struggling and needs all the love we can send him.
“Love is a P45.”
Its a Colt 45.
Nuclear power?
Yes, please.
Gordon Brown’s brother said:
“Nuclear power?
Yes, please.”
ergo: ££££££££££££££££$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Twas ever thus….I’m surprised that ‘they’ waited so long to make this big “announcement” as long as they did into the man-made climate change scam.
Scraped it through at the last moment, leaving the tories to fight for nuclear sites. EDF sharpening their claws. Dead against nuclear myself. Hope the anti lobby will get their act together pretty quick, before it’s all done and dusted like the EU. French nuclear power stations – no thank you.
Well we cannot keep importing oil and gas forever…….
Just burn MP expense claim forms. There’s a mountain of those things.
But think of the toxic emissions….
Nuclear is the obvious way of obviating greenhouse gases, and has been for years. it is only because our politicians are so scientifically illiterate that this issue has been dangling for so long.
My father helped machine some of the original reactor cores at the Dounreay power station and I grew up with nuclear power.
I used to be a big fan but due to the many leaks, discharges and accidents, documented or otherwise, I now say no thanks.
Nuclear isn’t the only answer to our energy generation shortfall problem, but it can make a significant contribution. In contrast to most of the ‘renewables’, it’s a well-developed technology for which we understand and have the techniques which can cope with the disadvantages. The waste problem is overstated – the arisings are remarkably small compared to the amount of power delivered to the grid, albeit that small amount of waste requires complex handling techniques.
Other techniques of generating large amounts of power have problems as well. Leaving aside the (mainly political) problem of CO2 emissions, burning coal, biomass or waste gives rise to quite large amounts of fly-ash and – ahem – bottom ash, heavily contaminated with dioxins and heavy metal compounds among other nasties. The only way we have of disposal is by landfill, with it’s attendant risk of groundwater contamination by run-off.
The ‘renewables’ all rely on energy sources that are ‘low density’ – there may be huge amounts of energy in tides and wind, but it’s spread over a huge area, so you need a vast amount of installed kit to harvest that energy. We’ve also learned that wind power is intermittent and rather unpedictable.
All known methods of generating electricity, and all the experimental ones, have advantages and disadvantages. There just isn’t a simple, magic bullet answer.
Thanks engineer I agree with you its not as easy when you consider other aspects and as soon as you get past we cant burn fossil fuels then nuclear looks like a solution , but even nuclear is a limited fuel supply so at best if theres a big global switch over you may be on about 100yrs , but in that 100years you will have put a lot of materials into vitrification with anything upto 25000 years before they are useable .
I am against nuclear on this dead end scenario , the government debate did little but show that executives are able to smell cash and mentioned little about its broader eco credentials . The recycling of materials may be far more of an ecnomic factor than putting them beyond re use in the nuclear scenario .
TaT being top boy makes an interesting case although mixed waste cannot be done , and the scare stories of current incineration methods are well founded .
again though the real solution is reducing energy use , which to most people means sitting in a triple lined insulated box and drinking your own urine and reading by candelight .
If Ed milliband had applied his alledged intellect to the matter he would be telling the truth that energy use needs to be reduced, and not sniffing the leather on nuclear execs wallets.
promoting nuclear may also reduce solar devlopement in tropics and equator .
CW thinks eds policy is wierd , smells of corruption of science as well as wrong
Engineer Sir, Hydro is largely over-looked. Converting every water-mill to generate eletriity, and every Weir and every Waterfall, may only produce a fraction of what is required, but it is clean, cheap, reliable and a start!
Reg511 – I’m an enthusiast for hydro as well; it’s especially well-suited to the hillier, wetter west of the country. Unfortunately, the capital costs of installing the kit are often high, and they suffer from problems of clogging with debris, making regular maintenance (with it’s attendant costs) essential. Consequently, except for very large installations, it’s cheaper to hook up to the grid as things stand at the moment. Unfortunately, we don’t have many sites suitable for very large hydro generators (unlike Alpine and Scandinavian countries), and the ones we have are already exploited for the most part. However, the power source is constant and pretty reliable, so it’s a technology not to be forgotten.
CW – I agree wholeheartedly about reduction of energy use, indeed many of my profession have spent most of their working lives trying to do things more efficiently. Take car engines as an example – they are vastly more fuel-efficient than they were. Sadly, many have used this gain to buy cars with larger engines, so faster. So we haven’t actually gained much – call it the Law of Unintended Consequences, if you will. Computers allow us to do things quicker than we used to, and their power allows us to do things we couldn’t do before they were available. Great – in one sense – but collectively, they use a lot of electricity we didn’t use before.
If you make electricty cheaper, people will use more of it. Perhaps the (unpalateable) answer is to make electricity more expensive. However, that way leads to political suicide, so it won’t happen.
The government are not giving us choice. As usual going after short term financial gain. It’s unbelievable that they even consider giving such a dangerous project to a foreign country, particularly when they finished off our own nuclear industry! Despite the fact that newlabour have changed the law in order to curtail all planning opposition, there will be opposition! Almighty opposition!! We’ve been told plenty of lies by newlabour but these will take the biscuit!
Wots happenin to da numba’s,
out of sync guv?
Isn’t it? Isn’t it though?
Random.
whoosh
Could this be an answer to MP’s housing problems
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8350477.stm
No, it’s a sign of how dismal BluLabour will be.
Theres not much left for them to tinker with, this is about as exciting as it gets.
How about announcing they’ll repeal every bit of legislation passed since year zero (1997)?
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
H P Lovecraft, 1926.
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H.P. Lovecraft
If you want to make a million dollars create a religion.
L Ron Hubbard.
Who is H P Lovecraft?
If the extracts above are representative of his output, an early 20th century scribbler of pretentious drivel.
Seconded, a writer of horror stories I read years ago, depressing crap.
BREAKING WIND
I have today decided to appoint Charles Hardwidge as my personal assistant and his first task will be to ensure that Labour wins this week’s by election in Glasgow North East
Thank you and good night
Is it just me or does Tory Bear sound like a Boris Johnson lovechild?
Da da?
Take it as a compliment.
I sound like Michael Barrymore after a swim
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‘Old Holborn says:
November 9, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Take it as a compliment.
I sound like Michael Barrymore after a swim’
I’d say you sound like Barrymore after he has just been buggered.
oh yes, but you haven’t guessed the OTHER parent
ma ma?
baa baa….
I sound worse. He interviews me in that costume and I sound like a disaffected hooray concerned that his pimms is too warm. Still, can ‘t have everything I guess.
BROWN APOLOGISES FOR BEING HIMSELF
…….but blames his father.
“It all started in his scrotum”
Like it.
Partly his ma’s fault as well. She could have kept her legs crossed.
I should like to volunteer for the ’scientific’ research. It would fit in admirably with another programme I am currently running.
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HAI GUISE
HERE IS A FUNNY FAQKT OF LIFE
THERE ARE SUTCH PEOPLE AS KAN BE KAWLD
PAYGAN NATIVES OF THIS SCEPTRED ISLE
AKA
BLUE PEOPLE
MOST BLUE PEOPLE ARE IN FAVOUR OF THE ABOLISHMENT OF PARLIAMENT
AND THE ABOLISHMENT OF THE BANQK OF ENGLAND
AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RULE OF JUSTICE
WUNTSCE AND FOUR AWL
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ASTA
Gordons eye number 1
Glasgow my arse.
Bearsden dreaming of Drymen.
Away and bile yer heid ya muppet.
The world sighed the day you found your way out of the Beer Bar.
How dare ye speak o’ the high heid yin like that?!
ShoelessSlapper
I take it you get your “patter” when you are up for the grouse shooting?
Consequently away and throw shite at yerself ya wa’rmer.
Grouse shooting? I despise anyone who shoots ANYTHING! I could, though, send you a great big kiss from Glasgow.
Shoeless Slapper
Listen hen, don’t kid yourself.
Leave the “nuttin” to the professionals or at least the enthusiastic amateurs.
All you should be worried about is “smokin’ the beef”.
Get that up to speed, lots of practise mind and you will get all the V+C’s you can handle in the “Suave Sav”.
Bit of snot, lovely chew, Gordon’s number 2
Oh the banter!
Another Byres Road bentshot if I am not mistaken.
Guido, you’ve let Gordon put the posts in order AGAIN!
Off topic as usual, and on the subject of Gordon’s letter writing, or “Spazzgate” as I like to call it, and the wave of astroturfing by paid Downing St staff pretending to be members of the public, I submit this as the most obvious, and most offensive, yet.
From a poster who has made *one* post on Cif, this one, today.
lillypalmer’s comment 09 Nov 09, 6:41pm (32 minutes ago)
I am disgusted with this mother’s behavior towards the Prime Minister. Be grateful that the man took the time to HAND WRITE you a letter for heavens sake. Yes, she is grieving, yes it is terribly sad that her son died and my condolences do go out to the woman, but for heavens sake people! I guess it simply takes all kinds, doesn’t it? Our country should be ashamed at how our people treat one another.
Isn’t that a beaut?
Can anyone give me a good reason why each and every member of this despicable government shouldnt’ be dragged into the street and shot?
How did Winnie manage to run a war?
After Singapore he must have been hard at it for a week.
I know he was a journalist hamming it up as PM but he must have done all the letters in shorthand.
“Can anyone give me a good reason why each and every member of this despicable government shouldnt’ be dragged into the street and shot?”
Yeah – waste of decent ammunition. Just club the bastards.
I can give you a good reason Sir, – but in detail only.
‘Yes’ to dragged into street.
But ‘No’ to shot.
Slower, longer lasting, methods please, allowing, in the True Spirit of Noo_Lie_Bore, – ‘inclusive’ and ‘diverse’ ‘community’ involvement and spectacle such as may be witnessed on the ghastly ‘Strictly’.
Oh – and marks out of 10 too please.
Will that do Sir, – for starters?
How about … shooting’s too good for them?
look! – what can I do to stop him? – except put him in his cage – and then he’d whine and carry on.
Besides that, I’ve got money to earn.
It’s not the mp’s you need to worry about they are greedy, slow and stupid drug addicts. It’s the guardian readers that need to be shot for enabling and encouraging this type of behaviour.
I submit this example which wins on points because it mentions Thatcher;
Adeel Sadiq wrote:
Your all bullies. He blind in one eye get over it…. It was an error but he is only human. ” Worst primeminister” tell that to all of the working class people Thacher let down.
Oh that’s a triple whammy, nice. Blind, class war, Thatch – give that 22 year old wannabe MP a sweetie.
And we hearr now from Shill #1, the grand wazoo of plumping Gordon’s pillows. Arselicker in chief – Nick Robinson. “bad eyesight, poor handwriting, but a warm, sincere person”.
Robinson, your name is on my list.
Frankie
Calm down sir.
No Robbo means Semen will miss out on his regular load of muck.
No muck means no blog, no blog means no adverts.
I mean do you expect him to survive on cartoon royalties?
His marriage survives on the fact that he is Robbo’s recepticle on a regular basis. If that goes he will only have Mad Nad to dream about and with the current competition it could soon be the wife or bust.
Who is Semen?
Why does not the No. 10 Office have an official cross-party MP, whose is is sufficiently educated to draft and present for writing and finally rubber stamp any letters of condolence destined to be written by the PM. I think I know just the MP – Dominic Grieve.
See the letter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6909326.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/gordon-brown-spelling-soldier-sight
I see the gordon apologists are out in force tonight.
He was ill at ease at the Cenotaph because his eyesight was failing’
‘He called a fallen soldier by the wrong name and then continued to write a letter riddled with badly spelt, barely legible, sentiments because his eyesight was failing’
Well I’m sorry I don’t accept that excuse.
Firstly, he is in no.10 drowning street surrounded by secretaries to whom he can dictate meaningful, heartfelt letters.
I have a family member who has lost significant sight and who will soon end up blind because they have the dry version of macular degeneration as I believe does gordon.
They are of gordon’s age. What have they done?? Well they haven’t winjged on as gordon is doing about his failing eyesight. They have learned the qwerty keyboard by touch so that they can keep on writing and communicating. Why can’t he?
Thirdly, loss of vision does not equate to an inability to spell. ‘cumfort? condolencs? greatst?’
Fourthly his appearance at Remembrance Sunday was wooden, jerky and very peculiar. This man is clearly, socially, drowning as he tries to fulfil the public role that forms a major part of his job.
He is clearly, sadly, incompetent and not fit for purpose. And none of it has anything to do with his sight.
Everyone mark the anti Gordon comments up that will piss them off.
Oh yeah sidenote this is the start of the painting Gordon Brown as an underdog to get the british public to back him after they looked on in amazement at what happened to Nick Griffin.
Big bad Murdoch picking on poor little one eyed Gordon boo hoo sympathy vote us labour back in.
Amazing how many cronies come out of the woodwork to defend him.
Can this be the start of a New Campaign to elicit sympathy, ‘understanding’ votes for the G+BL from – what did the man say? – G R O L I W E S ’s ?
(Guardian Readers of Limited Intelligence Wearing Effnic Skirts – or somesuch)
Hey don’t fret – they’re only supporting him cus they’re paid to
Oh – thanks – just wondered.
Now wondering who pays for it all, – like, – who’s wallet is felt for funds?
Nah – don’t bovva
Sorry. Bless!!
The Wallet is yours and mine!!
Is there any confirmation that he lost his eye in a Rugby match. Probably slipped on his first of many banana skins
He was servicing a “glory hole” and got poked in the eye.
G*d – waht position was that?
Hooker
Simple 69. Simples.
He was hit in the head by a flying flower pot when Boris caught him being rogered up the chuff by rough trade on a Bullingdon Blinder
Hence his freakish forehead
I heard it was trouser snooker but he forgot to wait for the balls to drop.
And let’s not forget that he has managed to write a series of books on courage that have been quite legible and well spelt. How is that then?
No doubt he thought it was important to have help with getting his books just right, they after all were meant to make him money, but that letters to grieving relatives didn’t matter.
his books . . . after all were meant to make him money
Au contrare! he’s a so-sher-list – he do it for the ‘people’
Anyway, did you notice how the spelling is not all that difrent ter wot yer modun yoof do on they sa’s ‘n that wat they do ata skol?
Same with The Times online, they’ve got the party faithful working overtime tonight.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6909326.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093
Oh ffuck thif – i’m off ‘ome for a good ffag
Are they suggesting the Brown was not telling the truth when he told Marr that his eyesight was OK?
He has also vehemently denied that his eyesight is failing so that is no excuse.
This is all rather pathetic.
For Brown to send a hand-written letter of condolence (albeit lacking somewhat in its composition) rather than dishing out Campbell/McBride-sanitised xeroxes is one of the few things that are to the man’s credit.
For the Sun to wallow so gleefully in, and capitalise on, the grief of the bereaved family as it has done is shameful.
There is actually nothing funny about this, and it doesn’t really become posters here to ride on the Sun’s coat-tails.
As for Brown, the disastrous impact of his manifold shortcomings should render his handwriting unworthy of anyone’s interest.
Hes in Berlin tonight , on a good note though he could jonah the rest of the EU , his speech was brilliant but he omitted “britain in massive uncontrollable debt ” from the long list of global suffering . Actually its video/ruin classic of classic dangerous walter mitty syndrome .
so whilst ruin is in Berlin milliband makes the case for the ruins brothers line of work to profit , eh keep it in the family
Lets not forget the fall of the wall, something the lefties have never forgiven Reagan and Thatcher for to this day.
Gordon is in Berlin commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. He’s not celebrating the end of Soviet Communism or capitalism moving eastwards, but instead the many elements of the Soviet system which came in the opposite direction, culminating in the new European constitution.
Cursez!!
Der secret of zer EUSSR, it hav been sussed by zer Red unter der mattress!
Wot shall vee do?
Call Comrade, der Precedent Bliar, – He vill Know vot we do, should
I’d love to see the CIA publish their current list of this labour government’s ministers and their marxist, stalinist, communist roots.
Let’s not forget that jack jones , who was paid by the kremlin to infiltrate british labour politics and who recruited through the universities, told his recruits ‘ don’t join the communist party, join the labour party and seek the highest office possible’
And who was listed amongst thost recruits?
broon, hewitt, aintbustinagut, darling, harman, ………………..
It can now be revealed – the fall of the wall was the pre-arranged trigger for Soviet-sponsored agents and sleepers, communists, Maoists, Marxists and their protégés in left wing parties like Labour to get fully active. The destruction of capitalism is going well, particularly in economic sector 7 (the former UK), and the move to ever more centralised dictatorship of the proletariat, er sorry people, in their own interests, is also progressing according to plan.
Actually it is beginning to unravel.
Labour has shot its bolt.
cherie, shamelessly, appeared at the Remembrance Ceremony in a PURPLE SILK coat.
She, broon and bliar remind me very forcibly of the end of the caucescue era.
This labour/communist government is coming to a bad end.!!!!
New Labour Mandelson Gordon Brown and Tony Bliar are communists
right
so what does that make the heir-to-bliar ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1226092/Apologise-Gordon-Brown-Simon-Cowell-tells-Louis-Walsh-criticism-X-Factor-judges-tension-escalates.html
I rather think that public criticism of gordon over the last 48 hours has completely passed him by. We, after all, are of no consequence to him, given his massive ego.
However I don’t think given his slavish reliance upon the bbc and the ‘entertainment classes’ he will have missed Simon Cowell’s support of him yesterday.
Dermot O’Leary on Xfactor dared to say that ‘gordon has no taste in music’
Simon Cowell said of dermot ” You have offended our PM and the British Public. You should apologise”
Well dermot, he isn’t OUR PM because we never elected him and never will. And you have not offended the majority of the British public because they do not support gordon.
So apologize if you want to, to a narrow minority but it won’t win you much public support if you do!
Simon Cowell is a ‘friend’ of Gordon Brown, introduced to him by Piers ‘Im a Twat ‘Morgan.
Cowell, morgan and broon .
The thought that comes to mind is those cowpats in the fields that I walk.
Flies, maggots and an unhealthy smell!!!!
Why have you engaged this special needs person as a reporter?
Dont get me wrong
I am all in favour of helping the “Challenged!” and its nice to see a person who suffers from Downs syndrome chatting to a masked lunatic in a public place without being beaten to the ground in a police baton charge,
But call ne old fashioned but I would much rather see far more video links to huge breasted whores jumping into Hugh Heffners swimming pool.
Is it just me??
Don’t they just . . . float?
Where’s the action?
Where were you last Thursday, you Nigerian cock sucker?
I have moved on
Its Chinese from now on
O/T
Anyone else listening to Analysis R4 on now?
My voice is hoarse with shouting at that **** Toynbee
polly twaddle.
Don’t shout at her.
Just imagine her sitting on her loo , abandoned, next year after labour have been finally trashed.
She should sit on her Aga.
Toynbee’s turds are the diameter of coke cans
This verse from the old American folk song may hit the spot:
“Oh I like watermelon and I have for years
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
I eat watermelon because it gets upon my ears
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day”
K-SKWAAAAWKK! (ping) (splash) FLUSSSHHHH!!! (cackle)
compared to Mary Riddell , Pollytwaddle is an island of sanity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/maryriddell/6533366/Gordon-Brown-should-say-the-unsayable-immigration-has-been-a-boon.html
Furniture chewing lunacy from the DT
A possible question on Question Time this Thursday.
Muppet: Do the panel think it was right for the Sun newspaper to publish the story of Gordon Browns letter to a grieving mother?
“And there shall be much weeping and gnashing of teeth amongst the hordes of po faced Labour plants.”
This man Will give a good answer.
Now there’s a man who should never have given up heroin…
I’d like to shove a copy of ‘Book of Dave’ up his patronising, pile-ridden jacksie. Either that or a London taxi – sideways.
You might stand more chance of getting people to sign up for the Guidogram if you got rid of that pompous, preening spoilt middle-class dickhead Harry Cole.
Well we have thousands already…
little weepy face
H
The “Middle class” thing gave her away
*Hands H a tissue to wipe down the sofa*
“I gave it up for music and the free electric miliband”
This cartoon had me laughing out loud:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Gordon/
As team cameron try and roll out there plan for poverty (heavy news day submerged NHS one) Cw thinks the best way to tackle poverty is to boot Labour out of office , who have done more than any party in creating poverty .
Poverty , labours child poverty record is appaling and they have no right to crow about there efforts , after 12 years we are more busted than when they came in or for that matter in lving memory, so the spin machine putting cute bits of spin out about making the rich pay is annoying , i mean they have robbed middle and working class by the ecnomic failiure , it is there wealth that is being drained into bank balance sheets isnt it . By not controlling immigration they have created more poverty .
personally I blame Germaine Greer , if Harriet had not read her book , petermandelson would never have risen in the labour party and he wouldnt have made Tony Blair , senator palpatine and the ruin would never have got near the UKs finances . (Cw tribute script to Mr Letts is that really her photo from 1974 , Cw thought it wasnt her IQ that hit me first)
William Hague is gay – dad told me.
Oh no, the jock loon is back.
you really are a stupid c unt.
mmm gay karate expert ?? I will leave you to brooch your post to him.
Hello titbrain.
On second thoughts the ruins berlin speech made me feel sick , its a classic guido I dare you to watch it , I needed a lie down after it
Thye must have really pumped him full of drugs to get that speech out of him.
Half expecting an “Obama Wall” moment.
Well, I’m subscribed but didn’t get this before seeing it here today.
“…do you undestand Mr Brown, lack of equipment…”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2722174/Mum-Jacqui-Janes-at-war-PM-is-humbled.html
PHUCK OFF
I bet Peter Kilfoyle is putting away some full english this morning
Wrong – according to indepenent research he has had only an apple and a cup of decaff coffee.
GB
4
PM
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/article307898.ece?channel=Sun+Exclusive&clipID=1347_SUN27343
Brown has a VERY VERY uncomfortable 12 minute telephone call with Mrs Janes
Oh dear – Mr Brown given a good going over by a grieving mother who clearly knows more about military helicopter and equipment than he does. That’s not going to look good in the record books is it Mr Brown?
Still don’t underastand why there are no extra helicopters in service afetr all this alleged “effort” by the government. As Mrs Janes so succinctly and accurately put it to him, Brown has failed. Says it all really doesn’t it?
Brown was well and truly “fooked over” by Mrs Janes – but he was always on a hiding to nothing taking on a grieving mother who has generations of service history and another son serving – and I bet he never suspected that she would be recording the conversation.
That’s all so true – so why did he carry on digging then? May be he’s just a bit dim on these things.
Of course, Brown has form on rudeness and the like. For years he insisted on turning up as a guest at black-tie dinners wearing a crumpled lounge suit, he has never botheed to tie his tie neatly, his shoes and finger nails are famously scrappy and his style/tone of discussion (ie not listening to what’s been said, just loudly repeating a load of dubious statistics) is bound to offend. He obviously thinks he’s so great becasue his dad was some sort of vicar, and therefore no-one could question his actions/intentions, but from the outside it looks quite different. Not bowing your head when laying a wreath is a good recent example – was he consciously and intentionally causing offence, or was it just plain ignorance of manners and respect for others?
He could have used the world’s biggest felt-tip to write his letter (it’s his trademark after all), but the spelling and grammar are beyond a joke.
In the conversation with Mrs Janes he fell back on the line that he had been working very hard (as hard as he could) to do everything he could to support troops in Afghanistan. This reliance on “inputs”, like spending, rather than “outputs” is classic Brown-spin and it works on the assumption that the receipient is an idiot. Mrs Janes rightly pointed out that the actual result was that he had, as she put it, “failed”. That is all that matters and he just can’t see it.
Funnily enough Cherie Blair is the same when it comes to manners …remember her autographing a copy of the Butler report so it could be auctioned for party funds? On Remembrance Day last Sunday – did she really say to herself “What to wear – I know – it’s just the day to bring out my flashy purple coat”. What a disgrace.
Back to work now.
Guido, do some digging on the astroturfing if you can?
Pravda pulling out all the stops on Spazzgate – a Sun campaign, it is!
So, that’s the Sun that wrote the original letter, then thought it a good idea to phone up and rant. That’s the Sun that did that. Stupid fucking corrupt BBC.
BTW, fellers, the astroturfers are *everywhere* again this morning. I suggest those who post elsehwere redouble their efforts to counter these dickheads, and dont’ forget to spread the word that they’re on the public purse.
Mrs Janes: “I can’t believe that I am now being bought to the level of having an argument with the Prime Minister of our country”.
Believe it, Honey.
Sun fueled argument.
Solar powered, eh? that should keep the Green Loonies happy!
Now I’m all for helping blind people across the road and adapting flat-screens for braille, buying them felt-tip pens and making sure that the educationally disadvantaged of us find a meaningful place in our society. It is for most of us a duty that we show compassion etc.. for those less fortunate than ourselves etc etc etc etc… also help poor children and travel less around the world.
There is also a compulsion in a meritocracy that those who are clearly superior than the rest in intelligence and personal ability should be promoted to the top. Only in a communist system would the majority be held back by a twat. After 12 years of a repressive system similar to communism having been practised in this country do we have a situation where we are being governed by people who are – to be fair – severely challenged in many ways.
There are too many “Alphas” among us sitting at home with little to do, whilst we are being governed by “Epsilons”.