High-speed rail link - Opinions divided?

The Wimps are at again.

Some call the planned high-speed rail line an eye-sore while others claim the benefits will completely transform the UK’s transport network, wrote the Telegraph’s Jasmine Malone 11 Dec 2010.

  We spent a generation or thereabouts empowering the WIMPS and this is what you get, petty squabbling over things that need to be done to protect our status as the Premier Trading Nation the World has ever known. But just what, do all these plonkers who quibble at every attempt to project this nation into the 21^st century think is going to provide us with the opportunity to enjoy a rewarding and fulfilling lifestyle in the years ahead, as the rest of the world tries to play catch up?

  Though on another tack, as long as we continue to support this disastrous experiment in Europe and they persistently attempt  to drag us down to their level, assisted by the myopic quislings in our midst, we’re going nowhere fast. There can be no doubt, that a high speed rail link to the Capital which connects seamlessly with the St Pancras Terminal to Continental European destinations is the way forward.

  We gave the world railways and are we now such a pale imitation of our forefathers, that we cannot emancipate ourselves from the unelected, unaccountable Brussels fraudsters across the English Channel. For centuries we’ve haggled with the French and more often that not whupped ’em. The French have never really got over the Battle of Agincourt, to the point where they have sought to gang up with the Germans to try and second guess us.

  It’s been going their way for a few years, till they made the fundamental mistake that will be their downfall, by opting for a common currency without the necessary infrastructure to co-ordinate it. It’s an abject failure, for if you fail to carry the International Shylocks with you and depend on borrowing to balance your books, it will be your downfall and that’s where they’re at, in Brussels and Strasbourg, in Portugal and Spain, Ireland, Italy and Greece. Only facts and figures will convince the Shylocks and they remain unconvinced, baleouts included. For no amount of baleout funding is going to convince these people, that their juice is safe.

  The time has come to stand on our own feet again as we have done for a thousand years, till these people turned up using the excuse of preventing a third world war, as the vehicle for their federalist dreams of a super state. Maybe if the civilisation we have created lasts for a another thousand years there could be a case for some overriding international consensus on governance, but the time is not here and now

  Too many conflicting national interests stand in the way of a Federal Europe, it was never going to be anything more than a bridge too far.

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.

Vince Cable - The Harry Hill of Politics?

Britain faces another economic crash? Sez Vince

Britain has failed to appreciate the seriousness of the economic crisis and faces another financial crash, Vince Cable has warned Telegraph readers, courtesy of Robert Winnett.   

  If you needed anymore evidence that the Lib-Dems are not fit for purpose. This Telegraph headline sums it up in two words - Vince Cable. No good at politics; is not an excuse for blundering into things you don't understand.

 

  Though if are old enough to remember '74 when the Lib-Dems supported the Wilson/Callaghan axis of incompetence, you would need no platitudes like this from Vince, to realise the Lib-Dems just dunner geddit.

  But I s'pos there'll always be a place for this Harry Hill of Politics,  in a  care home  maybe, if he can do no more than hurl petrol bombs at a very inflammatory situation. But is there really a place in the Cabinet, for a man like this at a seminal moment in our history.

  Though maybe on second thoughts it could be the reason Dave 'n' Gid are such Europhiles. For if the balloon does go up, as Vince suggests it would be nice to see the EU gallop to the rescue rather than have to go cap in hand to the IMF.

 

Time he was put out to grass?

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

 Tom.

Sometimes you wonder who actually did make it up

English Proverb 

‘For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost’, as Dave expresses 'optimism’, in respect of an on-going Union of England with Scotland and promises to make the case for continuing it.

  After several extended periods of living and working in Scotland, from the early sixties to the late eighties, I can see no sensible reason why we should continue to support an electorate which votes only in their own best interests, as they see it. A population which is all smiles, till you turn your back, which you do at your peril.

  We do not need Scottish MPs deciding how we should run England and the sooner they beetle of back where they came from, the better. Their left-leaning politics helped to foist on us the things like the onerous burden of debt; we are now having to shoulder.

  Is Scotland any good for anything other than tourism, after their bankers came south and all but destroyed the credibility of the 'City of London', in harness with their son of the Manse Chancellor who failed to understand that two and two make four, as he tried to take it out on the rest of the world, with his own brand of wanton arrogance.

  Then of course there’s this spectre of the Barnett Formula hanging over us, £9billion or so each year and it’s been going on year after year since 1975. That’s a few billion piled on the national debt. So If we could persuade them to go it alone, we’d be much better off and not so heavily in debt, especially if we insisted on a bit of payback for all those years they’ve been milking our Treasury.

  One outstanding example is the way their boy Gordie, Son of the Manse, paid off the best part of £1billion of the £1.3 billion debt in Glasgow City Council's Housing Department. For a while it stood at around £300 million, but the last time I checked they were piling it up again and it was back to square one.

  My grandfather was Scottish and I grew up in ignorance of this, as he died many years before I was born, my experience of living and working there, though is still fresh in my mind. I was supposed to get the fare home to the Midlands after working there on one particular contract for two months, that was in 1989. It’s never been paid, so that has to be a few bob in accrued interest charges, on my enforced loan to them.

  Maybe First Minister Salmond will send a few bucks on account, when he reads this piece. Even a choice fillet of smoked salmon, would suffice to ameliorate the pain of this deceit. Yep I reckon it’s time for them to go it alone and best of luck. With a referendum on the horizon though, don’t bet on the outcome, unless you reckon they’re about to kill the Goose that laid the Golden Egg.

  But above all, I'm so bloody glad he never managed to persuade Grandma to go back there with him. My Grandad William certainly knew which side his bread was buttered.

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.

  

Windmills of the Mind

Benefits of Wind Powered Generators  overstated by Promoters

Yawn, yawn! Did anyone out there ever suspect the outcome was going to be anything other than this, as lone voices crying in the wilderness tried to wake us all up to what was going on. First and foremost the Telegraph Columnist Christopher Booker, who consistently wrote to expose the humbug and insouciance, which pervades this matter, as the hucksters piled in to milk the system?

  Is there no one in government with the wit or perspicacity to get to the nub of these things and ask the questions which need to be answered, before the government embarks on programmes that most of the population could have enlightened them about, in the wink of an eye. But always, out of the blue comes a seminal moment, when the blindingly obvious exposes the fraud which has been perpetrated on the taxpaying masses, as a simple fact emerges and the hype is exposed for all to see.

  Did we really have to spend a million bucks to bring home the bacon in the shape of this £900,000 windfall to the wind farmers to shut down for just one day and receive a pay-off, which teeters on the edge of lunacy? To prove what certain pundits have been telling us for the best part of a decade and as Derek Jameson, a former tabloid editor might have remarked - ‘you couldn’t make up.’

  But someone did and it happened for the entire world, to see in living colour, the absolute stupidity with which government approaches the business of spending our money. Though the people who really need to be exposed are the consultants hired on mega-buck contracts to advise all these ministers and their cohorts who cannot think for themselves and are liability we can no longer afford.

  It must be time to pull down the shutters on this maddening eyesore of a business plan and build a sustainable nuclear generating presence, which will see us through the next millennium, in the most efficient and cost effective way that modern science can devise. If the French can do it, I'm sure it's not beyond the wit and intellect of our world beating scientists and financial wizards to come up with a sensible solution before the lights go out. 

You know it makes sense, watch this space I’ll be back!

Tom.