Comments on: Green protestors never fail to irritate me

By: Rosie Haworth-Booth

Rosie Haworth-Booth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:02:33 +0000

How revealing that ‘Tory’ should understand my comment on Brown’s £50Billion to refer solely to the development of an airport. I admit that my remarks, quoted in the Evening Standard and one or two of the news channels, were not the clearest, but I would have thought it pretty evident that the remarks were directed to climate change and environmental ravaging in general rather than the building of a runway at Heathrow and another at Stansted, in particular. You seem to be blissfully unaware that the Polar Ice Caps are melting at an exponential rate and they may have completely disappeared as early as 2020, the carbon sinks of the Amazon and other rain forests are almost as rapidly being depleted, desert areas are growing (with a few miraculous exceptions where planting has taken place as in some parts of North Africa. All this means that the world will be heating up to such a degree as to cause possibly, first of all much colder winters in the North west as the sea water cools, then rapidly warmer as the Polar regions absorb the suns rays rather than reflecting them. Sea levels will rise, many parts of the world will suffer (indeed some already are suffering) extremes. We in Britain may remain climatically slightly better off than many parts of the world, but those in the areas hardest hit will struggle to get out of an untenable environment. There will be more wars and famines and huge pressure on North Western Europe, including Britain, to open its doors to migrants.

If Brown could think beyond the status quo and think about seriously developing renewable energy – wind, solar and tidal for example- create new jobs in these areas, rather than propping up a system which produces barbie dolls, yachts and jet-propelled holidays, we might begin to get ourselves at least partially out of this environmental and financial mess.

By: NigelC

NigelC — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:41:07 +0000

When protestors believe the Government has overridden the democratic planning process what options are left open to them?

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:21:04 +0000

*roll eyes*

By: Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:54:54 +0000

“Know your enemy”…

By: the lord of the last day

the lord of the last day — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:18:59 +0000

Funny you should have singled out the RCP, Shaun Pilkington.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:13:16 +0000

Yet again, my comment thread descends into a surreal underworld of conspiracy and confusion….

(the confusion is mostly from me, I might add)

By: Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:06:27 +0000

Cyborg Hitler will thwart him, you know…

http://evilwombat.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sb_robot-hitler_color_thumbnail.jpg

(from Wolfenstein 3D, a classic game, not some weird nazi-cyborg porn thing!)

By: Madeley

Madeley — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:54:22 +0000

Don’t forget the top-secret Marxist cabal plot to utilise solar-power in the resurrection of zombie-Stalin.

By: Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:38:23 +0000

I think it kind of does. Direct action wannabe revoloutionaries (generally Champagne Socialists and their offspring to a man) hijacked the environmental movement when Communism collapsed. At around that time, the gree movement becaome very anti-business, profoundly left-wing on economics and started getting into the business of advocating the kind of totalitarian grip on our lives that was familiar to any students of the Soviet Era.

Now, a couple of decades later, the movement they spawned is adapting the same well-meaning young idiots who ALWAYS join the protest movement. Its no different to Swampy and the road protests back in the day, its just that now these guys are tools of Communist totalitarians who want to control our lives, destroy our standard of living and leave us shivering in the dark while the human population plunges to whatever paltry number these jokers feel is ideal for the Earth.

Having failed to deliver a workers utopia, I’d contend that there project now is just to cull the population down to a manageable size at which time they’ll execute their wacky schemes…

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:43:02 +0000

Nice theory, but that doesn’t explain the wave of young idiots that we see climbing government buildings, disrupting power stations and trying to break into Parliament – literally.