More hot air from the BBC

If ever there was an article on the BBC website that looks as if the writer was weeping into their tofu and mung bean stew, it's this one:

UK climate scepticism more common

It says:

The British public has become more sceptical about climate change over the
last five years, according to a survey.

Twice as many people now agree that "claims that human activities are
changing the climate are exaggerated".

Four in 10 believe that many leading experts still question the evidence.
One in five are "hard-line sceptics".

I'm at the very least in the four in ten, and maybe even the one in five.

Perhaps the reason why people feel it's exaggerated is because the left-wing press have over-played their hand. I'm surprised the BBC didn't add "...despite BBC's best efforts" to the end of the headline.

Here's to scrapping the all these "green taxes"... and the telly tax while we're at it.

Eco-wackery and screwing Britain over

Back after the Bank Holiday weekend...who deserves a mention on the blog today?

What about this eco-lunatic, the subject of an article in the Guardian (oh, where else?), entitled 'If you're not fighting climate change or improving the world, you're wasting your life'?

Yea Gods. It's the usual stuff, must act now (not that they've been coming out with this stuff for over a decade now), let's harangue business and the Government, blah blah fishcakes. But one quote really jumped out at me:

"Sorry," Armstrong says, apologising for the yeast story. "I just think about climate change all the time and campaign around it 24/7. When I take a day off, I think what a waste of time. I'm just a climate-change obsessive. That's all I do."

Perhaps a visit to the doctor might help. Here's a picture of the woman:

The words "Get a life, dear!" spring to mind. Something to distract you from it all. Nuff said - I could carry on in this vein but I think you can see what I'm getting at.

While we're at it, why are the Government so determined to make it as s*** to live in Britain as possible? To take three such stories from the recent press:

• Petrol's gone up again...not because of a rise in fuel prices, but cos Greedy Gordon's fleecing us again;
• We're banned BY LAW from being able to buy proper light bulbs;
• And we'll be back to rota power cuts by the end of the next decade because we've gone for ten years of not having an energy policy beyond putting up those useless windmills.

I don't just want to see Gordon Brown lose the election. I want to see him lead out of Number 10 in handcuffs and thrown in prison. That way he can have done to him what he's done to us over the last twelve miserable years. Useless tossers, the lot of 'em.

Quote of the day

Environmentalism should be like tipping in restaurants – something you do out of the goodness of your heart because you have the inclination and motivation. The more it gets shoved down my throat, the more I get the sinking feeling that it’s really just a socialist scam wrapped in guilt.

Beautifully put. And very true!

But this lady lives in the US... try telling that to Brussels. We've to comply with some goody-goody EU landfill directive, leading to a tax on waste:

Landfill tax
Landfill Tax is payable on waste that is disposed of at landfills. The Tax is regulated by HM Revenue and Customs. Rates for 2008/09 were:
Active waste - £32/tonne (+VAT)
Inactive waste - £2.50/tonne (+VAT)
Rates for 2009/10 are:
Active waste - £40/tonne (+VAT)
Inactive waste - £2.50/tonne (+VAT)
The rate for active waste increased by £8/tonne per annum from 1st April 2008 and will continue to increase by £8/tonne on 1st April each year to 2013.
The rate for inactive waste increased to £2.50 + VAT per tonne on 1st April 2008. The Government has announced that the rate will be frozen at £2.50 per tonne in 2009-10.
The Government has announced that the rate for inactive waste will be frozen at
£2.50/tonne for 2009-10.

If this waste was being dumped in Belgium, then these guys might have a point. We don't need a foreign-imposed tax to tell us what we can and can't bury under our own land.

Just one more reason for coming out of the expensive joke that is the EU.