It’s The Conference Season; Liberals Beware It Looks Like An Outbreak of Doublethink Fever Has Already Broken Out In The Department Of Energy.

 

Wind farm opponents are living in stone age, Ed Davey claims.
(Headline from today’s Sunday Telegraph (14/09/2013)

 

Opponents of wind farms are living in the “Stone Age”, Ed Davey has said, as he declared war on Tory Cabinet colleagues over turbines.

Mr Davey is the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary. He is reported in many of the Sunday papers today of attacks on his Conservative Cabinet cousins over what he sees as their recalcitrant attitudes and behaviour in seeking to block his “reforms”. Until now, Davey has kept the bitter behind-the-scenes battles to himself. Now it’s the conference season and it looks like he has decided he needs something to appeal to the bearded, sandal and sock wearing hard core Liberal lefties, He wants voters to know what he is up against and how hard he is having to fight against Tory opposition to his Green measures, such as wind farms, wave power, and covering large parts of southern England with solar panels. These he believes (well today he says he believes) are vital to safeguarding the country’s energy supplies. He calls these measures “Keeping the lights on”, I call it a recipe for brownouts, but we are all entitled to our opinion.

While he is currently making all this Green noise in the newspapers and in Glasgow, no doubt for the furtherance of his all party Liberal image and surrounded by the (ever dwindling) party faithful, it seems he has other ideas outside of the heady atmosphere of the conference hall.

In his day job Mr Davey, is overseeing plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations and he is adamant they are necessary. “I’m prepared to make the case . . . for new nuclear [power stations] because we can’t take low carbon options off the table,” he said He also says; I  have looked at a whole range of issues which people might have thought were difficult for a Liberal Democrat. For example, shale gas. I made the environmental case for [it]. That will be controversial in parts of the environmental movement.

I wrote last week about Labour’s dire case of Doublethink. Methinks this is a condition which could be catching? Is Mr Davey preparing the way to continue his coalition career by cosying up to Ed, Doublethink, Miliband? Now,If only they could get Nick Clegg to hold ONE idea consistently, he clearly failed with tuition fees, maybe they could have a close fit with Miliband Minor and his Newthink party. It would appear however that Cleggy’s chances of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct is somewhat beyond him. Ed Davey for leader you might have thought,but maybe he learnt all he knows about Newthink and Doublethink from master “Yoda” Vince Cable, the Benedict Arnold of the Labour and Liberal left who went over to the dark side aeons ago?

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The Labour Are Not Guilty Of Hypocrisy–Just Doublethink

In an article in today’s Daily Telegraph (04/09/2013) Graeme Archer points out that despite Ed Miliband campaigning for a NO vote against limited military action against Syria, in concert with the USA and France, now that Parliament have voted against it It turns out that Labour didn't expect the Government to lose. Now they want the chance to vote again.

Ben Bradshaw, MP for Exeter, a former Labour Cabinet minister, suggested [Mr Archer’s emphasis] that ED (the conquering hero who won the NO vote) would now support a second Parliamentary vote being called. Wouldn’t  this motion then have to be substantively identical to the one voted down 96 hours ago? If so you have to wonder if the Labour Party (Mr Miliband aside) wanted the original motion to succeed why didn’t they vote for it in the first place? I believe that this just goes to show that Miliband was not doing what he did for the good of democracy, or the good of the country, but only what he perceived, in the very short term, to be good for him.

Meanwhile Jim Murphy (MP for East Renfrewshire), Labour's defence spokesperson, said that "really significant developments in Syria" would imply that “of course the Prime Minister has the right to bring that back to Parliament." We know that thousands have already been killed in Syria's civil war; perhaps we should as Ed how many more would make it "significant"?

Now, if we were to apply logic to this position; (Okay, I’m aware that logic and the Labour Party are not comfortable bedfellows, but stay with me for a minute) then given the Government's motion you have to ask your self three questions:

1) Do you think Syria is a matter with which Britain should be involved?

2) Do you think Syria is a matter with which Britain should not be involved?

3) Are you not sure?

If your answer to the first question is YES then surely you should have voted FOR Mr Cameron’s motion. If you go with question two then surely you should have voted NO. If you were not sure then shouldn’t you have ABSTAINED? What I am now unclear about is is how you can vote against involvement on a Thursday and then, over the weekend, or maybe even as you were walking through the NO lobby, decide that it's all the Prime Minister's fault that you don't get to vote again next week, because this time you would support him.

Perhaps Ed Miliband is starting to worry that his behaviour last week confirms the negative perception we have of his personality. That he behaved like a total amoral lowlife toward his brother in his naked desire to to sell himself to the unions and become leader, maybe a bigger drag on what the public thinks of him than is generally appreciated by the pseudo-intellectual, metropolitan Neo-Marxists, toadies and “Yes Men” he has surrounded himself with. It looks like they have retreated to the position of: “When the facts change, I change … my opinion, moral stance, political ground, etc., etc. (strike out what does not apply). It may be more accurate to say: "When it looks like I might be on the wrong side of Received Opinion, I'll do whatever it takes to turn that focus group around.

Perhaps however something else going on in the mind of Miliband Minor and the members of the labour Party? Some, far more cynical that I, may think the original stance and this new one show up the blatant hypocrisy of these cheap hucksters who will, like a cheap whore, adopt any position for preferment, or maybe they have taken a leaf out of George Orwell’s 1984 had have adopted Big Brother’s concept of Newthink and Doublethink?

Newthink is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words.Within Newthink is “Doublethink”; this is that the act whereby an individual or a group of people, for example in this case the Labour Party, can simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct. This is Somewhat related to, but almost the opposite of what we consider to acceptable behaviour in a civilised society i.e cognitive dissonance. This is where contradictory beliefs cause conflict in one's mind. Newthink and Doublethink are notable due to a lack of cognitive dissonance — thus the person, or group engaging in them are completely unaware of any conflict or contradiction. The question we must ask is “Do we want people capable of Newthink and Doublethink running the country?”

Ed appears to have lead his party to a place where they now believe that there is nothing that he,or the party could say to us now that we would not believe and even should they all “about face” we would continue to believe them. What that leads to is more of the “Wisdom of Big Brother; ““War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”; “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”. I however would prefer to live in in the twenty first century than 1984 and will be voting that way in 2015.

Ed Milliband; Weak, Wishy-Washy and A Totally Egocentric Cynic.

I'm not unhappy at the delay in our taking direct action against Syria ,because that's all it will be. Nothing convinces me that it would serve a purpose at the moment but the time will come.

The content of David Cameron's speech was what I wanted to hear and it was delivered with earnestness and conviction by a man showing true leadership qualities. We need such people However, but let's put the blame for our non-intervention squarely where it lies.

The increasingly lame Mr Milliband is looking to make political capital at the expense of our moral responsibilities and Syrian lives. He is trying to cowardly distance himself from the war criminal Tony B Liar who, unlike Cameron, blatantly lied to Parliament and took us into an illegal war.

Mr Milliband obviously has no moral compass or conscience. He is purely a Marxist, Union operated puppet, out for the main chance to try and rescue the shambles of his failed leadership of the Labour Party and his political career. What a cynic.

He is quoted in the papers today saying that he “urges the Government not to "wash its hands" of Syria”. This despite urging MPs to vote against the principle of military intervention. Even some of the Right Wing press appear to give him tacit support but then again the gentlemen of the fourth estate were ever fickle and easily swayed.

There is no doubt his tactic of first agreeing to support the Government and then turning his coat at the last minute worked, but it is the worst example of a cynical manipulation of Parliament and the most desperate pandering to public option in a last ditch attempt to try and achieve some public sympathy since Alistair Campbell ceased his unlawful and unholy machinations.

This unprincipled weak, wishy-washy and totally egocentric cynic must never be allowed to be Prime Minister, Remember he and Ed Balls were as much the architects of our recent disastrous economic plight as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. I winder who was pushing his buttons back then; Len McCluskey perhaps?

Heard The One About The Four Scotsmen Who Are Going To Be A Couple Of Minutes Late?

Question: Why does BBC 2 always begin its traffic reports in Scotland and work south? As an example they will inevitably begin by reporting a lane closure on the A9 north of Pitlochry. Given the population density in those parts, even at the height of the tourist season, this probably means that three or four Jocks are going to experience a maximum of a five or, at most, a ten minute delay.

Meanwhile, on the M25 the Commissariat Militia (otherwise known as the Highways Agency Traffic Officer Service or “Traffic Wombles”) have closed three out of four lanes, causing ten to fifteen mile tailbacks and hours of delay to thousands of motorist’s journeys. All this because someone (now safely parked on the hard shoulder) has blown a tyre and left a small piece of tread on the inside lane.

Apparently they have to shut down so many lanes to maintain the safety of their officers; who are either policemen who have retired early on full pensions because they have a bad back, and are now raking in another publicly funded salary and amassing a second Civil Service pension, or wannabes who couldn’t get into the police force in the first place but now have a uniform and who think they have God like powers to lord it like Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.

The BBC however will make the huge majority of people who may be affected by this wait three of four minutes while they bang on about Berwick, Ballymena and Barnard Castle.

Can’t they begin their reports with the major hold-ups which are affecting the vast majority or is this another example of tipping our hats to the multicultural minorities?

The Looney Lib Dems have finally lost it

Okay – it’s now official. The Looney Lib Dems have finally lost it. Power seems to have gone to the Liberals’ heads. They plan to win the next general election by clobbering the rich rather than making the country wealthy.

In a policy drawn up by the party’s “Tax Working Group” high earners would face a huge rise in their capital gains tax bills.They propose a cut in the tax-free capital gains allowance from £10,900 to just £2,000.

In addition the manifesto policies drawn up by party’s Federal Policy Committee includes limiting tax relief on pension contributions and cutting the size of pension pots to £1m (equivalent to about £20,000 a year for a 65 year-old married man). The Lib Dem leadership is also inviting grassroots activists to vote on the return of the controversial 50p income tax rate which was recently scrapped by the coalition; Inheritance tax will be tightened and non-dom taxpayers hit harder and the mansion tax is still coming too.

The Liberal Democrats call that “creative and progressive”.  That’s a very liberal use of the word ‘creative’. They describe it as fairer taxation that will encourage employment and economic growth. It is in fact the opposite.

Will you be one of the turkeys voting for these bearded sandal wearing weirdo’s Christmas at the next election then, or will you be going for the Punch & Judy knockabout, end of the pier UKIP show? You could of course decide to give the economy back to Ed. Ed, Yvette and Len McCluskey. I know who I’ll be supporting.

Who Watches The Watchers?

How long will be forced to put up with the petty tyranny that is the BBC’s Watchdog programme?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for consumer rights. After all I am one myself (a consumer that is). It appears to me however that Watchdog is no longer about helping the consumer by exposing sharp business practice, it’s more about “Shock Jock Journalism” in a blatant grab for ratings and promotion of Anne Robinson’s fading career. To my eye it looks like this programme deliberately sets out with a jaundiced and non-impartial eye to exaggerate the failings or flaws of what are often legitimate, honest, business, while ignoring the stupidity and naivety of their customers. Whatever happened to balanced impartial journalism?

To my mind often the so called “victims” are simple (Okay - stupid) people who have not read or taken the time to acquaint themselves with a company’s terms and conditions. Either that  or where there is an obvious fraud, they have forgotten the first rule of any business transaction “If something looks too good to be true – then is most probably is”. Once the customer falls foul of a clause in the contract they don’t like, or that doesn’t allow them the freedom to withdraw from a contract they freely entered into, they expect to be made the exception to the rule and treated as a special case.

Our society has become choked with those who firmly believe that the rules must be rigorously applied to everyone else, except them. Like spoilt children when they cannot get their way they go crying to Nanny (or in this case Anne Robinson) usually because they want their cake AND their ha’penny. The programme always takes the part of the customer no matter how stupid, lazy or indolent they are and appears to have no concern of the business reputations they besmirch and often ruin by their biased perspective.

Any transaction is in essence a contract. in a contract there are duties, roles and responsibilities assigned to and accepted by both sides. As customers we have as much responsibility to abide by the contract as the seller. Therefore, before we enter into a transaction we have a duty to make sure we know  what the terms and conditions are. We should not gripe, wail and moan when the other party seeks to enforce those conditions we don’t like if we default on our end of the bargain, or simply change our minds.

I believe that it’s time for consumer rights organisations to take a back seat. They should tell people their motto should really be “Caveat Emptor” (Buyer Beware).

Here are some of my rules for safe shopping:

1) Never buy anything where you haven’t instigated the sale.

2) Avoid “cold calls” and people who contact you without your knowledge (even if they know your name, or tell you you have won a prize).

3) Always make sure you understand the terms of the transaction (is there a returns policy? If so, what is it? Is there a guarantee?)

4) If there is a contract READ IT.

5) Don’t be embarrassed about taking as much time as you need. If you want to take the contract away or read it overnight, or if there are clauses you don’t understand ASK.

6) Remember the seller is anxious to sell you the goods. They will still be there the next time you ask for them.

7) Don’t believe the salesman who tells you “You must sign today or the opportunity will be gone”. (Like the opportunity, the likelihood is he salesman will be “Here today and gone tomorrow).

There are of course many other things I could say but in the end it all comes down to common sense. Unfortunately as the old saying has it “Common sense is a very uncommon commodity”.

Alternative Comedy–Don’t Make Me Laugh

The other night I watched some of the latest episode of Channel 4’s satirical comedy show 10 o’clock live. This program features the odious Charlie Booker who appears to be the latest in a line of so called “Alternative Comedians”. If he, and those such as Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, and Jo Brand are to be believed then for “Alternative Comedy” we should read “Neo-Marxist Leninist polemic.

It appears that all that is necessary to qualify as an alternative comedian is to have a ten minute rant about the evils of  Conservative capitalism. In the 1980’s some comedian’s entire act consisted of “Mrs Thatcher – what a bitch!!” or “The Tories – Evil, posh upper class swine who are hell bent on closing down The North and raping manual workers”.

Foe all those trendy left wing, metropolitan Marxist, so called comedians, here is my “Alternative, Alternative Comedy” act.

“Tony Blair – twelve years of stealth taxes, slavish devotion to European health & safety, and the giving away of our sovereignty to Brussels.

The bribery of Europe with our money so that Tony could buy his way to the presidency of Europe (thankfully to no avail). The waging of illegal foreign wars at the behest of America which has left us the prime target of fanatical Muslim Jihadists. The ruination of businesses and entrepreneurship by the imposition of a centralist, bureaucratic behemoth Soviet style state.

The mental and cerebral castration of two generations of young people by the recruiting of crazy left wing teachers who thought it better that children were taught" that “no one looses” and who were allowed to re-write history in a great orgy of Stalinist revisionism. Teachers who in fact didn’t teach, so that children left school without the basic ability to read, write and do sums.

Who’s idea was it that 50% of pupils should go to university? – all that lead to was the dumbing down of our tertiary educational institutions.

The nanny state; a police force that has become a quasi- military militia whose purpose seems to no longer that of deterring crime and catching criminals but of acting as a direct arm of government or of the revenue.

Tony Blair’s government took away rights that had ben enshrined in our constitution since Magna Carta.

• The right to trial by jury (no longer applicable for certain offences).
• The right of habeas corpus (they wanted to lock people up with out charge or without trial for 90 days)
• Double Jeopardy (if you are found innocent the government can now keep bringing charges for the same offence until they get the judgement they want).

Then, when his Tonyness finally went, Gordon Brown and Ed Balls embarked on a spending spree (with borrowed money which they knew we had no hope of repaying in anyone's lifetime) on a Socialist experiment in social re-engineering. They also tried to use the public purse to create make-work “jobs for the boys” in local government “services” in a blatant attempt to stuff the ballot box.

Let’s not get into New Labour’s disastrous immigration policy (or complete lack thereof). opening our doors to a flood of Eastern European economic migrants who contribute nothing to our economy or cultural life but were/are just a drain on the public purse.

The entire doctrine of “Multiculturalism” – forcing the majority to give up its rights and privileges in favour of ethnic minorities.”

I could go on but let’s face it, it’s just not funny anymore and we all know that no one is laughing now.

So, to all the left wing Alternative Comedians out there – Do you still think cheap shots at the right are funny? “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”