Warming to climate change
You have got to hand it to this Government as they think up more and more inventive ways to screw more money out of us in the name of saving the treasury . . . sorry, planet.
A Cabinet Office review has come up with the cunning stunt of proposing that we should all pay extra for farm goods that generate large amounts of greenhouse gasses - anything involving livestock or fertiliser -as well as slagging off buy-one-get-one free in supermarkets which they claim leads to waste. Nice to see that the well oiled No 10 machine with its 1,000 staff or more is doing all it can to cut our shopping bills.
The Food Matters report is dressed up with a coat of the usual pseudo scientific eco-babble that is plastered over anything remotely associated with gospel of global warming, this time in the hope that we will all feel suitably embarrassed about how we are destroying the planet by eating bread, drinking milk and eating beef and will want to pay a penance in the form of a levy to the exchequer.
I am an eco-sceptic in that I don't think the puny efforts man can make more than a marginal difference to what is a natural cycle in the life of the Earth not that any dissenter to the eco-cause will ever be heard by Governments who know a nice little earner when they see one.
In the pipeline are higher gas and electricity charges to subsidise green options, higher road and fuel taxes for environmental reasons and now higher food prices to cover the gastric expressionism of cattle. The only green that matters seems to appear out of wallets.
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Roger Clarke - Birmingham’s very own Grumpy Old Man on what gets right up his nose.
Congratulations to Roger Clarke on a brilliant piece! I agree wholeheartedly with his comments and anyone who cannot see through this hopeless government and Browns desperate measures to cover up the years of total incompetence as chancellor by taxing everyone out of existence to recoup the losses.On the eco front again Roger hits the nail on the head because reducing emissions and sticking a solar panel on your roof aint going to make an iota of difference to the planets situation.It's been through this change before and will do it again the difference being that this time it will have x billion human witnesses.
explain this new labour and most of there cabinet ministers are all ex marxist and communists and transformed overnight in to a kinda centre right blue labour but confused what they are just to stay in power with the exception of the man hating lady harriet harman daughter of a rich lord confusing or what....peter