Mar 08 2007
More EU posturing at our expense
Today the EU will solemnly sign us all up to yet more targets for reducing CO2 emissions with no sense of irony or the humbug involved.
There will be no public apology for the failure of several EU states to hit the last set of targets under Kyoto.
There will be no apology for all the jet flights undertaken to get to and from the meeting, or for the high fuel burn ministerial limos sitting on the tarmac with the engines on to keep the drivers warm.
There will be no apology from Mr Barroso, Commission President, for using a high carbon emitting vehicle himself.
There will be no explanation that the increases in carbon emissions from the US are now at a slower rate than emissions from the EU - instead the implication will be theat the US is the epicentre of the problem.
Doubtless all the heating and lighting systems of the EU high command will continue at full blast after the new targets have been set, just as they were before they were set.
Last night??TV news did go round Whitehall and show the disgraceful waste of our money, with heating and lighting systems at full blast long after civil servants had gone home. A temporarily chastened Mr Miliband was forced to admit the government "has to do better" at controlling its own emissions!
The last time I went to an anti global warming event at the Foreign Office they flew in a German Minister to tell??us we needed to travel less. When I asked them to turn the heating off because it was a hot day they could not do so, and opened the windows instead so taxpayers could have the pleasure of paying to heat??the rest of ??London. When I asked them to turn the lights off because the sunlight was very bright they did eventually manage to do that. When they announced that the afternoon session would be at the DTI, all of??seven minutes walk away, I thought they were caricaturing themselves because they had laid on vehicles to take people there!
These people talk green b ut don’t act green. people are going to get mightily fed up with being told they have to pay mroe taxes, travel less and make sacrificxes, when they see the EU politcal elite behaving in such a contradictory manner.
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
I hope you can convince your fellow politicians to watch Channel 4 tonight at 9pm for a dose of skepticism. It’s better than hypocrisy.
I think most people got fed up of politicans preaching one thing and practicing another a long time ago. The inevitable result is that people stop voting and ignore you all.
I have long been a global warming sceptic and I have felt a little lonely. Now, after Channel 4’s Documentary - The Great Global Warming Swindle - this feeling of loneliness is reducing. What I cannot understand, however,is why the Conservative Party, a Party who, I believed, followed a logical decision pathway could ever throw themselves into accepting the current illogical Global Warming consensus. The Shadow Cabinet should be made to watch this presetation and then be given time to think.
I fear the cost of pursuing present policy will prove costly, very costly.
What I still want to know is this… Precicely what benefit do we get from the EU, that we would not have without it?
All I see if the fat cats running it wasting more and more money, and coming up with daft things, ie. Changing the Crown mark on Pint pots. Bloody hell a Pint is our measurement nothing to do with the EU!
If I join a Club and its aspiration and ideals change, I can walk away, with the EU I cannot, and for that reason alone I do not want to join!
Peter Turner: “What I cannot understand, however,is why the Conservative Party, a Party who, I believed, followed a logical decision pathway could ever throw themselves into accepting the current illogical Global Warming consensus.”
Look to the leader, Peter. Much better DD or even Redwood. A tradegy!
In fact it is even worse. Cameron has only ever known advertising, he has never done anything else. His idea is to say to people what he thinks they want to hear. He mixes with the luvvies, the TV personalities, the ‘right on’ folk, he hasn’t the faintest idea what ordinary people think.
He latched on to the Greenoid doctrine because that is the doctrine that holds sway in such circles. A pity he did so when the average voter is getting very very tired of being over taxed and harrassed in the name of Green anti technology. And we potential Tory voters have barely a single policy that could be identified as Conservative.
Congestion charging - Cameron is for it. Road pricing - Cameron is for it. Pay twice to have your rubbish collected - Cameron is for it. High taxes - Cameron is for them. Huge (un) civil service - Cameron won’t cut it back.
Lets face it….the argument ‘better off out’ has been lost. Us Eurosceptics who have been struggling with this losing battle over the last 30 years have lost. Every passing day sees us deeper in the mire of Eurononsense & Eurocost. No political party has had the guts to ‘lets out’ and the public mood seems to be ‘it’s a a non subject for discussion’. So.what next we ask ourselves? We can’t ‘reform’ from within - that’s a political joke so emigrate I say as all my family and I have done…enjoy folks. Signed….a very pro-British ex-pat who voted in favour of a free trade area.
Let us hope someone in the Shadow cabinet will tell the charlatan Al Gore that many of his “facts” are seriously wrong.