1. Edland challenges Darling: Spin your way out of the budget if you dare!2. Adrian Monck explains why old people love political blogs.
3. Tim Marshall on truth and the Iranian elections.
4. James Kirkup asks what of the LibDems really do want to cut taxes.
5. Dizzy explains how Tom Watson MP has become a Cameroon.
6. Rachel North has a moving post about visiting her Dad.
7. Tory Diary has voted Michael Fallon as Parliamentarian of the Year.
8. Richard Spring MP salutes our troops.
9. It has to be 9 for a blog on Client 9, Eliot Spitzer by Richard Adams.
10. Red Box on why Civil Servant bloggers have the arseache with Civil Serf.
11. Chicken Yoghurt talks claptrap about a Labour Minister who deserves praise.
12. Melanie Phillips on the global warming 'scam'.
8 comments:
Are you really so desperate that you have to quote Mad Mel Phillips with approval? Still, good to see what traditional Tories are thinking.
I just saw this as it was going up and, with regard to Melanie's piece on the global warming scam, why put scam in quotation marks?
It is a scam. And it is proven a scam.
Mel and Verity think global warming is a scam .... why does that leave me afraid for the future?
Well anonymous, I imagine it's because if it isn't man-made, it's going to be even harder to make it stop than we though, so we're really done for.
It is, of course, but never mind.
I don't believe that anyone really thinks that puny little mankind - an ant pile on one of the smaller planets in the universe - can influence, with all our little emissions, a damn' thing on such a scale - or any scale.
Little 'global warming' people, you just aren't that important that you can influence the sun! Don't be so silly! And the surface of Mars increases and decreases in heating and cooling cycles at around the same rate as us. Is there fierce industrial activity and louche disregard for "the environment" on Mars?
I wonder how much Al Gore, formerly the world's largest holder of shares in Occidental Petroleum (OXY), money Gore has added to his family's tobacco fortune with his "carbon offset credits".
I don't see what it is about environmentalism that angers most people. My environmentalism is actually quite small-c conservative in nature. It entails living sustainably and responsibly, living within your means, not spending more than you earn, not getting into debt and having children you can't maintain (you know as well as I do that a lot of people breed with nary a thought as to the consequences), not constantly running round pointlessly consuming things that don't make you happy, consuming locally sourced food.
No one has ever explained what is conservative about a cavalier attitude towards the planet, about consuming and breeding and polluting more and more as if the world were infinite. And in this country, do you actually want houses, sheds, runways and roads plastered all over the countryside? Really?
I agree with Asquith, much of the "right wing" angst against environmentalism is couched purely in the fact that the left spotted green issues first and is a reaction against that.
Yes, Ed. I'd add that the Green Party and others are often dominated by the far left. Many of these people don't actually care about the environment, they're just trying to advance their left-wing militancy. The real greens should be getting rid of them.
I'd love it if the Tories had a sound environmental policy: I don't think they do now, but they can develop one. Why do you think "vote blue, go green" went down so well? Because a lot of right-wingers do care about these things. Steal a march on clunking fist now, it won't be hard.
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