May 5, 2010
Not content with having destroyed British conservatism, David Cameron has decided he might as well go the whole hog and finish off the British economy as well.
He announced it yesterday as one of his key priorities if and when he forms his Coalition of the Suicidal with Nick Clegg. He said he would make “the creation of a low carbon economy a priority.”
Presumably – demonstrating that same sophistication that secured his party such a spectacular popular mandate in the General Election – Cameron imagined he was being frightfully clever. ‘Here’s a sop I can easily afford to give the Lib Dems, without betraying any of my party’s core principles’ kind of thing.
No Dave. I hate to tell you this but committing Britain to a low-carbon economy is not like committing yourself to keeping all phone boxes painted red or promising Britain will never join a currency it was never going to join in a million years anyway.
A low carbon economy is virtually the same thing as NO economy.
It means:
1. Committing your country – at the enormous expense of at least £18 billion a year – to combatting an entirely imaginary problem called CO2, which is plant food, and which makes no serious contribution to Anthropogenic Global Warming.
2. Losing 2.2 real jobs for every “Green job” you subsidise with taxpayers’ money.
3. Crippling industry with higher fuel costs and greater tax and regulation at the very moment in the economic cycle when what it needs is cheap, reliable energy, a slashing of red tape and lower taxation.
4. Squandering still more money on “alternative energy” sources, all of which are enormously expensive, none of which work.
If Cameron tries to push this sort of legislation through, our only hope is that he will be torn apart by the Furies within his party, many of whom are as AGW-sceptical as they are Euro-sceptical.
I agree entirely with Harry Mount: if I were a proper Conservative who’d squandered five years of my life paying lip service to the Cameroons’ liberal pieties in the belief that this would get me into government I should be perfectly livid right now and itching for revenge. Cameron has failed his party and failed his country. He deserves all the lack of the support we can possibly give him.
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- An open letter from my old mate David Cameron to the people of Britain
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- Climategate: why David Cameron is going to be disastrous for Britain
- So much for Cameron’s Cuties…
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This “fake” investment industry will basically destroy the World Economy once again just like the hedge fund debacle two years ago, and don’t ya know who the architect of both these debacles is?. One man who founded the CCX, Richard Sandor.
Read it at: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532610
“I don’t know that I’m always going to be right, but I do know this: I’m not going to sit on the sidelines again. When we tell people we’re the conservative party … I want to make sure we have people sitting in those seats who really mean it.”
the challenge of climate change. But the
low carbon economy also provides exciting
opportunities for British businesses. We will
encourage private sector investment to put
Britain at the forefront of the green technology
revolution, creating jobs and new businesses
across the country.”This quote comes from the Conservative Manifesto – maybe if you’d read it, the announcement yersterday wouldn’t have been a surprise.