Toby on Tuesday 

'Revolutionary Acts'

 

To live on the North York Moors is to be blessed with some of the loveliest landscapes on the whole planet.   And when the winter snow comes, the days that follow with bright sunshine over the white ghylls are worthy of the finest of artists.   We have had some of these days here in the past fortnight, to the delight of the grandchildren as they hurtled down the slopes on their toboggans.   One day, I went with some old friends to a nearby dale called Scugdale, deep in snow and the paths sheets of ice.   Two of our group slipped badly, one bruising a shoulder and the other spraining an ankle, but with no lasting damage.   As I helped them to their feet, I chuckled to think of all those articles in the Guardian and the Independent during the climate change hysteria of ten years ago, warning us that we would never, ever see snow again!

In his ‘1984’, George Orwell wrote, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”   Along with the EU, our climate change alarmists have been among the very greatest perpetrators of universal deceit.   It was the 2008 Climate Change Act, which an incoming UKIP Government will repeal, that committed Britain to reducing carbon emissions by 80% before 2050, the only country in the World to do so.   Ed Miliband was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change then, but he was strongly supported by the dismal duo of Cameron and Clegg, both desperate to jump onto the bandwagon.

In fact, the only way to reduce carbon emissions by 80% before 2050 is somehow to eliminate humanity itself.   Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium and oxygen, and in the human body it is the second most abundant element (18.5%) after oxygen.   Just when the oil price is collapsing, it is worth remembering this while you pay your energy bills as they are rising by around a half to pay for all those “green” measures under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

Last week a 328 foot tall wind turbine buckled and collapsed on a hillside in Northern Ireland, despite only medium wind speeds.   It was one of eight opened in 2011 at a cost of £26 million and the remaining seven were shut down pending an investigation.   Through their bills, consumers have been paying for these monstrous structures, all based on the universal deceit of the 2008 Act.   As one by one they all need to be dismantled and removed, it is vital that those who profited from this folly should fund their disposal, but the sad truth is that the poor old customer will almost certainly be called on to pay for this too.   To paraphrase George Orwell, UKIP will never cease telling the truth about these and other disasters, however much a revolutionary act it may be!

Until next Tuesday!
Toby