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The European Renewable Energy Council is taxpayer-funded

By scrubber | Published: June 20, 2011
In my blog yesterday I referred to a posting by Christopher Booker and included a quote from it which in turn included the following: “It was based solely on a paper co-authored last year by an employee of Greenpeace International and something called the European Renewable Energy Council. This Brussels-based body, heavily funded by the [...]
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IPCC caught out again

By scrubber | Published: June 19, 2011
The current furore surrounding the IPCC’s latest report on the potential of renewable energy has been extensively covered in the MSM and on the blogosphere. The interesting part is the almost universally uncritical reporting in the MSM, and the virtually total opposite on the blogosphere. The reason for the latter is simple: As James Delingpole observes, [...]
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Redefining the word stupid

By scrubber | Published: June 8, 2011
Nuff said… Wikio Wikio
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Quentin Letts does Ben Gummer over…

By scrubber | Published: June 5, 2011
Pinched from Quentin Letts’ column in the Daily Mail online yesterday: Ben Gummer, Tory MP for Ipswich, has a small majority. Could yet shrink, too. Just before half-term, he made a speech in the Commons that supported Ken Clarke’s liberal views on prison sentences. Baby Gummer, 33 going on 12, is son of John Gummer. I’m sure it was [...]
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10 more reasons Socialism can’t and will never work.

By scrubber | Published: June 3, 2011
William John Henry Boetcker. Who? Born in Hamburg in 1873, he migrated to America as a young adult, becoming a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival. Wikipedia says that he “is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916…”. Personally, I would argue that most people, certainly outside [...]
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Socialism encapsulated

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
Here is a picture (thanks to Old Holborn for posting it) which shows clearly why Socialism doesn’t, and will never, work. As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money”. Click the picture to enlarge it, which is well worth doing, but try not to be [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Economy, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money, Waste | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Clegg does a back-flip

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
What’s the adjective we’re looking for here? Pragmatic? Realistic? Or maybe it’s “opportunistic”. Or even all three with “mendacious” thrown in for good luck. Nah, let’s just stick with “lying, two-faced git”. A politician in other words. Wikio Wikio
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Marta Andreasen calls for the resignation of Nigel Farage

By scrubber | Published: May 12, 2011
Well, as alluded to in my earlier post, there have been mutterings and whisperings about Nigel Farage’s performance as UKIP leader for some time now. I’m astonished to discover that Marta Andreasen, UKIP MEP and former EU accountant (readers may remember she was dismissed for alleging fraud by the EU) has today issued a press [...]
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Nigel Farage and the Star-spangled Banner

By scrubber | Published: May 12, 2011
I’ve read a lot of criticism of Nigel Farage lately, specifically about his abilities as leader of UKIP. He is, it is oft-alleged, holding the party back, and treating it as a personal fiefdom. That may, or may not, be true, but you can’t help admiring the way he sticks it up those Socialist totalitarians [...]
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Simon Heffer sacked by the Telegraph

By scrubber | Published: May 12, 2011
Well, Call Me Dave will be happy, but I don’t understand it. Sure, he said it how it is, and was consistently critical of Dave, whom he clearly thought a vacuous twat (rightly in my opinion), but then anyone who couldn’t manage to get an overall majority after 13 years of the worst government in [...]
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