With Brexit almost out of the way, the focus has shifted to the war on carbon dioxide. I have covered this in previous blogs here and here. Even the term “Greenhouse effect” is misleading and creates a false picture in people’s minds. IF the climate is changing, and IF it is due to human activity, the cause is almost certainly something other than an increase in carbon dioxide levels. That is the devil in the hysteria. It could be making everyone aim at the wrong target.
I wrote to my MP on two entirely separate issues recently. The first was to do with the replacement for the Inter City 125 train, which at £2.6 million per vehicle, is twice as expensive as it ought to be. The second concerned the benefits of a switch from business rate and Council Tax to a tax based on site values. In both cases, the replies were full of spurious, unsubstantiated assertions and completely flawed arguments. This is typical. You will not get an iota of sense from the government on any area of public policy at all - finance, economics, trade and employment, agriculture, housing, health, transport, energy. All junk. If you write to your MP you will invariably receive answers that are an insult to your intelligence, no matter what subject you are writing about. Of course they cannot understand statistics. They are innumerate. Whitehall is staffed with idiots with a high IQ. Look at their IT projects. And mind your purse, they will have that too.
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