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11 years ago @ Columnists - Priti Patel MP: The Go... · 0 replies · +2 points

Quite so.
I just hope someone can be definite and say that this revolution will decrease energy prices and not just slow down increases. The environmentalists' objections will make it as expensive as possible, and the energy producers will be only too happy to have excuses to go along with that.

11 years ago @ Local Government - A visit to a recycling... · 2 replies · +3 points

What has recycling to do with polar bears? Read and think rather than do subjective word association.

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - The Torygraph is dead,... · 0 replies · 0 points

Yes. No doubt many of them live in large houses on plots of 'our land' which they will demolish and go and live in in an inner city high rise.

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - The optimistic conserv... · 2 replies · -9 points

Many of the generation that grew up after WWII have been taken in by the delusion that if we change as little as possible and keep everything as it is (or as it was when they were young), somehow food will continue to materialize on our plates, energy will flow from our sockets and prosperity will continue effortlessly to spread.
Not so, and remorselessly increasing food (and energy) prices should remind us that the world does not owe us a living.

Of course, even if we do not embrace technological change others will anyway, and this country (along with Europe) will continue its decline into global irrelevance and economic hardship.

The Luddites must not win.

11 years ago @ Accountability - Heresy of the week: Th... · 2 replies · +1 points

".. they seem to have the votes and hearts of the majority of the Conservative Party "
But how many votes and how many hearts would that be these days?

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - How Jeremy Hunt plans ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Perhaps brevity prevented my meaning from being clear.
I don't purchase my food, accommodation, transport or most other essentials of life on 'cost-effectiveness' alone. Convenience, comfort and other intangibles play a large role. The NHS may handle Healthcare as an industrial process, where cost-effectiveness is an appropriate metric, but that's not a view that most consumers would take if they had a choice.

In other words, I want to be able to pay more (without sacrificing my tax-paying subsidy by going wholly private) in order to get a less unpleasant service. Less cost-effective, I know, but better.

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - One of the terrorists ... · 0 replies · -6 points

No, it hasn't. And don't SHOUT, it's bad manners.

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - The same-sex marriage ... · 1 reply · +7 points

It may be rather annoying and absurd, but it won't be the end of the world. I prefer to be amused. The subject always reminds me of Stan's problems of identity in the film 'Life of Brian' - "Well, he can't actually have babies as he doesn't have a womb, but we can defend his RIGHT to have babies... (murmurs of agreement)".

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - If the Conservative Pa... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well PK's definition says it all - particularly you have to be one to understand. Not much room for argument or persuasion there! Maybe my blood's the wrong colour.

11 years ago @ The Tory Diary - If the Conservative Pa... · 28 replies · -6 points

Could you please tell us how we can tell if we are a real "Conservative"?
Clearly believing in liberty, democracy, free markets, capitalism, individual responsibility and having a loathing for socialism is not enough to pass your vetting procedures. I'm getting worried. Please tell us.

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