From the Right Side

Oh, my God! What a bloody country we have become - a nation of 'jobsworths', petty bureaucrats, regulators, local government Fuhrers and publicly-paid-for snoopers.

Labour peer Lord Desai on his glorious leader:

Blair was like champagne and caviar, Brown is more like porridge or Haggis.

It seems that 'officials' are quite happy to see large areas of Norfolk disappear under water, with the consequent disappearance of a number of villages. The local MP, Norman Lamb is shocked by how this decision was arrived at:

What shocks me is that profound, devastating implications are being discussed at a conference between delegates without the communities affected being part of the decision at all.

Where has he been? Doesn't he know by now that this is how we do things here?

Take notice of the people! What a quaint concept.

The truth will out - eventually.

What many of us have known for some time:

Ten years of record immigration to Britain has produced virtually no economic benefits for the country, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

For your sceptical reading pleasure, by way of Watts Up With That?, a news article from the Washington Post:

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

The date of the article? November 2, 1922.

Ho, hum.