From the Right Side

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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.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.

This is beyond parody:

The children's television character Basil Brush is at the centre of a police investigation after an allegation that an episode of the programme was racist towards gipsies.

David Cameron has defended his pledge to give a third of ministerial jobs in a future Tory government to tall MPs, although he admitted that imposing 'all-tall' shortlists would a 'step too far'.

It was a fact of modern Britain, he said, that average height had increased, and that too many Tory MPs were unrepresentative of this trend in contemporary British society.

Mr Cameron said the party was 'pushing very hard' to get more tall candidates from all walks of life to stand as Tory candidates in seats, especially marginals, it needs to win to form a government.

He said that 'there are not enough good tall candidates coming forward, not enough getting through to the later stages of selection and then not enough getting selected.

With organisations like 'Lofty to Win', we have encouraged more tall candidates to put themselves forward...We've gone out to find tall people in various walks of life who would make good politicians and try to encourage them to get on to the list and stand for Parliament...If we exclude tall people, which the Conservative Party has for too long, you exclude an extremely talented part of the population.

Mr Cameron denied that this policy represented an attack on the remnants of the old-guard 'nasty' party. 'Of course, there will always be room in the modern Conservative Party for short, dumpy and un-photogenic candidates - for people like Oliver Letwin and Michael Gove – but they can't be allowed to dominate a modern, compassionate Conservative Party that seeks to be representative of modern Britain'.

Stop Press: A new Conservative Task Force - 'Where Have All The Fatties Gone?' - has been established under the chairmanship of Ken Clarke to examine how representative the Tory party is of modern, obese Britain.