Panorama (UK current affairs) did a half-hour on business response to the ecological challenge last week. You can catch it on BBC I-Player if interested. At first sight, it was pretty bland, but the sub-text was devastating for our current government. Britain is at the bottom of the heap in Europe, ahead only of Lichtenstein and Malta. Along comes a guy who has tried to work with government and he says 'It was like watching 50 episodes of Yes Minister in slow motion. The MP- chair often failed to turn up'. They role on one of the MiIlliband brothers, a supposed future PM and he is disgusting, churning out some vapid dung about having done all this stuff (to end up in the relegation zone) and there being much more to do. There are clips of our current PM bleating 'green this, green that'.
They moved on from the poison gnomes of politics. In Scotland a village has bought their own wind turbine. It produces about £67,000 profit a year for the village, spent on better insulation. They paid £2.5 million for it, a deal funded by the electricity use. No one asks about expanding such schemes to all - or mentions dread old phrases like 'ownership of the means of production'. A quick calculation went t through my head. £40K per family here spent to support the bwankers. 800 people in the village. Invested in renewable energy, 270 (say) families could have had a wind turbine rather than support bwankers, more or less the village equation. Elsewhere they showed simple and complex schemes being run by Tesco, from monitoring heavy-footed lorry drivers to quite complex green food production schemes. By the end of this simple programme, I was convinced it's time to dismantle or so called democracy and follow Napoleon - 'Britain as a nation of shopkeepers'. In short, I'd rather vote Tesco because they are more accountable to us than the politicians. I think this Panorama may have been an example of journalists exasperated by politicians. I've certainly no time left for them in Britain and the EU people we get to see are a class act in comparison, though we only see good ones - there must be a mass of dross amongst the anti-female, slaughter the homosexuals crew. I can't explain properly, but I felt I had a glimpse of the possible end of grasping consumerism and political sludge in this programme and my response to it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
