End Of The Ming Dynasty

Thankfully the Liberal Democrat conference in dreary Brighton has finally come to an end, with the only potentially ‘significant’ event that might have occurred failing to materialise.

The Ming Dynasty (if it ever truly began that is) has been stumbling along now for the past two years since the Lib Dems deposed former leader and drunkard Charles Kennedy. Yet, despite murmurings of discontent, Ming’s equally incompetent underlings chose not to challenge his flagging and failing leadership.

Never mind though. The Liberal Democrats are a third-rate backwater political party full of far-left socialists, rubbing shoulders with anti-Semites and anti-capitalist eco-loonies – so it doesn’t really matter who leads them because nationally they’ll always be an electoral obscurity.

Despite the lack of any change in the Lib Dem leadership, Ming Campbell provided his opponents with an enlightening interview on the BBC’s Newsnight programme where he managed to elaborate on a number of his party’s non-policies, including crucially his opposition to an EU Referendum.

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Free Market Football

The Fabian Society has released the results of a survey that they commissioned on what British people considered a ‘reasonable’ wage for certain professions.

The YouGov run poll of three thousand people demonstrated that the public thought footballers’ and company directors’ salaries should be radically curbed while nurses and bus drivers deserved far greater financial rewards.

I think the survey’s findings do ring true. Many people in Britain are indeed resentful of those that earn much more than them – though arguably that is only natural human behaviour. However, I do wonder how many of those questioned in the survey go to watch football matches week-in, week-out and therefore provide the demand and ticket revenue that supply the footballer’s wages? Quite a few I would imagine.

The Fabian Society’s spokesman, Tom Hampson, said ‘Progressive politics should acknowledge that the public want the unfair gap between rich and poor narrowed’. In other words, the Fabian Society believes the Government should directly intervene even further into private sector wages to curb ‘excessive’ earnings.

This is, of course, just the Left-wing socialist equality agenda of old dressed up in the new Progressive agenda clothing – the Progressive agenda being the supposedly forward-looking, always improving doctrine of modern politics rather than anyone not agreeing with that world-view who must instead be a backwards looking ‘regressive’.

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Goodbye Global Warming

Only a few weeks ago, the Met Office, an organisation not particularly well known for their ability to accurately predict next week’s weather let alone that of the next decade or century, claimed that temperatures are set to rise by 2014.

Unsurprisingly, for organisations that already firmly believe in the politicised pseudoscience theory of global warming and wish to present evidence to justify their beliefs, it’s not really all that difficult to do.

First you select the outcome you desire – in this case higher mean temperatures in the next couple of decades. Next you take your data (usually carefully hand picked or manipulated in some specific way) and then adjust the output graphs until you obtain your end-goal result – ie. predictions that ‘prove’ temperatures will rise, and thus global warming ‘must’ be happening. Simple.

Gordon Brown in his tenure as Chancellor used similar methods to forecast and present favourable economic growth. The most valued statisticians at the Treasury were those that, regardless of the data, managed to fiddle around with economic models and arrive at the ‘best’ figures – usually 2.5% growth or more.

However, what’s really interesting about the Met Office report is highlighted in an online article by the Guardian. It says the forecast reveals ‘natural shifts in climate will cancel out warming produced by greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity until 2009, but from then on, temperatures will rise steadily’.

So, what exactly does that mean? Well, it’s basically saying that the climate will cool slightly due to ‘natural variations’, meaning that any evidence of rises in temperature caused by us humans will be cancelled out – but that despite this, global warming still exists. How convenient.

For the next few years the global warming pseudoscientists will have no basis for their claims and it’ll all be a matter of blind belief – it’s just that they’re getting their excuses in early.

Where Does The Law Stand?

Sometimes you really do have to question where the law stands in this country, and just whom it aims to serve.

Over the weekend in Bristol, a batch of pure heroin reportedly caused the deaths of two drug addicts while leaving another two seriously ill in hospital after near fatal overdoses.

Subsequently, the police issued a city-wide warning to help raise awareness by calling for all Bristol drugs users to remain vigilant and take extra precautions when injecting themselves.

Since, in fact, the use of heroin is illegal, why are the police calling for criminals to be ‘careful’ when breaking the law? Perhaps the police should also be warning people to pay special attention when they speed on the motorway, or advising would-be murders to take extra care with knives or firearms in case they accidentally injure themselves in the course of a criminal act?

Will either bed-ridden Bristol addict be prosecuted for drug abuse? Highly unlikely, since the law no longer seems to condemn individual users, and quite often indulges them in their ‘illness’ as if it were similar to a common cold which can be caught without any individual responsibility.

Comparably, if you wish to break the law by using or selling drugs, then the likelihood of any retribution is so slim as to be almost negligible. On the other hand however, should you wish to stage a peaceful protest outside the home of Government in the nation’s capital, then you’ll be met with unbridled force and the full fury of the criminal legislative system.

So long as the authorities and the Government continue to believe that drug abusers, like criminals, are themselves victims of social problems caused by relative poverty and the state’s inadequacy to nanny them into submission, then Britain’s drugs problems will only grow, and public trust in the police will only decline yet further.