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The individuals comprising the group that began their reign with the slogan “things can only get better” cannot help themselves, now that the milk has turned sour. My previous post featured the words of John Prescott, who was determined to blame resistance to wind farms on Conservative councils, and ‘Nimbys’. Yet he only had himself to blame. His incoherent ramblings in defence of wind farms are sufficient to make anyone with a brain realise that the UK’s wind program is founded on the words – lies and myths – of a nincompoop.
No stranger to stretching the truth for New Labour is Alistair Campbell, who writes on his blog that,
Public opinion on climate change - the public might be the problem
... when you read a survey which states that only 15 per cent of British people worry about global warming and its potential impact on the world, you ask yourself 'do I really live in a country where, when people are asked if they worry about global warming and its potential impact on the world, more than eight out of ten say "No."'?
Heaven forefend that the public should be permitted to have an opinion. Campbell left the side of Tony Blair after being implicated in the ‘dodgy dossier’ affair, you will remember.
Campbell continues...
Of course politicians have to take a lead, and will be expected to come to a meaningful agreement at the Copenhagen Summit next month. But if they go with such low levels of interest and awareness back home - and the numbers have fallen from 26 per cent since the recession began, making Britain the 'least concerned' country of twelve surveyed for the Climate Confidence monitor - then their task becomes much harder.
That the majority of the British Public aren’t that concerned with climate change doesn’t seemed to have bothered the vast majority of the Great and the Good that reside in Westminster.
Last year all but 5 MPs voted for the Climate Change Act, meaning that you can look forward to increased fuel costs as the cost of subsidising inefficient and expensive wind farms is passed on to you.
What you think has got nothing to do with how your elected representatives behave.
Most people know this. And that is why most people are able to see that the big noise being made about climate change by the likes of Prescott, Brown, Mandelson, and from the sidelines, Campbell, are just the sounds made by politicians acting out of naked self-interest.
