Gordon Brown made his appearance at the Copenhagen talks today.
Brown says,
Friends, I do not as my country or your country to suspend its national interest, but to advance it more intelligently. For nothing matters to any nation’s interest more than the fate of the one world we have.
Brown recognises that climate change laws will damage the national interest. But, he reckons, damaging the national interest is better than facing the end of the world.
Then he puts a different spin on it.
Environmental action is the most powerful engine of job creation in an economy urgently in need of millions of jobs.
Spot the difference?
Which is it? Either environmental action creates jobs, or it damages the national interest. It cannot do both at the same time.
Then Brown dresses up as Churchill,
It is no use saying that we are doing our best. You have to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Churchill spoke these words to Roosevelt to ask for his support with the war against the Nazis. Brown is not an imaginative fellow, and so has to steal from Churchill to persuade Obama to come to Copenhagen, to sign up to the ridiculous agreement.
I consider myself to be something of a military historian, and it irritates me that Brown should flatter himself with this hollow recital. Here is Churchill’s speech in full,
The other day President Roosevelt gave his opponent in the late Presidential election a letter of introduction to me, and in it he wrote out a verse in his own handwriting from Longfellow which he said 'applies to you people as it does to us.'
Here is the verse:
. . . Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
What is the answer that I shall give in your name to this great man, the thrice-chosen head of a nation of 130,000,000? Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt.
Put your confidence in us. Give us your faith and your blessing, and under Providence all will be well.We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Brown is an empty vessel, a cipher. He stands for nothing. Zilch. He shall not be remembered for saving the planet. He won’t even be remembered for trying to save the planet. If he is remembered for anything, it will be for being the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time leading up to the biggest economic crisis for generations, and the unelected Prime Minister of a nation who signed up to an agreement that surrendered what sovereignty it had not yet given to Brussels.
The planet does not need saving. Gordon Brown does.
That is why he insults our history and the memory of millions of people murdered by the Nazis, by pretending to be standing as Churchill stood: at a moment in which the future of the world hangs in the balance. This whole scam is more and more a platform for the likes of Brown to stand on to pretend that they are saving the planet. I’m not exaggerating. Brown concludes with these silly, silly words.
Let us prove today and tomorrow the enduring truth that is more telling than any passing setback. That what we can achieve together is far greater than what we can achieve unilaterally and alone. In these few days in Copenhagen, which will be blessed or blamed, for generations to come, we cannot permit the politics of narrow self interest to prevent a policy for human survival. Because for all of us, and for all our children, there is no greater national interest than the common future of this planet.
UK climatologists “probably tampered with Russian-climate data” to produce a report submitted to world leaders at this week’s Copenhagen summit, it is claimed. The Met Office’s study, which says the first decade of this century has been the warmest on record for 160 years, is being used to trumpet claims that man is causing global warming. But experts at the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis say the British dossier used statistics from weather stations that fit its theory of global warming, while ignoring those that do not.
If Brown’s pleas in Copenhagen are to be compared to a historical moment, then the most fitting moment would be the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The agreement that Brown wants is a cowardly and dangerous treaty grounded on lies, delusion, and ignorance.
