Anyone who has had the misfortune to listen to any 'debate' in the European Parliament will have noted how similar an occasion it is to the Madhatter's Tea Party in 'Alice in Wonderland'. It has become a losers' paradise where any sniff of common sense is outlawed in favour of Planet Tharg policies championed by the Greens. Many of these people would only feel happy if we were all living in tents woven from spider silk and sat around in the lotus positing meditating on some book that brings us closer to the 'inner self'. The purists among them would, of course, dispense with the book since it is a wicked implement of technocracy, only made possible by the murder of an innocent tree.
The truly dreadful thing is that the nutter fringe now hold considerable sway in our society. Whilst countries like India and China are industrialing at a staggering rate, the Buffoons of Brussels proudly reduce us to agricultural economies that have no possibility of competing in the global market. Their 'head in a shoebox' mentality fails to grasp the huge industrial strides being made by our competition who have no such scruples. To embrace concepts of profit and loss is to admit to being yesterday's man. As our inexorable rush to industrial disaster continues, we will find ourselves with less technical know-how than other nations who see oil as a commodity to be used. The end result will be a second rate society eclipsed on every side by harder working, more informed nations. No doubt the bunnies will be bouncing in their burrows in delight at the thought of no roads, no ships, no cars, no planes, no noise and no fumes. Their joy will in the final analysis be tempered by the harsh reality of no jobs, no industrial base, no enterprise culture and no hospitals to treat the sick as we have no economy to pay for them. Not to worry though, the Chinese and the Indians will be dominating every aspect of the world economy by then and you may find that they have a slightly different perspective on how to run things!