Turning Out The Lights

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Councils in England and Wales are considering switching off some of their street lights to save money and energy. Is this the best way for councils to cut emissions?

Councils say that switching off the lights will cut carbon dioxide emissions and help them to reduce their carbon footprints. Turning lights off at certain time will also save money.

This is one of those issues where I am a little bit torn. If the sole reason for doing this, was to save co2 emissions, then I would say forget it. It will make sod all difference.

However, I am not going to cut my nose off to spite my face. I believe in being efficient in energy use. 1) Because it costs us money and 2) Because this is energy we could be using for something else.

Do we REALLY need motorways to be lit up like it is day time for instance? I am sure you could at least turn every other light off, with no real difference.

In built up areas and towns though, I don't think turning them off is a great idea. The weaker members of our society will be more frightened, if they have to stumble around in the dark on their way home. If they could carry a gun, then maybe that would balance it out, but they can't.
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So on reflection, I believe councils SHOULD look at areas and roads and turn out some of the lights, if possible.

Sadly this will just make George Orwell look like even more of a prophet, with this blueprint for Britain under Labour, 1984.

Dark run down streets, with people snitching on each other and eating meat substitute. Perpetual war with unseen enemies and governments who spin out propaganda that we have never had it so good! All policies now being considered, or in place by New Labour.

Makes you want to weep!

Envirofascists at EU controlled Woking council screw up again!

A while back I had a letter sent to me from the council, complete with a questionnaire.

The questionnaire was about "energy efficiency" and they wanted you to answer a load of questions, in return for a "free" report.

Last time I looked at the title of the person sending the letter (Lara Curran, Senior Policy Officer for Climate Change) and threw it straight in the bin. When your useless government pretends it can control the planets climate and employs people using stolen money to do so, then I give it the short shrift it deserves. Besides,for my own bank balance, I am pretty damn energy efficient as it is.

So imagine my joy to find that the morons had cocked up and have had to resend the questionnaire for a second time. Yes, all that paper and energy required to send this crap out, all under the new religious banner of Envirofascism.

This time I decided I would pay a bit more attention though, so I can really pick holes in their folly.

First up, the letter was addressed to "The Householder". Now I don't know about you, but that is usually a signal to me that it is junk mail. I personally do read it from time to time, but I know many people just chuck such stuff straight in the bin.

Now the council try to blame the mailing house for the blunder and promise that there was no extra cost to the council. Probably true, because the council never pays for ANYTHING. We, the taxpayers do! The fact we had to pay for the first crappy effort is bad enough, along with the wages of this non job hogger, Lara Curran.

The next bit talks about how this information will be used to plan future energy efficiency grants. Guess where those grants come from. Yes that's right, anyone who bothers to work for a living. Stolen once again, via taxation. Why am I having to pay for other people to be subsidised?

They make great bones about the envelope being "freepost". Guess what? IT AIN'T FUCKING FREE! The post office are not a charity, especially since the EU driven laws meant all their most profitable business has been asset stripped away from them. The mug tax payer has to pay for every reply that gullible sheep send in.

There is a "processing centre" who will deal with this rubbish and can you guess who pays their wages? That's right, us lot again. More non jobs, more waste.

It says if you would like to speak to a "trained energy advisor" to help morons fill out the form phone a special "freephone" number. They like that word free, when in reality it is anything but free. All phone calls made to that number will be charged to the council and passed back to us. Of course, all of this information and advise is readily available on the internet, but this bunch of clowns wants to force feed the moron population and keep their non jobs going.

Now, this wouldn't be so bad, if this useless council, who proudly fly the flag of the EU above their office, were actually responding to the peoples wishes and delivering on promises made in elections. This simply isn't the case though. None of the parties promised this short of shite. Well maybe the Lib Dems hinted at it, but the Tories are supposed to be in power and all they said, is they would stop waste and keep taxes low! Lying bastards.

Looking at the Questionnaire itself, you soon see this is a centrally (ie the EU) driven load of garbage. It even says in bold letters A Government Requirement. Who the fuck do they think they are? Our overlords? Our masters? Why don't we have local government who have the balls to say, this is a ridiculous waste of time, effort, energy and money? Teach the kids at school that saving money and energy is a good idea. Make the info available on the internet. Robbing people to fund this horseshite, just because the EU demands it is not the way to go.

The Questionnaire asks a shit load of questions about your house, which I am not going to tell them about. They will probably stick it on a database and sell it to some companies. Or use it to bump up peoples council taxes!

Right at the end though, they ask 3 questions to help decide if you are eligible for some of the stolen booty, I mean grant. Now maybe I'm a cynic, but I suspected just because I am the one having the money stolen from me, I will be unlikely to get any of it back. So let's go through the questions.

32 Is a member of your household over 60?

Errr no. If there was, then we would probably be much more wealthy, as most of the pensioners in Surrey have a lifetime of savings and lived through the golden era of final salary, non contribution pensions. Unlike me, who doesn't expect a bean in state pensions and has to save like hell, in the hope of getting something. Of course, all the money I put into pensions, should have gone under the mattress as what Gordon hasn't stolen, has been smashed by stock market collapse. What a wheeze.

33 Is a member of your household in receipt of benefits?

Mmm no. The only benefit I ever had was a partial grant at University. I feel bad about that now, but not that bad seeing as I have had that money taken back many times over by the State. I guess the fact I work and try to look after myself, rules me right out. So why the hell should I bother with this rubbish?

34 Would you like more info on the councils (taxpayer/robbery victims) new eco(fascism) show home in Knaphill.

Hell no. I live in Knaphill and don't want to be reminded of the utter waste of money you idiots allow. Money that is theived from people like me every month, for what? A fortnightly bin collection.

What a scam. What a disgrace. And all the little parasite companies that donate to the parties that push this agenda, so they get on the "approved list" for selling their crap to us, can fuck right off too.

Why isn't this guy president? (Ron Paul).

Ron Paul called the crap that is happening now ages ago. If the USA wants to stay free and prosperous, they had better get his arse into the Whitehouse ASAP.

The Ministry of Truth is real!

Torygraph

The Government has spent almost £2 million to fund programmes that are all but indistinguishable from regular shows, The Sunday Telegraph has established.

But unlike normal documentaries, the programmes are commissioned by ministers with the purpose of showing their policies or activities in a sympathetic light.

The media watchdog Ofcom has disclosed that it had opened an investigation into one of the programmes, Beat: Life on the Street — about the Government’s controversial Police Community Support Officers, to see whether it breached its broadcasting code.

Come again? Does there need to be an investigation? They have just rumbled the government using stolen (taxpayers) money, to fund a load of total propaganda and they want to investigate it? There is nothing to investigate! Our government is using our own money, to pump out propaganda. Orwell had this bunch of cretins down perfectly.

When you look at your pay packet at the end of the month and see a huge chunk of it swallowed up in tax.

Then when you buy some petrol and remember half of that is tax (yes more tax on money you have already paid tax on).

Then when you replace you Tax disk in your car.

Or when you go to park your car, in the council car park and have to pay 4 quid for a couple of hours.

Or pay more VAT on your shopping, or to have your car MOT'd.

Then when you get you council tax bill through.

Or when you get an energy bill, with the tax added for that.

Or then you manage to save 3p of what's left, but get taxed again on any interest it makes.

Or manage to scrimp some money to go on holiday and get taxed all kinds of different taxes.

Or you mange to get a pension together, which then gets taxed.

OR if you FUCKING DIE and you manage to leave some inheritance to your kids, that gets taxed.

REMEMBER these fucking parasites are wasting it on telling you how good they are.

Revolution can't be far away.

Forget the EU, We have fascists right here in Britain.

Commie dribble

Government plans to increase car tax for "gas-guzzling" vehicles should be bolder to increase the environmental impact, MPs say.

The Environmental Audit Committee's official report backs the move as a "step in the right direction".

But chairman Tim Yeo said the benefit to the environment would be limited, and called for more ambitious changes.

Now while I say "forget the EU", maybe that was wrong, because as anyone who is paying attention will know, Tim Yeo is one the the chief cheerleaders for us surrendering in full to the EU. He is clearly just trying to lick his way to a future EU top table position.

But, let us just focus on the fact that he and his fellow traitors are the ones calling for this right now.

Let us put the rights and wrongs of this environmentally to a side for the moment and focus on the decision making. When exactly did MPs stop becoming representatives of the will of the people and become our overlords? Does anyone remember any of the LibLabCon alliance putting in their manifestos that they would start hammering anyone who doesn't drive a milk float, in the name of envirofascism? I certainly don't remember a leaflet coming through my door promising it, well maybe the Lib Dems might have hinted they might do it.

Certainly the sham they call debates on T.V. didn't bring it up. They were busy telling us how they would make out lives better, cut taxes, reduce immigration, improve hospitals and get tough on crime. Sure they haven't delivered on any of those populist murmurings, yet they now feel they should be creating a whole new manifesto, that know one voted for.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you want proof that representative democracy is a scam in this country, then this one issue should be all the evidence you need. We have career merchants who follow their orders from up high. The people are given a puppet show now and then, the con them into believing they have a say, but the reality is we don't. We would have, if we managed to break out of the trance we have been put in and voted the whole LibLabCon shower out, but with the medias full backing and all the odds stacked in their favour, I can understand why people fall for it.

So that is the most important part for me, but let us look at the actual issue itself.

They want to punish people for the amount of co2 their cars pump out right. That's the reason they give, that the impact of driving a gas guzzler means more pollution.

But it doesn't does it. Because It doesn't matter how much of a guzzler the car is, if the damned thing isn't moving. You could have a big old people carrier, that you only use once in a blue moon, to ship a bunch of disabled kids to the seaside as a yearly treat. Sorry, but you may be priced out of doing that now, because this horrible bunch of fascists hate you.

Of course, IF you really wanted to stop people using PETROL (not fucking gas), then you would put the tax on PETROL. Bugger, they have already done that though haven't they. So petrol guzzlers are already paying through the nose, every time they drive their car anywhere. This bunch of cretins in charge, just want to rape the last penny out of you and make sure it is only they and their elite buddies that can afford to drive anything but lawnmowers.

And that's if you accept that co2 is a pollutant, is increasing out of control, is all down to us and is bad for the environment. I don't accept any of that, thus their fascism is based on a lie, but then that's when fascism works best.

Just as a quick recap before I go.

1) co2 is the stuff plants and tree (including food crops) love to grow.
2) co2 is a gas that we breath out. Plants breath it in and we breath in the oxygen they breath out. Its a pretty nice cycle that tends to balance itself out.
3) The amount of co2 humans are accountable for is below 5%. Yes that's right, nature produces 95% of co2, so we are worrying about the part of our planet that produces a tiny proportion of co2.
4) The amount of co2 in our atmosphere is tiny. 0.03%, which is very close to our planets all time lows, when you look at the big picture.
5) co2 is actually a terrible greenhouse gas. It doesn't really matter how much more co2 we have, it is already at optimum levels for retaining heat.
6) Who says co2 levels increasing wouldn't be net beneficial? It could go up 10 time and we would still be nowhere near levels that harm us. Indeed, it would just help plants, that have had to put up with near starvation levels for centuries. Even if they weren't lying and co2 really did warm the planet, so what? The planet has been MUCH warmer than today and survived. Indeed, we are due another ice age soon, I don't know about you, but I'd rather that was offset by a bit of warming if possible.

Bottom line is the usual suspects are using the issue as a big stick. They have no idea really and neither do scientists. They all have their own theories, but until they can explain exactly how we were created, then you have to accept they are just guessing like the rest of us anyway.

A good rule of thumb, is don't accept a word politicians tell you, when they have a stick in their hands.