"Most economists judge that the costs of the UK failing to pursue net zero will ultimately be greater than the costs of achieving it " It is the same with HS2, an enormous sum of money down the drain.
I am tired these last few days, mind not working but the world still goes on. There are two faces I quickly scroll by on my screen. The first is the 'orange one' and the second is Farage. He has the intelligence of a gangster! The votes split on the latest voting spree. They always do when the incumbent government has only just started its term. Interesting figures, Reform got just a fraction more votes, but coming up on the rail is the Liberal Party and....... The Green Party in the councils. People know what they want but governments just govern on a different plain.
A thought. What would have happened that instead of getting London and its Southern counties as the main runners of government in Great Britain, the seat of power was up North? Would the balance have taken a left keel and this strong motivation towards greed been stopped.
There is a strong suspicion that in fact Stonehenge was not the centre of the British Isles but Callanish and its stones and Scotland with its plethora of islands.
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| Callanish Stones - Wiki. Tom Richardson |
Going Gently put a fabulous video on yesterday of dancing. Well here is my favourite, the dance itself is extraordinarily creative. So I shall pretend I am young again and dance ;)
We have had beautiful weather the last week, warm and sunny but no rain and moor fires, this one up on Ripponden Moor.
In the past, England was not so London-centric. In the Middle Ages Suffolk was a wealthy centre of the wool industry, the Industrial Revolution started and prospered across northern England, Tyneside and Wearside were big centres of shipbuilding and heavy engineering and so on. Major figures from these regions unashamedly took their place on the national stage. Now, unless you spout the nonsense of the London liberal elites, you are looked down on and treated as something that they scrape off their shoes. It has been suggested that parliament should move out of the HoC during its refurbishment, if so then it should be to a part of the country far removed from London, so that MPs are forced to see how other parts of the country live. It might be a bit of an eye-opener to many of them?
ReplyDeleteReading round the history when the big mills were built and what you see is independent men and women trying to make their world a better place. The Co-op I think started down here, and when first established spawned a lot of other businesses. There was a genuine spirit of working together. I always think of Salt Mill and the entrepreneur Jonathon Silver who acquired this gigantic mill in 1987 and not only saw the commercial side of it but also he made it into a cultural centre as well. All London seems to offer is 'The Stock Exchange' upon which we are supposed to think that it is important for our wealth, whether it goes up or down. Houses priced out of existence and foreign ownership of utilities. And of course a lot of greed in all of that.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the dance videos. I wonder how long that group had to practice to get it so perfectly synchronized!
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about your country's history to comment on your government. Obviously, we have gone off the rails over here and it usually boils down to greed and hate.
Well governments are governments Ellen and there is always someone going to disagree with something. The human race has never reached the 'perfect pitch' of sanity and quietude ;)
DeleteI love that song!! I had not heard it in a long time. That is perfect synchronicity...but then that's another song, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYou know, that song led me off to Mr. Google. That fellow is quite an interesting character. After the success of "Somebody that I Used to Know", which became a world wide hit, he just simply stopped his solo career, preferring to collaborate with other artists. He's also refused to monetize his music, and gives free use of it to movie markers and artists. He says he is happy with where he is. Now how often do you hear something like that?
ReplyDeleteNot often Debby. But he seems to have back to working in a small band and is perfectly happy being who he is. I love the youthful energy in that video of the dancers, think they are Dutch.
DeleteI’m in the US as I write this - a fascinating first visit in decades ; people politics places, poverty, prosperity - such a land of contrasts … still reeling from it all. But you know, for all the issues abd perspectives it is such a privilege to be here at all
ReplyDeleteHello Mark, you seem to have deserted your blog but it is good to see you occasionally remember us. America is a fascinating place, as I have studied it the poverty is something you don't expect. My grandson Ben has been in the US over the weekend. He works for Hamilton, the racing driver. So we were all a bit worried about going through customs - he of course was not, because he never bothers with news.
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