Over 100,000 people signed a petition asking for a referendum and judging by the responses when you ask people in the street whether they think we should be in or out of Europe, that 100,000 is just the tip of the iceberg. No, the vote was triggered by the will of the people, only to be defeated by the bully boy tactics of the Commons where MP’s were told which way they had to vote.  Two of those who voted with their conscience, and stuck to their manifesto promises, have been rewarded by being sacked from their jobs this morning.

So how come the will of the people is no longer good enough? Whatever happened to the wonderful system of democracy that we have exported around the world and now go to war over to try and allow other people and countries to enjoy it? Frankly, it’s a farce and a sham.  The end is approaching and vested interests around the country are desperately manoeuvring to try and retain the power that they enjoy and the riches and privilege that come with it.

They should remember that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You cannot continue to ignore the people and expect to retain the status quo…

His latest pronouncement, the one that has me so angry, is a great case in point. When faced with higher energy bills consumers (i.e. you and me) should switch tariffs. And that’s it. The end to all our worries and massive price hikes in the cost of energy from the big six energy companies is achieved by simply switching tariffs. No why didn’t I think of that earlier???  If only I’d known I could have saved myself hours of time on the phone arguing with my supplier and hundreds of pounds in overpaid bills.

All this time I’ve been working under a misapprehension. I’m busily going round berating the Energy companies for the state of my gas and electricity bill and all along it’s my own fault for not switching. I’ve been thinking that it is incomprehensible that we no longer have any control in this country over our energy bills as all the providers are in foreign ownership, and they have put massive ‘green’ hikes onto our bills to pay for the Renewable Energy Obligations and subsidise stupid windmills all over the country. Our ridiculous and unachievable Energy policy that is chasing impossible CO2 reduction targets for no plausible reason any more is set to not only cost us billions more than we can afford to pay but also to condemn the only power stations that are actually producing anything to close.  Couple this with the stupidity of Brussels directives and we’re now officially in a complete mess.

Chris Huhne, nice man though he may be, either is in complete denial over the parlous state of our energy policy in this country or he simply doesn’t understand. I’m not sure which is going to be worse when the sh*t finally hits the fan. But of course, that’s assuming we’ve got any electricity left in this country to power the fan….

What makes me mad is that I never agreed to this.  I never agreed to handing over our Sovereign powers to an unelected cabal of power crazed Europeans in Brussels. I never agreed that we should turn over our fishing industry to their control and have it decimated to the point we cannot even fish off our own coasts now. I never agreed to idiotic proposals to close our power stations because they produce CO2 without having the faintest idea how we would replace the power they supply. I never agreed to reclassifying our steel plants as ‘CO2′ emitters and therefore having to close them as they are now too ‘dirty’. I never agreed to useless ugly windfarms going up all over our country and being paid for through my ever rising energy bills. And I never agreed to this damned flag permeating my daily life like a creeping plague.

So right now I am saying, give us our vote. We want the right to be consulted, as we should be in a democracy, and I want the things that my father fought for in World War II, that we have since surrendered, returned to us immediately.  We are a proud nation with a long history of fighting off oppressors, and now is the time for the silent majority to take up the rally cry and demand our vote, and rid our nation of the yoke of ‘Europe’.

You see I just don’t get it.  I’ve always thought that if these were such a good idea then there would have been more of them across the country years ago.  For example when we were at war in the 1940′s there was a shortage of energy supply.  So logically if these things were so good you would have expected there to be at least some of them built, right?  But no, there weren’t and the nearest we ever got to this was the type of ‘Windy Miller’ windmills that were dotted around the country.

Clearly there was never going to be enough wind to drive any kind of meaningful electricity, and as you can’t store electricity, you have to produce it then use it, getting any kind of regular supply would be virtually impossible.

So when I see stories like this in the paper it drives me mad.  What the heck are our politicians doing allowing windfarms to be paid for producing no electricity?  And £1.2 million of your and my pounds to do it with as well!

You see when you examine windfarms in some detail you quickly realise that they are a legalised scam.  The produce no power when the wind doesn’t blow (usually when we get a freeze in the winter, just the time we need the power….), they can’t produce power when the wind blows too hard as it causes a spike in the supply which means they have to be turned off, and in between times we have to rely on the wind blowing at all to get any power out of them.  The myth of ‘capacity’ against actual output continues to be peddled by those building them, where they quote ‘capacity’ but fail to tell you that the ‘real’ output will be around 25% of this.  They get massive subsidies and tax breaks from our Government so we can be seen to be meeting Brussel’s ‘green’ agenda.

This equation only works if there is a massive public subsidy to support them and this has been done in your and my name to try and meet EU ‘green’ targets.  Now that makes me mad!

Time to stop this madness.  Time to say no.  Surely this collective myopia we seem to have needs to be treated so we can wake up and actually see what is going on around us?

I reckon that some useless idiot has previously poured the contents of his or her lunchtime fizzy drink into the keys and then happily phoned tech support to complain that their keybaord is sticking.  And tech support have palmed it off to the useless piece of **** that sold me this archaic thing.

Still, at least it works if I hit it really hard.  I mean give it a right good bash.  And the J.  But I fear that if I keep doing this I will end up with RSI of the finger, or at least a damaged stump that used to be a finger.  See what I mean.  This paragraph alone has now got the aforementioned letter in three times.  I know I shouldn’t let it but it really winds e up.  Now it’s stopped altogether. Ti e to throw this keyboard out of the window….

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