The Government may have cleverly timed the publication of its Energy Bill, an initiative with the deeper agenda, carefully explained by Autonomous Mind.

It was a little transparent, though, bringing it out last Thursday to coincide with the release of the Leveson Report, in the hope that this would be a good way to bury bad news. But if few people understand the Bill, supposedly heralding the greatest revolution in our energy policy for a generation, this is because we aren't intended to understand it.

So says Booker in this week's column, recalling Ed Davey's Thursday statement, headed "An Energy Bill to power low-carbon economic growth, protect consumers and keep the lights on". This must have been the most opaque pile of gobbledygook ever delivered to Parliament. The only thing that can be said for certain about this master plan is that it is not going to achieve any of its three declared intentions.

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The idea that our energy bills will be £94 lower in 2020 ranks alongside the claim that there are only 100 mature cod left in the North sea. Why do the politicians think we will fall for this? We can't even predict the weather so why £94 and not £95? Ridiculous.

It may be a little premature to say so, but I don't think that we are going to come back from this.

Our civilisation is a single vast machine, powered by electricity.

The zealots will switch it off, and the resulting damage will make it impossible to restart it.

A quick Global Warming gag:

It's late Fall, and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.

Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.

But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea.

He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked,'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'

'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.

A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'

'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'

The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.

Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'

'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'

'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.

The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting a shitload of firewood.'

Premature or otherwise, you are correct.

'Our' sovereign debt is over £1,000,000,000,000. Despite our beloved leaders' attempts at 'austerity', we are currently expanding this by over £2,000,000,000 a week just to keep our heads above water.

If the reverse were true (i.e. we were reducing the debt by £2,000,000,000 a week - which isn't remotely possible - and ignoring interest) it would still take ten years to clear.

It is not feasible to pay this debt back (not forgetting the state's unfunded liabilities) without massive inflation and devaluation. That will be the final nail in our 60 year decline towards an economic banana republic.





you are of course forgetting the role of fuel costs (oh wait, that's 'skyrocketed' as well . . . hmmm)

I'm tickled today by the Daily Mail's absurd article,
Foreign states launch cyber attacks against water and energy supplies to 'disrupt daily life' in Britain, which reports risible contentions by Mrs May.

Why would they bother when our Westminster weasels are working so hard permanently to wreck these essential services by other, more old-fashioned means?

The inclusion of a paedophilia reference adds extra zest to the piece.