The first of 2010 – though there have been a few contenders! I give you, Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party and Britain’s first – and only, and probably last when people see the size of their food and fuel bills inn the run-up to the next election – green MP.
She wants to introduce rationing.
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Although I do not subscribe to these Loony Tunes fun suckers view of the world this particular one may have a bit of a point. It is a proven fact that the people of Britain, especially the poorer in society ended up after WWII, fitter and better fed than at the beginning. This was because the ‘experts’ that drive us all crackers today with pet theories actually got a few things right between ’39 and ’45. People were introduced to a fairly balanced diet probably for the first time in their lives, not necessarily tasty (snook) but enough to sustain a body and although folk felt hungry no one collapsed through starvation. If we are honest with ourselves, we could all do with cutting down on our intake, how many times do we read that obesity is rampant among the young, you only have to look at the nearest fast food outlet to see why. The mistake that this person makes is to assume that we all sing from her ‘save the world’ hymn book, we don’t. She could have been a bit savvy and dressed it up a bit on the lines of saving ourselves rather than the planet but these twits don’t do savvy, they just know that they are right and we are wrong.
Frankly by the time these fuckers have finished screwing up the West, we shall be lucky to get rations.
I favour cannibalism as an alternative. Its one way of getting rid of them.
Guess who first?
Anyway what are you doing reading ‘Dyke’s drivel’ in the Guardian?
Tina, I was intrigued by the link on the front page. It won’t happen again, Ma’am.
My fur positively frizzes every time they interview some Burberry-clad, obese example of the underclass slumped in front of the full Sky+ HD package at 2.45 PM who says they can’t afford ‘posh’ food such as meat, fish and vegetables and are forced to survive on pizza delivered to the door (£12.99 each) or a bumper family bucket of reconstituted, flame grilled McNasty (£15.99 at the drive-through), “which ain’t fair, innit”.
Sorry, I’m back now. I think I’ve just had my first Christina moment. 🙂
OZ
Anyone ever seen this woman? I saw her shortly after she got elected. ‘Little Hitler’ sums her up.
As to War Time Rationing – has anyone ever spoken to people who lived in rural areas during the war? They certainly didn’t go ‘without’ in the same way that those in urban areas did. And there was a thriving Black Market for food and other goods.
By the time these ‘do-gooders’ have finished – we’ll all be running around like Moaist peasants, dressed the same, eating the same, and thinking the same. Glad I won’t be around to see it.
Incidentally, the War Time ‘nutritionists’ who decided what foodstuffs should be on the shelves told Churchill that there was no need to buy in tea, since it had no nutritional value whatsoever. He is reputed to have told them that if the tea supplies dried up British moral would die – and to ensure supplies. Don’t rely on the likes of Ms Lucas to bother with tea, coffee or other non-essentials.
Now then, as I tottered off to make coffee trying to recover from Bravo reading the Guardian, (a wonder I didn’t have to take to my bed for three days with the vapours). It struck me that this idiot dyke was particularly ill informed on the subject. She drivels on about pigs being fed swill in WWII as if this was a good thing. She obviously doesn’t know that the practice was stopped due to the spread of communicable disease in recent times, (to both pig and man). Re the swine fever outbreak in Hesketh? (I believe I remember correctly). Here is the relevant extract from DEFRA below!
‘The UK operates strict controls over the import of meat and meat products primarily to guard against the introduction of animal diseases. If, despite these precautions, swine fever viruses enter the country the risk of pigs becoming infected has been reduced by the ban on swill feeding introduced in May 2001 (now included in the Animal By-Products Regulations).’
Stupid, ignorant bitch! One could do better on the back of a postage stamp let alone an envelope!
Pity they don’t ban the meat still walking on two legs from entering the country as well!
PS for those of you even vaguely interested, the need to sterilise the swill at high temperature for a fair period of time to ensure death of viruses and bacteria was not being done effectively by pig farmers as the heating was prohibitively expensive, or so they perceived. Hence better to remove it from the food chain completely.
I am glad that Ms Lucas said what she did. In fact, I wish she would say it loud and clear, the more the better! Nothing would make me happier than Ms Lucas being given full access to the press and be given a great deal of time to “articulate” her “ideas”. If this doesn’t kill the “green” movement, nothing will.
A couple of immediate personal thoughts on the comments so far, with no criticism intended whatsoever of any author here.
1. My grandfather, who was an RFC fighter pilot in the First unpleasantness, happened to have a shotgun or two about his person which kept the family well supplied with rabbit, pheasant and whatsoever throughout the Second.
2. Where I live now, which is like Dorset to the power of ten, every rural family still keeps chickens, turkeys, ducks and at least one pig, all of which are fed on scraps and kitchen waste and whatever can be found naturally and which are ultimately dispatched on site. Oddly enough, nobody seems to be dying of salmonella or listeria, just like nobody ever did before the advent of factory farming.
3. The green movement operates just like any other lump of politics, such as socialism. Whereas the latter always has servants-of-the-People in the limousines and cordonned-off car lanes rushing from committee to committee to save the proletariat from themselves, in the former Frau Lucas will be jetting Gore-like from five-star conference to five star summit around the world hananguing everyone else to change their lifestyles “for the sake of the planet (peels onion)”.
Better we all just get on with our lives and give all our ‘leaders’ the widest possible berth.
OZ
Great idea, OZ. The problem is that these people have the power to make sure we change our life-styles – whereas we have very little power to ensure that they change theirs.
Social engineering under any guise, is wrong. It ain’t what governments are for.
People have the right to get fat and die, eat rubbish, watch brainless TV, follow football (ugh!) and anything else that takes their fancy so long as it doesn’t harm others.
Where the hell did this idea of being “my brother’s keeper” spring from? Control freaks will too much time on their hands. Come the revolution, they’ll be the first against the wall.
Mutters into third cup of tea. Humbug!
Boadicea – That’s the problem. As somebody much wiser than me once said, “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always wins.”
Bearsy – Social engineering under any guise, is wrong. It ain’t what governments are for. Quite so, but try telling the Blair/Brown lot in particular. Personally, I just want to be left in peace – until the revolution. 🙂 Does tea really work, then?
OZ