Why should my hard earned taxes...

I haven't registered to vote this time. But i'd be voting UKIP if i had. I'm totally fed up of these social justice, man made global warming, politically correct, feminist man hating, socialist/neo conservative knobs. I'm a Libertarian and proud of it!!

Rob, i refer you to Lord Christopher Monckton. He will put you straight. He has offered to debate Al Gore anytime, anyplace on man made global warming. His evidence is compelling.So far the charlatan Gore has refused.

Ah ha: he who would "put all the world's Aids carriers into total isolation" and who was a former "advisor" to Margaret Thatcher!

Despite some of his more loony theories, I've a lot of time for Monckton's educated evidence on world weather patterns and history; although I thought his yarn of the Chinese discoverer who sailed around the North Pole in the fifteenth century and "found no ice" should have carried the caveat of "but was he really at the Pole rather than up it?" and shouldn't we be asking whether or not he might have been sailing around the Tropic of Cancer by mistake?

After all, some of these "Great Discoverers" weren't all that great ~ wasn't it (the discover of the Congo)Stanley who followed the "Nile" from it's source only to drop out into ....................... the Atlantic?

Another fine mess Stanley got into, but if he'd taken my Great Auntie Florrie (Maternal Side) * with him as he did with that other great Newton Abbot luminary Samuel Baker , everything would have turned out hunky dory. You see Great Aunt Florrie was the accompanying pianist to the silent movies at NA's Alexandra Cinema in the nineteen twenties and as such, it was firmly believed in NA that whenever one of those great events shown on Pathe News was about to occur; Great Aunt Florrie just happened to be there at the front banging away on her ivories.

Sadly her importance to world events wained with the onset of "The Talkies" and so it was that because she so came to believe in her own immortality, she decided to make a comeback. She was last seen at Newton Railway Station ~ joanna in tow ~ buying a ticket for Nagasaki (change at Hiroshima) in 1945...........................that's "somewhere out your way" isn't it DtG?

* Not to be confused with My Great Aunt Florrie (Paternal Side) the legendary Heathfield Level Crossing Keeper!

I'll certainly give it a read. Thanks.

I think that can be the most sensible and plausible school of thought over something we have not had a dry run over.

As someone who has seen the perma brown smog that hung over the Kings Cross area and clearly visible from the top of Pentonville Road disappear since the advent of Congestion Charging and The Emission Free Zone, and can remember the old days of the sky being invisible to the human eye from the streets of Stoke-On-Trent due to the old coal fired pottery kilns; I would vouch for the FACT that there "is somethiing we can do about it".

Such responsibility is not only vital for the present day health of the planet, but for the legacy we leave our off spring ~ it's the least we can do; and indifferent fending off of very real concerns for the man made damage is downright imoral and criminal.

Very interesting Rob and thanks for the link.

The surprise at the end of the programme came in the two parties they reckoned I would vote for......................they are wrong as if I were to vote I would vote for my sitting MP, Jeremy Corbyn; who is a real star and the most honest and down to earth guy one could ever wish to meet.........................none of your MP's expenses theft with this fellow.

Frequently available and easy to meet at the school gate with his push bike, I've never once heard him ask for support at the ballot box and the way the guy went out of his way and beyond the normal call of duty to be of assistance to Bijou has left a lasting impression on us both.

I've only ever once had my sitting MP actually knock on my door and canvas my support, I invited him in and insisted that if he sat down and switched off from politics for half an hour, I'd make him a cup of tea and he would be all the better for it; and so we did and chatted about Torquay United (well you would, wouldn't you) Chelsea and West Ham ~ the late Tony Banks was another proper constituency MP, workaholic and resident in the manor as ALL MPs should be and I would suggest that if yours doesn't reside in your constituency you immediately deny him your vote.....................Banks wasn't an East Ender but a "posh boy from up WEST" ~ hence the Chelsea connection; but out of respect for those that supported him he moved to live in Manor Park.

I never did vote for him though and told him so. I voted Monster Raving Loony that particular election although that was the year Labour regained power, because of that nightmare Tony B Liar who even at the beginning held all the trustworthiness of a second hand car salesman.

Give me our craggy old Prime Minister who chucks mobile phones at staff and bangs his fist in anger any day over THAT cheesy bastard "Dave" who reckons he watches the football on his telly with a can of Guiness in his hand! Like hell you do, you patronising fuckwit Cameron..................on your bike!