Snouts in the Trough

While the politically correct howl on about Global Warming and how it might affect us in the future, they tend not to mention one man-made disaster which already kills millions of people every year. This is the corruption, stupidity and incompetence of many Third World governments. Many of the world’s most  impoverished countries are rich in natural resources – Nigeria, Zimbabwe, other African countries and the Stans. But their people live in abject poverty because of the greed, stupidity and mismanagement of the ruling elite. And now we hear that one of the world’s largest oil producers, Chavez’s Venezuela, is facing electricity shortages. Why? Greed. stupidity, corruption, mismanagement and incompetence.

So if the bleeding-hearted Guardianistas want to save human lives now, they should be marching in protest against the stupidity, mismanagement, corruption and incompetence of many Third World governments.

I’ve just read in a supposed ‘news’paper that another bunch of z-list celebs are ‘climbing’ Mount Kilimanjaro. For anyone who is interested – and I hope that means nobody – you do NOT climb Kilimanjaro, you walk up it. Moreover, it is an incredibly easy and leisurely walk except for the final night stretch to the summit which is a little strenuous. But it is still a walk and not a climb. I know, I’ve done it and it was probably just as easy as walking in Scotland – and the weather was much better.

If summer 2009 had turned out to be the ‘barbecue summer’ predicted by the useless, politically-correct jobsworths at the Met Office, we’d have been drowning in their I-told-you-so-s as they claimed the hot summer was undeniable proof of Global Warming. Similarly, if we’d had the warm winter also predicted by the almost pointless nobodies at the Met Office, they’d have been all over our screens insisting that this was further irrefutable proof of their Global Warming claptrap.

But as the summer was a wash-out and the winter a 30-year record freeze, the Met Office shamelessly claims that there is little connection between weather and climate. This allows them to say the Earth is getting warmer even though the weather is unusually cold. Still, as we know from their fiddled figures and selective use of data – Garbage in, Garbage out.

This is the absurd claim made by a fund manager interviewed for the Telegraph this week. But the gentleman makes his millions from ordinary suckers like you and me putting our cash into the stock market through shares, unit trusts and pension savings – so he would say that, wouldn’t he? Moreover, the stock market has shot up from 3,500 to around 5,500 in about a year. Is there really anybody stupid enough to believe it’s going much higher with Britain facing almost catastrophic tax rises to pay off our deficit?

What is really happening is that all the insiders have made fortunes over the last year. Now they need suckers to buy all their overpriced shares so they can get out with their mouthwatering profits leaving us with massive losses. Want to put money in the stock market now? You’d be better off flushing it down the toilet – at least then you might block your toilet and save yourself some money.

Can we predict the future? When it comes to human greed, we probably can. So here’s one to watch. Sometime in 2010, Goldman Sachs will deliberately engineer a loss of confidence in Sterling. The pound will then fall to well below parity with the euro as investors dump it. This will allow Goldman Sachs to buy Sterling cheaply from panicking investors and make tens of billions when the pound quickly rebounds to about 1.12 euro.

The moral of the story – get a job with Goldman Sachs.

Hyper-warmist Guardian columnist George Monbiot seems to have been unusually quiet recently. As Britain freezes in the coldest winter for over thirty years, many of us are waiting with baited (and frozen) breath for our favourite Global Warming expert to explain how it can be so cold when the earth is supposedly getting warmer every year. Come on George, tell us what’s happening!

What an election this is going to be. A completely discredited government led by a lying sociopath, backed by a glove-puppet chancellor and controlled by devious man/woman reptile. A ludicrous Tory party with a Blair lookalike leading it, a damaged-goods shadow chancellor still in short trousers and apparently nobody else with any intelligence, profile or talent and the usual ineffective posturing by the pointless LibDem timeservers achieving nothing apart from pocketing their salaries and expenses.

How could British politics have sunk so low?

The man’s arrogance is almost unbelievable. Brown has started his election campaign claiming he will ‘fight for Britain’. Isn’t this the same Gordon Brown who prevented us having the promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty which handed over control of Britain to the French and Germans who decide all EU policy? Isn’t this the same Gordon Brown who was so embarrassed by his Lisbon Treaty sell-out that he wouldn’t allow himself to be photographed with the other EU leaders at the signing ceremony?

Brown lied about the economy while bankrupting Britain; he lied about our troops being given proper equipment and sufficient helicopters; he lied when he promised ‘British jobs for British workers’ while allowing almost uncontrolled immigration; he lied when he said he would clean up MPs’ expenses; he lied when he said he would reduce bureaucracy in the NHS to give more money to frontline services… I could go on, but won’t. Gordon Brown is a liar. For ten years he’s given us a stream of lies. You are a liar Gordon Brown – sue me if you can!

In spite of all the hot air emitted from various orifices by global warming fashionistas like George Monbiot and his warmist fellow-travellers, 2009 gave us the wettest summer and coldest winter for 20-30 years. Still, no doubt once the Met Office and the ‘University’ of East Anglia have massaged the figures, they’ll claim that 2009 was the warmest year on record and the politically-correct BBC will faithfully keep on pumping out warming stories as we all sit freezing in our homes.

According to recent articles in the Sunday Times and the Telegraph, it’s certain that David Cameron will move into Number 10 after the next election. But how can they be so sure? Cameron stands for nothing. Osborne is damaged goods and clearly out of his aristocratic depth. The rest of the Tory frontbenchers are mediocre nobodies.

Meanwhile on the Labour side, Lady Mandelson has more intelligence, cunning and venom in his little finger than the whole Tory Party put together. If I were you, I’d sell pounds now and start planning to leave Brown’s bankrupt Britain as the election outcome is far from a foregone conclusion.