Lib Dems Call for Petrol Car Ban

I see that Mr Eugenides has also picked up on this supreme piece of arrant twattery:

The Lib Dems have backed a radical series of proposals to tackle climate change – including a ban on petrol powered cars by 2040.

Environment spokesman Chris Huhne said tackling global warming would need an “enormous economic change”.

Let’s just assume for one brief nanosecond that the Lib Dems have a fleeting chance of power in order to implement this staggering piece of stupidity, their idea of economic change is to take us back to the middle ages pretty sharpish.

As Mr E points out, as we don’t have a car industry, the industry will simply proffer a well deserved two-finger salute and relocate.

First, of course, I hate to break it to you, Chrissy boy, but British Leyland is gone. We don’t have a car industry, you stupid twat. We have foreign-owned factories employing British workers to churn out foreign cars. ‘Ban’ the manufacture of petrol and diesel vehicles and they’ll just up sticks and make Japanese cars in Spain instead. Result; more carbon, more pollution, fewer jobs. What a splendid economic policy. No wonder the Lib Dems are flying so high in the polls.

Sure, a move from fossil fuels is desirable just as a reduction in hydrocarbons floating about in the atmosphere is desirable. But that isn’t going to happen because governments (Lib Dems, government? You’re having a laugh, aren’t you?) try to ban things. What will make the change is the economic incentive to do so – running out of the black gold being a start…

Setting out his “green vision”, Mr Huhne warned there was little time left to change the way people live.

Oh, bollocks! Piss off will you, please. You’ve been watching too many Al Gore films. And, frankly, I have no intention of changing the way I live. I’m sick to death of the enviroloons preaching at me, telling me I must change. Well, fuck you! I am not going to change and one reason for this is the constant hysteria from the green lobby. Don’t you knuckleheads understand the principle of gentle persuasion? Clearly not. But, then, as the Nameless One points out over at the Devil’s Kitchen, Ming the Merciless understands the concept of liberty about as well as Neil Harding.

Just what the fuck is going on here? All three parties seem intent upon competing to see just who can fuck over the electorate the most. Bastards, the lot of them.