…you thought the Tories are any better than Labour, this little gem comes along:
Householders will be encouraged to compete to be ‘greener than the Joneses’ under Conservative plans to tell people what their neighbours spend on energy.
Give me a fucking break, please… What I spend on energy is my fucking business and no one else’s – it is private.
But, no, not according to the new – even more Labour than Labour – Tories:
Telling people how much their neighbours spend on gas and electricity is designed to encourage them to keep their costs down and reduce their consumption of fossil fuels.
There is a word for this and that word is “bullying”. It is not up to the state to get involved in such matters. I use my own sense of fiscal competence to keep my spending down – i.e. I like to keep as much of my hard earned cash as I can. Therefore, I avoid wasting it as much as I possibly can. None of this is any of the state’s business and it is sure as hell none of my neighbours’ business.
David Cameron, the Conservative leader, announced the initiative as part of his plans to wean the British public off their dependence on the fossil fuels that drive climate change.
Fuck me sideways. Tony Blair, meet the equally delusional and control freakish Tony Blair mark two.
While I have no problem with reducing our dependency on fossil fuels – that makes perfect sense – Cameron’s stupid and totalitarian solution:
As part of his green energy policy he said competition between neighbours needs to be kick-started to ensure each tries to be the greenest consumer in their streets.
is an outrageous invasion of privacy. I will not, under any circumstances whatsoever, take part in any competition to be the “greenest” consumer in my street. Ever.
I’ve had it with this fucking country – the sooner I leave the better. Voting Tory at the next election will simply be giving us more of the same, given that Cameron has swallowed the green agenda whole.
I don’t know — It might cool to be known as the most evil person in the street. I think I’ll get myself a white cat in preparation.
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Well, yes, there is always the possibility of such schemes backfiring spectacularly and producing the exact opposite of the desired effect.
Rob’s hit the nail on the head. Who wouldn’t feel good about spending the most on energy? It shows you can afford it.
BTW I wonder if, knowing that this load of bollocks was coming down the tubes, this is one of the reasons why DD made his bolt for the exit when he did.
Bloody hell. If they haven’t they got anything better to do with their lives then obviously we have too many MPs who sit for too long.
The Great Wiseone was watching the early evening news and I overheard something about having smiley stamps on you bill to indicate whether you are using too much energy of not.
And they wonder why we hold them in contempt.
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I was initially a bit embarrassed at my un-Green-ness in putting out three sacks of stuff for recycling (paper; plastic; cans) every fortnight but the people across the road put out between 8 and 10 sacks, and other neighbours were all in the 4 to 5 region.
After a while we started to get ‘rubbish envy’ and stopped folding boxes flat or crushing cans just to bulk ours up a bit.
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Once I twigged that the green lobby are nothing more than reconstructed Marxists, I stopped taking any notice of anything they say. They are not concerned about the environment, they are concerned about control. Consequently, unless there is clear, verifiable independent evidence that what they say has an element of truth to it, I work from the assumption that they are lying.
And as for this infantile suggestion of a competition between householders, give me a break. As a child I did exactly what Rob suggested in response to attempts by teachers to use peer pressure. Being infantilised by politicians is one sure way of alienating me to the point of complete non cooperation.
What happens if the ‘Joneses’ they all want you to keep up with have emigrated?
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