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Did National Grid Successfully Bribe Conservative MP Eric Pickles?

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The only explanation for Eric Pickles MP allowing a massive industrial gas complex to be built against local and national planning rules on beautiful gloucestershire farm land, a plant that has been proved to be unnecessary could be that money has changed hands unofficially. Ether that or complete stupidity is at play here.

National Grid first applied to the Forest of Dean Borough council to build this plant. The plant would sit at the end of the controversial Gas Pipe connecting Milford Haven with Tirley, Gloucestershire. The pipe will run at 97bar pressure, something that in several other countries is illegal due to instability and the safety history of similar pipes.

The Forest of Dean Borough council refused the application and it went to appeal. After locals raised over £30,000 (no small feat) to hire legal representation for the enquiry, the Labour secretary of state concluded that the plant was unececery and completely inappropriate, breaking both national and local planning rules.

National Grid then, in an underhand move applied to build the same plant just 400 yards away simply beacause this field fell under a different borough council, Tewkesbury.

EVERY member of Tewkesbury Borough Council’s planning comittee objected. The plans were refused unanimously.  12 Parish councils objected, over 1000 residents objected (remember this is a sparcly populated agricultural area) and 3 MP’s objected. This is not just NIMBYism as has been suggested; although the thought of this plant destroying businesses (noise levels) and rendering it impossable for residents to sell their houses is not a pleasant one for anybody.

There is already a gas plant at nearby Wormington, there is space for the plant there – in fact off the record, Murphy engineers working in Tirley (and drinking in the local pubs) have said that it’s insanity that the plant is not being located Wormington as it makes long term sense.

This is the main reason: extending the pipe line just a few more miles to the existing gas works at Wormington would bypass a bottleneck in the network. Because the pressure of the gas would not need to be lowered to the same extent (the bottleneck would be out of the equation) the plant would only need to be a fraction of the size the Tirley plant will be and therefore would be more efficient and enviromentally friendly.

Sadly, in the short term at least, this option would be more expensive for National Grid, a private company who on one hand report profits of billions during a ressesion and on the other insist they must raise energy prices for the rest of us.

National Gird Appealed once again. This time it was different, there was a new government in power, one that quite publicly values cash flow above human cost. Again, locals were asked to raise over £30,000 for the second time.

Mr Eric Pickles MP, while publicly wanting to “…(introduce) radical new reforms that will mark an end to the hoarding of power within central government and hand control back to individuals, communities and councils” with his localism bill, chose to grant permission to build the gas plant.

The reports in Mr Pickle’s possession detailed all of the above. The reports contained proof that there was a solution to this problem available to National Grid that would have less environmental cost and far less (if any) objection. Why then did he choose to go ahead, especially while shouting about his ‘localism’ bill. Power to local communities and councils when it suits Westminster’s own needs and only then!

I’m trying very hard to think of a scenario in which this course of events would have played out without bribes being involved. Remember – Mr Pickles’ Labour predecessor threw this plan out on the grounds that it was inappropriate, insensitive and unnecessary being that there was a far better solution available that would, in the long term make the supply of gas from this pipe cheaper resulting in lower energy bills (or bigger profit margins). The Conservatives obviously have an interest in protecting National Grid’s short term profits, but why?

Students, Fees, Riots, Idiots!

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Who can possibly argue that public money should be used for higher education, then in order to convey this sentiment destroy public property causing damage that will cost the equivalent of 3 peoples university education to repair. Anyone who thinks this makes any sense does not belong in higher education at all.

The fact that the provision of higher education as it stands is unsustainable ;this must be addressed weather we like it or not. The fact that everyone, regardless of intellect or talent feels its a right to study for a degree means the severe devaluation of a degree in the hands of those who are actually extraordinary. This is a big problem.

Simply raising fees is not the magic wand solution; the problems and social divides this course of action will cause are far greater than any supposed benefits. We should instead look to return higher education to the academically extraordinary and to those whose gifts in their chosen subject areas make them truly stand out. These people will surely graduate and contribute to the national economy many times any investment that was made in them.

I don’t believe any public money at all should be spent facilitating the ‘education’ of the violent chanting brain dead mob shown on the news over the past days.

One giant leap for mankind…. Backwards!

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A few weeks ago I was shopping in Tesco, outside were group of teenage boys talking, but the sounds coming from their lips were only barely understandable. Words were ejaculating from them in one-word-per-breath guttural tones, they were hanging their heads and shoulders and it did honestly remind be of the behaviour of primates I’ve observed at the zoo.

 

I’ve been noticing that a fair few people who occupy lower paid jobs are barely able to communicate in the only language they know, some are intelligent but have been failed by the education system while others are genuinely incapable of thinking on any sort of advanced level and would have been exactly the same even with the best education. 

 

Standards at schools are at an all time low, yes we have statistics to prove that I’m not correct, but the statistics are only there to be manipulated in order to cover up the truth that we are generating the most unintelligent, uncivilised generations ever seen in this country!

 

Once to take A levels and have a chance at a university education you needed a broad understanding of all things, an education founded on the classics and a true lust for knowledge and advanced understanding of your subject.

 

These days we have literature undergraduates who are too impatient to even read, opting for the audio book on the iPod option. People feel it is their right to attend 3 years of university simply for the experience, they will oftern not even know which subject they wish to study until months before enrolment.

 

A university experience these days can often be interpreted accurately as 3 years of substance and alcohol abuse and as much random shagging as you can shake a stick at!

While a hard working, hard playing attitude is great for some people; to not be interested in the subject or the work and to simply want to go through university for the party is not what it should be about.

 

The fact that it is entirely possible to survive an entire education in the UK without needing to learn how to read, write or talk coupled with the current economic climate may have dire consequences; As we all know, it is perhaps more difficult today than it ever has been for young couples and families trying to start out with a career, house, etc.

 

Those with the ability to think things through will be more likely now to choose not to start a family in the near future. Those who simply don’t think about these things will… well simply not think about it.

 

These are the people who will reproduce and be responsible for a couple of generations at least of a generation that will single handedly force civilised society to regress.

 

We see it all around us now… Skilled labour is a thing of the past – we have well and truly turned into a consumer society. Nothing is repaired, just thrown out… even if we could be bothered to fix things and make do as our grandparents had to, many of the skills we need in order to do this have literally died out.

 

The answer? There is none, we’ve gone too far! We only have to wait now for a complete collapse of the UK economy, the breakdown of civilised society (this is already well on the way) and the resulting transfer of all governmental powers to Brussels! 

 

A Harsh prophecy? Perhaps. But if you really take a look around, the writing is on the wall in 10 foot high print!