Saying global warming is a lie because of cold weather is equivalent to saying someone stole the moon because there’s clouds in the sky.
Stop being fuckwits damnit.
The Conservative agenda includes reducing welfare services and ignoring the environment. Not very nice, is it?
The new Conservative party tagline is “Year For Change”…
The word “conservative” meanwhile, is defined as meaning “resistant to change”…
So the Conservative party motto, is therefore anti-Conservative…
Can you see where I’m going here?
Gordon Brown didn’t cause the recession, stop saying he did
It really pisses me off when people blame Gordon Brown for causing the current economic recession. It doesn’t take a genius to know that he didn’t.
This is a worldwide recession. Gordon Brown, as prime minister of a country that is far from economically powerful, could not cause a recession that has affected just about every developed nation on the planet.
It’s the economy, stupid! We live in a free market economy, wherein businesses are generally unregulated and can charge what they want, pay what they want, etc. It’s one of the reasons why bankers can pay themselves huge amounts of money, because they’re not regulated.
The problem with the free market however is that it works on a cycle of boom and bust. There are periods of inflation and periods of recession - continually. Regardless of who was in power, the recession would have happened anyway.
And you can’t say Cameron would have managed it better either. Recessions have historically been overcome by increasing public spending, while the Conservative policy promises to cut public expenditures to bone-dry levels. Including the loss of hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs. And having more people being dependent on government benefits is NOT what you want in a recession.
Get the money back from the banks. A solution that has strangely not been mentioned by any party. We gave the banks several billion to stop them from going under (like they did in Iceland, which caused the entire country’s economy to collapse), and now the parties are planning to get this money back by raising taxes and cutting services - all while the bankers of the free market pocket salaries in the millions for not running the banks properly.
Why don’t we get the money back from them? Is it really not that obvious?
Kids are too conservative nowadays
I’ve noticed something rather peculiar as of late, and that’s that there’s a large number of young people (by which I mean 25-ish and under) that display conservative views or values to a large degree.
This is very “WTF?” to me, as it has been the case since the 60s onwards that it is young people who are at the forefront of liberal politics - what with the drug taking, student union, Amnesty International, environmentalist lifestyles they tend to lead. For this, I have a few theories:
1. They were brought up like that: And by “like that” I mean in a cynical way. Those who know their political ideals will know that pessimism and conservatism go hand in hand. Thatcher often thought that others (such as unions) didn’t know what they were talking about, and because she - as an elected prime minister - could write them off as ignorant know-nothings.
In a similar way, kids nowadays have very short childhoods. From a young age they are being told that the world will just screw them over, life is unfair, they won’t achieve their aspirations. The child will do badly, they become cynical and pessimistic, which in turn may lead them to have more conservative views. This is supplemented by the growing middle class, wherein children are more spoiled and more attuned to living in wealth and relative luxury, which conservatives often manipulate.
2. The political environment: In Britain, the Labour Party have been in power for nearly 13 years, a majority of many young people’s lives. Labour have traditionally been painted as a socialist, left-wing party, and - while popular during the years after being elected - have become unpopular since around 2003 to the present.
This has lead young people, only in the last few years becoming politically concious, to demonise the Labour Party as being all bad and with it the left-wing range of political ideals. The media doesn’t help; in the last few decades it has become more and more sensationalist and (arguably) more partisan in it’s views. Thus the news media that people digest is exaggerated, and does not properly address both sides of a story - it purposefully makes out the alternative view is incorrect. This is most rampant in tabloids.
3. People don’t understand politics properly: There, I said it. Thanks - in part to the partisan media - people have taken on a very black and white view of current events. Immigrants are bad, taxes are bad, the EU is bad, etc. They with their one-sided views are ignorant to the facts that immigrants are one of the backbones of the economy; that taxes are used to look after poor people, the roads, hospitals and schools - amongst other things; and that 80% of our trade is with Europe, the cost of goods would rise if we left the EU, and the EU is one of the reasons why Britain has any political power at all - without it we’d be a fish out of water!
Another thing is that people blindly take one party’s side because they don’t agree with the other - most notably people backing the Conservative party because they don’t agree with Labour. I know people who do this without any knowledge at all of what the party they back even stands for, they don’t know their policies, their stances, nothing. This is probably why it humours me when people I know who are gay, single parents and working class vote Conservative - the Conservatives want to make life harder for you!
Oh look, I spilt a rant all over my tumblog. Ah well, enjoy it. :B
The most obvious argument to fight climate change
Greenhouse gases damage the environment. This is fact.
Mankind, as an industrial race, produces a large amount of greenhouse gases. This is fact.
Mankind, through acts such as deforestation, reduce the number of florae that reduces greenhouse gases. This is fact.
So why do people not think that climate change is happening, or at least is not caused by mankind and industry?
