Sir, you are spot on...
Baling out the banks so they can continue with suicidal profligacy is one thing, but hedging our bets against a currency going down the shitter faster than John Prescott's mutton vindaloo is utter madness.

Brown HAS to go. Now. Britons owe more than our annual GDP, we're screwed unless we can guarantee some technological or infrastructure advantage in the future. I'm all for energy independence, but not a political solution like a wind turbine - expensive, requires frequent maintenance and is very environmentally unfriendly to manufacture and dispose of.

We need investment in nuclear fusion, tidal power (much more reliable than wind turbines), new nuclear plants to bridge the gap (Britain has to lean on Germany and France here - the nation that invented commercial nuclear power now no longer possesses the means to build new plants), we need proper roads to help ease emissions and a train service that's cheap and comprehensive.

But instead we'll get more expensive trains, lesbian creches, wind farms, QUANGOs and committees because we've fuck all else to offer.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 27 Jan 2009, 23:25, Reply)