Britons would face wartime-style rationing of meat, dairy, petrol and flying under Green Party plans
As copied and pasted from MSN this morning. Apparently the Greens are going to introduce this into their manifesto, ahead of the party's autumn annual conference (hah, I nearly wrote bean-feast!) They propose state-controlled cuts of 50% in the amount of miles driven by each person and a cut of 70% in miles flown. They plan to introduce a means of implementing a "fair distribution of dairy food and meat, diesel and flights" with each of us entitled to - but limited to - an allowance which would diminish year on year.
I am sure that the more intelligent amongst us can see the shortcomings of such a policy, and also the Communist-style control ethics. The Government managed to control us by abject fear during the Covid lockdowns, and now it seems the Greens think they can take that control further. . . I am absolutely gobsmacked at how this country is going to hell in a handcart, in so many ways. The impact on rural dwellers like me, where NOTHING is local, would be disastrous. What do they expect Amazon, Evri, Royal Mail and couriers to do with their deliveries? Of course, expecting farmers do use less and less fuel is blardy ridiculous, but then Labour expects to have a few less of them in future . . . As for controlling meat and dairy purchases, ah, THAT'S how you get rid of farmers . . . Personally, I can't think of a more guaranteed way to lose voters, left, right and centre . . .
Then The Guardian tells us that a leading expert on food policy is saying that the UK should be stockpiling food as it is not prepared for any climate-induced or war-induced eventualities. Being that the UK is only 54% food-sufficient (and that will be a LOT less by the time they have covered good agricultural land with solar "farms" and AI monstrosities covering nearly 1,000 acres . The UK is one of the least food-sufficient countries in Europe and set to put the food-sufficiency bar even lower. Apparently the nine big retailers account for 3/4 of all retail food. There are 131 distribution centres servicing them. In a war setting, that makes food supplies a sitting duck for drone attacks. A frightening thought.
Sorry to "go off on one" on a sunny but breezy Sunday morning, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this . . .
How to save £40 and make your own bat-proof window cover . . .
A lucky break yesterday . . .
I saw that headline about Green Party proposed policies. I wonder how long it will be before people realise that the Green Party is no ecological saviour, but now a bunch of outright communists
ReplyDeleteAnd as for agriculture, the current Labour administration appears to have the knives out big time for the whole rural part of this country, not only destroying farming as a business activity thought tax changes, but confiscation of prime agricultural land for utterly useless solar panel installations. And, for good measure, ban any rural activity that they can think of - trail hunting etc.....
My apologies for a bit of a rant - I grew up on a small Sussex farm over 50 years ago, and have seen the wilful neglect and worse of the rural/agricultural sector over the past half century, from the machinations of the EEC/EU Common Agricultural Policy and fisheries policies to Blair's fox hunting ban.
Will - you and I sing from the same hymn sheet. I have lived in the countryside all of my adult life - half of it in very rural Wales. The current Government hate us for being independent and not voting for them. They want to try and grind us down in whatever way they can - it won't be long before you can't go anywhere in Wales without seeing a windfarm, and even something as petty as changing regulations for woodburners - only a matter of time before those are banned too.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for farmers - besieged from every angle. Things were bad enough under the EU - now it seems like it is a personal vendetta. Yes - let's ban trail hunting in case it kills foxes. Excuse me - haven't they heard of the clean boot - it is a HUMAN they are chasing, and with bloodhounds, for heavens' sake!