The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying bears on their heads. The sickness of Britain’s monarchical system was never more bluntly revealed than by the rictus grins of the aristocratic clowns balancing their tiaras at the state banquet.
The Chinese are the imperial masters now. Cameron begs them to build a nuclear power station for which the British state guarantees it will pay double the market price for electricity produced, for twenty years. And a government which has just announced the extension of thought crime to the expression of non-violent or anti-violent thought deemed “extreme”, has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Britain has its own war criminals like Blair and Straw running around, immune and very wealthy.
The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust. That is what drives for me the imperative to early Scottish Independence to be rid of it. Every day as a British citizen is like bathing in sewage.
Nail and head spring to mind after reading this piece.
The ‘British Values’ will not be defined but are
certainly being demonstrated. Maybe Lord Ashcroft has
had a taste of what happens when matters of ‘national
security’ are exposed.
“And a decent bank of gel=cells will cost $1000 dollars easy and last about ten years. Pathetic.”
105Ah 12v deep cycle batteries are selling on ebay for less than £50.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-110-AH-LEISURE-BATTERY-W-COVER-HEAVY-DUTY-DEEP-CYCLE-LOW-HEIGHT-105-ah-amp-/291487481270?hash=item43de01fdb6:m:mQ34fxIulaBlZKFAeSTOY2A
That’s less than £50 1.26 kWh, just under £400 for 10kWh.
Why would £2,300 for a 10kWh battery make solar and wind suddenly a better proposition?
We didn’t get here where we are today without being well timed suckups and poodles. The king is dead long live the king, at least these are power stations and not useless megadeath machines as in Trident.
special relations don’t come cheap you do realise that, don’t you?
U No Who U R
26 comments since 3.15pm
Approx 20% of the comments so far.
CIA e-mails released today by WikiLeaks…
https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/
As usual it’s a mountain of information that will no doubt contain some gems.
I wonder why the swivel-eyed loons in America have bent over backwards to nail Assange?
(it should be noted that by far, WikiLeaks publishes more stuff about corporations than it does about governments – a fact that often gets overlooked)
“105Ah 12v deep cycle batteries are selling on ebay for less than £50.”
So? You’re low balling it. Try AGM batteries, but it’s beside the point since this is old tech. Innovation requires some balls and there are far too few in the research market.
And in case anyone thinks I’m kidding about the PR stunt held onboard the USS Reagan (after it was totally irradiated in Japan in 2011) when they got local schoolkids to play a game of football on the flight deck, here’s a link:
http://www.chargers.com/news/2013/08/28/bolts-hold-nfl-play-60-camp-uss-ronald-reagan
If you think an “independent” Scotland would be better you’re amazingly naive. One capitalist democracy is much like another.
“And in case anyone thinks I’m kidding…”
No. You are not kidding. You are ecstatic from the orgasm.
Ben, I’m not sure what you mean by that (although I guess you’re being humorous).
It’s late and I’m tired, and I can back-up everything I say with credible links – unlike the government trolls on here.
And please note that I’m not suggesting that you are a government troll.
Peace.
I do not agree. Having experienced America’s post-New Deal democracy and the democracies in Germany and Britain a couple of decades after WWII, they all seem greatly preferable to me than the current U.S. neoliberal plutocracy in which I now live.
Seem to me, I should have said.
RobG. I will wait for a cogent response when you are not incapacitated. It should be clear what I’m saying when your head is clear.
Regarding Roosevelt era democracy vs today’s.
Yes. It was far more DE-centralized government in days past. The current consolidated power structure behaves more like the alimentary tract of a paramecium than it does democracy.
KOWN
“Feeble. Your reference to the Great Leap Forward was rejected as being irrelevant to the discussion of China’s human rights abuses today. The Bengal famine and Mau Mau rebellion were raised in the context of a separate discussion…”
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Then you should perhaps have stayed on topic and not attempted to raise that second discussion?
If you seriously believe that human rights are better protected in modern China than in modern Britain then there is little hope for you. To stay close to home, most of the people commenting on here would have had their collar felt a long time ago, starting with Craig himself.
No need to reply, just carry on foaming.
“So? You’re low balling it. Try AGM batteries, but it’s beside the point since this is old tech. Innovation requires some balls and there are far too few in the research market.”
Plus when the lead acid batteries die they’re still worth £380 a tonne scrap.
Sometimes old tech is best.
Mary
“U No Who U R
26 comments since 3.15pm
Approx 20% of the comments so far.”
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Only 20% ? – I’ll try to do better in the days to come.
And there you were, thinking I was slowing down! 🙂
Surprised that no one’s leapt to the defence of Tom Watson MP – quite a contrast to the admiring noises any mention of him gave rise to on here only a couple of months ago.
I wonder if people have been looking at him a little more closely since then – and ruefully reflecting that it is always better not to go a-whorin’ after false gods.
Mary
Perhaps it’s just that I can post my comments a little quicker than you can read and then cut-and-paste?
Just a thought of course.
“Sometimes old tech is best.”
Bah. Humbug.
@Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots
21 Oct, 2015 – 9:43 pm
Your attempts to slur my character are patently ridiculous.
Be warned, I have little tolerance of government/corporate trolls who post on blogs like this.
If I had my way the lot of you would be in jail, which is where you belong.
I will leave readers to make up their own minds about what I post, all backed-up with links, and what the likes of you post.
The trolls are a total embarrassment, not only to themselves but also to their country.
You are traitors, and you will be brought to trial.
Today’s Zaman: Assad visits Moscow, Turkey accepts transition period with him in Syria:
Today’s Zaman: CHP deputies: Gov’t rejects probe into Turkey’s role in Syrian chemical attack:
RobG; Thanks for outing yourself as a loon from Brigadoon. It’s nice to know the truth lies shallow beneath the surface.
Just one coal-fired power station – that at Didcot Oxfordshire, which is by no means untypical – can produce 3300 MW of electricity.
How many MW are produced by all the wind turbines and solar energy farms in the UK?
Ben –
The USMC has just lost an F/A-18, which crashed and burned near Lakenheath today, and its driver: accounts vague but suggested that it had just taken off and/or had failed to refuel from a tanker.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11945236/FA-18-Hornet-fighter-crashes-north-east-of-RAF-Lakenheath.html
Is there any public awareness of just how many of this model have crashed? They seem to have fuel/engine issues.
http://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries23.html
Ben
What you have to understand is that RobG posts for fun – as does Republicofscotland (who is not Scottish and lives in England).
Life can be so unstimulating in the depths of rural France.
Six months sounds quite generous for young Assad but hey, if that’s what he needs to get his affairs (financial, future retirement country, etc…) in order, why not? I’d go along with that.
Confirmed by local rag, Komo. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/force-688477-air-task.html
Why do you ask?
It’s just a face-saving first step towards a total climbdown.
“has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party”
Teresa May may be bad but this is just a silly comparison – ask Ai Weiwei, ask Amnesty International, ask a Tibetan
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/China