The Budget at a Glance
The above chart was published yesterday in the Daily Mail and I am borrowing it as it
is a useful starting point. Let us get straight to the nub of it.
The Government this year will spend £720bn, of which amount they will have to
borrow £108bn. That establishes the income from Taxation – 720-108 = £612bn.
Ok, so the Treasury take is £612bn and the Government spends £720bn. What does
that spell to you and to me, ordinary citizens? It spells disaster.
As the Government has to borrow in order to bridge the gap between income and
expenditure what happens? The interest to be paid is – wait for it - £51bn.
51 Billion £s to be paid in interest!
That is more than we are spending on Defence, on our Armed Forces. Now can we
see the enormity of the problem, with which we have been served by successive
governments of dubious morality!
Every Chancellor puts up a smokescreen, hands out a few goodies. Corporation Tax
will be cut by 1%. There will be generous help for first time house buyers. Ok, Ok,
that’s very nice, but it is just tinkering with the main problem. It is not we the British
people who are living beyond our means, it is the wretched politicians who govern us
who are living beyond our means, who are plunging us and our children into debt.
There is a sleight of hand, an enormous deception, which is not always easy to detect.
That is when the Government gives us back some of OUR MONEY!!!! So the
government gives aid to Corporations. Great. Or to a specific region. Great. Only it is
OUR MONEY that they are doling out.
Are they the judges of how our money should be spent? Well, that is a moot point.
The Chancellor evidently believes that reducing Corporation Tax will encourage
foreign investment in Great Britain. He may be right and he may be wrong. But one
thing is absolutely certain; there is only one way to be completely sure that Great
Britain is the place to invest in and that is by having cheap Energy.
Energy. Cheap energy. Competitive Energy.
We have only to look at the emerging economies of the world like China and India to
see what their success is based on. It is cheap energy.
If our Power, our electrical power, was competitive that alone would attract foreign
investment. Far more important however would be the fact that our factories would
immediately become more competitive. But what are we doing as a Nation? We are
following a will o’the wisp idea about Anthropogenic Global Warming, in the face of
which we are closing our coal-fired Power Stations and erecting a whole lot of
inefficient wind-turbines, which cannot support themselves without subsidies and
which are manifestly inefficient.
At one blow we cripple our industries, we destroy our industrial base! In the
meantime Germany is quietly in the process of building 25 new coal fired Power
Stations! They are not fools, are they? The Germans and the Russians have not given
up their struggle for world domination. How much better it is to control gas, coal and
oil than to fight another bloody war!
The world is changing as new sources of energy are found. We are an island sitting on
a huge bed of coal. We are an island sitting on a huge bed of natural gas. But what do
we do? I will tell you. We shackle ourselves with an absurd Climate Change Act.
This act is based on the idea that Man is warming the Planet, specifically by releasing
too much Carbon Dioxide by the burning of fossil fuels.
The Challenge
I, Anthony Bright-Paul, do hereby declare that it is utterly impossible for
mankind to warm the Planet in any way whatsoever. Moreover only the Sun can
and does warm this blessed Planet.
Furthermore I hereby challenge any one person, be they a scientist, be they a
philosopher, be they of the Jewish faith, be they Christians, Muslims, Buddhists,
Hindus, Confucians, Shintoists or outright pagans, I challenge anyone and
everyone to prove conclusively that Mankind is warming this Planet. For I
declare that that is a complete impossibility.
I note that some scientists refer to the ‘surface’ of the Planet. I beg them then to define
the surface – is it within 1 foot, 10 foot, 100 foot, or 1,000 foot of sea level? What is
supposedly being warmed? Is the Troposphere warming? Or the Stratosphere? The
Mesosphere? The Thermosphere?
I challenge anyone, be they scientist, be they politician, be they priest, be they any
kind of lay person to show proof conclusive that Man is warming the Planet, which
supposition I declare to be utterly false, ill-founded and malicious, so help me God.
In every case what is declared to be man-made can be shown to have been caused by
Great Nature and on this I make my stand.
This false idea has had a profound effect not only on the economy of Great Britain,
but also of the economies of the USA, Australia and New Zealand. This goes to show
the power of ideas. For far too long the economies of the world have been shackled by
a false doctrine that cannot be proven.
The well being of the British people depends upon a right attitude towards Energy.
Only then will we be able to bridge the Fiscal Gap, only then will we be able to
release ourselves and our children from the onerous burden of National Debt.
Anthony Bright-Paul
22 March 2013
PS. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human
liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th
century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable
electricity. Giving women the freedom to work outside the home…
So said Canadian Economics Professor Ross McKitrick