The UK shale gas fiasco. A disgraceful dereliction of duty.

This week we have had to listen to the government promising that at last, the UK will start taking the issue of extracting the vast reserves of tight gas from the known reserves we have here.  I will believe this when I see it.

This useless government is in thrall to the lunatic Ed Davey who is foisting windmills by the hundred and higher bills on the country, at the same time as allowing perfectly workable coal fired power stations to be closed to placate the EU. He is very anti shale gas, and can be expected to obstruct this with all his might. He MUST be removed from office, but the coward in No.10 will prevaricate and prefer instead to just settle for a few headlines.

This week we have also had the first clear signs of what some of us have been saying for a few years now. That "brown outs" or controlled power cuts are inevitable. Because- although they do not say this in public- we are closing down too much capacity to satisfy fanatics in Brussells.

So a common sense approach to shale gas exploration is very unlikely given the hopeless and disconnected thinking by this government, not to mention the disgraceful neglect of the issue by the last one.

Really. Trust me. Buy a generator!

UK. Justice and hypocrisy.

Trenton Oldfield, an Australian, went for a swim last year in the Thames at the same time as the Cambridge v Oxford boat race was taking place. He was making a point. He felt that  the race was an elitist anchronism and that much the same could be said of London generally. These are hardly sensational or rarely held opinions, even if they were unconventionally expressed.

 Astonishingly he has  been deported from the UK, following the serving of a six month jail term for his misplaced bout of recreation, itself an incredibly harsh sentence. He has apparently been told that "he must learn to obey the laws of this country whilst in it".

Mr Oldfield is an easy target. He is white, male, Australian and probably not a Muslim . So the judge will have felt safe in his sentencing, and the immigration authorities will have felt safe in their absurd and draconian behaviour in deporting him.

Contrast this with the ridiculous circus surrounding the likes of Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza, who spent years between them preaching hate and inciting violence in this country.

The immigration authorities spent these years hiding behind any excuse they could find rather than deal with these odious men, and many others like them. The immigration authorities are still doing this, as are the police who repeatedly ignore crimes of this nature.

The likes of Hamza and Qatada are Muslims, therefore they must be tolerated and indulged in a way that disgusts every decent man and woman in this country, or at least those who do not need the BBC to think for them

You are well out of it Trenton. .