Change is coming – At Home

There aren’t too many people in the world that I dislike. I think people are basically good, but sometimes disagreement gets in the way and things become lost in translation.

I had to stop and think about this next statement, but the fact of the matter is, I don’t think there is anyone on the go that I actually hate.

Hate, like jealousy or regret, are for me, wasted emotions, states of mind which sap our natural energy and goodness. And so, if I feel wronged, I try as best I can to empathise with the person doing the wronging. The exception to the rule though, is the current Tory government.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse (ludicrous tax proposals, the arse falling out of the pound, warnings over blackouts this winter), news at the tail end of the week that the Tory rabble are set to ignore climate warnings and grant new oil and gas licenses really does beggar belief.

Liz, Kwasi and the gang are now offering 900 locations for exploration in the North Sea, with as many as 100 new licenses up for awarding.

Personally, I don’t know much about climate predictions, but when you have Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the global body for climate science) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggesting that there can be NO new projects if we are to keep global temperature rises under 1.5C, the new Tory plans should have us all sitting up and taking notice.

As was reported this week, even the government’s own advisors have said that the best way to ease consumers’ pain from high energy prices is to stop fossil fuel dependency rather than drilling for more. More than that, both campaigners and even the oil industry itself have said any new finds will not be large enough to have a favourable impact on the costs we pay for energy.

It was probably Greenpeace’s Philip Evans who put it best when he said, “This government’s energy policy benefits fossil fuel companies and no-one else.”

Can it be any coincidence that Liz Truss is a former Shell employee?

Can it be any coincidence that Kwasi Kwarteng last year accepted substantial donations from fossil fuel investors as part of his 2019 general election campaign?

I know I’m probably preaching to the converted here, but now, more than ever before, I am thinking about starting up voodoo dolls for both those vindictive, self-serving, egotistical clowns. There are two years until the next general election, and can we really afford to have these fools at the helm any more?

As I say, I don’t hate anyone but I’m willing to make an exception for people who willingly renege on commitments (Truss’s plan not to increase benefits in line with inflation despite Boris previously committing otherwise), lie with a straight face (Brexit), and have blatantly no regard for the ordinary people they have sworn to serve (the Tory record for the past 12 years).

These feckers don’t care if we have blackouts this winter, or if families are hunkered around a candle wearing all the clothes they own. All they care about, nothing more and nothing less, is lining the pockets of the ruling elite.

I don’t know Kier Starmer personally, and I know he has his critics, but ANYTHING would be better than this shower of smarmy, two-faced, elitist snobs, who couldn’t find their own backsides with both hands, never mind run a country.

As God is my witness, if the Tories get in again at the next election, I’m leaving. I hear Canada is nice in the summer.

Now, about those voodoo dolls…

On with the programming!

First up (and in no particular order), we have Rise of the Nazis: The Downfall (Monday at 10pm on BBC2)…

Return of the documentary, this time examining the actions of Hitler and his inner circle as the Third Reich faces collapse in the final weeks of the Second World War.

Germany is losing the war, but Hitler refuses surrender. Instead, he pursues a policy of Total War, which plays out as a psychological drama within his inner circle.

Or, for something light-hearted, what about, Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors:Storyville (Tuesday at 10.30pm on BBC4)…

The true story of a rugby team’s extraordinary 72-day survival after their plane came down on a remote Chilean glacier.

With no equipment, food or realistic hope of rescue, they had to decide whether to eat the flesh of their dead friends as their only means of surviving. Thirty years on, they vividly recall the harrowing stories of extreme human endurance.