Climate and Rugby

Not quite as angry today but still a slight bit of steam issuing from the ears. The Indian Government have now said that they will not accept any CO2 binding agreements that will compromise their economy, wise people, even the great Al Gore has now said that Copenhagen is pointless but Jonah Brown continues his pointless act. The Nasa falsification of data has reared up again. There was a nice little exchange on the BBC yesterday morning where two people got to at least challenge the BBC approach which turns out to be the same old rant of the "science is proven" NO ITS NOT.

If both Nasa and East Anglia have, and it still has not be proven they did, falsified their data then the entire edifice come down.

The afternoon was very nice spent as it was in middle England, well the brother in laws rugby club, which was supposed to be playing youngest sons school old boys. That got rained out, but prior to the match there was a lunch well attended by ex and current players, I even played a few games for them one season, but that's a long and boring story. We has a nice lunch but the banter and spirit in that room was what has made and can make Britain great. These are the people who fought the wars and conquered and built the empire. Mainly god fearing folk who will stand by their friends and fellow players to the end. We had to settle for watching the Springboks, thinly disguised as the Barbarians, beat the All Blacks at Twickenham, with not an English player in sight.

Talking with these people, I would hesitate to elevate myself to the level of peer, has a curiously calming effect on me, helped on by a few pints of bitter, its not that we are in lockstep with our beliefs its just we all get a fair hearing. These are the people who are very close to saying to Whitehall and Westminster that's enough we want our country back. These are the lawyers, labourers, policemen, bankers, entrepreneurs, workers and businessmen, who pay the bulk of the taxes in this country and who look at the wasteland of the midlands, where the money gets spent keeping this government in power,and are slowly coming from despair to real anger at the government and what is perceived as an effete ruling class. David Cameron and his ilk ignore these people at their peril.