I feel shocking, so this will be short and sweet.
But I couldn't let this go by!
Did you see the #desolate hashtag on Twitter? A Tory peer, Lord Howell, who just happened to be George Osborne's father-in-law, said it was OK to frack in the North East, as it was "desolate"
Mark Ferguson, editor of Labour List and proud product of the North East, asked people to send in their favourite photos of the beautiful North East using the hashtag #desolate.
Amusingly, a day or two later, Lord Howell, digging himself a hole so big, he could probably have fracked himself, apologised, saying he meant to say the North West and how "odd" it would be to frack "in sensitive places down in Sussex"
Well, today, it is revealed that.... Lower Stumble (Really! We do great names) near Balcombe in West Sussex - home of one of the highest concentration of rich NIMBY's in the country - so Tory you could pin a blue rosette on a sheep and it would be elected comfortably - is the first site in the UK to be fracked! http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/controversial-fracking-begins-at-west-sussex-site-1-3028103
Lynton Crosby, please, tell me, how on earth did that decision come about? I mean, the residents of my own town in West Sussex wouldn't even agree to build a nice park on the seafront for children, because they were convinced it would lead to - I'm not making this up - "Anti-social behaviour"
Fracking? How?
Ha ha, another classic post Sue. My wife and i stayed in the North-West this week, at Coniston in the Lake District. There is nothing desolate about that area, it is an absolutely beautiful part of the country, full of wonderful people. How can a long-standing Conservative politician not know that fact?
ReplyDelete"Cuadrilla want drilling in Balcombe to start
they fracking well don’t care a thing
the great public police corporation
are there now in force just to bring
the public to heel to arrest them
to intimidate them and to try
and give open house to the Cuadrilla mob
who will clear off when Balcome does die
and die it will,just torn to pieces
by the great metal dinosaurs they
will come in and tear up and drill down
and draw up the gas and be on their way
the environment yes it will suffer
the fracking liquid it will be
poisoning rivers maybe even aquifers
that’s what the police fail to see
But if they are local they’ll see it
when their waters poisoned they’ll see
when their families suffering then they might think
if the overtime payments will be
enough to buy, the bottled water
will safeguard their house prices that
have fallen since Cuadrilla came into town
and basically skimmed off the fat
Balcombe is one of the many
places that drillers will need
to come to and really destroy it
these sweet country havens will bleed
the people some of them will feel it
a truncheon will hit them for sure
the world is a monster the vile corporations
have now taken over the law
and its coming down hard on the people
the rate paying tax paying crowd
people like Cuadrilla and their richer backers
are hiding in some now vast cloud
but shale gas is terribly destructive
getting it out you will see
the people and the countryside suffering
and in Britain this shouldn’t now be
The yanks are now f**king the environment up
water supplies at a low
dumping their poisons just anywhere
anywhere that it can go
there’s no insurance to speak of
they’ve stitched us up and we are lost
are we expected to lay down and die
and just bear the whole dreadful cost
is that what the police want
it seems that they do
just corporate slaves
for the very rich few."
i know balcombe very well their all conservatives on the far right i say let them frack and if they wreck it then tough luck
Deletethe noise will travel miles so not so good if your ill and live nearby
as for the water table the water there is already bad so making it worse wont be noticed by the locals
however the water that you drink in sussex will need to be monitored more then usual i never drink it as it always makes me ill so be warned
Hi Nick, it does seem as though Conservatives are defined by name and not nature these days, sigh.... Personally, living near London, i only drink 'Trotters Peckham-spring bottled water'! Lol.
DeleteFracking requires a great deal of water and the North has plenty of it on the surface. A lot of the water down South comes from aquifiers and rivers so it would make sense for most fracking to take place up North. The profits from this fracking should be spent exclusively up North and not put in the general pot. Stop this North/South nonsense. Incidentally, I live in the North West.
DeleteYour comment makes sense John. Thanks for the advice.
Deletemartin they are very wealthy in balcombe they could live anywhere in the world so they must wont it as their wealth/ and influence combined would damage the conservatives at the next general election
ReplyDeletei reckon they will all be paid vast amounts of money under the table
top conservatives or wealthy conservatives only value money don't forget they would sell their own mother if the price was right
they are most certainly like al Qaeda are the two most dangerous groups in the world at present al Qaeda hell bent on killing people worldwide and the conservatives destroying the sick and disabled whilst making money
the future's very bleak the future's not orange
The futures not Liberal orange anyway Nick mate. What happened to the democratic five, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, David Owen, Roy Jenkins and David Steel? They had people's best interests at heart, not like this foolish Clegg led colluding disgrace. Shame we can't put Al Qaeda and Al Conservatives in a rocket and send them all to Pluto forever.
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ReplyDeletemy own gut feeling martin is that were finished as a humane society that is very clear and that the working class will be pushed in to the realms of the super states the UK /china/ USA where we will all end up in a communist state
ReplyDeleteit's already happening on most topics but the future you can be assured of will be one of slave labour for the majority with long hours and little money like already in china and for those that don't work like in china the sick and disabled you will be kept of sight you will be housebound at best or killed off like in china also at worse your human rights will be rewritten which will not include any humane rights whatsoever for those that don't work or in prison
That is the crystal clear picture that i am seeing and others may interoperate the picture i paint and future differently but i doubt and of the readers to this blog will say I'm wrong as i seldom am
all the time sue is active god bless her we must live in hope of something better and am desperate to tell her of any valid breakthrough that i personally see a slight shift in the mind of David Cameron but at this time i find no evidence whatsoever of any such thing
Fracking in balcombe however is a mystery in that wealthy people wish to destroy a beautiful area and that is a first for the UK so where in uncharted waters on this one on the working of the wealthy minds
What the likes of sue along with other blogs can achieve is to slow down the process of the destruction of the uk but ultimately at the end in years to come will have failed as that is invariably the long term outcome
David Cameron has achieved so far in 3 years what Mrs Thatcher failed to achieve in nine years so you can see that the pace of change is vast and when they win the next election, it will all be over for many people especially the sick and disabled
I’m coming up for 60 so I’ve had a good innings so killing me off isn’t so bad but I do worry about today’s kids how will they cope in the future without the likes of sue around where will they find the boundaries of good and evil if all the good teaching have died off
Good will always be found, Sue is a loud voice for a lot of people, but there are many people who feel just like Sue who just don't have a website to allow others to hear them. Don't forget that the 'elite few' are really just the 'few'. There is no way in this world that anyone will allow Great Britain to become a communist state. The politics of today in Britain is all about who can tell the biggest lie. BUT, most people in Britain already know the government is lying, regardless of what the media tries to portray, so soon we will see corporate evil dying away to be replaced by a fair, equal and humane society, where our future generations live happily and progressively.
DeleteI truly hope so Martin. I worry about our generations to come, more than I worry about my own generation. Our generation (I'm 55),are suffering with all the disabled, sick and vulnerable being squashed like flies under this evil government :(
ReplyDeleteThe government is sicker than the people it is hurting Jacqueline. It needs us more than we need it.
DeleteComments from the Conservatives here are centred around the money and that only. It will be a different story when a well head is set up near their homes in rural South Ribble.
ReplyDeleteYou are also right about the corruption, or the lack of transparency. One Tory MP has a husband who has a business partner who has interests in the success of Fracking being he has fingers in that pie, meanwhile, the MP campaigns against ANY wind turbine. Then of course there is this.....
Blagzoney @Blagzoney 3 Aug
Mud volcano in East Java caused by Fracking http://bit.ly/1cnIGwC #Solidarity to the people of #Balcombe, standing up for all of us.
Retweeted by Cllr Keith Martin
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