| Topic: | Re:Re: China turns Deserts into Carbon Sink by Planting Billions of Trees | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 24/02/26 01:34:00 |
| Following the American raid on Iran's nuclear facilities last year, Michael, you posted something to the effect that if Iran's capacity to construct a nuclear bomb had been destroyed, you weren't too bothered. I am afraid I don't know how to retrieve posts as far back as last June, but I remember that one quite distinctly. I was quite surprised to read a post of that kind from someone like yourself. Your answer to three of my questions was that the measures were in the manifesto so they cannot be disputed. That is simply absurd. On that basis no party, having lost an election, would be able to question the policies of the governing party if those measures had been included in the winning election manifesto. For that matter the governing party would be unable to repeal or even modify their own policies once the electorate had voted. On giving up Chagos, which was not in the manifesto, you said you didn't know much about it and didn't particularly care. I would have thought that the expenditure of £3.4 billion would be of interest to every taxpayer. How many hospitals could be built with that kind of money? On the farm tax, you suggested it was far less important than the loss of EU farm subsidies, which is ridiculous. How can you compare an EU subsidy with an IHT bill of hundreds of thousands if not millions of pounds? And on Iran you didn't answer at all. I believe that all these mistaken policies have something in common.They are the product of an ideologically bankrupt party which impoverishes this country while buying the oil of foreign producers, which forces children out of their school in order to attack 'privilege', which bankrupts farmers in the name of equality, which place more importance on complying with international law than removing the threat posed by Iran, which promotes anti-colonialism at the expense of a dispossessed colonial people. |