Less food and energy because of EU rules

If you were the European Union fanatic and you were faced with the prospect citizens of a member state wanting to leave what would you do to make them want to stay forever? The answer would be to make them need you for all sorts of things like electricity and food and that is exactly what the EU is trying to do.

A proposed EU directive could force our coal-fired power stations to shut down earlier than planned. Our government is already going to close down nuclear power stations.

The EU already has a law in place which has been blamed for the recent blackout which resulted in 500,000 homes going without power. The European Union’s Large Combustion Plant Directive sets strict limits on the number of hours that some of Britain’s largest and most heavily polluting coal and oil-fired power stations can operate before they have to close in 2015. The time is measured in “stack hours” — the length of time that chimney stacks, rather than individual generation units, are in use.

It is clear what is going to happen if this is allowed to continue. We will rely more and more on foreign nations to power our country giving us every reason to stay in the EU because we will suddenly need them to heat our homes even though they are the ones that caused the power shortages. The same is true for our food. Once they control our food supply they decide whether we live or starve to death.

A new EU proposal would outlaw four fifths of the chemicals used by UK farmers and cut crop yields by between a quarter and a half meaning that we will have to rely more and more on imports to feed our country.

The EU knows what they are doing. They know that their actions will result in less food and energy for us and could result in us starving or freezing if we left it too late to leave, that’s if we ever left at all.

Food shortages in Africa

The world is trying to make the West feel sorry for Africa again but we should not feel guilty for anything. It is their own fault that they are starving.

UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf moaned that billions are being wasted on feeding obese people in the West while millions starve around the world. Mr Diouf should realise that these people wouldn’t be starving if they stopped popping another kid out every chance they got. They would probably have enough food to go around if they just had 2 children to feed instead of a dozen.

If the population of the planet keeps on rising there is of course going to be more famines and more people will starve. To deal with the increasing population UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said that world food production must rise by 50% by 2030 to meet increasing demand but the thing is there will be more people who will require more living space and they will have to get it from somewhere. Undeveloped areas would have to be built on with houses but these areas could also be used for farms.

World food production won’t rise anywhere near as significantly as they want it to because it just can’t unless GM crops are used and even then it will still be difficult and it will be even more difficult in Britain as we will have less farms than we do already. We will then have to rely on foreign countries for our own food.

Countries like Ethiopia who have just received £10m in aid from us should be told they will not get anymore aid unless they put in population control measures to reduce their birthrate. Reducing their birthrate should be a condition of receiving anymore aid. If they don’t do it they will be told that they can starve the next time there is a famine in their country.

British countryside being destroyed

Thirty years from now the English countryside will be all but lost.

In Thirty years the landscape will be blotched with housing, while that which remains of open land will be riddled with fairways, paddocks and shimmering polythene.

The report by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England is based on a series of damaging trends.

Among them are a greatly expanded house-building programme, a huge growth of freight distribution, major expansion of airports and a decline in farming.

It says that traffic is growing faster on rural roads than in urban areas and that about 21 square miles of countryside, an area the size of Southampton, is lost to development every year.

Why is Labour making this worse? Anyone with even half a brain knows that more immigration=more housing=more of our countrside lost. Why is Labour doing nothing about the issue and just making things worse? Shouldn't we be stopping immigration so we can save what we have left of our countryside?

Why would we need to expand airports? Why can't the Labour government find ways to reduce air travel such as taxing aviation fuel like they tax other fuel? This would increase the cost of flying thus reducing demand thus reducing the need for bigger airports. This would then stop the countryside from being concreted over. Why hasn't Blair thought of this? If he actually cared for the environment he would do this but as we can see Blair just doesn't give a crap. In about two more years he can quit as prime minister and retire in a foreign country.

We can't wait much longer. Thirty years isn't that long of a time. We need to start doing things about it now. It is obvious that Labour doesn't care enough to do it.

Another problem that taxing aviation fuel would solve is fuel protests that are due to happen tomorrow. Campaigning group Fuel Lobby has already vowed to blockade every refinery in the country if the Government fails to cut petrol tax.

Why not cut petrol tax and make up the financial shortfall by taxing aviation fuel? This would solve both problems without losing the tax money which the country needs.