Barak's In & Energy Rip-Offs

by Craig Chapman - 15:46 on 06 November 2008

Let’s face it, the only way John McCain was going to occupy the White House was to follow the undemocratic example of Sir-King-Duke Gordon Brown and arrogantly smarm his way in but thankfully that does not appear to be Mr McCains' manner. Barak Obama has won and now everyone is sprinting to be his bestest-newest friend. 

I haven’t noted a letter “W” in the spelling of his name and following the Dubya Bush years, I would have expected a country-wide USA effort to oust the letter from their alphabet, and yet all the drawling newsreaders can’t stop themselves calling him Obwaaaaamurrr. Talk about sandpaper to the earholes !! 

Popular Alliance certainly hope the Mr Obama keeps up his promise of pursuing alternative and greener energy strategies and quite honestly its one of the very few policy statements we’ve heard him divulge. We also welcome a less slap happy attitude to invading half the world, even if it is in response to terrorist provocation. Perhaps respect can be gained by rising above such levels ?

He’s a very smooth talker and probably a nice bloke, but he does favour the cliched soundbite rather too fondly which we’re sure has left many with a few doubts in the back of their minds, despite the need to move away from Bush style undiplomacy. Some off-the-cuff, human sentences wouldn’t go amiss from time to time. 

The initial reaction to all the new hope that we’re informed to expect, was a pretty poor day on the stock markets. 

A Birmingham-based Pakistani yesterday gave me volley after volley of ranting that they now have a Black Muslim in the White House. Mr Obama has been very quiet about his religious beliefs, although I understand that they are a church going family and also note that his mother and the grandmother who raised him and encouraged his education, were white. Thankfully Mr Obama has campaigned as an American and not as anything else. He seems to be the answer to the many prayers of the afflicted, but it is they who have so far made these statements, not him. As I said before, he has actually said very little.

In yesterday's The Sun, John Gaunt quite rightly pointed out that he was struck by both Mr Obama and Mr McCain finishing their speeches with "God Bless America." It would be such a turn up for our country if King Archduke Brown and David Cameron could finish their speeches in similar fashion.

Back in Blighty we learn (unsurprisingly) that those nice European conglomerates are bashing us for energy prices more than anyone else in Europe. 

Whilst our bills rose by 30%, France’s only leapt 14% and Germany’s by 12%. As ever, we are being fleeced to pay for Eastern Europeans who can’t afford the same prices. It would be interesting to see how much this adds to our net EU subs package. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a government who could organise these issues beforehand and not be left with even more egg on their smarmy, fat faces. Gordon Brown’s EU motto reads something along the lines of “We’re stupid, so stamp all over us.” 

If the present and previous governments had bothered to invest in new power production on our windy, wave-surrounded shores years ago, we could now have Europe queuing up, for us to provide them all with nice green energy, but as it is, we’re on our knees, dependent upon over-priced scraps, from some pretty dodgy regimes around the world.

God Bless The United Kingdom

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