It may be nearing the fag end of the Parliament but whilst X-Factor gossip, thuggish footballers and divorcing pop stars keep dictating the tabloid headlines, MP’s more than ever need to keep focussed on getting the country out of the worst Global Recession since the 30’s and deal with the Economy, Climate Change, Jobs, NHS, Defence etc. Getting the UK economy out of recession and back to growth, keeping people in their homes and getting people back to work is where the country needs its politicians to be concentrating.
EU
The special European Union Council meeting held last weekend in preparation for the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Summit could have been reported better in the UK, particularly when the EU had agreed to fund the developing countries with 100billion Euros to get a global agreement on cutting global omissions at Copenhagen.
What I found bemusing and others thought irritating was the froth of incredulity in the UK’s media reporting of the Summit. What I called their “Fu Man Chu” moment, aimed at Tony Blair’s candidature for the President of the EU. They had conjured up the horror and threat to mankind by the “monster’s return” of Tony Blair.
Who chairs EU Council meetings that meet and legislates in private does not excite me, but the prospect of a global agreement on Climate Change at Copenhagen does. The Conservative Party that re-invented itself with a clone of Tony Blair (Cameron), does I suggest, protest too much.
Parliament / EU
Parliament
It may be nearing the fag end of the Parliament but whilst X-Factor gossip, thuggish footballers and divorcing pop stars keep dictating the tabloid headlines, MP’s more than ever need to keep focussed on getting the country out of the worst Global Recession since the 30’s and deal with the Economy, Climate Change, Jobs, NHS, Defence etc. Getting the UK economy out of recession and back to growth, keeping people in their homes and getting people back to work is where the country needs its politicians to be concentrating.
EU
The special European Union Council meeting held last weekend in preparation for the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Summit could have been reported better in the UK, particularly when the EU had agreed to fund the developing countries with 100billion Euros to get a global agreement on cutting global omissions at Copenhagen.
What I found bemusing and others thought irritating was the froth of incredulity in the UK’s media reporting of the Summit. What I called their “Fu Man Chu” moment, aimed at Tony Blair’s candidature for the President of the EU. They had conjured up the horror and threat to mankind by the “monster’s return” of Tony Blair.
Who chairs EU Council meetings that meet and legislates in private does not excite me, but the prospect of a global agreement on Climate Change at Copenhagen does. The Conservative Party that re-invented itself with a clone of Tony Blair (Cameron), does I suggest, protest too much.