With the ever increasing debate on the possibility that oil production may have peaked, and the need to find new ‘green’ energy sources, a resource better known for its black smoke and ‘dark satanic mills’ is slowly making a comeback.

While I have said in the past, which it would be highly desirable if 80% of UK’s electricity would come from nuclear power plants, in order to phase out gas and coal fired power stations. Nuclear electricity will never be able to meet all energy’s needs. This even if all British households switch to electric stoves and heaters, which is highly improbable. Even if the whole of UK railway’s are electrified, which is certainly desirable but, might take up to 30 years to be achieved. Gas and oil will still be needed in industrial and transport sectors.

Moreover until 80% of UK’s electricity comes from nuclear power, the current electrical infrastructure based on coal and gas fired power stations, will have to be maintained for some time. We can also add that even when 80% of UK’s electricity will come from nuclear power, some electricity will still be produced from other sources, mainly in order to meet extra demand, renewable could do part of this job, a few coal fired power stations can do it as well.

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Or not, as the case may be. Does anyone honestly believe that there will be any change beyond presentational purposes that will separate Gordon Brown from Tony Blair?

Gordon Brown has played an enormous role in the running of this country for the past decade. He has been responsible for Britain’s economic problems, the disguising of real inflation, the raiding of the pension’s pot, the massive increases in taxation and wasted Government spending and the selling off of our gold supply for an extremely poor return. He has had an equal hand in it all.

I’m watching the BBC News 24 coverage of Tony Blair’s leaving office as I write this. As per usual, the institutionally leftist BBC journalists are discussing Blair’s Iraq legacy. We know by now that the British people’s number one political priority has never been Iraq, but in recent times, immigration – but, of course, the biased Beeb haven’t mentioned that once, because they do not speak for the people, but themselves.

Now, Blair is yesterday’s news, and those journalists who were welcoming him into Downing Street so warmly and with so much celebration only ten short years ago are now hounding him out of office, taking every opportunity to run him into the ground. Not that Blair does not deserve much of the abuse for what he has done to this country, but there is no greater hypocrisy than has been engaged in by many of these smirking journalists. So many of them have a spring in their step, a quiet smile on their faces – and yet they have spent the past years willingly aiding Blair in his deception of the British people.

Prime Minister’s Question in Parliament looms. Blair is at Parliament now and soon it will be over. Far too late in my opinion. Then I’ll be off to watch Tim Henman beat Lopez in the second round of Wimbledon. A real, decent British man. Come on, Tim!

Today brings news that, once again, the European Union and Britain have taken another worrisome step down the path to becoming a fully-fledged super-state.

In Brussels early this morning, Tony Blair, in one of his final serious acts as Prime Minister, capitulated without any real show of resistance and signed Britain up to what the eurosceptic campaign group, Open Europe describes as, ‘just the old EU Constitution in everything but name’.

On Thursday, Jose Manuel Barroso had asked the British people to have respect for our Parliament – but, with reference to the new treaty, it isn’t our Parliament that will be signing this constitution in disguise, but instead our soon to be departing Prime Minister, Tony Blair. And just why should we respect or take seriously the voice of a man and an institution such as the EU Commission who are unelected and do not serve those it is meant to represent?

Until the Constitution, the process of ‘ever closer union’ had been a slow and subtle one; gradually regulations, laws, treaties and legislation built up over the course of decades, robbing once proud self-governing nations of their sovereignty in exchange for dubious promises, false hopes, increasing levels of bureaucracy, corruption and furthering electoral disillusionment to near breaking point.

The EU Constitution was a daring move on the part of its constructors; the culmination of years of EU fanaticism had emboldened advocators of a super-union into moving more swiftly and overtly than they should or could. Though they were momentarily put in their place by referendums in France and the Netherlands, as Michael Portillo aptly observed in the Times today, ‘the plan to create a European state never dies. As in a bad sequel movie we discover that the monster so comprehensively destroyed at the end of film one has miraculously regenerated itself’. Once again, it is stealth by which the Europhiles move. They know that the people must be circumnavigated because these EU leaders and union supporters no longer trust their people – if they ever did.

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It is with disgust, that I learnt today the new of an agreement concerning a new European Constitution. While the name ‘constitution’ has been dropped from the document’s name, it is a constitution in all but the name.

The changes from the previous document, rejected by both French and Dutch voters back in 2005, are mostly cosmetic, concerning a European foreign minister and symbols. Though Tony Blair pretended to have obtained a derogation for us, the only derogation permitted will concern the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as far as foreign policy is concerned, the 26 others states did not signed a binding agreement, allowing us to opt out of the common foreign policy. The result of what happened in Brussels is thus, a clear defeat for the United Kingdom and a stunning victory for the Franco-German alliance of Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.

Putting up a strong and determined opposition to any treat was well possible, Lech and Jaroslavl Kaczynski both, respectively President and Prime Minister of Poland did not hesitated to say some truths concerning Germany’s past, on the issue of qualified majority voting. France also managed to repel a clause concerning ‘free and undistorted competition’, there are no doubts that the whole of the French left and a part of the French right, must be celebrating this ‘victory against ultraliberalism’. This all shows that putting up a strong opposition against this treaty was possible, Blair choose not to oppose the treaty, perhaps in order to foster a semblance of ‘European legacy’.

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Our friends, Arleen Ouzounian of Kings College London Conservative Future and Richard Jackson of the University College London Conservative Future have tagged us with the ‘It’s Got To Be Brown’ meme.

I’ve had a very quick go at filling out the questions, though unsurprisingly, I am not expecting Gordon Brown to undertake any of the latter six points any time in the near future - and if he did, I would probably go into shock.

2 things Gordon Brown should be proud of:

• Not losing his hair.
• There really isn’t anything else is there..?

2 things he should apologise for:

• Raiding the pensions pot and leaving many OAPs in effective poverty.
• The massive and unsubstantiated increases in taxation, crime and immigration.

2 things that he should do immediately when he becomes PM:

• Request that Her Majesty dissolve Parliament and initiate a general election.
• Resign.

2 things he should do while he is PM:

• Take Britain out of the European Union immediately.
• Recall all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Only one week until Gordon Brown becomes our next Prime Minister. I can’t wait… not.

Within days of the current Conservative-led group taking control of Bath and North-East Somerset council, the Student Liaison Committee was unceremoniously scrapped without any supposed consultation.

The local Bath Lib Dems also immediately began complaining that because the ruling Conservative group reduced the number of executive members from eleven to five and renamed it the Cabinet, this was a massive recentralisation of power away from local people – which of course is utter rubbish.

I think firstly, if we take the point about centralisation. Looking just over the border, in Somerset, the County Council run by (yes, you guessed it) the Liberal Democrats is trying to force a massively centralised Unitary authority upon all, which involves abolishing all the District councils and creating one massive super-council for the whole area. The Labour Government is in full support and only a high turnout in a referendum on the matter may dissuade them.

Elsewhere, the real centralisation of power is that in both Westminster and Brussels – the latter of which the Liberal Democrats and Labour staunchly support with unflinching resolve. Anyone see the hypocrisy of claiming you are against what your own side has been doing on a far, far greater scale for years? But then that is the deceitful, two-faced and duplicitous nature of the Liberal Democrats for you. Their sort will do and say absolutely anything to obtain office, even if it means completely contradicting what they are saying elsewhere or have said previously.

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Tonight, Channel Four will be broadcasting a programme called ‘Diana: Witnesses In The Tunnel’. The two Princes, William and Harry have requested that certain sections of the film featuring the last moments of their dying mother, Diana, not be broadcast.

However, Channel Four have claimed that they will not self-censor the independent production and that, as one Channel Four spokesman claimed, showing the footage is in the ‘very much in the public interest’.

Just who exactly do Channel Four think they are when they claim that showing such pictures would be in the public’s interest? I very much suspect that if everyone in this country were asked whether the or not such footage should be shown, most would say it should not. Would you like to see the last moments of your dying mother broadcast to millions of sitting rooms across the country?

Once again, Channel Four are showing a film to cause a stir and controversy. Many people will undoubtedly watch the film because of this – and to that end, the company has achieved its aim. However, is this really the kind of behaviour a publicly funded organisation should be engaging in? I would say not. I am sure I’m not alone.

Perhaps, as unkind as it is to point this out, it is worth noting that the McCann’s have effectively been on an extended holiday without work (no doubt on full pay,) for the past few weeks since their daughter Madeline mysteriously disappeared from their holiday hotel room.

Today, a German programme, on which the McCann’s were appealing for help, accused the parents of being part of the plot – a claim which was immediately and profusely denied.

It’s sad to say that this whole kidnapping affair has been completely over the top and grossly out of proportion. The media at large hasn’t had a child or human tragedy story for a while, much in the style of the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman whose lives were so callously and brutally snuffed out by the monstrous psychopath Ian Huntley. Presented with another chance to raise newspaper sales and increase ratings, the news corporations have engaged in a widespread outpouring of collective grief, with almost non-stop coverage of the latest events.

At the same time, the McCann family seem to have willingly obliged the media’s lust for keeping the bandwagon story rolling by jetting all over the world to appeal for the support and money to keep up the search for their missing daughter, including an audience with his holiness the Pope at the Vatican and numerous appearances on television stations in different European countries.

The loss of a greatly loved child for anyone is a tragic event almost unimaginable, and the grief and anguish the McCann’s must be living with every day unbearable. This makes the, at times, faux anger and sympathy expressed by the newspapers and televised media in this country surrounding this case quite contemptible.

Sad thought this whole sorry saga may be, many hundreds of children go missing in this country every year without so much as a squeak from the media. Unlike Madeline, little effort will be placed into searching for them, and most will never be seen again. That is the real and ongoing tragedy.

In today’s Daily Telegraph, there was a very interesting article concerning the carbon footprint of different types of foodstuffs, either locally produced or produced overseas.

‘Buy locally produced food’ is a motto commonly used by groups such as Greenpeace, the LibDems or whoever you want. Yet according to this article, the carbon footprint of a tonne of lamb produced in the UK is equal to 2,849 kg against 688 kg for one produced in New Zealand. The comparison is also valid, for products like apples 271 kg for British ones versus 185 kg for New Zealanders ones, lettuce with 3,720 kg versus 3,560 kg for Spanish grown lettuce.

The causes for this are numerous to say the least but I can certainly quote a few, in an area where soils are of a better quality, the use of fertilizers and thence of CO2 will be reduced. More extensive rearing of lambs in the wide open spaces of New Zealand, allows better yields, through better feed and healthier animals. What is striking however is the fact that in this case, what is ‘green’ is meeting what is cheap.

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