Silver linings

If we decarbonise our economy by 80%, as proposed in the climate change act, at least we won't be able to afford all those climatologists any longer.

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[DavidNcl]

Or nonsense like education, food distribution systems or health care.

[Stuart]

Oh I don't know, North Korea can't really afford a nuclear ballistic missile program but somehow they seem to manage well. And they export their know-how throughout the world to all sorts of wonderful people.

I think we too could end up as a third world nation with first world science achievements, however our speciality will be manufacturing and exporting Climate Alarmism ;)

[Angry Exile]

Ot they'll be the only thing we can afford.

[Alan the Brit]

I thought we already were a third world nation. We're flat broke, Health Service reaching crisis level, shools in a mess, armed forces cash starved & ill-equiped & disrespected by the yoof of today on the streets, industry & economy in a mess, a society spied on by every method conceivable from cameras to the thought police, & dictated to by a foreign power called the Eeeeyou or some such! All we need for the full set is rabid inflation & a civil war coupled with mass starvation, between a couple of tinpot warlords & their cohorts who are only interested in what they can get out of the public purse, to which they hold the purse strings & can pay themselves whatever they wish to! Time for a glass of vile evil sinful wicked wine with my lunch!

[Mike Davis]

Alan:
I thought you were already at that point with Blood and Gore Incorporated in your country as an adviseing firm. Or was it consulting. Maybe PR ( Pure Rubbish).

[Dodgy Geezer]

I had occasion to look up the relative difference between our military and the Swiss. They have about half the tanks that the UK has, and 2/3 of the fighters. Their defence budget is 1/30th of ours. I grant you they don't have much of a navy, but then, neither do we.

Where has all our defence money gone? Not into the sharp end of our armed forces, that's for sure...

[Jeff Wood]

DG, I recently made my first visit to Switzerland, the Lugano area. One of my findings might interest you.

I got off a lake cruise boat at one of those villages built vertically up a cliff, and found the parish notice board. Prominent on it was an instruction to all men of military age to report, at some point over the summer, to a military rifle range to demonstrate their continuing competence with a rifle.

It is compulsory, following military service, to take home one's service rifle, and keep up the marksmanship skills. I should guess that most improve them.

The upper military age limit is, if I remember right, rather high. However, even one of my advanced decripitude is capable of climbing 500 feet up a wooded hillside and enjoying the view until an invader occupies my crosshairs.

Or, I couldn't be bothered with the climb, then sniping from a city window; though if my speciality is not too diminished since the handgun bans, well, say no more..

There is a reason neither the Kaiser nor Hitler invaded Switzerland.

[Jeff Wood]

Mention of the Kaiser reminds me.

Willi visited Switzerland, and in company with the Swiss President, reviewed some troops.

He asked, "How many men can you mobilise?"

The Pres. replied, "Including civilian militia, one million."

The Kaiser scoffed: "I can send five million trained soldiers against you!"

The President thought. "OK that's fine. My men will come to the war, fire five shots each, then go home."