From Ray McCredie.
THE UK Government, having desperately tried to sell unwanted and out-of-date swine flu vaccine to Third World countries, at bargain basement prices, may now have to give it away. It cost £1.5 billion.

What is the situation in Jersey at the moment? The taxpayer has a right to know how much it has cost so far for a non-event, orchestrated by greed, scaremongering and panic-inducing tactics where little research has been done.

On a similar note, the global warming zealots have been quiet recently, possibly due to some of the lowest temperatures ever recorded in parts of the UK and the general severity of the winter world-wide.

The question was asked recently as to what caused the climate change at the end of the last ice age – something did, only blame cannot be attributed to coal-fired power stations, aircraft or vehicles as they were not in existence then.

Could it have been rotting vegetation, or perhaps flatulence from prehistoric monsters roaming the planet, or, more likely, a cycle of nature?

In reality, this is a money-making opportunity, lots of it. Governments and those who believe that they know what is best for us are well aware of the public propensity to believe what they are told and see the bulk of us as gullible (not entirely untrue).

If everyone in the UK drove electric cars and enjoyed state-of-the-art incinerators it would not make a blind bit of difference to anything, so long as nations like China commission dozens of coal-fired power stations every year and the USA and India treat the rest of the world in contempt – and no-one will ever stop them.

When the finest brains in the world bitterly oppose each other, who are we to believe?
The recent world conference in Copenhagen was a complete and very expensive farce, with the only agreement being the fact that they all probably ate and drank too much.

Green taxes will soar, many others will make shed-loads of money from the global warming issue and the public will be terrorised by smooth-talking, intelligent graduates from the Alistair Campbell school of spin doctoring, feeding us innuendo and claptrap. We will be ‘conned’ again.