Pastafarian wrote:Britain is a minor country?
In the whole small 'c' neo-socialist scheme of things yes, and you only have to see how they needed to immigrate enough votes to have achieved their 'minority' small 'c' status to serve as a pilot light for the rest to follow.
Well, as you can see their plans have been foiled, even if their country are only just waking up to this fact now and have only recently decided to re-think multiculturalism. A divided society is easier to conquer, it's the small 'c' government agenda and how they exploit immigration to their advantage under the guise of racial tolerance is evident in Britain.
United Kingdom
In 1993, the UK government introduced the fuel duty escalator (FDE), an environmental tax on retail petroleum products. The tax was explicitly designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transport sector. Since carbon is in fixed ratio to the quantity of fuel, the FDE roughly approximated a carbon tax. The transport lobby in the UK was extremely critical of the FDE. The FDE, which was the UK's only "real" carbon tax, failed because of the political criticism it provoked, and the automatic increase of the FDE was cancelled in 1999. Increases in fuel tax have since been discretionary.
The politically damaging fuel protests in 2000 contributed to the government decision to reduce the real rates of fuel tax. At the time, tax and duty represented more than 75% of the total pump price. In money terms, the past increments of the FDE remain in force, but in real terms, increments have been reduced by the rate of inflation. In 2006, tax represented about ⅔ of the pump price.
In addition, the UK's Climate Change Levy was introduced in 2001.
=Wiki
Additionally, European Union climate expert has described Australian opposition to a carbon tax as bizarre, diplomatically pointing out Britain's Conservatives were more co-operative in opposition.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/clima ... 1bm1c.html
Oh, were we expected to follow suit?
I think it is clear they would like very much to have a steak in the abundant resources our comparably younger country has.
Blow you Jack, but we can swim.
Australians have woken up to the EU trying to screw them over, this and don't take too kindly to WTO, OPEC WHO, etc, telling us how we should do business and run our country. Fancy a New Zealand Fire Blight infested apple anyone?
It comes down to sovereignty, and autonomy, This is ours.
Britain may have founded us but they don't own us, and just because small 'c' communist left and neo-right large 'C' capitalists (<----note how opposites attract) have infiltrated both sides of their government doesn't mean the rest of the world should follow suit to bail them out of economical disaster.
Look at the state of their entire continent, their economy, the only thing that saved us was Howards extended years of conservative Liberalism in the lead up to a global recession.
And I'll bet they are so disappointed about this too.

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