Mistakenly getting up a little before 5am this morning because I had forgotten the Government's absurd practice of changing the clocks twice a year, I read that there has been a bill before Parliament to change the time two hours, that is to say GMT+1 in winter, GMT+2 in Summer, as it is in Berlin.
This could only have come from a completely crazed Europhile, and apparently the culprit was Rebecca Harris MP, a Conservative. This blog will be keeping an eye on her with a view to detention under Section 4 of the Mental Health Act. Under her system parts of Scotland would still be dark at 10am, just so we can enjoy the same time as Angela Merkel.
Why would you want to do this?
Ms Harris has of course been supported by the Liberal Democrats who lost their sense of reality years ago.
Only now has Cameron said that he will not support the bill.
Sometimes I think we are all quite, quite mad.
Showing posts with label Clocks change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clocks change. Show all posts
30 October, 2011
27 March, 2011
Time for a change
Today, the State will tell you that the time has changed and that this somehow makes the day longer.
Nonsense, of course, but you'd better go along with it.
Nonsense, of course, but you'd better go along with it.
20 February, 2011
Sunday Thinkpiece: Cameron suspends Copernican theory
Oh dear, there is more news that the idiot, nanny coalition which runs the country is going further to assert its powers to tell you what time it is. The news, and I really hope this is incorrect and that they find some useful purpose for parliamentary time, is that the Coalition, with David Cameron’s backing, wants to advance the clocks by two hours, for reasons of tourism. This would put us in the same time zone as that great tourist must-see, Bucharest, and that, Mr. Interference thinks, is what visitors to the London Olympics are going to want.
Conservative MP Rebecca Harris, who must be a couple of scones short of a cream tea, told The Sunday Telegraph: 'The tourism industry has been crying out for extra daylight saving for years. It could extend the tourist season and boost the economy by up to £3.5billion a year.
'And we would have longer, lighter evenings.'
I am sorry to point out to Ms Harris and the rest of the half-wits involved in this, that whatever Mr. Cameron says the time is, the Earth will go round the Sun in exactly the same way as before and our evenings will not be longer and lighter but exactly the same. Telling tourists that we are on the same time as Bucharest or Minsk is only likely to confuse them. It would be better for the tourism industry if we cleaned the streets instead.
Conservative MP Rebecca Harris, who must be a couple of scones short of a cream tea, told The Sunday Telegraph: 'The tourism industry has been crying out for extra daylight saving for years. It could extend the tourist season and boost the economy by up to £3.5billion a year.
'And we would have longer, lighter evenings.'
I am sorry to point out to Ms Harris and the rest of the half-wits involved in this, that whatever Mr. Cameron says the time is, the Earth will go round the Sun in exactly the same way as before and our evenings will not be longer and lighter but exactly the same. Telling tourists that we are on the same time as Bucharest or Minsk is only likely to confuse them. It would be better for the tourism industry if we cleaned the streets instead.
27 March, 2010
Clock change smoke hazard
From the ummissable ThameNews.Net (Thame is a town in Oxfordshire)
'With the clocks going forward one hour this weekend, 27/03/10, Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service is reminding people of the need to regularly maintain their smoke alarms.'
What I am reminded of by the state sponsored time change is the need to take some useless bureaucrat and beat him with a firehose until he admits that not one millisecond of daylight will be 'saved' by pretending it is a different time from what it is.
If you don't want to get up earlier on Sunday, don't. If you don't see any connection between changing the clocks and having your smoke alarm serviced, don't do that either.
'With the clocks going forward one hour this weekend, 27/03/10, Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service is reminding people of the need to regularly maintain their smoke alarms.'
What I am reminded of by the state sponsored time change is the need to take some useless bureaucrat and beat him with a firehose until he admits that not one millisecond of daylight will be 'saved' by pretending it is a different time from what it is.
If you don't want to get up earlier on Sunday, don't. If you don't see any connection between changing the clocks and having your smoke alarm serviced, don't do that either.
29 March, 2009
Treated like idiots
The clocks have changed again under the Government's bogus 'Daylight Saving Scheme' (not one nanosecond of daylight will be 'saved' - there will be exactly the same as there would otherwise have been).
Sometimes they express it in terms of having 'one less hour in bed'. Ignore them. Spend as long as you like. On Monday if you go into an office you will be going in an hour earlier. Why not just say that as from Monday the office starts at 8am not 9am (because that's what's happening)? You have the intellectual ability to handle that.
I have no objection to things starting earlier and finishing earlier, it's being treated like a bloody idiot that I can't stand, and by people I'm paying to do it.
Sometimes they express it in terms of having 'one less hour in bed'. Ignore them. Spend as long as you like. On Monday if you go into an office you will be going in an hour earlier. Why not just say that as from Monday the office starts at 8am not 9am (because that's what's happening)? You have the intellectual ability to handle that.
I have no objection to things starting earlier and finishing earlier, it's being treated like a bloody idiot that I can't stand, and by people I'm paying to do it.
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