The Greens mounted a day of reaction against the fracking industry by blockading the operations of Cuadrilla in Balcombe, London and Lichfield. The motives of the protestors became clear with the statement of Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton. She stated that a democratic deficit had forced her and fellow protestors, because their views had been rejected by the government of the day. Hmmm.
A deomcratically elected government, with members picked from the House of Commons, rejected the views of the single Green Party MP. This is Caroline Lucas's democratic deficit: the millions of voters who don't vote Green, forcing her to Balcombe and jail, because they just don't care enough about the environment (which can only be deomnstrated, of course, by voting Green).
The agenda of these rich protestors becomes clearer: they set up a small wind turbine (that well known efficient source of energy) and the Disabled People Against Cuts turned up to prevent the poor from enjoying cheaper energy.
The user of the wheelchair, 38-year-old Paddy Murphy from north London, said there was a connection between Dpac and anti-fracking activities. He said many disabled people were living in fuel poverty: "We want an energy policy devoted to the needs of people, not the needs of corporations. Fracking is all about profits."
I am not sure if he was against fracking or corporations. Perhaps if this was condoned by the Green Party and run by the National Fracking "Meet the People's Need" Corporation, then Paddy Murphy would be quite happy. The people living in fuel poverty and dying in winter: a mere detail.
That is the consequence of these unthinking, self-righteous, ideological, sanctimonious moral monopolists. Their view of the public good brooks no other view, and if opposed, they state that this is a 'democratic deficit'. If only the people really knew...whilst the poor face more expensive energy and choose to heat or eat! Bastards!