Budget to give tax breaks for green homes

Gordon Brown will unveil tax breaks for households generating their own green energy as he uses his eleventh budget to challenge the environmental credentials of David Cameron's Conservatives by proposing incentives to tackle climate change.

Whitehall sources said last night that Mr Brown is likely to encourage people to install solar panels, wind turbines and other carbon-free sources of energy in their homes by exempting from income tax any money made by selling excess power back to the national grid.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2037404,00.html

What an utterly pointless move to make, and I hope it's not the headline green legislation unveiled in the Budget as it's not even worthy as a teaser.

A move worth making would be to offer big fat domestic subsidies on the purchase and installion of solar panels, wind turbines and other carbon-free sources of energy.

Any income made by selling excess power back to the national grid from those domestic sources is likely to be PIN money and the tax it's exempt from, peanuts.

Snow! Snow! Snowman!

The creation of a rather large snowman.

Now it just needs a light dusting of fresh, fluffy snow to cover up all the dirty, mucky slush and thedacs Snow! Snow! Snowman! will be a gorgeous God of the winter.

Snow! Snow! Snow!

The much awaited heavy snowfall arrived this morning as predicted (Well, heavy for England anyway!) and, as also predicted, chaos has descended on the country.

C attempted (Bravely? Forlornly? Not so smartly?) to drive to work at 6.30 this morning. At around 7.10 she called home in tears, unable to move and having barely got a third of the way to work. She was so scared with the car sliding all over the road, but she managed to turn around and come home. Work can wait.

C is home safely now. A is off too, we heard on the local radio that her school (Along with virtually every other in MK) is closed so a joyful snowball fight erupted in the garden and the street between her and D (Who couldn't get to work either...ahem!).

D won!

thedacs plan for tolerance and understanding between Muslims and the English

Every Mosque must, by law, be twinned with a CoE Church and mutual goodwill visits undertaken. Nothing stops a fiery sermon against the kaffirs and infidels as well the little white-haired old lady from down the street dishing out tea and cakes.

England/Britain

I think it's slightly ironic that the debate over inclusiveness and intergration into Britishness is rearing its ugly old head again, when the very idea of Britishness itself is becoming frayed and will, sooner rather than later, unravel completely.

Although many minorities have felt excluded from their Englishness and felt compelled to embrace their Britishness, understandable enough when the St Georges Cross was the banner only for skinheads, racist hooligans and the far-right, it may be no bad thing for inclusion if the UK was to break up.

Aside from the tiny far-right and the oddballs of shows like 100% English (Same thing?), I would contend that the majority of the English are not inherently racist or overly nationalistic and (As long as the major demographic changes in English populations are still taught in schools) are all too aware of their nations historically impure pedigree to adapt to and absorb a different cultures and races.

Whether the same can be stated across Britain is a different matter (Part of that issue may be that it hasn't been tested across the other home nations as it has in England for generations) and perhaps the downing of the flag of Empire would be a good symbol of our intention to forge modern England.

Awaits historical examples of English brutality...

Brilliant!

Two pupils who drew a giant penis on a school lawn using weed killer two years ago can still admire their work from satellite photos now posted on the internet.

Despite the school re-seeding the area, the penis has turned up on satellite image search engines because a photo was taken before the new grass could conceal the appendage.

Lifted from the Guardian Unlimited site

Those lads should be legends in their former school and if they don't grow up to be the greatest artists of the 21st Century then what is the point in life eh?

Super Casino

Britain's first super-casino will be opening in Manchester

The allowance of super-casino's has absolutely sickened me and is a disgusting indictment of a political party with the poor and dispossesed at its core. Any good work/legislation that New Labour implemented has been blown away by this simple act of bending over for pure greed. Directorships on the boards of gaming companies for the Ministers while addiction, poverty and family break-up awaits those Labour purport to represent.