Post by marchesarosa on Nov 6, 2011 12:31:31 GMT 1
Chris Huhne was as wrong about the euro as he is now about the wind www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8872269/Chris-Huhne-was-as-wrong-about-the-euro-as-he-is-now-about-the-wind.html
The energy secretary was an ardent advocate of the single currency before he got turned on to turbines.
Chris Huhne, pedalling his latest philosophy
By Christopher Booker Nov 2011
In the midst of the shambolic tragi-farce that is the doomed battle to save the euro, I was grateful to the reader who, in the online comments on last week’s column, reminded us of a pamphlet published by various well-known names back in 2002 entitled Why Britain Must Join the Euro.
The authors assured us that “joining the euro would increase our incomes and our standard of living”, that the euro was a huge success and that the critics who had so far managed to stop us from joining had been proved wrong on every point. Above all, these critics were wrong to predict that the euro might “fail and break up”: this, the great panjandrums pronounced, was “most unlikely”.
It was telling to note that one of the authors of this quaint historical curiosity was Chris Huhne, whose current panacea for Britain’s ills is his dream that we should pay £200 billion, to largely foreign-owned companies, to cover our countryside and sea with thousands of inefficient and ludicrously expensive windmills – not to mention filling our roads with even more useless electric cars. Another of Huhne’s fellow euro-fans was Adair Turner, who now works alongside him as chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, sharing his infatuation with windmills and electric cars.
What is it about the way our country is now run that we allow such people to move on from one dotty obsession to the next, so that by the time their crackpot views in one direction have been exposed for all to see, they have already switched to another? At least in 2002 they were only shouting the odds from the sidelines. Today the lunatics have been put in charge of the asylum.
The energy secretary was an ardent advocate of the single currency before he got turned on to turbines.
Chris Huhne, pedalling his latest philosophy
By Christopher Booker Nov 2011
In the midst of the shambolic tragi-farce that is the doomed battle to save the euro, I was grateful to the reader who, in the online comments on last week’s column, reminded us of a pamphlet published by various well-known names back in 2002 entitled Why Britain Must Join the Euro.
The authors assured us that “joining the euro would increase our incomes and our standard of living”, that the euro was a huge success and that the critics who had so far managed to stop us from joining had been proved wrong on every point. Above all, these critics were wrong to predict that the euro might “fail and break up”: this, the great panjandrums pronounced, was “most unlikely”.
It was telling to note that one of the authors of this quaint historical curiosity was Chris Huhne, whose current panacea for Britain’s ills is his dream that we should pay £200 billion, to largely foreign-owned companies, to cover our countryside and sea with thousands of inefficient and ludicrously expensive windmills – not to mention filling our roads with even more useless electric cars. Another of Huhne’s fellow euro-fans was Adair Turner, who now works alongside him as chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, sharing his infatuation with windmills and electric cars.
What is it about the way our country is now run that we allow such people to move on from one dotty obsession to the next, so that by the time their crackpot views in one direction have been exposed for all to see, they have already switched to another? At least in 2002 they were only shouting the odds from the sidelines. Today the lunatics have been put in charge of the asylum.
