I think this post is just to plug my new blog, trying to hide behind the idea that instead i am saying bye bye. If i have interested you at all with my ramblings, then check out www.mattblackall.wordpress.com (copy and paste into address bar, otherwise it wont work), you never know, you may agree with what i say!!

 Wish everyone the best of luck, unless you are planning on voting New Labour or Tory in the next election :-P

 Here's Matt, signing out...

This happened at the beginning of may, so it has taken me a while to write about it.

 Just before the local elections, Gordon Brown suffered his biggest Labour revolt- around 30 Labour MP's voted against the government and for the introduction of a feed in tariff.

 The feed in tariff was designed to give incentives for small businesses such as mills to create their own electricty and sell it back to the national grid.

Obviously, this would not had solved all our energy needs, and ultimately at the level proposed would had only prodcued around 5% of the energy we need.

However, it is the added implications for this that the Labour Whip encouraged MP's to vote against it. 

 If the government were to start increasing incentives for small businesses, and then maybe households, to start producing their own electricty and selling it back to the grid, then there would be less need for these massive national energy companies (who conintue to make profits year on year despite our energy bill going up) which obviously goes against everything New Labour stands for.

 Furthermore, this would had been a signifcant step in our battle against Climate Change. As stated, it would not had solved our problems, but at the same time it does help and creates the foundations for this measure to expand so that each house has an incentive and help to produce its own electricty that it could sell back to the grid.

 But no, the bill was defeated. 

 It was defeated because of 'following the Party line', and Gordon Brown-nosers.

So three issues i see here:

1. We all know, but it reafirms, New Labour is in the pocket of (inter)national companies.

2. New Labour's committment to helping slow down the rate of climate change is defunct.

3. Party lines, and political opportunists are hampering worthwhile (and perhaps radical) political change. 

The making of the 2008 Olympic Logo: 

http://pixdaus.com/pics/PlFzJx5c2MR8bsmSk6.jpg 

What i love about national news is how important issues such as Tibet/Dafur etc only last for a few days, maybe a week if you're lucky.

However, look what i found, here's a link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7359190.stm

It's like Russofication, but in China, so Chinofication or something like that.

To be honest it is racist, or culturalist, or perhaps both.

If China can do that without united international uproar, then could i forcably re-educate people to actually care without being questioned? If so, i would had made everybody at Portsmouth University come to the recent Activist Academy :-) Oh wait, no, i would have been accused of taking away people's freedoms and destroying of thier human rights. Well i would had still let them out for half hour outside just so they could run about, stretch their legs- at least then they think they would be free, and apparently make people question how bad me forcing them to come to the Activists Academy really is... 

Nothing exciting about this blog sadly.

 I've just been witnessing a start of a new trend (well maybe old, but new to me): writing on UPSU.net's blogs just to avoid doing dissertation work.

 Soooo i have decided to follow suit.

 Not to say anything in particular, apart from i am currently 300 words into chapter 2, and my hand in is next friday and i have no motivation to do it at all (it will be done in time though!)

 Also i have decided i am not at university for a degree but instead to save the world in my own way.

I should be down the pub like nay other friday night, but instead i'm here.

I like rambling

and talking nonsense.

Matt :-)