Some good news out of Britain, global warming alarmist and Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists.
The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association’s committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.
Mr Yeo promised his “unqualified support” to his successor.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26015369
h/t to Fretslider
Vince Causey:
re your post at February 3, 2014 at 11:14 am.
We can all rejoice that such a sleazy and corrupt politician as ‘trougher’ Yeo is to be ousted, and there is no reason to bring left vs right issues into it. Indeed, if they were introduced it is we on the left who could reasonably do it because Yeo is right wing. But such left vs right arguments would distract from the important fact that this ‘green’ lobbyist is to be removed from Parliamentary influence.
‘Trougher’ Yeo is as right-wing as they come. The idea that he is left-wing is laughable. Indeed, the BBC interviewer’s response to him
is ironic. Nobody in the UK would accept that an ex-Minister in John Major’s Tory government is “left-wing”. The interviewer was seeking laughs (and probably got them).
Richard
@Jimbo You are correct.
Yeo was cleared……. this quote is also true ….. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
EU “Law” is absolute power. Neither the UK, nor any other EU member state, can refuse to enact legislation stemming from the UNELECTED European Commission after it’s passed by the European Parliament (our largely ‘don’t de-rail the gravy train’ lapdogs). Yeo cashed in on this, in spades.
The EU has embraced a suicidal energy policy, dictated by the EC, based upon models that were funded by governments and the resultant UN IPCC reports edited by the paymasters, ensuring that ever-increasing “green” levies keep rolling in. Oh, and more funding for pro-CAGW “research” as well. Yeo cashed in on this, in spades. As have notorious “warmist” doomsday “experts” such as M Mann, P Jones, The Grauniad (Green adverts), BBC (Agenda 21) et al.
CAGW is the biggest political tax-raising socialist experiment scam in living memory – worse than Communism.
If I was religious I would pray that the 15/17yr flat-line global temperature trend now moves into the next Little Ice Age that appears to be on the cards, so that some energy policy sanity is restored. I’m not religious, so my faith is that ultimately the true scientific method will prevail. The past 15/17 yrs seem to be on my side.
Good riddance.
How does someone with such obvious financial interests in “green” technologies get to be chair of the climate change committee anyway?
His Grace, Bishop Hill (Andrew W. Montford) must be elated.
Yeo’s fall is, in no small way, attributable to Montford’s persistently protesting and publicizing Yeo’s massive conflicts-of-interest and his pecuniary interest in dubious policies.
Yeo Ho Ho !
Best news of the year so far.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving trougher.
Joe says:
February 3, 2014 at 10:28 am …
As a committed patriotic Conservative, who will be voting UKIP, I must say I agree with you about the House of Lords. The heredities could not be bought, threatened or controlled and they were there having been raised from birth into the role of revising legislation. It was not a system one would create from scratch, but it worked a damn site better than the corrupt crony system introduced by Blair and continued by Cameron.
Joe said something like “But they also provided a very useful inertial brake on the current fad of change for the sake of change. Stability has a lot to recommend itself when the world starts getting exciting.” which is a remarkably sane thing for a “committed Socialist” to say.
If you don’t mind my saying so…
Splendid! Simply SPLENDID!!!
And after watching (until 1:07 — could NOT stand one more second of the braying coming from that pretentious little mind)
Yeo, compliments of ZT (at 10:41am today — thanks!… er, sort of…. (gag)… sickly smile),
IT COULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED TO A NICER FELLA.
“Mr Yeo promised his “unqualified support” to his successor.”
Unqualified….hit the nail on the head….
Hoooray!! a perfect example of whats wrong with British and western politics. More rats to flush out yet!
Yeo, Heave-Ho and away we go!
Up again from an all-time low.
A bigot with his fingers in too many pies, perhaps his constituents sensed that.
“Julian in Wales says:
February 3, 2014 at 2:30 pm
A bigot with his fingers in too many pies, perhaps his constituents sensed that.”
Many of them porkies, I suspect….
Yeo was attacked from the left and the right for being corrupt and venal. He was acquitted but no-one understands how.
Most here only met TIm Yeo when he tried to confuse LIndzen with the Subtle difference between warm and warming.
He failed and was seen to be a fool.
But his constituents already knew he was a fool and the votes were already in.
Still a lot to go… watch that committee again. Lillee (right-wing) and Stringer (left-wing) looked like assets to Britain.
The rest only barely passed muster when compared to Tim Yeo
@ur momisuglyKen Hall February 3, 2014 at 1:37 pm:
You know our political system is in a shables when committed (but obvously not “Party Line”) socialists and conservatives can agree on something like that.
@ur momisugly JEM February 3, 2014 at 1:41 pm
I don’t mind you saying so at all.
Despite popular stereotypes, a belief in social justice doesn’t inherently mean a desire for revolution. I may wish for a socialist utopia, but I’m realistic enough to know that it’s not something you can (or, indeed, should) impose on people by force. Any more than you can walk into foreign countries and “install” Western democracy. You can try, but you will fail.
@ur momisugly Both:
That’s why I get genuinely upset when I see discussions on AGW getting characterised as Left v Right. The real war will be won (or lost) in that middle ground of rational people willing to think for themselves and consider evidence regardless of what their ideology tells them to believe.
For my part, I may dislike vast corporations with economic power over millions, but even if “Big Oil is evil” (from that perspective) it doesn’t mean that the oil itself is. Demonising something that improves life for billions in order to satisfy some idealistic objection to the supplier is illogical to the point of madness.
It was Max Planck, who said that science advanced one funeral at a time. Now we can include sackings!;] Goodbye Tim, don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
So are we to be comfortable with who will replace him? Tory or Labour? Aren’t both sides deeply into the green agenda as beneficiaries of the green business sector which is really a sector for receiving gov’t payola for windmills, shadoofs, Archimedes screws, and Rube Goldberg generators? I liked it better when there was a choice among parties.
Tim Yeo was deselected because he was not seen to be representing his constituents’ interests. He did not live in the constituency and was considered to be more concerned with his role as Chair of a House of Commons committee. That it happened to the “Energy and Climate Change Committee” was incidental. Another senior Conservative the Chair of the “Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee” was recently deselected for similar reasons.
Hehe Yeo gets the Heave-ho!
Time to pop over to eureferendum.org
JEM says February 3, 2014 at 10:02 am
Cameron will push him up to the Lords for services rendered; he can then join Worthless, Vermin, and Dubious.
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I always thought they wore Ermine. But perhaps you are right, and and they are cloaked in Vermin.
😉
@M Courtney
“Yeo was attacked from the left and the right for being corrupt and venal. He was acquitted but no-one understands how.”
I believe the operative word in the explanation is ‘corrupt’. It just extends beyond just one guy, rather obviously. Remember the CRU whitewashes? That is what Real Corruption looks like.
Jeff says: February 3, 2014 at 2:34 pm
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A bigot with his fingers in too many pies, perhaps his constituents sensed that.”
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Many of them porkies, I suspect….
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Come, come, now Jeff, that is much too obscure for our breathren across the pond.
In explanation “Porky Pies” is cockney rhyming slang for “lies” – a turn of phrase that Mr Yeo was said to be very familiar with.
Ralph
See Yeo later alligator! Couldn’t be soon enough. What an unprincipled beggar!