Comments on: Caroline Lucas http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: lola http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7554 lola Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:25:34 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7554 Doesn't 90% of world trade travel by sea? And accounts for 4.5% of emmissions? They really are running out of things to pick on! Doesn’t 90% of world trade travel by sea? And accounts for 4.5% of emmissions?

They really are running out of things to pick on!

]]> By: David Gillies http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7341 David Gillies Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:17:05 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7341 It's a bit unfair to pick on Caroline Lucas in particular. We can posit with a fair degree of certainty that her level of general intelligence is significantly above average. She knows this to be the case. She (and others like her) has spent her life thinking about things and then propounding theses based on her cogitation. It is easy to make the horrid mis-step from there to the idea that if only people such as she sat down and <i>thought</i> very hard for a bit, they'd crack all of life's problems. It is, as Hayek put it, the Fatal Conceit. It’s a bit unfair to pick on Caroline Lucas in particular. We can posit with a fair degree of certainty that her level of general intelligence is significantly above average. She knows this to be the case. She (and others like her) has spent her life thinking about things and then propounding theses based on her cogitation. It is easy to make the horrid mis-step from there to the idea that if only people such as she sat down and thought very hard for a bit, they’d crack all of life’s problems. It is, as Hayek put it, the Fatal Conceit.

]]> By: Kits Coty http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7235 Kits Coty Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:52:48 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7235 Caroline Lucas on the recent company led education and training schemes: "...receiving academic qualifications from the Government's new private scheme could put students into a narrow trade with few opportunities to progress, as the accreditation could potentially be worthless outside of that specific workplace. Different companies have vastly different standards and work practices, so it is difficult to see if and how these branded 'certificates' would cross over between occupations." All said without a trace of irony about her own qualifications. Now tell me Caroline what was the Elizabethan perspective on nuclear waste disposal.... Caroline Lucas on the recent company led education and training schemes:

“…receiving academic qualifications from the Government’s new private scheme could put students into a narrow trade with few opportunities to progress, as the accreditation could potentially be worthless outside of that specific workplace. Different companies have vastly different standards and work practices, so it is difficult to see if and how these branded ‘certificates’ would cross over between occupations.”

All said without a trace of irony about her own qualifications. Now tell me Caroline what was the Elizabethan perspective on nuclear waste disposal….

]]> By: Gallimaufry http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7231 Gallimaufry Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:14:35 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7231 "Edited Choice" is the buzz phrase for Caroline Lucas' suggestion, I gather. Or "Nanny Knows Best". “Edited Choice” is the buzz phrase for Caroline Lucas’ suggestion, I gather. Or “Nanny Knows Best”.

]]> By: Cleanthes http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7219 Cleanthes Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:09:40 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7219 Watermelon alert. Watermelon alert.

]]> By: Ian Bennett http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7212 Ian Bennett Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:39:13 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7212 JuliaM: Yes, that's precisely what she's suggesting. JuliaM: Yes, that’s precisely what she’s suggesting.

]]> By: gene berman http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7206 gene berman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:56:46 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7206 determinors determinors

]]> By: gene berman http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7205 gene berman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:56:28 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7205 determiners determiners

]]> By: gene berman http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7203 gene berman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:54:27 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7203 determinants determinants

]]> By: JuliaM http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-7200 JuliaM Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:24:44 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/02/14/caroline-lucas/#comment-7200 <i>"Is it really the best use of fuel and emissions to ferry 13,000 containers of toys, food, clothes and televisions from China to Europe each month..."</i> If people want to buy them....yes! What's she suggesting, that we have some kind of government department deciding what is 'suitable for import'...? “Is it really the best use of fuel and emissions to ferry 13,000 containers of toys, food, clothes and televisions from China to Europe each month…”

If people want to buy them….yes! What’s she suggesting, that we have some kind of government department deciding what is ‘suitable for import’…?

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