So, last week MCFly told you (very late, sorry about that) about a “consultation” on the Greater Manchester Strategy (thanks Tom Skinner!)

I have just had a cathartic little rant on their website, which may amuse/horrify/bore. I have thrown in some links so you know what I am on about.

Yes, I do.

In 30 years time (maybe a lot less, in fact), our children will look back in disbelief and horror that we refused – were cognitively and politically *able* to refuse – to hear the deafening warning bells coming from our own eyes, from the International Energy Agency, from the Royal Society, from Price Waterhouse Coopers and pretty much every other sane future-looking body on t’planet.

In a week when the Met Office is calling a meeting of scientists to say “what the hell is happening with Britain’s weather?”, you are holding these absurd pseudo-consultations about your shiny castles in the air. Utterly utterly disconnected, which is ironic, given your constant invocation of the word “connected.”

Our children (and me, I had the snip so I don’t have to have these worries), will be very very VERY angry that we kept pouring concrete and treasure into white elephants like “Airport City” instead of figuring out what real resourcefulness and prosperity might look like.

You people, our lords and masters in your suits and with your agendas and investment plans, have NO IDEA what we are into here. The saddest thing is, there are people in Manchester who DO know. You know who they are, and you refuse to even engage with them.

As the adage goes, never bother asking a goldfish about the water, it will simply say “what water?”