Let's All Protest

The local East Anglian news on BBC this morning is all about protesting and stopping progress.

Firstly, you have the Animal Rights lot complaining about medical research on primates in Cambridge. Now I hold no brief for testing drugs and other procedures on animals and believe that in as many cases as possible it must be avoided. But often as a last resort some research has to be done on animals.

If we banned it in the UK, then we would see the loss of a lot of highly-paid research jobs to countries who don't take such a pinnacle of the moral high ground.

A lot of this could be avoided if all drugs which were developed with animal testing were clearly marked as such, with a named web site that described how.

Then there is the MP who wants growth at Milton Keynes capped. Everybody wants house-building restricted because that means that the price of your house rises, as housing is in short supply.

Beautifully selfish isn't it?

We also had people protesting about the expansion of Stansted.

There is a simple solution to that. If you put your name to a petition to stop expansion, then you can't fly through the airport. It was done many years ago in the States and it stopped the protest.

It just shows how selfish people are!

They never think of all of the economic activity and jobs that will be created, which will pay the taxes to fund the needs of everyone.

And people were protesting about the expansion of Felixstowe.

I could go on!

But we need those jobs and economic activity, otherwise the UK will become a quaint historic island outside of the future.