Rutting and pimping

At this time of the year in the Highlands, adult male deer are engaged in their annual ritual of roaring at each other as loudly and deeply as possible in order to demonstrate their worthiness to lead the electorate of hinds and younger stags. Sometimes the ritual involves an antler to antler fight, but more often they simply roar in the hope that the opposition will back down and allow the federal debt limit to be raised. No, sorry, that should read - allow the stag to stay in charge of his herd.

Meanwhile on the other side of the world, in a rather more sleazy mating ritual, UK Pimp-in-Chief George Osborne has concluded a deal to keep his London banker pals happy by offering London as the patsy for Chinese off-shore financial business, in exchange for a controlling interest in the future of the UK nuclear energy industry (ref).

Whatever one thinks of nuclear power generation, giving away control of such a sensitive and potentially catastrophic process to a secretive and alien super-power 22 times larger than the UK, on the other side of the planet, shows a short-sighted and reckless arrogance more consistent with personality disorder than with democratic governance. Given the track record of Cameron's government we shouldn't be surprised, just increasingly angry.

Follow-up links:
http://stophinkley.org
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/node/hinkley
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/farce-hinckley-nuclear-reactor-haunt-britain