There is a sub-section of American political society that has never really translated well over here. They're epitomised by the likes of Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck - the kind of people who are laughed at and satirised mercilessly by the British media.
Their head-swivelling, projectile-vomit rhetoric doesn't have much of a look-in here, and some would say that's a damn good thing. Their views on climate change, in particular, have set back the chance to tackle it head on by many years.
So it was surprising to read in a Scottish blog yesterday what amounted to a re-spewing of the right-wing accusations which are made frequently on the other side of the Atlantic.
Subrosa claims that the UN is attempting to establish a "global government" within the next two years (the US commentators usually say "global communist government") which will push through a Green World Order, crushing dissenters in their path.
Quite a ludicrous statement to make, particularly when you stand back and think about what that would entail. Is Subrosa seriously suggesting that the UN will dissolve sovereignty in all nations around the world in a matter of months and we'd all willingly go along with it?
She then goes on to lie about climate science (and does so again in the comments later on)and the IPCC, before claiming that green jobs aren't "real" jobs like manufacturing.
Here's some news - someone has to "manufacture" all those wind turbines. That's classified as a "green job". So is the engineer who puts the turbine together. And the engineers who monitor the turbines after they're up and running.
Or is being a welder and an engineer not a "real" job?
Perhaps Subrosa could get herself a copy of yesterday's Sunday Herald* and peruse the business pages, where she'll find a two page report on how turbine manufacture could revitalise our dying ports and manufacturing industry.
Because let's face it, when the oil runs out and there's no fish in the North Sea worth catching, they'll have bugger all else to do.
*I'd link to the report, but the Herald website is incredibly shite since their revamp - and apart from that, the business pages are down at the moment too.
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