Above, one of the buses of Leeds City Council in the 1960s and 1970s.
For three months in 1976 (June, July and August) during the famous “long hot summer” a 21 year old young man (who would turn 22 that September) used to sprint from the bus stop at the bottom of Vicar Lane near the Corn Exchange down Ludgate Hill beside the entrance to Leeds Markets, down New York Street into York Street to Leeds Bus Station whereupon I would catch the bus out to Stourton and the Leeds Containerbase.
In those days I could run quickly run the furlong (Google it!) between the bus stop I alighted from to the bus stop I boarded on! Those were the days!
In 1976, the setting for George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” was set eight years in the future.
Thinking ahead twelve months to 2026, I ponder that it will then be fifty years separating that healthy young man sprinting between buses and the septuagenarian living in a dystopian reality governed by Sir Kier Stalin!
Of course, it is one thing to live in a prosperous dystopia. It is quite another to live in an impoverished dystopia!
That deeply unwelcome prospect waits us I am afraid!
Why?
Because of the lunatic environmental policies put forward by Maniac Miliband!
You see, what is about to take place (in the 2030s) is the replacement of most “employment opportunities” in the private sector of the economies of successful nations. This is because human workers will be replaced by robot workers!
These robot workers will be able to perform their duties (mental and physical) more ably than the humans they replaced and without being paid!
The problem you see for the Net Zero Aspirant UK is that both humans and robots need fuel – otherwise they stop working. Humans get their fuel in the form of food and drink. Robots get their fuel in the form of electricity. Replacing every human worker in private industry with a robot replacement will require a vast increase in the electrical generating capacity of the UK – something far beyond the capacity or capability of the Maniac Miliband’s beloved “renewables”.
Thus the UK is going to loose out in the new robotic economy!
This of course raises the question: If the vast majority of humans are made redundant, where are the jobs for them which will pay the wages which will generate the demand of the goods and services made by the robots?
Well you see, this is something that politicians are exceptionally good at producing!
Non jobs provided by quangos and research bureaus and other “not for profit” organisations!
However, these employment creation schemes will require the taxes paid by the prospering employers of the robots – something that the Maniac Miliband’s Net Zero obsession will frustrate.