The fact remains that, in many circles, both tree hugging and do gooding are used as terms of abuse so they seem to have succumbed to newspeak, which rather than being decided by a totalitarian state, is being devised by the popular press.

The point about fracking is not so much about where it will happen but the simple fact that it is being forced through, against the will of many people, bypassing the very democracy that we seem to be discussing. Adding insult to injury, even though it seems to be a very bad idea in many ways, we are being told it is for our own good.

It appears that it will be of most benefit to those doing the fracking and those approving it to me and so 'the good of society' also seems to have become newspeak for 'lining the pockets of the rich'. But, as I have said before, I am a cynic when it comes to politicians and I am drifting too far from the point of this thread.

One final point on our so called democracy. When you have Conservative neoliberal policies and Labour neoliberal policies that both benefit the super rich and are difficult to insert a cigarette paper between it is little wonder that people use either a protest vote or do not vote at all. The time for voting for the lesser of two evils must be replaced by a better option if we are to survive.

DtG