What is it about our politicians that they seem hell bent on changing things ?
Watching today's 'Daily Politics', we have a discussion about whether or not to change the semi-annual movement in our clocks. Some daft Conservative MP of whom I have never heard before, Rebecca Harris, has put forward a 'Private Members' Bill' which seems to have gained favour with the Government. As a consequence, a trial of a change that would see us adopting GMT+1 in winter and BST+1 in summer is being considered. This would, in effect, mean the UK moving to Central European Time, even though the Greenwich Meridian, on which all of the world's clocks are based, runs through it.
Those in favour of change have a variety of reasons, principally a load of nebulous nonsense about boosts to the economy, reductions in road deaths and allowing people to make better use of the daylight hours. Those against say these reasons are rubbish, that they don't really want to still be in the dark at 10:00 in the morning, and many people who have to atsrt work early, including schoolchildren, will be spending half their days in the dark.
I don't really care much about the arguements but what gets me very hot under the collar is the continual drip, drip, drip, of these attempts to change everything that the people are used to in their everyday lives, when the world is falling down around our ears. Does the government have nothing of greater importance to worry about or are they simply trying to divert our attention from more weighty matters ? I suspect it's the latter but, hopefully, it won't work with this particular piece of political shenanigans.
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