Something of a Piracy theme today it would seem with the following BBC article suggesting to me that our government is completely missing the point (as always) when it comes to the security of our energy supply :

Somali pirates could create a “huge catastrophe” by disrupting the UK’s energy supply, former head of the Royal Navy Lord West of Spithead has warned.

At question time on 15 March 2011, the Labour peer, who was First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006, called for the government to “reinvigorate” efforts to tackle the problem.

“It is becoming a really, really dangerous issue and something will happen, I believe, in the near future that will make us all really pay attention,” he told peers.

Lord West suggested that the capture of liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships “would stop energy supplies or affect energy supplies to the UK – there could actually be a huge catastrophe”.

Foreign Office Minister Lord Howell of Guildford had warned peers the situation was getting “more serious every week and more and more ships are being attacked by hijackers”.

Rather than question the policy of installing more bird mincers and importing fuels from anyone and everyone who will sell them to us, the House of Lords instead decide that 3 guys in a motorboat armed with Kalashnikovs pose a greater threat to our continued existence :

Lord Howell replied to Lord West that the government “recognised” his point and that this global issue must be “tackled on a global level… before it gets worse”.

Even The Daily Mash would not consider that for an article as it is just too perverse.

Unfortunately, this is indeed modern day UK and I am sure that globally, no one could give a flying fuck if we sit here in the dark or not.