What are the Germans upto??

At the moment the Germans are shitting bricks over their nuclear power programme. In an industry that has a reasonable safety record, despite the very best efforts of Homer Simpson, with just 2 serious incidents in the last 60 years, with the last nearly 25 years ago - Germany is getting panicky over Japanese nuclear problems - Germany, like the UK and France is in one of the most seismically benign areas of the  globe - Japan has been clobbered by unparalleled tremors and their resultant tsunami allied to a country with a phenomenally high population density whose capital and its environs have a population of 39 million on their own equivalent to over half the population of all of the UK. 




But then again the Germans are sometimes quick to jump on the bandwagon. I remember a few years ago when German Greenpeace got all stroppy about BP or Shell planning to deliberately sink an oil rig in the North Atlantic.
Now there is no nation on earth responsible for more scrap metal on the bottom of the North Atlantic, I do not recall Captain Hans the ruggedly  handsome Ayrian U Boat commander in his chunky sweater asking for an environmental assessment prior to emptying torpedo tubes 2 and 3 and sending another UK bound tanker to the bottom. 


So, basically the Germans being worried about nuclear power is all a bit hypocritical . They are probably trying to  misdirect us from something else, 
it will probably come out that it was a german company that provided hand made underwear to Colonel Gaddafi, or plutonium to Iran or earthquake detection equipment to Christchurch, or condoms to Burlesconi, or delusional self confidence to Michael O Leary (the boss of Ryanair) or bullshit to Nick Clegg or hubris to the Tory party.

(PS - my wife had  a friend who is German and when her mechanic boyfriend couldn't get the exhaust to work on her VW Beetle without leaking fumes into the the car she said "Well what do you expect from a German car designed by the Nazis!!!")     


Remember two wrongs don't make a right bit three rights make a left!