One of the things that happens in the Summer is the so-called "silly season" ; the days when according to the newspapers are the "slow news" days when nothing important happens. The season is usually bright and people go on holidays; the days seem endless and light and the gardens are full of flowers and growing vegetables. Trees are full of leaves and birds and animals are raising their young. With a bit of luck our own young are trying make or raise theirs.
In short Summer brings out the laxity in thinking.
Those with nothing better to do suddenly launch ideas that need to be discussed properly and force their one sided ideas on the rest of us whilst we are not looking. It is like Gordon Brown's stealth tax system - you get rooked before you know it.
Double Summertime has reared its annoyingly ugly head again.
The idea is to "align us with Europe" which means that instead of getting up to go to work at a reasonable time in the morning our 6.30 rising time which in Summer becomes 5.30 will now be 4.30 (GMT). In winter with a one hour readjustment we will still be getting up in the cold at the current 5.30 GMT which is, to put it mildly, bloody freezing. One later it is still cold but at least on a sunny winter's day there is a vestige of warmth.
I am a GMT person and do not like the idea of us being on the cusp of a time zone change and forced to bugger around adjusting to what is a commercially, profit driven movement by a crowd of mindless businessmen who wish to sway an unsympathetic Tory government to their way of thinking.
There are many of us who would prefer to keep the status quo.
