Our Governments need to admit that they were wrong. Cut their losses and get us out of the boathouse and set sail once more.We have been at anchor too long.
Set sail on already charted waters and dare to venture out of the so called safe harbour that is politically correct, poll driven mumbo jumbo " I am a rabid wanker and you should all be proud of it. " country.
Can we just start sailing again because I am sick and tired of being stuck in limbo and my sails, quite frankly, are running out of puff.
Many decades ago, my late father bought a boat. We called it " The African Queen " because it was an old clinker craft boat in need of restoration and a new motor. After many months of hard graft, the African Queen had a facelift that would have made many a Hollywood starlet proud - unlike theirs, the Queen had a dignified look and was completely free of botox.
In fact, she was dignified and graceful, albeit a bit slower in the journey. She was in short reliable, dependable and a great friend in a storm.
My Dad decided that she needed a new heart. Gone, the old motor. Enter the Wankel Engine.
My Dad researched and decided that the best motor for the job was a Wankel, It promised a revolutionary new future and my father was sold on the concept. He ordered a Wankel. My Mother ( Redhead ) was against it. She felt we should just stick with something that we knew: If it broke down, Dad knew how to fix it. But Dad wanted to try something that eradicated all the old problems with a combustion engine.
It was a complete flop.
While the early problems in the Wankel motor were largely solved in later years, at the time my father ordered one, it was a " whose bright idea was this? " moment. Something our family is well familiar with.
Dad had backed his hunch, his research and his heartfelt belief that Rotary Engines were the way of the future, but, alas, it was a bridge too far back in the early 70's.
His choices? To stand by his decision and keep pouring good money after bad - or accept that he had made a mistake, cut his losses and start again.
My father was a pragmatic man and always fessed up to his errors in judgement and was quick to accept kudos for those that were wise.
The Wankel was gone and a more stable and sensible motor ordered in its wake.
We went on to enjoy years of pleasure on " The African Queen " though, I must admit, as a teenager, I would have preferred one of the fast motor boats or jetboats that my friends enjoyed.
As we chugged around in our clinker craft old lady, I envied those in their fibreglass hulls and wished that I could feel my hair flying in the breeze aboard a speed craft rather than plodding along at slow speed in the old Lady. But our tried and true Lady always got us from A to B and we never broke down.
She neither let us down, broke down or let herself down. She was a staunch Queen and she held herself with dignity and our respect.
I cannot help but reflect on this story and consider if there is a tale to be told.
If you bugger up, fess up, ditch the dud and fix it.
Are we not in a similar situation right now?
Many Governments around the world ordered the wankel, metaphorically speaking. Shut down, hoped a vaccine would come and kept pouring money in, hoping, hoping, hoping. They are backing renewables. Nuclear is out. Coal is out. Gas is out.
It doesn't bloody work. In fact it is a disaster.
I can almost hear my Dad saying " Whose bright idea was this? "
In the case of the wankel, it took many years to sort out the problems with the rotary engine.
So many decisions governments are making are disasters. Immigration, vaccinations, climate change, closing down coal, gas, hell, clearing eucalypt forests that sustain Koala Bears so we can have wind turbines?
Whose bright idea is that?
Bringing in hostile migrants who hate us?
Whose bright idea was that?
Stopping fire burn backs?
Whose bright idea was that?
Destroying our hospitals, our economy, our housing market...
Whose bright idea was that?
Until we do what my Dad did and admit that there was a mistake, fix it and move on, we are stuffed.
We will be living with a wankel, wankers and wondering why we are not well off.
Ditch the wankel and the old wankers and get back to a tried and true engine that has kept our countries ticking over for generations.
Coal.
Oh, and don't forget that we need to keep the lights on.... at present, I suspect that we are about to descend into the Dark Ages when our leaders have gone dim and the lights are about to go out.
No Bright Ideas these days it would seem......
Dad would have gone nuclear as the old saying goes.
As a man who dedicated his working life to the power generation industry, I rather suspect that he would have done something our governments no longer do.
He would have kept the lights on and ditched the dodgy and stayed with the tried and true. Much like his 66 year marriage to Redhead. He knew when he was onto a good thing and he never deviated from that devotion.
Our marriage to coal has served us well.
I almost get the impression that our government is cheating on us, the citizens, and about to divorce us.
What a load of wankels.
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