The green zealots in the MSM didn’t even notice the irony! As a monument to utter idiocy the front pages of today’s print editions cannot be beaten. Furthermore, the headline for yon compilation wins top spot for supreme, subliminal manipulation by clever juxtaposition of words: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Hell on Earth’ and Tories’ green policy ‘retreat’. “(link). If only the dastardly Tories had implemented green crappery much sooner! When we have all scrapped our cars and ‘gone electric’ such fires will never happen! “Steely Starmer”, labelled thus in the title of an opinion piece in The Times (link, paywalled), will surely make it so!
To get the full flavour of the involuntary irony displayed on this morning’s print front pages I’ve taken screenshots of the worst offenders – enjoy:
Words, as so often nowadays, failed me! I wonder if and how the Labour bigwigs will get to grips with the damage Net Zero is inflicting on their beloved ‘hard working families’. It’s not just about Rhodes burning, it’s about this reaction, reported in The Times: “Tories will ditch green policies to win voters” (link, paywalled). How unfair by the Tories: reacting to a problem in order to keep their majority! They should simply roll over and let the left wing of the Uniparty win. Instead:
“Rishi Sunak is planning to hold firm on net-zero goals while delaying or ditching a host of measures that would impose direct costs on consumers, as he comes under pressure from the right of his party to rethink Britain’s climate commitments. After the Conservatives’ unexpected victory in last week’s Uxbridge & South Ruislip by-election, there are tensions in both main parties about the cost of environmental policies […]” (link, paywalled)
Well, either Net Zero is a national goal which the Uniparty must strive for, to the detriment of their voters – or it is another political playball which is deflating in front of our eyes. Here’s the first weaselling-out by none other than JRM who was “[…] calling yesterday for a delay to the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars and the end of green levies on energy bills. […] Having a long-term ambition for net zero is different.” (link, paywalled).
Is this the first sign of a politician daring to mention that the Net Zero emperor is nekkid? As for Sunak – oh, how ‘sources’ were busy yesterday, dripping their spin into the open ears of The Times’ reporters! See this:
“[…] one person who has worked closely with the prime minister on the issue said: “He’s just not interested in it. He’s not opposed to it — he’s just not interested.” Allies of Sunak insisted that Britain was leading the world on climate measures, but one said: “The PM thinks we’ve got to take the public with us on this. You can’t impose on people.” (link, paywalled)
Blimey: ‘you can’t impose on people’? Why did nobody tell that to BJ and the SAGEs during the covid years? Also, I detect a supercilious attitude in these remarks, as if ‘we the powerful’ can impose or not, as we wish, because ‘we’ll be exempt from those impositions’.
Worse, in my opinion, is that those charmed Westminster denizens, the mandarins and MSM editors, know full well what they’re doing. It’s now even dawning on the current crop of Tory MPs. Nick Timothy, writing his commentary for the DT, produced this click-baity headline”
“Politicians have lost faith in politics. This explains the state we are in – Our MPs have voluntarily handed their powers and responsibilities to quangos, bureaucrats and judges” (paywalled link)
He describes nicely what we’ve been debating here on this site for years: the extra-parliamentary powers handed by governments to NGOs and the judiciary. I wonder if the Labour wing of the Uniparty will try to reverse this trend or if they’re happy to hand over even more of their power to those entities. After all, if one’s a newly elected 25-year old MP, how much practical experience can one bring to the political table, to take on those powers … just ‘speaking truth’ to them won’t work.
Meanwhile, our good old Sacred Cow is again in the news. The Times reports that “GPs consider strike that could shut surgeries for a week” (link, paywalled) – and why not! Surely what’s sauce for the consultants goose must be sauce for the GPs gander, no? There’s a ‘statement’ by the LibDems, providing a perfect example of how to make people accept an outcome worse than the status quo: “The Lib Dems are calling for a new right for patients to see a GP within a week or 24 hours if in urgent need.” (link, paywalled).
Wasn’t it possible in ye olden days to see a GP on the same day? Weren’t we next reassured that GPs had to give appointments within 48 hours? Am I misremembering? Will “Steely Starmer” (surely better than “Kneely Starmer”!) and his lot support the GPs? After all, it was Labour’s Aneurin Bevan who claimed that he’d stuffed gold down the throats of GPs to make them agree to the birth of the Sacred Cow.
I leave you with ‘news’ showing the rock bottom now reached by our MSM: “Snake on a train causes passengers to flee in chaos – Orange reptile is found on Shipley to Leeds service” (paywalled link). The photos are lovely – but there’s not even the scintilla of an attempt at identifying that snake: a harmless corn snake. While the ill-educated train passengers may be excused for ‘fleeing in horror’, I am aghast that DT ‘reporters’ are apparently incapable of checking out the interwebz. How … disappointing.
That’s all I have for today. Perhaps we ought to open a book on which ‘issue’ Labour will go for in their election campaign: saving the Sacred Cow or implementing Net Zero at all costs. Have a good day.
Even before the Carbon, the CO2, and such like, Has anyone calculated the actual tons of carbon or whatever that it takes to make a whole motorcar vs. the same for an EV… I’m sick of hearing obvious ignorant guesses and wild claims. I’m sure the Germans have done this sum.in £ s, but have they done it in anything .else. The same goes for windmills. Have these people also included such problems as maintenance,. accidents, Dangerous ideology, such as our American friends clever ideas like planned obsolescence, Supply chains, JIT, , The corruption of Agencies the idiocy of HR and , and disposable. Also why are we not refurbishing old Nuclear, there must be dozens around and easy.
Our government is causing us. We need rid of Parachuting, Regulators, Lobbying, and bad sell-by Quangos. And a thousand bad ( corrupt ) government decisions
The situation is well beyond funny. All it needs is one honest man at the top. to start the carnage.
There are many thousands of letters like this daily. It must collapse
Hot v Cold check out the ‘Lancet’ take on the issue.
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/1683126977669255168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1683126977669255168%7Ctwgr%5Ee61e052404d7fb2c38db1b5f26f450b1f8c85e75%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysceptic.org%2Ftodays-update%2F
There was pleanty of evidence to show just how bad management of anything had become in this country even before e.u membership which just hid the peoblem from many people for example much of Industry and certainly anything remotely conected to the public sector. It just suited many to not notice and now they are just starting too mainly because it effects them.
The media ‘silly season’ has started. With Parliament in recess and a good percentage of the population and MPs on holiday, we are scratching around for news. Sorry about that, dear reader. Viv and I will have to work a bit harder to find you just about anything at all of any interest. We’ll do our best. If any of you find anything of interest, please let us know.
I’ll take that challenge:-
– Those pesky Russians last night attacked their own city of Moscow, again.
– It is so hot, now that I have put the heating on (yes!) – heating fuel still has five pct common market tax on living. Thanks for Maastricht you worthless sell-out mps. Explain / discuss, post Brexit why this tax imposed by unelected foreigners still remain(er)s.
– CH has never heard of Depudy Dawg, let alone the name of his two chums, Musky and yes I do know his Moley friend’s real name. Signs of a mis-spent youth – discuss.
– Ukrainian refugees, blazing drunk on the main street in town abusing locals in Ukrainian (not in Russian). They don’t want to abuse Russians in Ukr, their own country. Expand – numbers, cost to British taxpayers and similar.
– Second hand bmws are going down in price a little. But not enough! CH to provide first hand track tests of beemers and mercs.
– Many companies do not recognise cheques as legal tender any more – discuss bank of England(?) reasons – if any.
– democrates failing to impeach Pres Trump again, and again, and again and . . . terrified of Pres Trump winning, having relentlessly sown the wind, and the whirlwind boot will be on the other foot . . . = malicious prosecution.
– Poland ponders taking / annexing West Ukraine. (Clearly Poland sees Ukr ongoing weakness, like the rest of us). Russia groups an army in Southern Belarus. Putin warns off Poland, nato and others. Discuss the Putin speech that affects all of us uS / Bidet vassals, given a couple of days ago. Consequences?
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Nick Timothy is another one who appears to have just woken from a coma. “Our MPs have voluntarily handed their powers and responsibilities to quangos, bureaucrats and judges”. Since Maastricht Parliament had been handing its powers to the EU. The people may have wanted to take back control but the establishment never did. It had lost any sense of full governing, and the second rate MPs created by long membership of the EU did not have the confidence to take back control. Autonomy scared them and still does. I think that in our 2016 enthusiasm for Brexit we just assumed, but never asked, if we were capable of self-government. We ought to have been in theory; the practice was different. Looking back on countries that gained independence from the British Empire the success stories depended on the right leadership at the time. We needed a Lee Kwan Yew but got Theresa May, a rabbit who froze in the EU’s headlights. The rest is history as they say.
Is that the Nick T claim to fame as political expert advisor to treason May? I would suggest all those tory voters in selby&ainsty that stayed at home are well ahead of him. When the government promises ‘to do whatever you decide’ and then doesn’t- the vote, like the pound, is debased. Labour voters can still happily vote to get rid of a tory but voting tory to keep labour out is looking pretty pointless. So you end up making history by electing another political nerd.
Good post – how true!