Sir,
As more and more people stay at home to avoid the Corona virus, we could see the reliability of food, water and energy (not to mention NHS) services hit hard.
When that results in a higher casualty rate than that from the virus itself, then we will know that the policy has gone too far.
Can we assume that such risks are being evaluated by government agencies?
Do they have any idea of when the balance point might be reached, bearing in mind that the majority of those providing essential services are likely to recover, if they do contract the virus?
Or will we only find out when those services begin to close down?
Respectfully, Mr King
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Sir,
Of course the Home office mandarin (who is paid more than our Prime Minister) is resisting removal, he has had it good for a long time while working against the people of this country behind the scenes.
I say remove to the Tower of London through the traitors gate, any and all of these ‘entitled’ people if they are not prepared to work for the good of British public who pay their wages, and who gave their instructions in the referendum in 2016, and again in the general election of 2019.
Give the Augean Stables a good clean out.
I back Priti Patel one hundred percent.
Respectfully, Jane Birkby
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Sir,
Amidst all the excitement about new EU immigration controls, something that has been forgotten is the impact on the hospitality industry amongst others.
Minimum wage rises soon to £8.71 which X40 x52 is just over £18,000 a year.
Patel is talking about £26,000 a year. That’s the same figure that Blair introduced in 2005 I think, which immediately cut off all access to all commonwealth staff.
Had a huge impact on this business and now they’re doing it again.
Respectfully, Alan Piper
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Sir,
The plan for electric cars and the idea to make all residential properties gas and oil free is pure fantasy land. How on earth do they plan to generate enough electricity for 30million car. How are people living in terraced houses and apartments going to charge their cars. Is there a plan to electrify 40 ton trucks. Coaches and buses. How many wind farms and Nuclear power station need to be built. Nuclear power stations take 10 years to build so they had better start tomorrow. Do we make car batteries? The answer is no. What about the disposal of 30 million petrol and diesel cars etc let alone worn out batteries. The whole idea is wishful thinking . Perhaps the little Swedish wonder woman can come up with the answer. We wait with bated breath.
Respectfully, Alan Stannard
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Sir
Bringing forward the switch to Electric Vehicles (EV) to 2032, will require a more than doubling of national grid capacity.
By that date, the grid would need to be made CO2 neutral, with around 20 new 3,000 MW nuclear power stations, at a lead time of up to 10 years and a capital cost of around £200bn. (Look out for that in the Budget.)
Sadly the alternative of installing 60,000 MW of new solar and wind power will not not fit the bill, because the peak load will often arise when there is no sun or wind.
Indeed, solar and wind power capacity is now only around 1% of maximum demand on some days. So an enormous amount of money would have to be spent on solar, wind power plus energy storage, to match the 24 x 7 grid demand profile.
That is in addition to the upgrading of Domestic electrical distribution systems, to power the EV battery chargers, plus 25 million new charging points along with many acres of new parking capacity.
Surely the first thing we need is politicians who grasp a) the laws of physics and b) that the U.K. produces less than 2% of global CO2 emissions.
What we don’t need is another Lemming like dash for solar and wind power, making electrical energy even more uncompetitive, only to drive more businesses abroad – where they will emit more CO2 than before.
Respectfully, Roger Arthur
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A poem by Bob Lomas:
WEALDEN SPRING
What greater pleasure can there be
To have the privilege to see
A team of horses at their work
The steady pull they never shirk.
Bright sunshine on a warm Spring day
Entices passers-by to stay
And watch the horses at their toil,
To break and crush the Wintered soil.
Their hooves clump down at a steady pace,
Unhurried, yet there is a race,
For soon the dry Spring winds will come,
And then, combined with scorching sun,
Will bake the soil hard as a rock,
Too hard to break for future crop.
The horses work from early dawn,
And draw and sweat throughout the morn.
Their harness jingles with a ring,
And high above a lark will sing.
The peewit, diving in display
In another field not far away.
And a chiffchaff sings in a nearby copse,
Where bluebells hide a resting fox.
But best of all, the mid-day break,
When beneath the hedge the men will take
That well earned rest against a stump,
While the horses in their nosebags chump.
Those warm Spring days such pleasures bring
When all the birds at once do sing,
And I can work with friends so sure
As Captain, Duke and bonny Flower.
(Photo courtesy of Bob Lomas)
Chinese flu – what a wonderful break for Boris.
They’ll never be able to tell whether the economy was ruined by flu or by jumping off a cliff!
And if those fail there’ll always be the floods caused by GW – is that called “walking on water?”
Mr King worries that those who stay at home to avoid COVID-19 will affect services. Does he join those huffing and puffing that flu kills more people every winter? Yes, it appears that the most susceptible are the same group who succumb to secondary infections and other complications from flu – the elderly and those with weakened immunity and other medical conditions. But we have a flu vaccine, people in high risk groups can avail themselves of this every year. If a new, virulant strain emerges everything is already in place within the biopharma industry to respond with a new vaccine targeted at it.
There is no such structure in place for this virus, furthermore those who bow to the god of globalisation baulked at taking the action necessary to contain it within China and, at worst a small number of nearby nations. As for the UK, we are an island, we know what we have to do to prevent animals bringing in diseases we have eradicated, or never had yet the Government did not act to keep this out.
I sometimes get the impression that the ‘victims’ are considered expendable because they are elderly or infirm. Well not if it is YOUR loved one they aren’t.
I particularly like the letter about how ridiculous it is to ban petrol and diesel cars. I’ve pointed out before that it is impossible to charge all those electric vehicles that would be needed.
As for the whole notion that CO2 is causing disastrous global warming we have said on here many times what nonsense that is and wondered who is funding or gaining from the scam.
Personally I am gobsmacked that our government are apparently going along with this nonsense. Especially as at the moment they seem to be doing reasonably well otherwise.
I suspect that TPTB know full well that AGW is a scam but are making full use of it to exert control that they cannot accomplish by normal “democratic” means.
“Surely the first thing we need is politicians who grasp a) the laws of physics”
Roger Arthur
Roger, when you’ve got a Minister for Energy and Climate Change who doesn’t even know that electricity doesn’t somehow just hang around waiting to be used, but needs a battery or other storage system, the thought of one who understands even kintergarten physics is hopelessly over-optimistic.
JF
Well said, contributers Alan Stannard and Rodger Arthur in the 28th February 2020 edition of Independence Daily. The whole world’s population is dependent on cheap energy sources, and particularly so in the more developed countries and the new manufacturing countries (like China). As pointed out, we in Britain only contribute about 2% of the CO2 emissions, so our enormous sacrificial effort in bringing our emissions to zero counts for little in the global picture. Without the same amount of energy that the world uses now, there would be far fewer of life’s basic products, and importantly food production and distribution would be very much reduced, and countless millions would undoubtably have to die!
Dare I make the politically incorrect statement – ‘The current level of world human population is unsustainable long term for the earth’s resources!’ In an electric world, where is all the lithium for batteries or the rare earth for powerful magnets coming from? And we still need the oil for plastics, macadam road binders and fuel for industrial processes still producing CO2. Yes, we have climate change, but we have had climate change for millions of years, and is it really proven that by regulating CO2 emission we can control the climate? I have been a Civil Engineer “controlling the forces of nature for the benefit of man”, but there is only so much that one can do! When you think of controlling the weather, the picture of King Canute sitting at the waters edge commanding the tide to stop comes to mind!
So if my hypothesis is correct, that mankind has been overdoing God’s blessing of Genesis 1:27-28, we certainly have a problem on our hands with mass migrations in the future as people search for places on the planet where they can sustain themselves and their families. In Turkey Erdogan has managed to contain 3.6 million refugees and economic migrants, and the threat is ever present to release them into Europe! Millions in Africa wish they could escape the arid regions where they live, while others in congested city slums would like the opportunity to better themselves. The problems we face are not just technological, but anthropocentric. Come on politicians, wake up and get real!
Colin Payne
Colin Payne…well said!
Africa, since we pulled out mainly in the late forties, has become even more disgustingly corrupt than our House of Lords. resembling the terrifying works of Heronimus Bosch, slobbering and feasting on the abused bodies of innocents nationwide, from Bradford to Birmingham, Wellington to Wales – this is now regarded s ‘the norm’ – and as a reward we send Pakistan £480 Million a year in ‘Aid’
As for Africa bribery abounds – Despots reign – natural resources are plundered by Chinese gangsters parading as ‘benefactors’ and spreading arsenic over the polluted lands – and the world looks on.
We daily see extremely expensive advertising asking US for money to help cure the ills of deprived children in Africa and worldwide, those suffering a multitude of illnesses malnutrition and abuse – whilst our kids here are systematically raped WHOLESALE by Sex Gangs and Police and Social services LOOK ON, wringing their blood-stained hands. I am quite sure we can find more urgent uses for £14.3 Billions?
Meanwhile African Governments, almost to a man, wallow in riches even beyond the OUR dreams.
And WE look on, welcoming them with open arms to Commonwealth Conferences hosted by no less a personage than The Queen.
I guess she must read the ‘papers’ sometime and grasp a modicum of basic facts on African Political corruption?
I wonder how many dirty, sticky Nigerian Government fingers have been in the ‘Aid’ pie these past twenty/thirty years or so (last year about £300 Million baksheesh sent – and rising!) – and if any more than pennies have percolated down to their blind and starving hordes of wide-eyed weeping poor I would be flabbergasted.
International Aid escalates – and our aged, deprived grandmothers pine for the halcyon days of husbands staggering back from their lifetime of night-shifts in the pits. What sort of ‘progress’ have those poor ‘buggers’ enjoyed – what sort of ‘Aid’?
Will Johnson’s ‘Northern Promises’ ever be delivered and realised?
There are many local problems, even apart from EU problems, to solve – before we give another penny to International Aid (Bribes).
By the time Billy -Bunter-Boris sorts out his marital and future free holiday preparations, his term of office will probably expire – by which time he will need to get some scriptwriters in to renew his puerile Frankie Howerd style scripts.
If Starmer does lead the Opposition he will be a distinctly different opponent to Corbyn – never underestimate a hungry English Barrister, they are trained to eat your guts, innards and come back for ‘afters’.
This insane panic in this country infuriates me no end, and will send us SKINT!
On the one hand we are outpricing ourselves industrially with ever-rising energy costs………(and at the same time cursingbthe dearth of proper jobs ‘up-North’ – while China, for instance, employs 1.4 Million people in coal mines and DOMINATES world trade to such an extent that when China coughs, the rest of the world gets pneumonia (how apt is THAt!)
Their towns and cities spew out catastrophic amounts of pure poison – and by doing so TOTALLY NEGATES anything we do in attempting to control the environment.
We cling onto every lisp that mentally ill little foreign girls pronounce (or, mis-pronounce if you like!) and by attending her ‘orchestrated tantrums’ hold up the education of our vulnerable children, accompanied by their brainless Costa, Starbucks swilling mothers – who themselves appear, from their inability to utter any sensible coherent articulated speech, to also suffer with extreme mental problems.
Get the kids back to school, and the parents back home to tender to the ever-increasingly urgent needs of the Grandparents. It is a complete mystery to me how they can find the time for childish whining about ‘climate-change’ when the bloody climate has been ‘changing’ for a million years – and will NEVER BE STABLE! Pratts!!!!!!
But……I thought everyone knew that it is us wicked, sinful wood and multi fuel burning households that are responsible for all the problems!!!! China opens a new coal burning power station but that pales into insignificance when set against those nasty householders keeping warm in front of their evil stoves!!!! You remember….the stoves that we were told were wonderful because they were ‘carbon neutral’!!!
Now they cut down trees (that ingest CO2 and put out oxygen) to make way for thousands and thousands of new energy demanding houses and many many more vehicles on the roads!
It’s time all the politicians and civil servants are relieved of their communal brain cell and consigned to the dustbin of history and replaced by proper people who know how the real world works. The dumbo charlatans have outstayed their time.
Frederica! Well done and full of wisdom. I have been telling anyone who might listen about the insane amounts of crap that China spews out every day – regardless of what we or any other country says or does. I make no excuse for repeating facts, until the time comes when what I rave about becomes common knowledge; that China employs one million four hundred thousand in their COAL INDUSTRY , Yes, that is 1.4 MIllion! Meanwhile they are dispatching their ‘spies’ to every corner of the earth in the guise of ‘students’ and are populating our Univesities and Research Sectors with people who are warned, via their Laws, that they are EXPECTED as Chinese citizens, anywhere in the world, to spy for their country. ( These spying escapades sometimes go badly wrong, as in the case of Winnipeg and the Coronavirus escape).
The insane rush for greater profits persuaded thousands of businesses in the West to transfer their manufacturing requirements to China – and NOW the chickens are coming home to roost – frustrated supplies of essential parts for a litany of Western factories – causing chaos.
NEVER forget – THEY can afford to lose two thirds of their,population and not blink an eye (1.4 Billion!) Our 63 Million population are a drop-in-the-ocean to them – and apart from being consumers of their crappy products, WE would not be missed.
HOW CONCERNED DO YOU THINK XI IS ABOUT A COUPLE OF BITS OF DAMP TIMBER?
Misterpaul5a. Those facts are very interesting! I want to know why our politicians are so content to ignore the facts and statistics that prove how the West is being violated by trade and interaction with the Chinese. If this information was made public (if our MSM was not ‘bought and paid for’ and did their proper duty to inform instead of suppress) perhaps people would think twice about deciding what to buy!!!
I have seen pictures of the appalling working conditions endured by many Chinese factory workers. Yet our politicians ignore such issues while they wrangle over ‘workers rights’ rules with the EU in pursuit of a dubious trade agreement that may still encourage the importation of goods made in China!
But as we all know full well, it is much easier to pursue and pillory the small man who cannot easily fight back!
Frederica…I do try to research the figures which I give out or quote.
However unbelievable they often appear to be.
The Americans, despite themselves, do come out with pearls of wisdom on occasions.
i.e…….”Follow the money” is a case in point.
Daily I observe, via my “camera obscura’ view of my local Tesco store, multiple queues of ‘state-of-the-art’ four-by-fours populated by? One person – and one obese wobbling man-child.
Their sheer size, both the vehicles and the occupants put the fear of God in me!
Frankly I would be hard put to afford one of their tyres, let alone purchase the vehicles whose genuine leather seats they slither from, which appear to be built to conquer the jungles of the Amazon or the Gobi desert, and heaven knows the vast costs in materials, power, human and animal resources, required to build them.
I see their fat little offspring, clutching their mobiles and sucking on enormous bars of cancer-producing, sugar-coated, diabetic reinforced, multipackaged, non-recyclable ‘chocabars’ – and my stomach churns at the mental image of their next thirty years of diabetic drug-prescriptions – paid for by? Certainly not THEM since they will be unemployable.
Yes, these are the offspring of people who gorge themselves on anti-depressants and who at the same time order us to extinguish our little home log-fires in order to save the planet, egged on by a squint-eyed mentally retarded child Viking.
As the old song went……”Are we downhearted? No!”……….”Then, let the voices ring”……..
AND…….”Keep the home-fires burning………….”.
Alan the figure is £18000 for under 26s per Andrew Green so the cheap labour scam continues.
I take it under 26s are not meant to have many hangers on, at least if they are single, or am I dreaming?