Sir,
It is perhaps rather sad to be sitting at the kitchen table at 5am, checking up on the UK’s National Grid, but as I’ve been predicting nights like this since Matthew Hancock was the Minister for Energy and Climate Change it is grimly satisfying to watch the concatenation of events that I have been banging on about all this time.
A blocking high is sitting over Europe with wind turbines standing silent and still from Norway to the south of Spain. In the UK our ‘fleet’ of wind subsidy harvesters are producing 0.41GW from an installed capacity of 21GW. Well, not completely still – some of them will be using Grid electricity to rotate the vanes, as if they stand still for too long the bearings distort.
The nuclear stations have been neglected for years, with decisions being made too late to bring new plant on stream quickly enough to make the chaotic dash for green power a safe option, and of course the choice of the almost unbuildable and catastrophically expensive European Pressurised Reactors for the next generation means that clean reliable power from those is at least ten years away. The valiant remnants of this technology – a technology in which the UK was once a world leader – are producing 3.8GW and will keep on producing that amount come rain, come shine, come calm or gale. The UK’s base load requirement is a bit more than 20GW. Steady, reliable nuclear power should be providing it.
Solar is not helping. It’s night time. The sun won’t rise until 06:38 and for a few hours after that we won’t see it anyway as it’s going to be foggy. Then, when the peak demand is past, the fog will lift and solar will have its expensive, subsidised couple of hours as the green star on the Grid. It will be at the wrong time, it won’t help when it’s needed, but it will do its job. Which is transferring money from the old, the poor and the sick into the pockets of rich landowners, farmers and those politicians who sit on the correct boards and committees. Current contribution: nil.
How fortunate we are that we have friendly allies who are sending us lots of energy from the continent. 3GW from French nuclear reactors, a couple from the Netherlands and Belgium. I’d bet, on no evidence at all, that the latter is generated in German coal burning power stations. Let’s hope a surly French President doesn’t realise that he has the power to close down a big chunk of UK industry at the flip of a switch. This morning’s peak demand is going to be around 40GW. It’s squeaky bum time. Again.
Respectfully, Julian Flood
(Near real-time and recorded data at https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/)
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Sir,
I thought I would send you a copy of the e-mail I have sent to my MP on Saturday, in my outrage at the notion of ‘passport’ entry to shops in my own Country!
“Dear MP,
It was kind of you to ask your aide to write to me in reply to my last communication to let me know “that my comments had been noted”! Are there no lengths to which this government will not go in their attempts to abolish liberty in this Country?
We have suffered ‘house arrest’ for months on end for a virus that 99% of people who contract it recover from (rather like a very bad ‘flu year!). The statistics regarding ‘cases’ have been corrupted by many factors such as ‘false positives’; un-sterile treatment of samples; and mass testing of people with no symptoms.
The death rates have been corrupted because of factoring in the death ‘with’ COVID being lumped in with actual death ‘from’ COVID. Accurate recording would have meant that only deaths ‘from’ COVID would have been recorded as such on the death certificates issued.
The ‘vaccines’ being rushed out with ‘emergency authorisation’ are still the subject of ‘trial’. Most trial dates ending in 2023. Thus, those who take the ‘vaccine’ are the subjects of the largest human trial experiment ever undertaken. The ‘vaccines’ are being offered without the facility of the ‘informed consent’ being applied. People are being harassed repeatedly by agencies contacting them to push the take-up numbers higher.
Now the prospect of ‘Vaccine Passports’ (that Michael Gove emphatically denied was a possibility in December!) are being actively touted as a probability. That would be coercion on an epic scale, worthy of the most authoritarian State that there has ever been! It would divide the Nation absolutely and make people virtual outcasts in their own land! If one needed a passport to visit a supermarket to buy food it would condemn a large number of people to hardship and possible starvation. Not every household has internet facilities. They would be totally reliant on others to bring them food. Supermarkets would become overwhelmed with online ordering. Delivery delays would most definitely follow!
More than 225,000 people have, currently, signed a petition against the issue of such a passport. Those numbers are still increasing as I write! The Nuremberg Code 1947 expressly states that:- “The principle of voluntary informed consent protects the right of the individual to control his own body. This code also recognises that the risk must be weighed against the expected benefit and that unnecessary pain and suffering must be avoided”
I cannot imagine how a supposedly ‘conservative’ government can possibly have become so inhuman; totalitarian and dictatorial. Leadership is absent and it is a free-for-all amongst the sofa cabinet members to spout their views ad libitum. The economy of this Country has been wrecked in the most deliberate action ever taken by a sitting government! It is as if a hostile coup has been mounted against the people of the United Kingdom by its own Government. Parliament has been effectively and deliberately sidelined so that proper debate and scrutiny has been denied. Liberty and freedom has been withdrawn. The age old terms of Magna Carta have been overthrown by the most damaging government ever seen in Britain!
You are part of this government. I respectfully suggest that you re-consider your position on the path that is being taken and the actions being decided. These actions work against the wishes of the majority of people in this once free and proud land. As for myself (should I ever be allowed to vote again in what is fast approaching a ‘One-Party State’) I am disgusted by what I have seen over the past 12 months and I am no longer be a Conservative voter! – Yours truly, etc …”
Respectfully, Frederica
Frederica……..when I say Johnson’s only success taking this country out of the European Union, it is not the withdrawal that I was personally seeking. There is unfinished business insofar as our territorial waters and fishing is concerned, and the fact that Northern Ireland is treated as a separate entity from the rest of Great Britain . This is not the the time to draw up the white flag like Johnson and Gove did, just to get a deal, any deal over the line by the end of December. I have said it before and will say it again, we should have left the European Union on WTO Rules.
My faith gone in Peter Hitchens.
And now in Lord Sumption. Just watched him on Unherd, he too has caved over the jab and chooses to totally ignore our very well justified reservations of the jab and vacpass. Is quick to try to give the impression that vac refuseniks are in a TINY minority .
Can’t agree with him on muzzles either; he more or less says we should wear them not because they work, but to avoid upsetting those who don’t see through all this nonsense and who are scared of the virus.( Allowing IMHO a stupidocracy.)
But arent the muzzles partly to create an atmosphere of fear and propagate the fraud…….
I think one of the only decent reliable journalists id Vernon Coleman. No wonder he never gets a public platform
PS Lord Sumption link
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lord+sumption+on+unherd&atb=v114-1&ia=web
Frederica. You have probably received the same email as me – the anti vaccine passport petition is to get a hearing in a HoC committee.
Your letter to your M.P. is very good. Well done.
I’m also in the process of telling mine how little I think of him!
Pauline. It is good news about the debate but it seems that these debates do not currently include the whole of the HOC so perhaps I am being cynical when I say that I expect very little in the way of positive outcome! But….the numbers are going up 256k at time of writing so you never know!
Thanks for your kind comment, I’m glad you are going to attack your MP as well. I know people scoff about the responses they get. I think that most MPs are a waste of space but I do believe that they take note of the numbers of correspondence items that they get and….. its all we have at present! Mine has become a bit dismissive with me because she knows that I will never agree with her stance. But I am content to keep badgering and pestering for as long as it takes! I’m sure “they dont like it up ‘em Mr Mannering!”
Petitions are discussed in a committee yes, not whole House. But I’m pretty certain that the views expressed in the cttee. do get reported back to the Govt. The danger is of course that the views of the cttee. will be more pro passports than agin.
Julian:
A necessary reminder of the coming energy shortages resulting from government policy and submission to the Green Nonsense. A few power cust might be welcome if they were to highlight the folly of those in government.
Frederica:
If government tries to impose such passports then it is surely a call to revolution as our only way to survive. Maybe a novel version of hunting would be fun with government ministers as the hunted.
Jack, that’s a fine idea! I’d certainly support that. That’s the first occasion I’ve had to laugh all day! Everything else has been so grim.
In the meantime please keep sharing this petition calling for passports NOT to be used at all!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/569957
When computer games came into vogue, I came up with a fun idea of having one called “Wallop the Weasels” where icons of all the weaselly politicians were on the screen and you had to blast as many as possible out of existence with the virtual machine gun. . Pow pow pow pow. Ding.
Now, unfortunately, I don’t even laugh at my own joke; I want REAL action. The situation is now beyond satire.
PS, Tally Ho, I’m in with the Hunting idea. Hee Hee !
And…..before anyone says I was too polite in my first sentence…… it was meant to be ironic!!! I was jolly cross that she chose to ask an aide to tell me that ‘my comments had been noted’. In my estimation, that implied that they had been summarily dismissed as of no account! “La! La! Cant hear you!!!”
Frederica, in the penultimate paragraph of your excellent letter a sentence reads : “It is as if a hostile coup has been mounted against the people of the United Kingdom by its own Government”. I almost entirely agree with you, and would agree with you entirely, if the first four words were missing from that sentence.
Indeed Ralph.
Ralph. I accept your rebuke. I cannot argue with the fact! Memo to self….’must try harder’
Was not a rebuke Frederica, I was just supporting your point more forcefully.
Sorry Ralph. I should have put ‘lol’ after my comment. I didn’t take it personally. I was laughing! x
Julian’s letter, expounding the potentially disastrous shortcomings of Britain’s energy capacity is both enlightening and terrifying! It should be highlighted in every newspaper and media source possible. The fact that it is not, is proof positive that the media is almost wholely in the control of government! Our reliance on energy sources from our continental neighbours should be enough to convince most people that over the last few decades our governments have been working against our best interests. Their ‘virtue signalling’ drive to show their green credentials is a facade. Underneath all this piety lies a determination to destroy this Country both economically and culturally. To what end? We suspect that most of our HOC politicians are closet remainers. So are we to infer that it is their ultimate intention to deliver the UK into the hands of the EU as a broken and supplicant nation? The runes are not looking good!
Closet Remainders.? Or just carefully selected, unscrupulous career politicians?
I’ve preferred Farage every time since about 2005 but he’s too Marmite for most. Sadly.
Certainly they are now ‘carefully selected’’. I was a staunch Nigel supporter. But my faith has been a bit dented since he stood his Brexit party candidates down to give Boris a free run in the last GE.
Frederica……….having been a Brexit Party local organiser and activist I wasn’t entirely happy with my local PPC being stood down, but Nigel Farage took the difficult decision to withdraw 317 candidates at the 2019 general election for the right reasons. In short there was only going to be one party that would physically take this country out of the European Union and that was the Conservative Party. Sometimes in politics you have to be a realist, and Nigel Farage took that decision as a realist to ensure that this country left the European Union in January 2020. If the victors at the 2019 General Election had been the Labour Party, by now I am sure we would have been subjected to a stitched up second referendum with all the problems that that would have entailed Getting this country out of the European Union has been the one and only success of the Johnson government, and since then he has been an unmitigated disaster and failed on just about every single issue facing the country. I personally lent my vote to the Conservatives in December 2019 for the afore mentioned reason like many other people did. Prior to that I had not voted Conservative for 40 years, and now they will never ever get my vote again. Reform UK have thousands of candidates standing in the local elections, and proudly I am one of them.
Colin the only proposition that I disagree with in your comment is that this government has succeeded in getting Britain out of the EU. We may have ‘left’ on paper but I do not believe that it is yet an actual fact! The news that Michael Gove agreed extra time for ‘ratification’ and the pettifogging and hostile irritations that the EU are inflicting upon us (in particular fishing and the shellfish debacle) suggests to me that ‘the fat lady has definitely not yet sung!!!
I am glad to hear that there will be Reform candidates in May. I hope that there will be one in my area. I most definitely can never vote LibLabCon ever again! Best of luck with your candidature!
Colin,
I am pleased at your news -thousands already standing.
When can I see their manifesto?
Reply to Colin Hussey’s comment 4.17pm Mar 3. I totally agree with you about letting the Tories in to power. N.F. did right, for the reason you explain.
I also agree with your analysis of the ridiculous ‘green’ policies of this government which will leave us with no power in the grid at any time in the future, we don’t know when.
There was no need to have stood down so many Brexit Party candidates in December 2019 and as an election agent where the BP candidate would not have changed the result, it would have allowed voters to have a candidate other than a Tory or Labour option and would have produced a much better result.
The most disappointing aspect of the Farage decision was that all those candidates had been using the party’s email facility and when the announcement was made they were all cut-off and unable to contact or thank their supporters.
I subsequently wrote three times to the party bosses to suggest that an ex-gratia payment of £500 be paid to those candidates as many had foregone wages, jobs, taken sabbaticals and contributed large sums from their own pockets. I was ignored on each occasion even though there was a healthy £2 million plus left in the kitty.
Now the Reform Party is run on similar lines without any formal membership and only willing and gullible followers that will be stuffed again.
The RP is not a political party in the true sense but a limited company run by two or three people who stand to gain from the largess of their supporters.
To date I’ve seen nothing to suggest the RP has any local manifesto for the coming elections and no doubt many of the candidates will be clueless about local government and how its funded and administered. It is nothing like central government.
Unfortunately the RP, the Laurence Fox or David Kurten attempts at party building or even a re-emergence of UKIP will only cancel each other out and let the usual mob take full advantage.