The Net Zero Ball is in play
Rain on Monday: not a good start to the week and a sad end to July, declared to be the ‘hottest evah’ by the Met Office 30 days ago. Now we’re blessed with another week of daily max temps below 20ºC or 68ºF in old money. Ah well, better shiver in the rain than being ‘boiled’, as the UN GenSec proclaimed. Let’s quickly look at the compilation of MSM front pages: “Newspaper headlines: Putin ‘peace bombshell’ and North Sea licences” (link). The ‘good’ stuff is hidden online, behind the usual mess.
I dug through that online mess and found some remarkable news. It seems as if the Net Zero wall which goes through the Uniparty is not as firm as we’ve been led to believe. There’s this DT report: “Major heat pump supplier attacks plans to replace gas boilers – Labour peer Lord Willie Haughey who supplies units says Scottish winter is too cold for them to work” (paywalled link). How interesting! There’s more – here’s The Times (all emphases are mine):
“Jon Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, which in February took over running the gas network from National Grid, said in an interview published yesterday he worried that “electrification feels like it’s for the privileged and that isn’t what our country is about”.” (link, paywalled)
Well I nevah: Net Zero is for the posh, rich toffs! Who knew! Is this the first acknowledgement of Tony B.’s statement that Net Zero might not be such a good idea after all? There is however a lengthy article in the DT, published an article this morning. which makes me wonder if certain Tory ’Remain Big Beasts’ would rather see Starmer in No 10. Moreover, they as well as the author don’t seem to notice that the infamous Net Zero policy seems to have been concocted by the usual Whitehall suspects:
“June 27, 2019 may well prove to be one of the most fateful days in British politics, though few would have known it at the time. That week, with memories of Theresa May’s tearful resignation still fresh, Boris Johnson’s bid to succeed her in Number 10 was dogged by reports of turbulence in his private life, while debate over what shape Brexit should take still raged. Meanwhile, in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, then acting energy minister Chris Skidmore quietly signed legislation committing the UK to a legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050.” (paywalled link)
“Quietly” is the key word here. Did we hear much if anything about the signing of this impending legislation? I believe we were occupied with certain other issues … Isn’t it interesting though that Net Zero wasn’t a ‘BJ thing’ but must’ve been a ‘May thing’? That BJ draped himself into the Green cloak, that the whole thing was already done and dusted when he got into No 10? That the months after May’s resignation and the GE in December were fought under the Brexit banner, with nary a word about Net Zero?
Now we’re told that it’s all the Tories fault, planning to burden innocent tax payers with tens of thousands of ££ for this green policy. I can’t recall that Labour, the loyal opposition, had raised any objections. I do recall that the HoC, when not in the thrall of covid, was becoming as green as possible. And now look at the unholy alliance of two Remainers who certainly didn’t raise any objections at the time:
“[…] former Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was wrong to burden the British public heavily with net zero, when other countries such as China were responsible for far higher emissions. And Lord Hammond, who was chancellor under Theresa May, said successive prime ministers had been “systematically dishonest” about the trillion-pound cost of achieving net zero.” (paywalled link)
Oh really? Just ‘successive PMs’, not the MPs on both sides of the HoC? Shouldn’t the Labour shadow cabinet have had such numbers, raising an outcry? Or were they, just as the Tory MPs, too scared of the various green NGOs to ask such inconvenient questions?
Can we voice our suspicion that these NGOs, just as those interfering in school curricula, demanding ‘trans rights for kids’, have heavily indoctrinated the Whitehall civil serpents, helping in formulating and preparing such legislation, to be signed off by incompetent ministers?
The bulk of the article is given over to the wailings of the ‘green energy industrial sector’, heavily supporting Net Zero, heat pumps and ‘renewables’ included. However, I applaud the DT author for quoting Andrew Montford whose blog on ‘Global warming’ was outstanding in the earthly years of this scandal:
“Andrew Montford, director of Net Zero Watch, an offshoot of the Global Warming Policy Forum founded by former chancellor Nigel Lawson, said: “The policy [net zero] is entirely irrational… The medicine is worse than the disease. It kills growth in the economy. Energy prices will go on increasing because you can’t have growth without cheap energy and we’ve decided we are not going to have cheap energy because we’re doing renewables and they’re not cheap.” (paywalled link)
They are indeed ‘not cheap’ – here are some jaw-dropping numbers:
“The group [Net Zero Watch] has conducted research estimating that to meet the mid-century deadline under present trends consumers will have to pay an extra £1.8 trillion, on average around £46,000 per household, over the space of 30 years between 2020 and 2050.” (paywalled link)
Unsurprisingly, Labour & Net Zero supporters disregard such numbers, screaming instead for ‘moar investment’, i.e. financial help from us taxpayers, with Labour allegedly pondering to provide “£28 billion a year to spend on green investment by the end of the first parliament and they’ve said specifically £6 billion will be on greening our homes, installing heat pumps and stuff like that.” (paywalled link)
With supporters like those, seemingly oblivious to economic circumstances, never mind what other Labour Big Beasts are saying, we’re in for some turbulent months of electioneering. Since Net Zero looks to be the latest political playball, I expect many Net Zero acolytes in both parties to fight their own colleagues. Fun times ahead!
That’s all I have for today. I wonder what they’ll come up with if we get a harsh winter with snow and ice all the way down to Cornwall … Have a good day.
The net zero fanatics are stark raving bonkers but this is all about population reduction, they haven’t done enough damage ‘yet’.
IMHO T May may have legislated the Net Zero scam but Doris most certainly put enormous amounts of his own political capital into the green agenda.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/net-zero-agenda-missing-boris-johnson
Remember Doris’ ‘One minute to midnight’? Even if his missus or his eco loon daddy told him to say this, let’s be under no doubt Doris is up to his eyes in eco hysteria.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/01/cop26-boris-johnson-says-one-minute-to-midnight-amid-climate-crisis.html?mc_cid=c5647b06a3&mc_eid=8e2b8792b9
Yes Jake at 10.am. I agree. I remember we thought at the time it was under the influence of ‘her upstairs’. Bojo undoubtedly believes he will be one of the priviledged few permitted to survive when the rest of us have been died of cold and hunger.
A TCW commenter Pretty Polly keeps reminding us that the evil of Net Zero has its roots as far back as 1996 when the Bliar creature got into bed with Soros.
Blair sold off the family silver to Soros I understand (called “sweetheart deals?”), plus other murky transactions , Then came the 2008 Climate Change Act etc etc
The Mail reported on the sale of QinetiQ in 2004 I seem to recollect, but MSM have gone dead quiet about it since.
A war criminal and arch traitor who sold Britain . Coming back soon.
CH- By chance, this morning I read your comment of late last night. You were mocking me, weren’t you?
However, and for info, the carriage riding horses are often in the field behind my house. One of them is a Russian thoroughbred, but don’t tell anybody. Irrational fear of anything Russian, just like Pres Trump derangement syndrome is strong in yourope.
If I get the chance, I’ll take some pictures of the ggs with the carriages and maybe Mighty Warrior Viv will publish them. (it’ll make a nice change from the inner city vermin – four legs bad, two legs worse).
Oh, Stevie my postman has just turned up. Must go. Toodle pip.
Lord Biscotte………you’re right, I am just gently mocking you after that comment about your cleaner coming in and turning up the heating. I just thought I had to capitalise on that particular comment. However, you are a closet member of the aristocracy though aren’t you?
CH- I was wounded, deeply wounded by your comments. Tantamount to hate speech. And, you know how blxxding sensitive that I am(!). Wounded . . .
And yes the ggs are big. Rather than measure in hands – when you stand next to them you are looking about six inches below the shoulder. Interesting, three year old ran up to one and was gently knocked over, then snuffled all over. Looking for pockets with sugar cubes, nibbles and the like – no harm. True gentle giants.
There is another line in the D.T this morning worth mentioning , ‘ Britain is a world leader in net zero fantasies and delusions’. Slight mistake by the writer I feel, remove the words ‘net zero. and the phtase is about correct and has been for at least the last forty years probably longer.
So thats the game. Sunak and Starmer will squabble over who is on side with struggling families and at the same time cling to their green wokery. Panto politics with make believe economics and magic science. The next general election looks certain to deliver a record vote for the NOTA party.
Matt. Don’t count on a big NOTA vote, the Establishment Pied Piper of Hamelin is piping his mesmeric tune and the rats will follow.