It’s always a nice start to a week when Monday is ‘cancelled’ thanks to a Bank Holiday. It’s especially nice when a quick glance at the usual compilation of what our esteemed MSM are offering this morning (link) shows that important news have already been sidelined.
I’ve not forgotten though and have kept the report on Starmer’s energy policy on file. It was published this weekend, together with one on Labour’s connections to the ‘Green’ vandals: those vandals who love the colour orange so much that they spray it everywhere. They did so at the Chelsea Flower Show and they did so at Twickenham during a rugby match. There will be ‘more protests’, i.e. blocking Londoners going to work and I expect more ‘spectacular performances’, for example at Wimbledon. Green grass and orange powder look lovely on photos in the MSM.
Investigative journalists on the Continent, e.g. in Germany, have found out that these vandals are funded by ‘philanthropists’ from the USA. Over here, the DM reports on one of them:
“Oscar-winning Hollywood director who helps bankroll Just Stop Oil is accused of hypocrisy after it emerges he has an eight-bedroom holiday home 5,000 miles away in Ireland he jets off to ‘when the going gets tough’” (link)
The hypocrisy displayed should no longer come as surprise. Btw, you’ll find a little report on the Twickenham ‘display’ in the sidebar of that article. The ‘green rot’ however goes much deeper: those vandals have the support from the ‘red’ part of the Uniparty. After all, ‘Big Donors’ expect their donations to influence policies according to their wishes, for example this big Labour donor:
“Labour faces calls to return £1.5m donation from major backer of Just Stop Oil – Keir Starmer continues to take money from Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, despite UK entering the fifth week of disruption” (paywalled link)
Can’t bite the hand that feeds one, now can one! Thus nobody should’ve been surprised by this report in The Times, headlined: “Starmer plans to block all new North Sea oil and gas developments – Labour vows to make UK a ‘clean energy superpower’” (link, paywalled). Doesn’t this remind you of the programme by the erstwhile PM Johnson? And so, what the Tories, the war and the sanctions haven’t yet achieved, i.e. plunging this country even deeper into misery, Labour will:
“The Labour leader is expected to set out his net zero energy policy when he launches his latest “national mission” in Scotland next month. It will include a pledge to ban all new North Sea oil and gas licences, signalling a seismic shift in decades of UK energy policy. […] Starmer will also announce that a Labour government would only borrow to invest in green enterprises, another dramatic departure from policies enacted by successive UK governments.” (link, paywalled)
This, we’re told, shows how very different Labour is compared to the Tories. Yes, really. And then there’s this: “The party has committed to creating a publicly owned renewable energy company whose aim is to achieve a zero-carbon power system by 2030.” (link, paywalled). Nice! Can we plebs buy shares in that ‘company’? After all, why not make us pay even more for more misery?
I find it remarkable how a party whose aim it was to better the circumstances of the toiling, oppressed masses is now overtly siding with those whose aim is to impoverish those same masses while destroying the economic basis of the country. I’m not surprised though because, as those of us who haven’t forgotten the history of the past century recall, the leaders of the ‘red’ countries, the Nomenklatura, looked firstly after their own well-being and interests. Hypocrisy, as always, is the main theme.
Furthermore, there’s not just hypocrisy, there’s also the well-known economic illiteracy to be admired, an illiteracy which is displayed by the whole of the Westminster cabal. How, I wonder, will all those bird shredders and solar panels be built and installed when energy supply is already doubtful, when industries are already off-shored because “we” have removed them thanks to exorbitant energy prices? And weren’t we going to have to manufacture armaments to replace all those we’ve given away to be shredded in the Ukraine?
Never mind – as long as ‘Teh West’ sings from the same Green hymnsheet all will be well, won’t it! Since today is a Bank Holiday you might like to read this article on the USA’s “New Green Deal”. This quote shows how very familiar the arguments from the International of Green ‘activists’ are:
“Armed with unchecked self-confidence and possessed of an abiding faith in the idea that you must be coerced into altruism, the activists seem to be coming for almost everything you own. In the process, they are waging a crusade against convenience, an assault on comparative advantage, and a war on things that work.” (link)
The Germans, being ever so diligent, have already started down that way. Their Green coalition is trying to get a law through their parliament, demanding that from next year all – yes, all, everywhere! – heating systems be replaced by heat pumps.
Never mind that there’s a shortage of said pumps, that there’s a shortage of engineers able to install them, that they are not suitable for their big urban apartment buildings: ideology must triumph over reality. Still, all is not lost in Germany where, despite the concerted campaign by the governing classes, MSM included, the AfD is rising in the polls and has overtaken the Greens (paywalled link in German). Let’s hope that the forthcoming ‘spectaculars’ by the ‘green’ vandals will open a few more eyes over here as well. Reality does have the habit of biting …
That’s all I have for today. I don’t know if there’s a colour for hypocrisy. I do know that mixing red and green gives ‘brown’, the colour associated with Nazis … Enjoy the Bank Holiday.
Today is the downhill cheese rolling day in the South West – location undefined, but same as the last gazillion or more years. It would be illegal, if it had organisers (no, no, no!). This is due to alleged broken arms and alleged broken legs every year – not to mention alleged concussions. Note:- There is no compulsion to participate – i.e. run after a cheese rolling down the hill.
Hence, no insurance no this, no that and no the next thing. It seems the police will turn up with one of their three regional motor cars to repeat on a loop – ‘very serious cryme’. Oh, and an ambulance for some reason.
If you are not aware, at the bottom of the monster-steep hill there is a house. The house has a substantial brick wall. As Larsen would say – trouble brewing! People out of control, running downhill full belt, tumbling, tripping, rolling and so on shall be dealt with by one of the local rugby clubs who are not participating – insurances and so on, but by coincidence are doing some tackling practice at the bottom of the hill. Don’t want to damage the wall in any case.
If it could be legalised, a good time would be had by all. As it is, do take a camera. And remember, ‘very serious cryme! Click, very ser. . . ‘.
“Quand on est dans la merde jusqu’au cou, il ne reste plus qu’à chanter.” (Samuel Beckett).
“When you’re in deep sh*t, all you have to do is sing”
in the sense of singing is the only option left
Lotah kulchur today!
Ah – but according to the media, the British public has ‘thrown off the effects of inflation’ Yeah, or as a friend often used to say ”ok, carry on then”
“… you must go on. I can’t go on. I go on.” (The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett)
Kind of related to today’s topic and the economy. All about the secret, behind the scenes bailouts the banks have been getting, trillions of dollars, all of which we’ll have to pay for via taxes and inflation. This will make you sick.
“This One Chart Proves It’s Far Worse Than 2008”
Michael Cowan
flyer- never mind 2008, how does the ‘melt down’ compare to the late seventies – early eighties? My Mum and Dad said it took five or six or more years to get out of the mire. And let’s not forget, it was fatcher wot fixed it. Can you see Maharaja Ritchie or the Stamper dealing with it? me neither.
Flyer. The plan is to make we ordinary folk become modern day Flintstones. The EU attendees at a conference on Beyond Growth 2023 agreed that white supremacy is at the heart of growth therefore we must go into reverse. This is an eye opening interview on Redacted. If you’ve not time to watch it all just catch from 5.30 onwards.