Say good-bye to all that – we need giant greenhouses and wind farms now
The first observation regarding our heroic MSM today is this: the blue-and-yellow ‘banners’ at the top of the front pages ‘supporting the Ukraine’ have gone. Not even The Express is displaying it. ‘War News’ have been relegated to the bottom of the various front pages, even the rabidly pro-Ukrainian DT has curtailed their Ukrainian news.
At the time of writing early this morning, they dedicated that former ‘war reports’ spot to the very sad news that Phil Bennett, ‘Wales and British Lions legend’, died yesterday (link). The BBC has a compilation of tweets from former colleagues (link). One doesn’t have to be Welsh to feel sad about the passing of one of the Greats.
Meanwhile, the Silly Season is starting, with ‘travel advice’ and gossip about strife inside the House of Windsor – Charlie doesn’t want Andy back. The PM is trying to out-Maggie Maggie with his ‘right to buy’ scheme, and there’s that Home Office ‘flagship scheme’ of flying a handful of illegal immigrants to Rwanda which has become a nice little earner for lawyers.
It’s as if Ms Patel’s mandarins are secretly sniggering about this scheme’s failure. The Times gloats that the last remaining 10 illegals might also appeal successfully and that tomorrow’s flight may well be abandoned (link, paywalled). Given the ever rising inflation, I wonder how long it’ll be before the donations to those lawyers, the charities and NGOs will dry up. As the old saying has it: food comes first, then virtue signalling.
In another sign that the war in the Ukraine is coming to an end, there were no reports on the latest sayings of that ‘hero of Kiev’, the Ukrainian PM. Various ambassadors and various Ukrainian politicians have filled that gap, putting the blame for the coming defeat firmly at the feet of ’Teh West’, for not giving them all their weapons and ammunition.
The ‘orrible Russians aren’t fighting fair, see, because they use more artillery shells and stuff than the brave blue-and-yellow troops. How that is possible when Putin’s troops were said to be running out of ammunition and men in March … in April … in May … even now: don’t ask silly questions! Still, ‘our SAS’, or rather former SAS members have allegedly given Putin a bloody nose, ‘destroying Putin’s mercenaries’ (link). That doesn’t really make up for the death of a ‘British hero’, as reported by Reuters yesterday:
“A former British soldier has been killed fighting for Ukraine in the city of Sievierodonetsk, his family said on social media, and a senior Ukrainian official praised him as a “true hero”. Jordan Gatley left the British Army in March, his family said, and went to Ukraine to help in the fight against the Russian invasion. The family said it had received the news on Friday that he had been shot and killed.” (link)
Our broadsheets have reports as well (link, paywalled; paywalled link). The death of this young man ought to be put at the feet of La Truss who stated at that time that Brits were free to go and fight ‘for democracy and against Putin’. She ought to have paid more attention to the problem of NI but then, going to Belfast and Dublin and even Brussels isn’t as swanky as going to Moscow and New Delhi. Now Tory EUrosceptics are on the warpath (link). That’s what happens when the PM and his Ministers, keen on photo ops, take their eyes off the ball.
It must have suited Miz Truss’ Remain mandarins though who seem to have happily given her enough rope to hang herself as warmonger. It’s a bit like the situation in which her colleague Ms Patel finds herself. One wonders why the professional feminists in politics and the MSM aren’t crying out loud about this sexist, antifeminist attitude of the old, white male mandarins in Whitehall. Such outcry would surely provide some nice copy to fill the pages in the Silly Season!
Two other reports caught my eyes. One is in the DT, telling us more about the government’s ‘Food Strategy’ initiative to combat inflation and produce more ‘food security’. It’s beautiful:
“Giant greenhouses will be given planning permission under a “grow for Britain” strategy to be unveiled by Boris Johnson, to end the UK’s reliance on overseas food. The plans unveiled on Monday by the Government include reviewing the current planning permission process to support the development of “glasshouses” to increase the amount of UK-grown food the country consumes.” (paywalled link)
We’re informed that there were, for example, around 1,200 of those giant greenhouses in the 1960 in the Lea Valley, now reduced to a bare 300. One wonders if the land on which those greenhouses used to stand has meanwhile been used for other purposes, such as housing or ‘solar farms’ or ‘rewilding’. In ‘mandarine speak’ we next read:
“It is understood that food the UK has the climate and expertise to produce needs to be increased as the country only produces, for example, 23 per cent of the cucumbers and 15 per cent of the tomatoes supplied domestically. It is also hoped the rising cost of energy for farms can be helped by making use of surplus heat and CO2 from industrial processes, and renewable sources of energy.” (paywalled link)
Let’s not ask if this ‘food insecurity’, created by our demolishing greenhouses and other items such as grubbing up perfectly fine apple trees had something to do with our EU membership and with out ‘going global’.
Moreover, it’s magical thinking at its finest as no thought is given to how and with what and where these giant greenhouses will be built. ‘We’ will produce more tomatoes and cucumbers and it’ll all be ‘green’ because somehow industrial ‘surplus heat and CO2’ will be used. The rest of the energy will come from those sacred ‘renewables’ which somehow won’t be needed for household fuel supplies.
There’s another government scheme to alleviate inflation. It’s a proposal to end “the system by which the wholesale cost of gas in effect determines the price of electricity for consumers.” (link, paywalled). We know that gas is the enemy of green and must be stamped out to ‘save the planet’, never mind the cost to millions of households. The Times, now deep green, writes next:
“More than a quarter of the UK’s electricity is from renewable sources, for which costs have been largely unaffected by rising global energy prices. However, the link has been blamed for exacerbating the cost of living crisis as it has forced customers to pay over the odds for electricity because of spiralling wholesale gas prices linked to the conflict in Ukraine.” (link, paywalled)
We know that politicians and mandarins find it impossible to join the dots, especially not when riding their hobby horses. Apparently the three-quarters of households not using renewables will be blessed with lower electricity prices in order to wean them off their gas habit.
How the inevitable increase in demand for electricity is going to be satisfied when gas power stations are closed, when energy from renewables must also be used to heat those giant greenhouses, never mind keeping industrial processes going and ‘fuelling’ all those electric cars: nobody cares as long as they can signal their green virtue.
This is the future the Westminster denizens are dreaming of: we’ll no longer be a truly green and pleasant land but one plastered with bird shredders, ‘solar farms’ and giant greenhouses. Say good-bye to ancient hedgerows, wildlife, birds and insects. Who needs them when they can live in cities, cheek-by-jowl, with ‘cheap electricity’.
I expect a quick come-back of the one-bar electric heater to keep us all warm: that’s ‘green progress’.
What is the point of a flight with 30 (or probably significantly less than that) even taking off. The cost of this must be astronomical. The aircraft capacity must be in the hundreds, so even allowing for security personnel could be used more efficiently. This is just theatre, if it takes off at all. This comment was made in the politest way possible, my actual thoughts are not printable.
BBC. 10 minutes of ” 2 soldiers to die “. …And in the next breath “25,000 civilains killed ” followed by nothing.
I glaze over now at the very sound of Boris Johnson’s name (never mind see his face or hear his voice!). Doesnt he know how ridiculously out of touch he is and how stupid he sounds? Whose fault has it been that more and more of our prime arable land has been re-directed to ‘other’ uses on his watch. Most of it has gone for housing estates that before too long will become the new slums! Then there’s the solar panels and turbines proliferating and the non-productive use to be returned to nature! Someone should tell this idiot to ‘shutupa his face’! Oh and disappear from the political scene for ever! Oh and take the useless kneeler and ‘sir’ Ed Davy with him!
I have just ordered a copy of The Restless Republic (Britain without a Crown) by Anna Keay. I’m looking forward to reading it! Apparently its the Civil War from 9 different people’s viewpoints!
I don’t know Viv, how you are going to use your one bar electric heater to keep warm.
There will be no electricity in the national grid.
The first results of the 2021 census (population & households) are due on 28th June with breakdowns (ethnicity, religion etc) sometime in the autumn. Shoud be an interesting read. We will be able to extrapolate and estimate the year by which the UK is finished becoming a caliphate perhaps or overseas territory of another state.
Meanwhile, in sunny Marseille, as elsewhere in France, it is neck and neck between NUPES (coalition of commies, eco-loons and socialists) and Ensemble (Macron coalition with Horizon et al) though the none of the above apathy among voters beat both combined. The French right refused to form a coalition and have paid the price.
I’m becoming interested in Germany as a result of a talk by a very senior German industrialist that I attended and that was given under conditions of not naming him. (He hangs out with the CEOs of all the major German firms – Bosch, Siemens, BMW etc). Apparently, they have fairly advanced plans to move production to either the US or China as a result of Germany’s self-immolating energy policies. (The German chemical industries are huge with huge energy needs). The flight of capital, to where the enegy is, and closure of factories will cause significant unemployment. At some point in the next few years then, German politics could become interesting.
By now we should realise that any government claim to deal with illegal immigration is an outright lie. Judge them by their actions, or lack of them, not their words. People need to waken up and realise that government is truly the enemy within.
Boris is beginning to realise he’ been hooked and is no longer in control. He is wriggling and squirming in a vain attempt to free himself…
Dear Boris.
When you sold your soul to The Devil in return for worldly power and influence do you think you got a good deal?
I ask because we know that you are not too bright. I have a sneaky feeling that you included The Soul of the Nation in your agreement. That is NOT yours to give.
Satan is the ultimate politician – a master of lies and deception, but he does NOT like to be cheated. When he discovers that you cannot deliver ALL your side of the bargain – in full and on demand – he will be very angry.
His anger will be terrible and absolute.
You still live. There is time to repent, but don’t delay too long. “…for ye know not the hour, nor the day.”
Richard Mawdsley. Your comment is very interesting.
There are some who believe that Satan was given ‘Dominion over the World’.
Now, in view of Boris’s known affinity to certain Global Institutions, it does rather look like he sold the ‘Soul of the Nation’ along with his own.
It’s amazing how the legal system can operate at lightning speed when it comes to illegal immigrants, with lawyers aplenty representing them for free. What a contrast when compared to the tediously slow and extortionately expensive service provided to the average British citizen, struggling to obtain legal aid and in many cases waiting years for justice. If they can afford it that is.
It seems that, Remarkably, the Rwanda flight may go ahead.!!!!
Yes Harold, but will there be anyone on it?
Don’t think Ms Truss (or Hunt, Wallace et al) will be happy if it does take off. Just as the chances of her and Doris riding atop a tank into Kiev are fast diminishing Ms Patel may replace Ms Truss as the Party favourite to succeed Doris. Airport security should be alerted to the potential risk of sabotage to Rwanda bound flights.