I keep looking for an update on nuclear SMRs but it seems the investment decision is still scheduled for 2029 and operational in the mid-2030s. This is one decision Miliband could genuinely speed up.
It is reported that Miliband is flying to New York to grandstand at the ongoing UN General Assembly which ends on Friday. The delegates there will no doubt cheer him on just like the mad Labour Party conference delegates. He needs to be called out on the fact that the majority non-Western world countries only play lip service to the politically-confected “climate crisis” and year-by-year are increasing their consumption of fossil fuels faster than the global deployment of so-called renewables. The so-called global energy transition is a false propaganda fiction.
I wouldn't mind so much if he actually had a vision for an industrial strategy to make the kit here even if its only assembling it but it wont be. Had hoped Reeves rhetoric about growth would result in some reigning back but clearly ive called that wrong and we are now on a one way trip to a fiasco which wont fully play out until after they've been expunged from office.
Our challenge here in this community which David has bought together is to have an approach that deals with the slow burn disaster that is unfolding to counter the eco evangelists. They can cite heavy rain or the odd hot day and use it to reinforce their narrative and continue to brain wash joe public about climate change and the need to deliver all these mad cap ideas. I submit though that until the lights start going out (and i can't see that till later this decade earliest) joe public isn't going to be easily influenced.
For sure and David does a great job in focusing on the key issues. My point though is we don't have the easy cut through that the eco lot can deploy in citing any form of weather is somehow driven by climate change. ie people can see and experience weather and are easily led down the garden path that its all related to climate change having been brainwashed for over a decade. Conversely majority wont be interested in CfDs, Capacity Market, Balancing Mechanism, Intermittency etc etc they just want the power to flow when they turn the switch on as it always has. Thus until they find themselves in a situation when that power isn't there majority wont have an interest.
Im afraid I come back to power cuts as the inflexion point for the electorate to wake up but i really can't see that being a significant threat until at the end of the decade.
Thank you David - my goodness, this Sunday arrived quickly!
Does anyone know how, in the face of all the lobbying money from Big Oil sloshing about (so the mantra goes), all the major UK political parties came to be thus captured? As I think I've reported here, the Lib Dems' policy is Miliband's.
I'm just off on a (very short) tour of the forty new hospitals that Boris promised. The only comfort is that Miliband's legacy will probably be similar, his plans having been put in the Treasury's crusher.
I don't know whether Ed knows, but I read some months ago that the number of new hospitals built in the first thirteen years of the NHS was ....... zero.
Almost everything Miliband says in his speech is false yet the Labour party delegates cheer him on. They are all mad. We have seen such madness many times in the past, e.g. as recounted by Charles Mackay in his 1841 book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”.
Mackay famously said “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one”.
Well done David for your efforts in fighting this madness. I’m reminded of the apolitical presentation by Professor William Happer on the madness of the establishment’s demonisation of CO2, the gas of life, which he explains has negligible adverse impact on global climate but is hugely beneficial to agriculture and forestry. He ends his slideshow by calling on all who can to fight the madness. Well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nhssPW77I&t=11s.
Wasn’t it the last government who said net zero was the whole basis of our economy for the next few decades? It’s rare that almost all political parties agree on the same thing, and those that don’t are hardly credible
It’s pretty fair to say that Miliband has promised little more than Boris Johnson promised in the British Energy Security Strategy, so it’s not fair to pin it all on Ed
I think not. It's not called Net Zero (democratic legitimacy) for nothing you know. Absolutely nobody got to vote for this industrial, economic and environmental sabotage masquerading as collective insanity - not even our glorious MPs as it happens!
Net Zero was introduced as a statutory instrument amendment to the Climate Change Act 2008 at the fag end of May's dreadful premiership, which was waived through by politicians with no vote and very little debate. How could you have voted for it, or indeed CCA2008?
Don’t patronise me. Your comments are all petty, unrealistic and unsubstantiated. Why don’t you try to debunk the William Happer presentation linked in the top comment (currently my own)? If you can’t, please just buzz off.
I keep looking for an update on nuclear SMRs but it seems the investment decision is still scheduled for 2029 and operational in the mid-2030s. This is one decision Miliband could genuinely speed up.
It is reported that Miliband is flying to New York to grandstand at the ongoing UN General Assembly which ends on Friday. The delegates there will no doubt cheer him on just like the mad Labour Party conference delegates. He needs to be called out on the fact that the majority non-Western world countries only play lip service to the politically-confected “climate crisis” and year-by-year are increasing their consumption of fossil fuels faster than the global deployment of so-called renewables. The so-called global energy transition is a false propaganda fiction.
I wouldn't mind so much if he actually had a vision for an industrial strategy to make the kit here even if its only assembling it but it wont be. Had hoped Reeves rhetoric about growth would result in some reigning back but clearly ive called that wrong and we are now on a one way trip to a fiasco which wont fully play out until after they've been expunged from office.
Our challenge here in this community which David has bought together is to have an approach that deals with the slow burn disaster that is unfolding to counter the eco evangelists. They can cite heavy rain or the odd hot day and use it to reinforce their narrative and continue to brain wash joe public about climate change and the need to deliver all these mad cap ideas. I submit though that until the lights start going out (and i can't see that till later this decade earliest) joe public isn't going to be easily influenced.
Don’t you see the role of this community is to raise challenges so that the outcome can be improved and be even more successful than Ed envisages?
For sure and David does a great job in focusing on the key issues. My point though is we don't have the easy cut through that the eco lot can deploy in citing any form of weather is somehow driven by climate change. ie people can see and experience weather and are easily led down the garden path that its all related to climate change having been brainwashed for over a decade. Conversely majority wont be interested in CfDs, Capacity Market, Balancing Mechanism, Intermittency etc etc they just want the power to flow when they turn the switch on as it always has. Thus until they find themselves in a situation when that power isn't there majority wont have an interest.
Im afraid I come back to power cuts as the inflexion point for the electorate to wake up but i really can't see that being a significant threat until at the end of the decade.
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Thank you David - my goodness, this Sunday arrived quickly!
Does anyone know how, in the face of all the lobbying money from Big Oil sloshing about (so the mantra goes), all the major UK political parties came to be thus captured? As I think I've reported here, the Lib Dems' policy is Miliband's.
I'm just off on a (very short) tour of the forty new hospitals that Boris promised. The only comfort is that Miliband's legacy will probably be similar, his plans having been put in the Treasury's crusher.
I don't know whether Ed knows, but I read some months ago that the number of new hospitals built in the first thirteen years of the NHS was ....... zero.
Almost everything Miliband says in his speech is false yet the Labour party delegates cheer him on. They are all mad. We have seen such madness many times in the past, e.g. as recounted by Charles Mackay in his 1841 book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”.
Mackay famously said “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one”.
Well done David for your efforts in fighting this madness. I’m reminded of the apolitical presentation by Professor William Happer on the madness of the establishment’s demonisation of CO2, the gas of life, which he explains has negligible adverse impact on global climate but is hugely beneficial to agriculture and forestry. He ends his slideshow by calling on all who can to fight the madness. Well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nhssPW77I&t=11s.
.....and the audience lapped it up, so ignorant of the truth
Wasn’t it the last government who said net zero was the whole basis of our economy for the next few decades? It’s rare that almost all political parties agree on the same thing, and those that don’t are hardly credible
It’s pretty fair to say that Miliband has promised little more than Boris Johnson promised in the British Energy Security Strategy, so it’s not fair to pin it all on Ed
That is because they are ALL singing from the same hymn sheet. The Monster Raving Looney Party would have said virtually the same……
It’s the will of the people
I think not. It's not called Net Zero (democratic legitimacy) for nothing you know. Absolutely nobody got to vote for this industrial, economic and environmental sabotage masquerading as collective insanity - not even our glorious MPs as it happens!
I got to vote on it at the last election. And the one before that, and the one before that too
Net Zero was introduced as a statutory instrument amendment to the Climate Change Act 2008 at the fag end of May's dreadful premiership, which was waived through by politicians with no vote and very little debate. How could you have voted for it, or indeed CCA2008?
No vote in the house as they all agreed it. In every GE since I have voted for a party that supported that
The bought-and-paid-for mainstream media go along with this disenfranchising scam claiming it is legitimate and “no longer a matter of debate since all parties are committed to it”, dishonestly ignoring Reform UK who are committed to scrapping Net Zero: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/24/miliband-poised-to-wreck-britain-starmer-still-time-rein-in/.
But we all know Reform U.K. just pick anything they think they can sell to the easily fooled. That’s no basis for a sustainable political party
Don’t patronise me. Your comments are all petty, unrealistic and unsubstantiated. Why don’t you try to debunk the William Happer presentation linked in the top comment (currently my own)? If you can’t, please just buzz off.