David: I take some comfort from the almost certain advent of a Labour government – determined it seems to implement Net Zero as fully and as soon as possible. The reality is that, as you’ve shown, it’s a policy that, in practical terms, is impossible to implement (e.g. 100% ‘clean’ electricity by 2030) with attempts to implement it imposing serious hardship on ordinary people – huge costs and disastrous blackouts. Moreover, rather more than a straw in the wind is the Unite union’s recent ‘No Ban without a Plan’ announcement attacking Labour’s intention to cut North Sea oil and gas licences as ‘premature and irresponsible’. As Sharon Graham Unite’s general secretary said: ‘There is clearly no viable plan for the replacement of North Sea jobs or energy security … Unite will not stand by and let these workers be thrown on the scrap heap.’ Then the paper about Net Zero just published by the Tony Blair Foundation may have been a confusing word-salad but it does state some truths. For example: ‘Deploying intermittent renewables rapidly and without sufficient focus of storage solutions, frequency services, baseload power and whole-system integration could increase energy costs or reduce energy security, with major economic and social consequences for the country. This is made more challenging by increasingly affordable gas prices making non-renewable sources more economically attractive.’ I don’t see how Labour, notwithstanding its apparent adherence to green ideology, can ignore such attacks – and I think there’ll be more.
Arguably above all is the mundane but unavoidable problem that the UK doesn’t have nearly enough skilled technical managers, electrical and other engineers, electricians, plumbers, welders, mechanics and other tradespeople to do the multitude of tasks essential to achieve Net Zero – a problem worsened by political plans for massively increased house building.
A new Labour administration will face plenty of problems – if it has any sense (debatable I know) in view of all this it surely must at the very least moderate the intransigence Net Zero? Perhaps catastrophe can be averted.
Alas, Robin, the power of the trade unions has ebbed away over the years. Ironically, it was Maggie Thatcher who started the ball rolling by using global warming as the excuse to curb the power of the coal workers unions, in favour of the free market initially. Now the free market itself has been taken over and replaced by the 'Tyranny of (Green) Quangos' and the coal industry has been killed off completely by climate zealots. I don't see much prospect of an incoming globalist puppet led Labour (lite) government responding to pressure from the oil and gas workers union.
Of course it's true that the unions are far less powerful than they were. But nonetheless it's hard to see a Labour administration ignoring the voice of its traditional supporters - eloquently expressed by Unite's leader Sharon Graham. And that's especially so in the context of the other Net Zero problems it's going to face. When ideology is confronted by reality, the latter must eventually win.
". . . . . it's hard to see a Labour administration ignoring the voice of its traditional supporters".
Not really. They've been ignoring the voices of their traditional supporters for many years now to focus almost exclusively upon the concerns of a privileged metropolitan, woke elite. It doesn't seem to have dented their support much, largely on account of the fact that the Tories have been so utterly abysmal in office admittedly. But the fact is, despite ignoring their traditional core vote, they are now poised to form a majority government once again! Also, as I pointed out earlier, even if they did succumb to the wishes of the unions and cancelled the plan for a moratorium on North sea gas and oil licences, the green Blob would then launch all out climate lawfare on them and no doubt force a high court ruling that they MUST issue a ban on gas and oil. We just can't win with the way things are. I predict civil unrest ahead unless by some miracle CCA 2008 is repealed or amended.
The reason Labour is poised to form a majority government is because the Tories have been, as you say, utterly abysmal in office. But reality is crowding in on them and, although they may wish to ignore it, they cannot avoid it. As for lawfare, I suspect it that ironically it will be Labour that has to amend the CCA. We'll see.
if someone actually wanted to cut the UKs use of energy (and not just pretend in order to rent-seek) then perhaps they might look at emigrating the vast numbers of recent arrivals that earn less than average wage and are thus economically net negative?
John Dryden, the first poet laureate, saw all this coming 350 years ago, if not the details then certainly the potential. In his poetic opera, Albion and Albanius, which talks of the demise of Albion (the British Isles) he writes
Then Zeal and Common-wealth infest
My Land again;
The fumes of madness that possest
The Peoples giddy Brain,
Once more disturb the Nations rest,
And dye Rebellion in a deeper Stain.
Will they at length awake the sleeping Sword,
And force revenge from their offended Lord?
How long, yee Gods, how long
Can Royal patience bear
Th'Insults and wrong
Of Mad-mens jealousies, and causeless fear?
Albion in conversation with Acacia:
See a Sacred King uncrown'd,
See your Offspring, Albion, bound:
The gifts you gave with lavish hand,
Are all bestow'd in vain:
Extended Empire on the Land,
Unbounded o'er the Main.
Acacia.
Empire o'er the Land and Main,
Heav'n that gave can take again;
But a mind that's truly brave,
Stands despising,
Storms arising,
And can ne'er be made a Slave.
Albion.
Unhelpt I am, who pity'd the distress'd,
And none oppressing, am by all oppress'd;
Betray'd, forsaken, and of hope bereft:
The message is clear. Albion and his people are sorely oppressed and revolution is in the air. The oppressors are identified by the characters Tyranny, Democracy, Zelota and Asebia:
Enter Tyranny, Democracy, represented by Men, attended by Asebia, Zelota, Women.
Tyran.
Ha, ha, 'tis what so long I wish'd and vow'd,
Our Plots and delusions,
Have wrought such confusions,
That the Monarch's a Slave to the Crowd.
Democ.
A Design we fomented,
Tyr.
By Hell it was new!
Dem.
A false Plot invented,
Tyr.
To cover a true.
Democ.
First with promis'd faith we flatter'd,
Tyr.
Then jealousies and fears we scatter'd.
Asebia.
We never valu'd right and wrong,
But as they serv'd our cause;
Zelot.
Our Business was to please the throng,
And Court their wild applause:
Asebia.
For this we brib'd the Lawyers Tongue,
And then destroy'd the Law's.
Chor.
For this, &c.
Tyran.
To make him safe, we made his Friends our Prey;
Dem.
To make him great we scorn'd his Royal sway,
Tyran.
And to confirm his Crown, we took his Heir away.
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Dem.
T'encrease his store,
We kept him poor:
Tyran.
And when to wants we had betray'd him,
To keep him low,
Pronounc'd a Foe,
Who e're presum'd to aid him.
Asebia.
But you forget the noblest part,
And Masterpiece of all your Art,
You told him he was sick at Heart.
Zelot.
And when you could not work belief
In Albion of th'imagin'd grief;
Your perjur'd vouchers in a Breath,
Made Oath that he was sick to Death;
And then five hundred Quacks of skill
Resolv'd t'was fit he should be ill.
Their false plot was to convince Albion that he was 'sick to death' (from climate change) and to remedy this 'imagined grief', they must enslave the nation, make us all poor, corrpt the rule of law and make our friends (fossil fuels) their prey. Tyranny, democracy and zealotry, working hand in hand to destroy Great Britain (Albion). There is your Tyranny of Quangos. We are going to need one hell of a bonfire and more than a few Bonfire Nights to celebrate their demise.
The real political test will come when we start getting blackouts. The buck will get passed around the quangos, national grid, the generators and government will finally realise nobody’s in charge because everything is outsourced. There’ll be a winter of discontent, multiple elections and climate realism will take over. By then, the Earth will be in a cooling phase and humanity will forget about this stupidity.
Excellent analysis. Little did I realise it at the time, but the climate heist has been running for three quarters of my lifetime, all the way back to the first Earth Day in 1970. Perhaps the grand finale is imminent at last. Install a multifuel stove in the main room of the house, stock up on logs and smokeless coal, check those LED lanterns are working, keep in a stock of non-perishable food and get ready to come out on the other side of the bonfire of the quangos. A rather different reset than Herr Schwab and acolytes had in mind.
Meanwhile the BRICS countries, lacking luxury of falling for the heist in the first place, will carry on full steam ahead. Well done your industrialists, leaders and government advisers. Go to the top of the class.
Limits of Growth was published in the late 60's. They even admitted, that without catastrophic climate change, they would move their agenda forward anyway cause it is a good scam and people would fall for it.
I have an idea: Let’s let the 4 billion living in some form of energy poverty decide how they develop their own energy, economic development, and environment.
David: I take some comfort from the almost certain advent of a Labour government – determined it seems to implement Net Zero as fully and as soon as possible. The reality is that, as you’ve shown, it’s a policy that, in practical terms, is impossible to implement (e.g. 100% ‘clean’ electricity by 2030) with attempts to implement it imposing serious hardship on ordinary people – huge costs and disastrous blackouts. Moreover, rather more than a straw in the wind is the Unite union’s recent ‘No Ban without a Plan’ announcement attacking Labour’s intention to cut North Sea oil and gas licences as ‘premature and irresponsible’. As Sharon Graham Unite’s general secretary said: ‘There is clearly no viable plan for the replacement of North Sea jobs or energy security … Unite will not stand by and let these workers be thrown on the scrap heap.’ Then the paper about Net Zero just published by the Tony Blair Foundation may have been a confusing word-salad but it does state some truths. For example: ‘Deploying intermittent renewables rapidly and without sufficient focus of storage solutions, frequency services, baseload power and whole-system integration could increase energy costs or reduce energy security, with major economic and social consequences for the country. This is made more challenging by increasingly affordable gas prices making non-renewable sources more economically attractive.’ I don’t see how Labour, notwithstanding its apparent adherence to green ideology, can ignore such attacks – and I think there’ll be more.
Arguably above all is the mundane but unavoidable problem that the UK doesn’t have nearly enough skilled technical managers, electrical and other engineers, electricians, plumbers, welders, mechanics and other tradespeople to do the multitude of tasks essential to achieve Net Zero – a problem worsened by political plans for massively increased house building.
A new Labour administration will face plenty of problems – if it has any sense (debatable I know) in view of all this it surely must at the very least moderate the intransigence Net Zero? Perhaps catastrophe can be averted.
Alas, Robin, the power of the trade unions has ebbed away over the years. Ironically, it was Maggie Thatcher who started the ball rolling by using global warming as the excuse to curb the power of the coal workers unions, in favour of the free market initially. Now the free market itself has been taken over and replaced by the 'Tyranny of (Green) Quangos' and the coal industry has been killed off completely by climate zealots. I don't see much prospect of an incoming globalist puppet led Labour (lite) government responding to pressure from the oil and gas workers union.
Of course it's true that the unions are far less powerful than they were. But nonetheless it's hard to see a Labour administration ignoring the voice of its traditional supporters - eloquently expressed by Unite's leader Sharon Graham. And that's especially so in the context of the other Net Zero problems it's going to face. When ideology is confronted by reality, the latter must eventually win.
". . . . . it's hard to see a Labour administration ignoring the voice of its traditional supporters".
Not really. They've been ignoring the voices of their traditional supporters for many years now to focus almost exclusively upon the concerns of a privileged metropolitan, woke elite. It doesn't seem to have dented their support much, largely on account of the fact that the Tories have been so utterly abysmal in office admittedly. But the fact is, despite ignoring their traditional core vote, they are now poised to form a majority government once again! Also, as I pointed out earlier, even if they did succumb to the wishes of the unions and cancelled the plan for a moratorium on North sea gas and oil licences, the green Blob would then launch all out climate lawfare on them and no doubt force a high court ruling that they MUST issue a ban on gas and oil. We just can't win with the way things are. I predict civil unrest ahead unless by some miracle CCA 2008 is repealed or amended.
The reason Labour is poised to form a majority government is because the Tories have been, as you say, utterly abysmal in office. But reality is crowding in on them and, although they may wish to ignore it, they cannot avoid it. As for lawfare, I suspect it that ironically it will be Labour that has to amend the CCA. We'll see.
if someone actually wanted to cut the UKs use of energy (and not just pretend in order to rent-seek) then perhaps they might look at emigrating the vast numbers of recent arrivals that earn less than average wage and are thus economically net negative?
John Dryden, the first poet laureate, saw all this coming 350 years ago, if not the details then certainly the potential. In his poetic opera, Albion and Albanius, which talks of the demise of Albion (the British Isles) he writes
Then Zeal and Common-wealth infest
My Land again;
The fumes of madness that possest
The Peoples giddy Brain,
Once more disturb the Nations rest,
And dye Rebellion in a deeper Stain.
Will they at length awake the sleeping Sword,
And force revenge from their offended Lord?
How long, yee Gods, how long
Can Royal patience bear
Th'Insults and wrong
Of Mad-mens jealousies, and causeless fear?
Albion in conversation with Acacia:
See a Sacred King uncrown'd,
See your Offspring, Albion, bound:
The gifts you gave with lavish hand,
Are all bestow'd in vain:
Extended Empire on the Land,
Unbounded o'er the Main.
Acacia.
Empire o'er the Land and Main,
Heav'n that gave can take again;
But a mind that's truly brave,
Stands despising,
Storms arising,
And can ne'er be made a Slave.
Albion.
Unhelpt I am, who pity'd the distress'd,
And none oppressing, am by all oppress'd;
Betray'd, forsaken, and of hope bereft:
The message is clear. Albion and his people are sorely oppressed and revolution is in the air. The oppressors are identified by the characters Tyranny, Democracy, Zelota and Asebia:
Enter Tyranny, Democracy, represented by Men, attended by Asebia, Zelota, Women.
Tyran.
Ha, ha, 'tis what so long I wish'd and vow'd,
Our Plots and delusions,
Have wrought such confusions,
That the Monarch's a Slave to the Crowd.
Democ.
A Design we fomented,
Tyr.
By Hell it was new!
Dem.
A false Plot invented,
Tyr.
To cover a true.
Democ.
First with promis'd faith we flatter'd,
Tyr.
Then jealousies and fears we scatter'd.
Asebia.
We never valu'd right and wrong,
But as they serv'd our cause;
Zelot.
Our Business was to please the throng,
And Court their wild applause:
Asebia.
For this we brib'd the Lawyers Tongue,
And then destroy'd the Law's.
Chor.
For this, &c.
Tyran.
To make him safe, we made his Friends our Prey;
Dem.
To make him great we scorn'd his Royal sway,
Tyran.
And to confirm his Crown, we took his Heir away.
23
Dem.
T'encrease his store,
We kept him poor:
Tyran.
And when to wants we had betray'd him,
To keep him low,
Pronounc'd a Foe,
Who e're presum'd to aid him.
Asebia.
But you forget the noblest part,
And Masterpiece of all your Art,
You told him he was sick at Heart.
Zelot.
And when you could not work belief
In Albion of th'imagin'd grief;
Your perjur'd vouchers in a Breath,
Made Oath that he was sick to Death;
And then five hundred Quacks of skill
Resolv'd t'was fit he should be ill.
Their false plot was to convince Albion that he was 'sick to death' (from climate change) and to remedy this 'imagined grief', they must enslave the nation, make us all poor, corrpt the rule of law and make our friends (fossil fuels) their prey. Tyranny, democracy and zealotry, working hand in hand to destroy Great Britain (Albion). There is your Tyranny of Quangos. We are going to need one hell of a bonfire and more than a few Bonfire Nights to celebrate their demise.
The real political test will come when we start getting blackouts. The buck will get passed around the quangos, national grid, the generators and government will finally realise nobody’s in charge because everything is outsourced. There’ll be a winter of discontent, multiple elections and climate realism will take over. By then, the Earth will be in a cooling phase and humanity will forget about this stupidity.
I did come across several ideas for the collective noun for quango members, such as a “revolving door” and a “bloat.”
a Sinechoir? (portmanteau of sinecure and choir)
Sinemob?
Pronounced 'sinner choir'. How apt.
Great stuff David, again.
"we have the ridiculous spectacle of the judiciary trying to force the Government to create an impossible plan".
Excellent analysis. Little did I realise it at the time, but the climate heist has been running for three quarters of my lifetime, all the way back to the first Earth Day in 1970. Perhaps the grand finale is imminent at last. Install a multifuel stove in the main room of the house, stock up on logs and smokeless coal, check those LED lanterns are working, keep in a stock of non-perishable food and get ready to come out on the other side of the bonfire of the quangos. A rather different reset than Herr Schwab and acolytes had in mind.
Meanwhile the BRICS countries, lacking luxury of falling for the heist in the first place, will carry on full steam ahead. Well done your industrialists, leaders and government advisers. Go to the top of the class.
Limits of Growth was published in the late 60's. They even admitted, that without catastrophic climate change, they would move their agenda forward anyway cause it is a good scam and people would fall for it.
I have an idea: Let’s let the 4 billion living in some form of energy poverty decide how they develop their own energy, economic development, and environment.
Exactly.
You're talking blasphemous freedom. The powerful do not want that. They want to maintain power.
You might like this /my podcast on tyranny catch-22:
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ey5vjGogmKb