I have always been a lover of the countryside. I admire the fields and woods of England. I have argued for less development of greenfields and for more kindness to animals.
I have campaigned for lower migration as I cannot see how and where we will build Ā three cities the size of Southampton each year to provide homes, shops and roads for 750,000 extra people. I look forward to this government tightening the rules further to cut the numbers more.
Reducing growth in population is essential to bring housing supply and demand into better balance. It is crucial to bringing UK CO 2 output down. If you want net zero emissions net zero migration would be a good start. It is central to keeping more balance between town and countryside. It is crucial to improving our local food production as we need to keep the farms we have.
I favour planting more trees. Time was when we grew our own timber. Now we Ā import vast quantities from places where softwoods grow more slowly and use large amounts of energy to be brought here. Our new mixed woodlands should be for timber as well as enhancements for our countryside.
I favour more reservoirs. A few extra lakes can enhance the landscape and offer recreation . We are short of water if we get longer hot dry spells. We have not expanded water stores as the population Ā has grown.
I favour much more investment in modern agriculture. Fruit and vegetables can be grown in bigger quantities with modern protection against the weather and good control of water and fertiliser.
March 1, 2024
NetZero CO2 and NetZero migration are contradictory. More migration means more CO2. If you genuinely care about NetZero CO2 you would be trying to stop mass migration. If you thought mass migration was good you wouldnāt care about NetZero CO2.
But HERE is the real killer part of the argument. If you want both then you are not only a hypocrite but are dishonest. You are either dishonest saying you want Net Zero CO2 but enabling mass migration or you are dishonest saying you want mass migration and increasing CO2. You canāt have it both ways.
This isnāt simply a case of a hypocrite saying something is both black or white with no consequence, itās a case of saying they stole either the white or the black money box.
Either way the structure of the actual situation is they not honest people and we all know they have no place in public or legal debate on either issue.
March 1, 2024
In fact I would go a step further. If an MP made statements to the house that
were pro NetZero CO2 and pro mass migration they are in FACT misleading the house. Which is a very serious criminal matter.
March 1, 2024
If they say they are pro net zero they obviously have not understood the vast costs of Net Zero and the total lack of any actual benefit from it. The Conservative do not say they are in favour of open door immigration they dishonestly claim they are against it – but they just never do anything to stop it.
Politicians like Sunak have to be judged by their actions as most are dishonest serial liars. Sunakās actions are to increase taxes hugely, pretend the Covid vaccines were safe and effective and ignore the 100,000s killed or injured, decrease living standards hugely, increase inflation from 1% to 12% as Chancellor and then down to 4% as PM wrecking the economy, pretend net zero is an investment opportunity not a vast multi Ā£trillion pointless cost, pretend they are cutting crime, pretend they are reducing debt, stopping the boats, decreasing NHS waiting listsā¦
March 1, 2024
LL Good description of the government’s actions! Contradictory and harmful’
March 1, 2024
The Balkanisation of our country starts in earnest today with Galloway elected to HoC. The Workers Party will get the votes of Muslims, this will split Labour and create party bigger than Libdems who will be finished in five years time.
Reform is the only right of centre Conservative Party. Sunak will be driving his merry bunch of socialist over the proverbial cliff edge with Rees-Mogg lemming types singing along his strong support in happy flappy mode.
March 1, 2024
Hope – I can’t wait to hear Galloways opening speech in the house of commons …and its all the tories fault
March 1, 2024
Interesting to hear the amusing story of Mogg junior aged 16 at Eton with the Matt Handcockās talk.
He was polite enough not to also point out that his dad Reed Mogg was not only faithful to his wife but also against voluntary (or compulsory euthanasia) using Morphine and Midazolan as seems to have be used to bump people off during covid.
Personally, not suffering from any religions, I am in favour of the former and some early abortions – but with suitable protections. But Mogg get most things right.
March 1, 2024
Forces at home trying to tear us apart says Sunak, that would be the 3.5 million he imported or the 63,000 he gave amnesties to after. Order chief slams the process of asylum or the 17,300 missing not knowing who they are or where they are from. JR, is Sunak really intelligent? It strikes me he is liar or thick? Please explain some of his mad statements against his actions and let us know while you are all on the bus trip to the edge of cliff.
March 1, 2024
Less atmospheric CO2 = means less green growth, more poverty, rip off energy costs, lower living standards, rather more frozen pensionersā¦
March 1, 2024
Anti co2 = Anti green
March 1, 2024
Javlin,
The speaker Hope mislead the HoC with the two a sers he gave to help Labourās election chances, antiquated rule then the it was for MPs safety! Which one was true which one false, could speaker Hoyle tell us and then be sacked for misleading the house for Labourās benefit?
March 1, 2024
As Ned Beatty’s character in the movie “Shooter” says,
“The truth is what I say it is!”
March 1, 2024
So 1.35 million visas issued last year. 92,% of asylum claims granted and we are paying Ā£15 million a day for the privilege.
We’re rumoured to be selling off an Aircraft Carrier as we can’t afford it.
GDP is down even after this increase in population.
A suitable epitaph for 14 years in office.
March 1, 2024
Would anyone want to buy these duff none functioning multi Ā£ billions aircraft carriers without any suitable aircraft? Other than for scrap? Defence procurement in the UK is absolutely appalling. As are most things run by the dire UK state sector.
March 1, 2024
LL,
Actually yes. The US clearly happy with the assets in NATO. Better there than EU as previously planned.
When the Uni Party creates wars around the world for regime change because it does not like its leaders military needs some assets for said wars. Cameronās Libya EU venture was a massive mistake and achieved a failed state with mass immigration. More unsafe now than before! The idiot Cameron sung the EU promotion of marching to the Urals, now back wants to attack Putin- apparently because he is horrible. But loves China and wanted to sell out our nation out to it vile leader who enslaves people, harvest organs, reneges on Hong King treaty, provides the world covid and mass killing gene therapy injections! All be cause he was the heir to Blaire who also previously invaded Iraq for regime change. How about Afghanistan? Loss of life, loss of limbs, billions spent and wasted over 20 years for what? Taliban took it back in two weeks with Biden leaving billions of military equipment and Truss giving the Taliban Ā£100 million of our taxes!! What happened to all those narratives about how necessary it was etc etc. our military died for nothing, lost limbs ie life changing injuries and the UK taxpayer paid billions! For what? So Cameron could call rural mainstream Tory voters Turnip Taliban!!
These idiots invaded Muslim countries then invited those same aggrieved people by the million to live here! Look at London each week to see what these nutty politicos have done to our country. Any action against Blaire or Cameron?
Your skewed view is based on inaccurate reporting. I suspect the MSM would prefer no national defence and for UK to throw its lot in under EU control. Wake up.
March 1, 2024
Trump has a really good advertisement out at the moment, watch it and it depicts all the faults here by the govt.
March 1, 2024
Sale of a Carrier brought these words to mind from Oliver:
[FLOWER VENDOR]
Who will buy my sweet red roses?
Two blooms for a penny
Who will buy my sweet red roses?
Two blooms for a penny
[MILKMAID]
Will you buy any milk today, mistress?
Any milk today, mistress?
[FLOWER VENDOR]
Who will buy my sweet red roses?
Not a lot of luck unless you want to study modern engineering, and even the mistakes of all-things-to -all-people! Needs deep water but has a great space for indoor sports instead of warehousing – and oh dear lots of steep stairs.
March 1, 2024
Ian
Reported today that each illegal sent to Rwanda will cost Ā£1.8 million each !
How many fools believe this is value for money, that means a typical boatful of 50 illegals would cost near to Ā£80,000,000 to deport.
How much would it cost to stop the boat in the first place ?
Madness and Clueless again.
Is no one in Parliament pointing this out John, and if they have, why is nothing happening.
March 1, 2024
Yes. And they only have to commit a jail-able crime in Rwanda and they’ll be shipped straight back here. What an incentive to break the law!
March 1, 2024
+1
March 1, 2024
JR has still not answered whether Sunak and co gave two minesweepers to Ukraine. How do we afford this? UK has already given Ukraine Ā£7 billion, that is the cost of two air craft carriers!!
Still the not so Conservative Party must follow Sunak!! Idiots.
March 1, 2024
40 GR1 Tornado jets being stood down because the RAF can’t afford them. Troops numbers being cut and there’s a war raging on NATOs borders. We really are being governed by a bunch of useless chances. Then again neither of the two hombres have the UK interest at heart.
March 1, 2024
+1
March 1, 2024
I remember working on the MRCA, later Tornado, over 40 years back. As did my father, he especially like his several transfers to Turin and Germany (perhaps to get a break form his four children) but preferred Turin. We must have done a reasonable job if they are still going strong I suppose.
March 1, 2024
With tax and VAT receipts at there highest why does this government need extra money, selling off an aircraft carrier ā¦.oh yes, the increasing costs of net-zero
March 1, 2024
Tory party introduced mayors that the public rejected. After last nights election win for Galloway their stupidity will come home to roost in further Balkinisation of the country. Get rid of mayors ASAP, same for police commissioners. The latter has not worked. Again we see reports of lawless gangs helping themselves to whatever they want in shops as people watch in horror and the police doā¦. Nothing. The police chief councils needs to be scrapped, those there created the current policing mess when they wereā¦.chief constables!!
Sunak who has presided over this makes a speech about it today!! Good grief does he accept any responsibility as the one in overall charge?
March 1, 2024
Well said Javelin. It seems that misleading the house is now routine.
March 1, 2024
Misleading the house:- We will continue cutting taxes – they are still rising, The Vaccines are unequivocally safe, we are stopping the boats, cutting the debt, reducing NHS waiting times, growing the economy, cutting crime, controlling immigration levels to the tens of thousands, we have to go for NET ZEROā¦ all lies.
Rishi Sunak is either lying about the gene therapies pushed as Covid vaccine products, or he simply hasn’t availed himself of the evidence. The latter just as dire as the former. Does he still have huge vaccine related investments or were they sold before they circa halved in price?
March 1, 2024
Mass immigration needs to stop today! National security issue, stop mass immigration.
We need to grow food as never before with govt importing 3.5 million welfare claimants in two years!!. There will not be enough food banks, better tell Plebgate and Cameron feeding our country comes before Africa or Ukraine proxy war for regime change.
March 1, 2024
Who could disagree with such idyllic, cuddly policies.
However, it doesn’t win By-elections, never-mind general elections. So if this is the PCP response to Rochdale, despite the likelihood of war, both domestic and foreign, focusing instead on vaping and pronouns, perhaps, Sir J, you’d be good enough to tell the PM, ‘we’re wasting everybody’s time, lets get it over with and do a political Dignitas visit to give the country a chance to move on’.
Thank you.
March 1, 2024
āNetZero CO2 and NetZero migration are contradictoryā
Indeed as is The Department for āEnergy Security & Net Zeroā or the Department for āWomen and Equalityā.
March 1, 2024
āMy kind of greenā sounds like the title of a Val Doonican album.
Nothing objectionable in the article, though it is a little bit āmotherhood and apple pieā.
Difficult to work ānet zero migrationā into a song though.
March 1, 2024
I’m sure “Sing-along-a-Max” (Bygraves-remember him?) could have managed it!
(I inherited my grandmother’s vinyl record collection;anybody want them?)
March 1, 2024
Mitchel,
Yes , I will take ‘Fings ain’t what they used to be.’ please
It could be an anthem for posters on this site.
March 1, 2024
78s?
March 1, 2024
Possibly worth a lot of money Mitchel, people still play 33 rpm discs, they have a more natural sound than cdās
March 3, 2024
Is there something wrong with motherhood and apple pie!
This comment is typical of ongoing misogyny.Debasing the feminine with
a supposed general understanding that this is an inferior stance and is offensive.
March 1, 2024
Well argued. We are not being treated honestly.
I am reminded of the old saying “Waste not, want not”. Net Zero must be the biggest waste of resources ever inflicted on mankind. JR constantly reminds us and his parliamentary colleagues of the obvious waste involved in implementing the UK government`s Net Zero policies. On top of which there is no physical possibility of achieving it in the time specified and it is a fools errand anyway as it is based on a false prospectus. There will need to be more results like Rochdale at the next GE to boot out as many of the current Net Zero worshipper MPs as possible.
March 1, 2024
What are the UK co2 emmission reduction targets ….and more importantly what do we do when we’ve reached them
March 1, 2024
”UK enshrines new target in law to slash emissions by 78% by 2035”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-enshrines-new-target-in-law-to-slash-emissions-by-78-by-2035
Back to the stoneage people
March 1, 2024
https://climate-change.data.gov.uk/articles/measuring-greenhouse-gas-emissions
more govt data
March 1, 2024
Javelin : “You canāt have it both ways. ”
A perfectly logical position if your intention is to destroy the UK
March 1, 2024
Hoyle wanted his two excuses both ways and is still in post. Hoyle misled the house both excuses cannot be true. Anyone else their feet would not touch the geound
March 1, 2024
Furthermore what did Sunak say or do with Indian PM over persecution of Christians in India? Nothing he declared himself the son in law of India!
March 1, 2024
I agree fully, except when you say āIt is crucial to bringing UK CO 2 output downā. Why? It is not even desirable to do so. It is plant, crop and tree food. Nor do the methods this government push (wind, EVs, exporting steel production and other industries, heat pumps, walking, cycling, hydrogen, public transport, importing forests on diesel ships and trucks to burn at DRAX) really do this to any significant extent.
We should of course use energy efficiently and not waste it whenever practical. The current mad energy policies give the UK energy costing circa three times as much as in USA. Not at all good for the economy, living standards, jobs, being competitive or increasing productivity.
March 1, 2024
Zzzzzzzzzzzxz
March 1, 2024
LL +1
March 1, 2024
Good morning.
Have you ever wondered why this is all happening and where it will all end ? Have you ever asked your colleagues in the House to explain their opposing views and why they think they way they do or, support the current policies ?
We don’t get to be consulted on the all the things going on, but we soon will have a say on the past 14 years of mismanagement.
March 1, 2024
āReducing growth in population is essential to bring housing supply and demand into better balance.ā Indeed it is also a huge drain on tax payers as so many are on or get top up benefits. Very few pay in more than they get back in benefits (as healthcare, police, school places, university places, social services, public transportā¦) plus they undercut and this lower the wages of others – reducing the tax take from them too this lowering their living standards and pushing them on to more benefits too.
JR with you new investment qualifications perhaps you can you explain why UK bank are allowed to get away with one size for all personal overdrafts at circa 40% when they were often base plus 2% until the FCA under that deluded idiot Andrew Bailey demanded they rigged the market. Where are the competition authorities? This regardless of the borrowers credit risk. The same bank in say the isle of man or France do no charge these rip off rates. They charge about 1/4 of this. Why is just the UK customer ripped off in this way?
Reply. Not a policy I agree with
March 1, 2024
Do we not have a fair competition authority that can act? We have unfair competition and rigged markets in banking, credit referencing, the BBC, social and state housing, eduction and healthcare state and private, transportā¦this especially between state and private provision.
March 1, 2024
Not a policy anyone rational should agree with so why is nothing done to correct this rip off FCA enforced racket? I missed of one of the biggest rackets the energy market rigging.
March 1, 2024
Any thought on the by-election where the Tories got 12% and were in third place the first two got 51% between them. They did not lose their deposits and beat Labour slightly I suppose! The winner was a climate realist unlike Suankās deluded (CO2 is the devilās gas religion) Tories.
March 1, 2024
LL,
The winner was a good talker, whatever you think of his views. I would not vote for a chap who wears a hat indoors though.
Rochdale is an odd place. The home of the Coop movement and also Gracie Fields. Cobbled streets but a couple of decent pubs in the centre. Stockport is a better option for a town in the greater Manchester area.
I have no idea what to make of the result though.
March 1, 2024
Looks like he might well hold it again at the general election such a huge margin. The indoor hat is a marketing tool like Churchillās cigar – seems to work rather well. I would perhaps go for a Parrot or similar on the shoulder myself. Trained to say vote for me.
From the Dept of Energy and net Zero.
āThe UK is the first major economy to halve its emissions ā having cut them by 50% between 1990 and 2022, while also growing its economy by 79% – new official statistics released today confirm. This compares to a 23% reduction in France and no change in the USA between 1990 and 2021.ā
Perhaps why energy is about 1/3 of the price in the USA and far less in France than the UK too? Note this 50% is only after fraudulent accounting in many ways on the Drax wood and all the CO2 now produced overseas as we have exported many high energy industries and jobs and import the products on diesel ship. Plane and ship fuel seems to be ignored.
The Growth claims are bogus too, virtually zero growth in real terms PPP per cap over the last 21 years. High energy costs, over taxation, over regulation, open door low skilled immigration, net harm vaccines, net harm lockdowns, incompetent government, vast government waste, HS2, vast crony capitalism and Gov. corruption and net zero the main reasons.
March 1, 2024
31 years not 21.
March 1, 2024
Gracie Fieldsā songs have faded from memories but echoes of the ghost of Yasser Arafat might be more popular today.
March 1, 2024
Galloway was a fearless campaigner for Brexit.
March 1, 2024
The political state doesn’t desire domestic independence in any area of British life whether that be immigration, food production, judicial matters, democratic issues, culture etc etc. That doesn’t in anyway afford external players like the EU, Davos, UN or WHO any degree of leverage over this nation’s affairs.
Import dependency is the way forward for Brexit hating, globalist charlatans that now infect the upper echelons of the political and bureaucratic establishment, who find it beneficial to their politics to export political leverage to allied interests. This Anglophobic bigotry or as Thatcher termed it ‘the enemy within’ has become institutionally embedded.
Again, if Tory party leaders are aligned with Anglophobic bureaucrats, and the evidence suggests they are, then we are truly undermined. Brexit Tory MPs can moan all they like but their continued loyalty to this party has caused immense damage to our nation’s affairs
I note Galloway’s victory. If he can take seats from odious Labour then good luck to the lad. Anything that undermines and exposes Labour for what they truly are is a positive step forward
March 1, 2024
I agree that continued loyalty to a party, any party, that so clearly doesn’t represent anything other than appeasing and imitating the opposition is damaging.
Both MP’s and more worryingly the electorate continue with this, regardless of the evidence of betrayal before their eyes.
The Rochdale win by Galloway is disturbing although a win on a very low turn out.
It seems Gaza and appeasement of certain strains of our society who will band together is the order of the day.
Labour and Conservatives will likely now try and match Galloway on that score.
I’m extremely worried about the postal vote being open to abuse by block voting, but seeing as we’ve allowed our MP’s to invent so many rules around telling truths, it’s likely nothing will be done.
March 1, 2024
I’ll say it ….he got the muslim vote
March 1, 2024
Reform postal voting now before our country descends into a failed state. Why are the claims of death threats, racist abuse, and intimidation not being investigated?
March 1, 2024
“This is for Gaza” says George Galloway.
Not for Rochdale then. That figures.
Oh well, serves right the 60% of the electorate in Rochdale that failed to turn out for the vote. One would have thought they would care more for local issues, not what’s going on in an endless war torn region thousands of miles away.
March 1, 2024
When will it be understood and admitted that he is setting out to get MPs of his party from the muslim vote. They are ordered who to vote for, so any place with a large percentage of muslim voters will vote for his party, or else. Then they will be a step forward in controlling our country. Most of the rest of us will as usual be blind and apathetic because our leaders will be too frightened to speak. And limited by laws they have passed.
March 1, 2024
Sir John, Sound reasoning and advice why do others in power appear to turn a deaf ear/ears to such a commonsense approach to such serious questions. Security, Food, Energy,Timber etc security/import substitution planned in a sustainable programme, is the corner stone of good governance and long term country development planning, long lost I fear by UK governments.
March 1, 2024
MW :
Because the “others in power” are intent on destroying the country.
To quote Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
There is no other logical reason.
March 1, 2024
I have campaigned for lower migration as I cannot see how and where we will build three cities the size of Southampton each year to provide homes, shops and roads for 750,000 extra people. I look forward to this government tightening the rules further to cut the numbers more.
Youāve had 14years and 5 useless PMās to get this sorted and weāre still letting them in, soon thereāll be no pleasant land left because of all the weight on it itāll be under water, I for one donāt know what the answer is but itās surely not another 5 years of conservative or labour in charge
March 1, 2024
According to Fraser Nelson in the DT today, importing 4 million people since the last General Election isn’t a conspiracy, it was a silly mistake caused by the OBR.
So I expect Sunak will be sacking the OBR today, since this isn’t the only thing they’ve made “silly mistakes” over.
And obviously effectively declaring an amnesty for the criminal migrants and granting them all asylum or right to remain is another silly mistake ….. which they’ll admit in a few months’ time after they’re kicked out of Office.
March 1, 2024
Donna,
It is truly outrageous Sunak and Hunt want mass immigration based on left wing advice from ONS and OBR who Guido has pointed out have some relatives to opposition benches! Thick they just too thick.
March 1, 2024
Ah! but a sixth PM and another 5 years might see some change? Don’t hold your breath.
March 1, 2024
As a lover of the countryside, SJR, where do you stand on whether large areas of countryside in your constituency should be concreted over for housing?
Reply I am against!
March 1, 2024
R.Grange :
Or for wind and solar “farms”?
March 2, 2024
This MP, unlike some others in the region, has been conspicuous by his absence from campaigns against excessive housing development. ‘Strategic development locations’, meaning thousands upon thousands of new houses, have been created over much of his constituency. It is disappointing that someone who claims to love the countryside should have done so little to defend it.
Reply. Untrue. I have long argued for less building on greenfields and for lower migration numbers to allow tgat.
March 1, 2024
@R.Grange –
At the start of this Conservative Governments reign the population of Wokingham was 154,400 by 2021 it had grown to 177,500. Not much indigenous growth primarily incomers and all Liberal Democrats looking for homes.
Except for the odd roundabout and traffic lights to inhibit traffic flow nothing has been done to create a working infrastructure. The distance top to bottom is just 14 miles or hours in a car and impossible by other means
March 1, 2024
It seems to me that the issue is more complex than Sir John’s sudden – but most welcome – conversion to the green persuasion suggests. Taking as a starting point the scientific conclusion that the world is indeed inexorably heating up, with CO2 emissions the primary cause but with significant contributions from methane and other gases, the question is how does the world deal with the consequences? Inevitably, we will overshoot the 2% target – which will then threaten the 40% of the worlds population that lives within 100km of the coast.
The problem is exacerbated by an economic system that depends on growth for increased profits, dividends, market share etc. But the world has finite resources and vested interests that wish to enjoy increased profits, as a larger global population achieves a net disposable income to spend on consumer products. The vested interests prefer inertia and greenwashing to actually facing up to the consequences and going for zero carbon. This lack of urgency on their part is what frustrates the Greens and other environmental activists
.
The global population is now approaching 8 billion. The consequences of the projected increase in sea levels, increased H20 vapour in the atmosphere, the current exponential increase in burning carbon and the destruction of the world’s green lungs – the rain forests – will be catastrophic. And far more costly than if we grasp the nettle now and make a start on saving our lovely planet.
March 1, 2024
Sakara: Where is the evidence that CO2 is the “primary cause”?
March 1, 2024
Isn’t Greta crying enough evidence
March 1, 2024
SG. The combined intelligence; both human and artificial, at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), reckon that humanity on this planet will self destruct around 2040. If I put a bet on it and won, how would I collect my winnings D’oh!
March 1, 2024
Well obviously you would put a bet on it not happening as that is a far better bet as far more likely and you can collect!
March 1, 2024
Got an update on when the Maldives are going to be swallowed by the sea? It was first predicted they would be gone sometime in the 1980s. (You can put down a deposit of Ā£60 for a luxury beach-front holiday in the Maldives later this year.)
Help, help …… there’s a big bad wolf.
March 1, 2024
I thought they were meant to be gone by now? How come business is still flourishing, is it now an Octonaught submarine station?
March 1, 2024
See all climate predictions here – https://extinctionclock.org/
March 1, 2024
SG :
The satellite data shows that the Earth is greening caused by some beneficial warming and an increase in the level of CO2. As a result food productions continues to increase each year.
March 1, 2024
+1
March 1, 2024
SG :
āThe problem is exacerbated by an economic system that depends on growth for increased profits, dividends, market share etc.ā
As already made clear by Greta Thunberg when promoting her latest book at the London Southbank Centre 30/10/2022, the real purpose of CAGW/Net Zero/green activism is to sabotage the West by destroying its access to cheap, abundant and reliable energy.
[To view enter : āGreta Thunberg Southbank Centreā into YouTube search]
March 1, 2024
Has she never heard of China, Russia, India as even bigger targets? Perhaps she has been warned the protest will be in the form of a placard she could carry ‘ For one day only’.
March 1, 2024
She knows that those countries have open balconies on the top floors of hotels
March 1, 2024
A “scientific conclusion” isn’t scientific at all. Science has to be continually questioned, hypotheses have to be continually tested and debate has to be ongoing. It seems you are trying to silence any dissent, no matter how qualified the dissenters may be. It’s Covid all over again. All trust has been destroyed.
March 1, 2024
SG : “And far more costly than if we grasp the nettle now and make a start on saving our lovely planet.”
There is no proof that the anthropogenic emissions of CO2, which are just returning back to the atmosphere CO2 which has become locked up in our planet’s crust over millions of years, will destroy the planet. In fact Happer & Wijngaarden have proved that doubling CO2 has a negligible GHG effect because of IR saturation and CO2 levels have been up to ten times more than today. The dinosaurs lived with lush green growth with CO2 at 5 times todayās level.
And future generations will know how to adapt to the Earth’s climate whatever happens.
I can imagine the early (Neolithic) environmentalists trying to stop the mining of flint to āsaveā the planet from all the flint mines or to āsaveā the flint for future generations.
March 1, 2024
As Sir John points out, you cannot have a green and pleasant countryside (which is the latest item on the ‘it’s racist’ agenda) and turn the country into a massive housing estate.
The contradictions spouted daily by all MP’s on the green/immigration topic are just glaringly obvious.
Slapping ‘sustainable or eco’ label on everything doesn’t alter this.
March 1, 2024
@Michelle – people in politics and the media love the name calling ‘racist’ yet not one has defined a ‘race’ that is different to the ‘human race’ when trying to be abusive
March 1, 2024
Nett Zero was invented by repute on a pillow in Downing Street and like most pillow talk it was fantasy.
The atrophied minds at the Treasury believe that mass immigration maintains our position in the World GDP league at around number six. They return home evey night, for those not already there , with a complacent smile on their faces. What they have really achieved is to push our per capita GDP position down to 21st in the World tables. Ergo mass immigration has not only put an intolerable strain on the infrastructure of the UK, it has significantly impoverished every single one of us. Logically those in the HOC who have been complicit in this scam on the electorate , all but about 50 of them, should not be returned at the next GE.
I would point out here for fhe first time, that the latest scam route to the largesse of the UK is France to the Republic of Ireland and then to Northern Ireland. A UK governmenf with cohones would use this route in reverse to return all illegal migrants to the EU. As they are not documented who knows how they got to NI. The Republic would explode in indignation but could legitimately return fhem to France.
We would then need to end absolutely the lobby demand, by big business in the UK, for cheap labour. We have many millions choosing to live on the state, better put as UK taxpayers. Filter out the genuine and put the rest to work. For agriculture use seaonal visas.
To control the lunacy we suffer I would introduce a UK citizens Identity Card ,containing all the biological data that cannot be scammed, of all legitimate citizens. I would expand MI5 with a department to issue it. Then we would know who we needed to deport or legitamise based on their contribution to the UK.
It is only then that we might begin to return to the green and pleasant land we once, pre Blair, were. We and our host might then be wealthier happy people.
March 1, 2024
In general, I agree with your post today Sir John.
I love the countryside even though, much of it is man made.
I love views of the open countryside and moors and woodland. Sadly too many of our beautiful views are blighted by the symbols of the new false religion, the rotating crosses.
I am not a fan of acres and acres of pine trees all in rows and tightly packed. Any timber plantations should, in my opinion, be mixed and double up as country park type amenities.
March 1, 2024
Indeed and blighted by new tiny, ugly, packed in cheap houses on narrow road with tiny or no gardens.
March 1, 2024
Lifelogic
Yep and now they they are going to fine people who park (illegally) over the kerb to keep the roads clear, when there is no other space available.
At one stage in Wokingham we had the Council planning refusing large driveways on properties on any planning applications, as it “encouraged car ownership”
So people still bought cars, and parked them in the narrow roads and paths on all the new estates built. !
The law of stupidity, and not understanding Human Nature.
March 1, 2024
+1
March 1, 2024
A new direction for you after the election.
March 1, 2024
George Galloway (he of the tasteful Fedora hat) has won the Rochdale by-election with 39.65% of the vote. This is the third time Gorgeous George has taken a constituency fron Labour. He will spend a few short months in Parliament where his gift for oratory and his reputation for baiting the Labour leadership will enliven debates – but Labour will regain the consituency in the January 2025 general election.
Interesting that the deranged Reform anti-net zero landlords party put up a “name” (Simon Danczuk) as it’s candidate, yet achieved a mere 6.33% of the vote. Whilst this result did beat the Official Monster Raving Loony candidate, who achieved a result of 209 votes, clearly there is an opportunity for a merger here
March 1, 2024
SG, it’s easy to point and mock, but at least Simon Danczuk had the guts and commitment to stand in a hostile seat. Can I ask about your own commitment to democracy? Have you ever stood for town, borough, county, parliament? Parish? Allotment committee?
JF
(I’ve been beaten by the LibDems, the shame, the shame!)
March 2, 2024
Not necessarily. All sitting candidates have an advantage. What can Labour offer that Galloway cannot?
March 1, 2024
All very lovely Sir JR. But no one in Gov. is listening and anyway it’s too late. Your party is soon to be relegated to the opposition benches. And whatever rag-tag shower end up on the Gov. benches, they won’t have the intelligence to see sense of your words.
March 1, 2024
Good morning Sir John, it is 7.50 am and another wet grey day here in central England.
I like your general list of preferences, you just forgot to mention removing all poverty and curing all ills.
Oh and stopping all wars almost forgot that one…..
March 1, 2024
At what point does the demographics of the electorate, sufficient (and growing) numbers to be able to return an MP more interested in a land far away than this one, become an issue for MPs?
Ain’t integration grand?
March 1, 2024
It’s just basic common sense…totally agree .
March 1, 2024
The solar farms and windmills are doing nothing to protect and preserve our countryside, and very little towards our energy supply. The “green” agenda is an exercise in destruction, not protecting the environment.
The Not-a-Conservative-Party has no intention of introducing Net Zero immigration. Sunak’s “Plan” ….. not that he’ll get any opportunity to fail (again) to deliver ….. is to reduce it from 1.2 million a year to 900,000 a year.
The consequences of 75 years of immigration, particularly the mass immigration of the last 25, are exactly what Enoch Powell warned. It’s been an utter catastrophe for our country. And not just for the protection and preservation of our countryside.
March 1, 2024
Donna,
1.395 million and 63,000 criminals entering our country given asylum at four star hotels while vets are homeless and pensioners decide heat or eat. I wonder if anyone in the not Conservative Party cares, even Sunak the self declared son in law of India who wants more migration from India for a trade deal!
Perhaps he wants George Galloway to increase his vote share?
March 1, 2024
“net zero migration” is unworkable and unrealistic. The sort of “howling at the moon” policy that only those who, partly by the nature of the UK’s electoral system, are excluded from ever having to back up their rhetoric with delivery. Anyone advocating such a policy needs to be able to explain, in exacting detail, how it would work.
Your local hospital needs an additional consultant surgeon. There’s one who wants to come here, but sorry, the operation you or a relative of yours needs will have to be delayed until the surgeon arrives, and that has to wait until someone decides to leave the UK.
Your relative marries a foreign national. Sorry, they’ll have to stay where they are, keeping a family apart (don’t the Conservatives claim to be the party of the family?) until another person decides to leave the UK.
Oh, sorry, only one more person actually left the UK. Who gets the slot? The consultant surgeon or your relative’s spouse? Who makes that choice?
A UK national who has been working overseas for a few years comes back to the U because that working opportunity no longer exists, or maybe their family situation has changed. Would you prevent them, as a citizen, returning because “net zero migration”? How would you justify that legally? The UK can’t exclude it’s own citizens from the UK.
In other news, an ONS report has calculated that the average cost per person of the Rwanda scheme is Ā£1.92million per person.
March 1, 2024
PP :
Whilst zero immigration is not feasible for the reasons you state ā even black holes emit some radiation ā net zero immigration is definitely feasible and in addition there is a very, very large difference between 1.4 million and “tens of thousands”.
March 1, 2024
If you believe net zero immigration is feasible, I’ll repeat my request for you “to explain, in exacting detail, how it would work”.
March 1, 2024
PP :
For the next 5 years I would make it one in, one out with a government minister allocating the visas. We have 120,000 Chinese “students” which could be severely reduced as a start.
Then we could allow the same rate as Japan, 0.5 per thousand of the population, so about 40K/year.
A nation is defined by its people. If we continue to import vast numbers from the ME and Africa who have no wish to transition we’re going to look like a combination of the ME and Africa and experience their cultures, practices, behaviour, politics, grievances and laws. A free and democratic multi ethnic country can exist, live in harmony and prosper, but not a free and democratic multi cultural country by the very definition of culture.
March 2, 2024
So it will be down to a combination of someone deciding to leave the UK and the whims of a politician as to when or whether your relative gets their operation or how long your relative’s family stays split up?
No thank you.
March 1, 2024
It is cheaper to pay them Ā£100k and fly them home.
Frees up the hotels as well.
March 1, 2024
Then the return a few days later?
March 1, 2024
I think there are lots of Jumbos currently mothballed we could use.
March 1, 2024
Peter,
The solution is to train our own people, we should not be stealing doctors from other nations.
Train Doctors & Nurses for free if they will contract to work for the NHS for 10 years after qualification.
We would also need to increase the training spaces at the same time.
Not difficult to solve really.
In your so called calculations you have forgotten some people die, and others are born who take their place, the population does not stand still and their age is not stagnant.
March 1, 2024
Tightening the rules is one thing. Enforcement is another.
This government does one thing, allowing in more and more.
March 1, 2024
There are only two reasons why Galloway won in Rochdale, he platform for Gaza receiving the muslin vote and the tories complete & utter incompetence in everything ā¦I donāt think Galloway is interested in or platform for net-zero or green policies
March 1, 2024
Little to disagree with there, but please ask your government why they are not doing these things.
We have no shortage of resources, especially water, so obvious when the drains cannot cope and roads flood – What we have is a management issue and a willingness to plan for the future with common sense.
Innovation and economic growth are being held back due to reverse management – that’s when HMG is not doing the right things for the country but instead is pursuing their own goals, which appear to be contrary to our better survival.
March 1, 2024
Would there be less of a management issue if profits were being re-invested rather than exported?
March 1, 2024
Iām sure someone will correct my sums if I am wrong.
I,000,000 Kilowatts = I Gigawatt
The new battery plant in Somerset will produce batteries with a total capacity of 40 gw each year
If each battery had a capacity of 100 kw, the plant will produce 400,000 batteries a year
At any point our demand for electricity is between 30 and 40 gw
If the 400,000 batteries of capacity 100 kw produced each year were all used to store electricity to then power the grid, those batteries would have the capacity to provide our total electricity needs – FOR ONE HOUR
If my sums are right, this illustrates the nonsensical idea of storing renewable electricity.
March 1, 2024
MW :
Correct.
The climate activists know this. There is no plan for energy storage (see the 2023 NG ESO FES energy flow charts for 2035 and 2050) other than DSR (Demand Side Response) aka rolling blackouts for when there is little or even no power from renewables.
March 1, 2024
@Mike Wilson – another Conservative Government sleight of hand a big bung given to an Indian Company, that has no expertise in this area, that then brings in the Chinese as the main partner to import Chinese components for assembly. Your government keeping you safe and secure!
March 1, 2024
Mike
You are guilty of logical thinking using simple mathematics.
Parliament does not like or recognise that sort of common-sense.
March 1, 2024
You are assuming that a 100 kW battery has a storage capacity of 100 kWh. Power is kW, energy is kWh. EV batteries are rated for there energy content in kWh. An average EV 60 kWh battery would get you 240 miles.
Grid scale batteries are rated in how long they can deliver the rated power, usually two to four hours. Hence 100 MW/200 MWh or 200 MW/800 MWh.
March 1, 2024
That is precisely NOT what I said. I know the difference between a kw and a kWh. A battery with a capacity of 100kw can deliver 100 kw for 1 hour – or, say, 10 kw for 10 hours. Which is why I said that batteries with a capacity of 40 gw, could provide 40gw to the grid for ONR HOUR.
March 2, 2024
A battery with a “capacity” of 100kw “hours” can deliver 100 kw for 1 hour.
March 1, 2024
The Swiss government tends to make sensible decisions.
In the 1960s when they were at risk of losing their identity from too many non-Swiss residents, they required companies to cut their foreign employees by 10% each year, progressively.
International businesses could not even transfer their own existing employees to their Swiss offices, which was difficult but worked.
March 1, 2024
In Thailand a foreign born person or company can own 49% of property or a business ā¦works well enough for them, and they still have huge investment
March 1, 2024
Bloke :
The Swiss have the great advantage of being allowed regular referendums.
We are is despeate need of referendums on immigration and Net Zero.
March 1, 2024
but the big one in 2016 has been widely circumvented!
March 1, 2024
Dear Mr. Redwood,
All good, commonsensical ideas that no conservative could possibly object to and vote-winners even!
What a pity your party has no intention of adopting them.
March 1, 2024
The Tories are done for. I mean extinction level done for. Not coming back. Ever.
Even a good MP like my own is going to get kicked out. There’s a possibility you will too.
The figures don’t lie.
Everyone can see what your party has been up to.
March 1, 2024
@Paula – it is not just one party anymore, parliament keeps pushing for the indefensible destruction of the UK. You cant be in the HoC and not be one of the ones not speaking out, neutral. To stay quiet is to defend the indefensible, MPs are simply there to defend those that voted and pays them – the rest of it is just noise
March 1, 2024
The least said aboput the winner of the Rochdale byelection the better but far more important was the strange and inexplicable increase in postal votes which jumped from 14,000 to some 23,000 in this constituency since the last general election.
We all know that postal votes are easily corrupted and the requirement for ID at the polling station has probably explains some of the increase but for their to be 23,000 postal votes in this one byelection really needs looking at.
March 1, 2024
ChrisS :
The reason for allowing postal votes is because no sane woman would vote for Sharia law.
March 1, 2024
But when interviewed by the media women say its their right to be subjugated and their choice to wear a hijab ā¦on this subject, like shipping out illegal immigrants and building nuclear power stations, the French are correct
March 1, 2024
GC :
What about more serious issues such as whether girls are educated or not?
Do the media ask if they want the laws of Afghanistan?
Cancel postal voting and make voting at polling stations properly secure and secret – WITH NO REGISTERED AND NUMBERED VOTING SLIPS WHICH THE ACTIVISTS CAN LATER EXAMINE.
March 1, 2024
+1
March 1, 2024
Wrong. The reason is the man of the house controls the vote, if she attends the voting booth he doesn’t see how she votes. He gets two ….simple.
March 1, 2024
Another former Minister is now pointing out that the Government’s policies represent a clear and present danger to the security of the UK.
The Government’s first responsibility is Defence of the Realm. Why isn’t it doing it Sir John?
Instead it’s importing millions of people who don’t share our values, including many who actively wish us harm, and it’s dismantling our ability to defend ourselves.
“Former security minister Sir Gerald Howarth urges the UK to halt Net Zero and focus on defence.
A new paper from Net Zero Watch makes a comprehensive case that efforts to decarbonise the steel and electricity fundamentals of the economy now represent a real and present danger to national security.”
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/net-zero-threat-to-national-security
March 1, 2024
Howarth is not interested in defence as such-he wants more offensive toys to bomb the rest of the world.
His main claim to fame is attending the 1968 Vietnam demonstrations outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square……..and waving a US flag in support of the war.
March 1, 2024
Yes, ‘former’ ! ie Someone who was part of the problem when a Cabinet Member but said nothing, who now realises that they are so to lose their seat.
I have Net Zero pity.
March 1, 2024
Only 436 people voted for the Green Party in Rochdale ā¦.thatās not a mandate for a green revolution and a policy of net-zero ā¦thatās tyranny, forcing laws upon the people ā¦prove to us that the people WANT net-zero
March 1, 2024
@glen cullen – so true but our politicos our leadership have their fingers in their ears, they are not there to serve the people of the Country but un-elected unaccountable masters. It is getting to the stage that it is the whole of those in this Parliament has to go – the lack of defense coming forward of the UK is deafening
March 1, 2024
GC :
Agreed.
We need referndums on both Net Zero and immigration.
March 1, 2024
Perhaps the demographic of Rochdale needs to live in heated houses and doesn’t like the idea of not being able to.
March 1, 2024
Yeh, thereās nothing as bleak & hellish as the dales in winter
March 1, 2024
Because they’re not as green as labour. Compare their manifestos.
March 1, 2024
While our host and many of us dream kf green fields and write our varied directions as to how to get there, a political moment of significance occured in Rochdale.
This was the first election to my knowledge that was decided on an issue that had absolutely nothing to do with anything in Rochdale or the UK as a whole. It was the first sectarian election in the UK other than in NI. I predict that any constituency with a large muslim electorate will vote in line with percieved muslim interests even when those interests may be thousands of miles from our shores. Just as their protest marches relate to Gaza, so will their voting intensions reflect anything other than UK or local issues. Nigel Farage was absolutely right in warning of this.
Depressingly I do not see the present incumbents at Westminster being aware of or capable of dealing with the rise of sectarianism in our elections or on our streets. We are in a vacuum of leadership.
March 1, 2024
Also why Mayor Khan keeps being elected.
March 1, 2024
Greater London had a population of 8,899,375 at the 2021 census. Around 37% of its population were born outside the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London
March 2, 2024
Greater London so big now that it covers some parts of the home counties as well, so no doubt that dilutes the figures, if you can believe them. I doubt many of the incomers even bother with. In my visits to East London, I’d say it is the indigenous Londoners that are 37 per cent. I doubt the census anyway as I doubt many incomers bother with it.
March 1, 2024
along with the need for 15 close protection officers round the clock! Not a lot of people know that or are happy to pay.
March 1, 2024
“present incumbents at Westminster being aware of or capable of dealing” or willing to…
March 1, 2024
agricola :
Agreed.
March 1, 2024
Shame the government, assisted by virtually all of the opposition Party’s, are doing exactly the opposite that you and many of us out here want.
The voice of common-sense and reason appear to be lost on many of those in Parliament at the moment.
Perhaps I am more fortunate than many, in that you are my Mp John, and you appear to be just one of a few that are trying to argue the case of reason, but unfortunately that is not happening/succeeding.
No wonder George Galloway has won in Rochdale. so many people giving up on the traditional party’s now.
I have to say I really do fear for our Country’s future if the present range of policies continue !
March 1, 2024
‘so many people giving up on the traditional partyās now’
We’ve given up on traditional parties because they’ve given up on the people …they look else where
March 1, 2024
Sir John
Be rest assured that the extreme left-wing government we now have in power has no intention of balancing the structures of the UK to meet it need. They give the appearance of being centralist, extreme centralist a command-and-control dictatorship with everyone having to jump to their needs they donāt serve the UK they have no interest or loyalty to it. Just look around people are being controlled by a state by a massive unfunded administration that is only good for dishing out punishment and taxes. Laws have evolved to protect them not the nation. They have no intention of changing that, their bosses would never allow it.
The alternative is just another although not so extreme left-wing grouping, so zilch choice come any election.
Parliament loves a virtue signal; they love pandering those that desire entitlement without contribution. Parliament is no longer a place that serves, that defends free-speech, defends freedom of any description and above all defends democracy.
There is no center ground, no grouping that reflects the views of the UK Population, its Citizens just extreme left-wing dogma. As far as Parliament is concerned the more immigration the better they can then get to drown out those that thought they were living in a democracy.
March 1, 2024
Ian B :
Agreed.
March 1, 2024
But on the other hand, we allow roads and streets to be blocked, damage done to buildings and monuments, slogans displayed on national buildings, bridges blocked….is that defending democracy or breaking reasonable laws? If I were to throw red paint on Wokingham Council buildings and block access by sitting down in the entrance with banners and noise – how long before the police would arrest and move me?
March 1, 2024
2 minutes
March 1, 2024
You cant have more trees, it is Conservative Party policy to destroy the country we live in so as to house the massive immigration population they are inviting in.
!4 years of speeches on immigration, 14 years of doing the complete opposite. 14 years of refusing the UK its own legislators.
March 1, 2024
Slightly off your topic but you said ‘trees’ ā fifteen years ago our council placed saplingsā along our paved high street, and now the roots have cracked and dislodged the paving slabs ā¦This January, without repairing the broken and uneven paving, theyāve planted more saplingsā ā¦all in the name of the net-zero
March 1, 2024
Net Zero will not be achievable but making the UK more self reliant is important.Creating jobs which will bring in revenue from sales and taxes should be inevitable.
March 1, 2024
exactly right – self sufficiency is key, that way we shield ourselves from the vagaries of international rise and falls, cooperation and beligerance, affordability and economic death.
March 1, 2024
People are entitled to challenge Net Zero ideology and Sir Gerry Howarth does just that :
Believe me that in the not too distant future views condemning the Net Zero agenda will be classed as ‘hate’ and could see you imprisoned. That is the cancer of this progressive movement
”Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.
Writing in a foreword to a new paper from campaign group Net Zero Watch, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David Cameron, said:
Our adversaries are watching us like hawks, so let us leave them in no doubt: we are rearming and rebuilding, and Net Zero is firmly on hold.
Professor Gwythian Prins, a defence expert and one of the paperās authors, agrees that with the recent deterioration of the worldās security situation, āluxury beliefsā such as Net Zero must be jettisoned as a matter of urgency”
March 1, 2024
Hi sir John
Children care services are being cut
But we can suddenly find 35 million pounds to give MP’S protection while people walking down the streets are getting stabbed crime is on the increase but our police stations are being closed
I have many sleepless nights worrying for my grandchildren RIP England
March 1, 2024
Every time we have to protect our elites from the plebs; democracy, the rule of law and policing by consent dies a little
March 1, 2024
āIt is crucial to bringing UK CO 2 output downā
Why is it crucial please to reduce our 1% contribution to global CO2 emissions?
Can you explain please how anthropogenic emissions of CO2 controls our planetās temperature? Aside from Happer & Wijngaarden proving that doubling CO2 has a negligible GHG effect, how does anthropogenic emissions of CO2 explain the warming to come out of the last ice age 11,000 years ago and the Roman and Medieval warm periods?
March 1, 2024
@Original Richard – by reducing CO2 you get to reduce vegetation therefore the food chain so probably life. Then you have to ask why is the farming community having to manufacture CO2 to pump into greenhouses to aid growth.
No one is thinking things through, its about a ‘virtue signal’ to engage with the minority the un-educated in our society. Then again it is the Governments instruction they received from WEF to remove the UK as a functioning entity
March 1, 2024
Ian B : “Then again it is the Governments instruction they received from WEF to remove the UK as a functioning entity.”
Correct, there is no other explanation for Net Zero and mass immigration and now even failing to ensure our voting in elections is safe from fraud.
March 1, 2024
Yes itās time the British, having done much for the world, withdrew and concentrated on maintaining their own inheritance.
But we are at war with the greatest nuclear power on earth. For what reason? British soldiers have targeted civilians in Russia – Belgarod and Crimea, with our own Storm Shadow long range missiles, AND KILLED THEM!
Why are we at war with our anti-NAZI wartime ally? This is the second time we have attacked a war-time ally – we bombed the Serbs too – the RAF in the air with the Luftwaffe.
I have known of British personnel on the ground in Ukraine for a long time JR. I could not say so because you would have claimed that it was āRussian propagandaā. However Hamish de Britton Woods – the British propagandist, published today news that āPutin was preparing for nuclear warā in order to āscare the pants off usā – again. All nuclear powers are permanently prepared for nuclear war – thatās the whole point of it.
I am concerned for our Green and pleasant land – like you. It is in serious danger from the antics of the uncontrolled āBritishā political class.
March 1, 2024
They are fully controlled and selected, but not by the English. That is why both parties pursue policies which are anathema to the English. We lost control of our country with the British Nationality Act 1948. It’s been downhill all the way since then.
March 2, 2024
Look what happened to the Roman Empire after Caracalla’s Constitutio Antoniniana of 212AD which extended Roman citizenship to all freeborn citizens of the Empire!
March 1, 2024
Excellent first sentence
March 1, 2024
Yes, let Cameron, Osborne, Blaire, Brown, Sunak, Hunt, Atkins, Cleverly and their children be sent to the front line. Let Cameron March them to the Urals or die in the process, as he wanted others to do.
March 2, 2024
We need a headline aimed at Putin and N.Korea…..’Use nuclear at the West and you will immediately get total annihilation by return. So stop this futile sabre rattling.’
March 2, 2024
Itās the west threatening Russia. Have you not read that the CIA have admitted building 12 bunkers on the Russian border – itās reported in the US newspapers. Admitting Ukrain to NATO was about putting our nukes a matter of minutes from Moscow.
Putin ALWAYS SAYS: if you strike we will retaliate – he never threatens a first strike..
March 1, 2024
Well said Sir John ; I’m with you all the way !.
March 1, 2024
I’m also an environmentalist ….I just don’t believe the hype of climate change
March 1, 2024
‘Nearly one in three (29.2%) U.K. Met Office temperature measuring stations have an internationally-defined margin of error of up to 5Ā°C. Another 48.7% of the total 380 stations could produce errors up to 2Ā°C, meaning nearly eight out of ten stations (77.9%) are producing ājunkā or ānear junkā readings of surface air temperatures’
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
Well worth a quick read ….if the numbers are a lie than net-zero is a lie
March 1, 2024
and what was the 1.5 degrees based on? Well, the assumed pre-industrial levels of 1850. So how many readings, where, by scientist or quack, midday facing sun, accuracy of temp gauge… just how reliable is any temperature you use.?
March 1, 2024
From the MsM –
āStarmer and Sunak are two cheeks of the same backside, and both got well and truly spankedā ā Galloway
I do not support the man in any way, but he has a point. All the UK’s ills trickle down from the top, everyone that can, seeks to mirror the leadership in thought and deed. There is no defense from the leadership for society and common decency, just more and more ‘virtue signals’ to appear to be in tune with a noisy minority that themselves will never support the majority – they are the entitled ones.
March 1, 2024
YouGov (@YouGov) March 1, 2024
Con: 20% (no change from 20-21 Feb)
Lab: 46% (=)
Reform UK: 14% (+1)
Lib Dem: 7% (-2)
Green: 7% (=)
SNP: 3% (-1)
When will CCHQ recognize that having those that hijacked the party being left of Labour is not a vote winner?
When will the Conservative Party realize that being led by centralist socialist who donāt understand controlling spending is not a vote winner? Donāt defend Society is not a vote winner. High taxes are a result of nothing other than high uncontrolled spending, this crowd have out-done Labour on every count by being Socialist Centralist ā that have then lost control. To that extent the Conservative Party are to blame, it used to be their party with their leadership and government.
March 1, 2024
As with every plan or project these days, actual costs should be at their forefront. However, it seems that ALL Green Projects are exempt from that important requirement. As those costs are an irrelevance!
Who ever thought costs were an irrelevance and proceeded with their plan anyway? Why, our Government and the Opposition Parties, of course. What sound business plan did not formulate projections of cash requirements for its proposals BEFORE initiating them? Sadly, too many public sector projects proceed on a whim and/or a prayer.
More, now than ever before, do we need the influence of business and industry, in the preparation and laying down of the foundations of Government projects. For it is clear, the current batches of politicos in the HoC and HoL are inept, as are their legions of public sector aides who influence them.
Without such professional input, we’re going down as we continue to spend more than we receive.
It’s past time to balance Government expenditure with tax revenue. Low tax revenue should equate to small Government but….
March 1, 2024
Sir John
The missing link in the NetZero dream, why are there 189 Countries in the World not signed up-to this religion. That is more 95% of the Worlds population that is not engaged in this hysteria.
This Conservative Government aided by Parliament is punishing the UK, its citizens, its industry seemingly for personal self-gratification.
The list of failings from this Government are now beyond comprehension. 14 years and they have backtracked on every manifest, every promise, every decree. Now to drown out people like me they want greater immigration so that the indigenous people although they are the paymaster are the minority.
March 1, 2024
Ask George Galloway to arrange some of these things …
The rest of the failed political world of Westminster will never do it….
March 1, 2024
āI have campaigned for lower migration as I cannot see how and where we will build three cities the size of Southampton each year to provide homes, shops and roads for 750,000 extra people.ā
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
When we see no border, energy, financial or even national security it is clear that the power now lies with those who wish to destroy us.
March 1, 2024
PS :
The Music Stops: Net Zero and national security :
Net Zero Watch :
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/65e18dad4b06fa0c5606a719/1709280690938/Prins-Music-Stops.pdf?mc_cid=c386463700&mc_eid=870a48a53b
March 1, 2024
All of the things that you want – less greenfield development, more trees, more UK agriculture, more lakes and reservoirs – require more land. So we want – and demand – zero population growth, implying negligible immigration. We also need the monarchy and all of m’luds and m’ladies and the landed gentry in general, to release some of their private land. A good way of bringing this about is to remove the upper limit on council tax that arises from the banding system. A sticking plaster solution would be to subdivide council tax band H properties into bands H, I and J; council tax for band I would be 2 times the band H rate and for band J it would be 4 times the band H rate. This would force some of the landed gentry to sell some land. Who knows, maybe new houses need not be built on flood plains. In the end a full re-evaluation of property should be undertaken.
ZPG can work in practice. Parliamentarians should undertake fact finding tours to Japan and South Korea, countries with declining populations and limited if any immigration, to see how they cope.
But real green measures need to be applied worldwide
– Just stop coal and LNG
– ZPG
– Just stop COP and other international conferences (no Davos)
– Close the hole in the ozone layer by banning CFCs in production
March 1, 2024
Good luck with the zero population growth in Catholic countries.
Even more luck with the stopping coal in China.
I would hope stopping COP and International conferences was not only possible, but excellent.
I thought banning CFC was already agreed in almost all countries?
Rather than taking land we could start by enforcing ‘Right to roam’?
March 1, 2024
Sunaks message to the nation āācanāt we just be nice to each otherā ā¦.absolutely pathetic, we need strong leadership, Thatcher, Trump leadership ā¦make things happen leadership, be honest leadership, donāt be afraid of the media leadership
That speech tonight has lost you half of the nation, the indigenous nation
March 1, 2024
GC,
I wonder if he said anything like that to Indian PM over Christian persecution in India? Perhaps human rights of Christianās should have been linked to UK trade deal? No, Sunak wanted more immigration against Bravermanās advice! He reaps what he sows, 3.5 million low paid low educated welfare claimants from alien cultures what could go possibly wrong when they refuse to integrate.
March 1, 2024
PM Sunak warns us that there are forces tearing us apart trying to undermine democracy but he should look first to his own party if he needs examples
March 1, 2024
So Sunak couldn’t do a speech on Islamic extremism without making it about white people.
General election immediately.
Just get out of the way.
March 1, 2024
Paula,
That occurred to me. Racist perhaps? Why no mention of any other ethnic group other than white people?
March 1, 2024
I read somewhere Since 7/7 London bombing 2005-2021, 94 people killed by Islamist terrorism, 3 by far right groups. Not an even match yet Sunak appears to put them on same footing. Why?
How come no one was interested in threats to Farage at previous campaigns yet suddenly MPs are more worth while than him or public at large?
March 1, 2024
We certainly need fewer people in the country especially when some of them do not agree with the rules and regulations that make it the country it is. Also, I have been saying for years that we need more reservoirs which will help deal with water shortages and also act as new wildlife areas. We need to get behind farmers, especially the smaller units, and encourage more fruit and vegetable production for home use so that we do not have to import everything which should be produced here, eg apples, pears, cherries, carrots, potatoes, peas, beans and all the berries which we grow, some in hedgerows.
March 1, 2024
Not only have those who are in power in the UK allowed mass immigration but they have not taken any measures to mitigate or manage the consequences.
Not only insufficient infrastructure – houses, schools, hospitals, reservoirs, sewage plants, roads etc and insufficient training to produce the necessary staff for hospitals, schools etc. but also not updating our voting systems to eliminate any fraudulent voting practices which may be imported from other parts of the world.