One of the main reasons the  US is a lot better off than the U.K. and growing much faster is the UKâs self harm policies in the name of net zero. Under President Trump the US increased its output of oil and gas by 50%, adding plenty of extra tax revenue and well paid jobs. Even under President Biden more oil and gas licences were allowed and output went up a bit more. Both Presidents put America first and encouraged much more US based manufacture by tax breaks and subsidies. As a result the USA was able to save Europe over the Ukraine crisis, sending LNG from its own surplus to replace Russian gas. Meanwhile the current U.K. government has
1 Banned all new oil and gas exploration
2 Delayed or blocked opening up new oil and gas reserves about to be developed
3 Increased high windfall and corporation taxes on domestic oil and gas to ensure remaining investment is throttled
4. Strengthened emission trading, carbon taxing and high company  tax regime and put up managed energy prices to make high energy using business in U.K. very uncompetitive
5 Allowed policy mix to lead to closure of Grangemouth refinery to make us more dependent on imported oil products
6. Confirmed inherited policies and approved closure of all remaining  steel blast furnaces
7. Failed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generation then
8. Delayed decision on which bidder will take forward work for a fleet of new smaller nuclear stations
9. Brought forward ban on all petrol and diesel car sales to 2030 and failed to remove fines for unrealistic inherited targets. Plant closures now following.
10. Failed to find a buyer for Britishvolt giga battery project which had entered administration
11. Unconcerned at hostility of policy mix to ceramics, cement, paper, glass, aluminium, petrochemicals and plastics manufacture in U.K. Likes the  import model.
Policy needed  amendment to promote industry when they came to office. Instead Milibandâs sole preoccupation with domestically produced CO 2 has made the U.K.uniquely  hostile to high energy using industry. It is no good the  Industry Secretary saying he doesnât agree with deindustrialising when that is his governmentâs  policy. It is a tragedy for the U.K. It will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.
December 4, 2024
You have to realise John, it’s nothing to do with CO2 it’s the Marxist philosophy to destroy capitalism. By destroying industry and expanding the public sector the goals of Marxism will be met.
Massage immigration loved by the uniparty will accelerate our demise by bankrupting the welfare state.
This is a plan which has been long in preparation and which Milibrain and 2TK know they only have 4 more years to implement.
Our only salvation is for Trump together with Nigel to blow the lid off what is no longer a conspiracy theory but a fact.
I see another high profile tory has joined Reform. As the Speccy reports the Ravens are leaving the Tower.
December 4, 2024
Don’t fret, the Great Starmer has the solution — we have Great British Energy for all our power needs, we have Great British Railways for our transportation. No doubt this is only the start of a great vision for a new economic paradise, overseen by our new Dear Leader, whose benevolence and brilliant intellect will deliver happiness to all.
(Just getting my thoughts on record for insurance when the full takeover comes….)
December 4, 2024
Peter, they may even take over Thames Water as well !!!!!
December 4, 2024
+1
Yes, it’s deliberate. UN Agenda 2030 is basically a plan to impose global Socialism.
December 4, 2024
Seems so. If energy costs in the UK were 1/3 of current – as in the USA and as they could v. easily be with Net Zero and the vast market rigging ditched the. how much would that take of prices of energy and every other product?
My rough estimate is that about 20% could come off retail prices on average on almost everything. Food, cars, building costs, oil, gas, electricity, fertiliser, paint, furniture, the internet, healthcare, hotels, drinks, cleaning products,⊠literally almost everything. But Zealot Ed is in the way with his and Mayâs mad new religion.
December 4, 2024
Indeed.
We need energy costs to be about 1/3 of current levels as they are in the USA. We need to stop rigging the energy markets, car markets, heat pump and boiler marketsâŠ
Miliband is a deluded zealot, but then Claire Coutinho and Kemi are just the same still pro-net zero just a bit more slowly. Still sitting on the fence.
Thank goodness Trump is a climate realist and a covid âVaccineâ realist. Has Sunak corrected his lie to the house about Covid vaccines being unequivocally safe yet? Why then are the government so reluctant to reveal the raw statistics suitably broken down so easy to prove if they wanted to? Just as they are so reluctant to break down the crime statistics by migrants status and ethnicity?
December 4, 2024
Lack of cheap on demand energy is also dangerous for our defence as well as wrecking the economy.
December 4, 2024
I must agree with you Ian
December 4, 2024
Alternatively it is about CO2 in the sense that some people want to take us back to the Stone Age before mankind learned to control fire. For Europe that could have been about a quarter of a million years ago:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3069174/
“On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe”
“The emergence of stone tool manufacture and the control of fire are undoubtedly the two most significant events in the technological evolution of early humans. Although stone tool use and manufacture were regular activities from at least 2.6 million y ago (1), the timing of the human control of fire is a controversial issue (2), with some claims for regular fire use by early hominins in Africa at âŒ1.6 million y ago (3â5) …”
But later for Europe.
Those who view mankind as a disease infesting the planet would prefer us not to exist at all.
December 4, 2024
IW :
Absolutely correct. The false CAGW and its âsolutionâ, Net Zero, was initiated by the Communists to destroy the democratic West. It was then taken up by Stalinâs useful idiots and grifters. The whole science of climate has been totally corrupted by the vast sums of money made available. If Trump cannot end this madness then it will only end with a terrible event ad the loss of many lives.
December 4, 2024
You put that better than me, Ian!
Our government has bought into the great reset, hook, line and sinker!
BTW Nigel Farage has co-founded Action on World Health to challenge The WHO!
December 4, 2024
Just a thought, John. What if the rest of Europe follow the iport model so loved by these idiots in Westminster. Where will all the food and raw materials come from because India and China won’t be able to supply them and we’ll have no money to buy them
December 4, 2024
Not only will India and China not be able to supply them,they will be consuming them in ever increasing quantities themselves.With BRICS members trading increasingly with themselves and in their own currencies,how much will find its way on to ‘world markets’ in future.
December 4, 2024
As you itemise, Labour is out to de-industrialise the United Kingdom with the same determination that Arthur Bennet of Bomber Command applied to Germany. The only positive note is that their programme contains the elements of their self destruction. They are the flat earthers returned in a space and cyber age, and as such, totally irrelevant to the future of GB Ltd.
December 4, 2024
Seems very Dr Beeching
December 4, 2024
Gordon Bennett! Don’t you mean Arthur Harris.
December 4, 2024
@agricola – – I would suggest to you it was Mrs May, her Parliament, her Laws that have been fully embraced by all those that followed her. They have all continued by choice the to de-industrialise the United Kingdom. Not one has thought about the damage, the alternatives and at the end of the day where does money come from( Oh I forgot Governments have got their 70 year high tax and borrowings by taking it from those that used to work – they see that as earnings, their earnings. The fact that the resource by Government decree is receding doesn’t figure)
December 4, 2024
Deindusrialisation is not unique to the UK. Look at Germany, too. It’s not just misguided and innefectual anti-CO2 policies here; there’s also I’m sure some foreign influence in the mix.
In the US the neocons want to isolate Europe from Russia, and big oil likes us to be dependent on their US hydrocarbons, not Russia’s.
While these powerful foreign interests generally oppose a rapprochement in Europe (and particulary any resumption of Russian energy supplies, as articulated pre-Nordstream by Biden and others), our politicians will obediently keep to deindustrialisation. Why? Some are CO2 believers, some want to please the US, some may profit from the policy.
December 4, 2024
Indeed.
JR says âIt will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.â It Obviously will do this not the a bit more CO2 is a bad thing. But it also hugely i’m creases the dost of energy, freezes pensioners, increases the cost of food (which is also energy) and decreases out ability to compete and to defend ourselves.
The policy followed by Cameron, May, Boris, Gove, Sunak, Stamer and the deranged Miliband is insane. But also essentially supported by Kemi and Coutino who should know rather better.
December 4, 2024
Incoherent , counterproductive, chaotic ineptitude
December 4, 2024
Never heard of Arthur Bennet.
December 4, 2024
Arthur Harris?
December 4, 2024
My Dad worked for someone called Arthur Harris – also known as “Bomber” .
He was a Flight Engineer in Bomber Command, did two tours (50 ‘operational’ flights) and somehow survived.
He never received a singel medal for his service & courage. I’ve often told my sons that we are lucky to be here!
December 4, 2024
There is a statue to Bomber Harris unveiled by the Queen Mother. I believe he emigrated to South Af4ica after the war, so hostile to his winning strategy were the founders of WOKE.
December 4, 2024
One of the main reasons the US is a lot better off than the U.K. and growing much faster is the UKâs self harm policies in the name of net zero.
Iâve been saying this for years labour/tories have taken us down the self-destruction route on net zero crap, itâs all about screwing Joe Public out of as much of our money they can and the sooner people wake up to this the better before Bob Geldof and Midge Ure go off to Africa to raise money for us with a new band aid single
December 4, 2024
The Saudi energy minister has said the world is currently going through a “reality check” on Net Zero and energy security. …..not in the UK
December 4, 2024
@Mick – even if NetZero was a thing, not having earnings, wealth and viable alternatives is just plain suicide.
December 4, 2024
Country wide blackout to the whole of Cuba ….net-work at work
December 4, 2024
Net zero is a thing it is a mad and evil religion. Anyone who really think CO2 is an effective world thermostat is obviously a deluded and dangerous nutter like Ed Miliband.
December 4, 2024
Growing unrest and subsequent violence will shortly put an end to all Labour policies. Then rebuilding will have to take place.
December 4, 2024
Peter it can’t come soon enough
December 4, 2024
See the âKier Starmer is unfit to be Prime Ministerâ on David Starkey Talks video.
December 4, 2024
But only after 5 year due to The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
December 4, 2024
Amended
The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
December 4, 2024
âFailed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generationâ.
End use of existing gas fired power stations or just no new ones? Can you in laymanâs terms describe what the situation will be in 2030, only 5 years away. Is no one in Whitehall concerned?
December 4, 2024
The Labour government has today announced re-nationalised three of the railway operating companies – South Western Railways, c2c and Greater Anglia. South Western Railwaysâ services will be the first to transfer into public ownership next year.
Many folk concerned about sewage dumping and contamination of the drinking water supply (no less than seven times this year) would have preferred re-nationalisation of the water companies
December 4, 2024
Domestically produced CO2
Carbon accounting hiding all the rest that we use.
Carbon is either bad or it is not, if it is bad, hiding it using carbon accounting should not be possible. That is just wealth transfer, I can’t imagine too many other countries allowing that.
December 4, 2024
CO2 is god given, its essential for plant life and therefore human life …..who is man (politicians) to say otherwise
December 4, 2024
Carbon is good you can burn it gives you lots of heat and electricity and it leaves CO2 which is also good. It is beneficial plant, tree and crop food.
December 4, 2024
What sort of jobs will many of our young people do when we have so little industry? Those that cannot go on to higher education.
December 4, 2024
All this would have largely continued had the Conservatives remained in office. Most elected politicians are part of an insidious non rational âgreenâ ideology. The indoctrination is being applied even to children too. I am working with a major local authority in deep financial trouble. Itâs âtaking net Zero forwardâ team has just been proud to announce the success of of a Young Peopleâs COP 29 Debate where schools throughout the city competed with one another to debate the best way to take forward the abolition of fossil fuel use.
The lack of adult debate in the televised media and a balanced education for UK children all contribute to the abolition of evidence based policy. Deindustrialisation is already well established and, in the absence of major unrest, the current government is merely continuing with it to its completion.
December 4, 2024
Yes Labour are turning out to be even worse than expected. Labour governments always do huge long term damage, the extent of which often only becomes apparent years after theyâve left office – the nationalisations and statism of the Attlee govt, the over spending over taxing, inflation and submission to union rule by the Wilson and Callaghan govts. The deficit and financial crash, botched bank bailout, sale of gold, devolution and EU mission creep of the Blair brown govt.
Unfortunately we will all pay a very heavy price for this current govt. Milliband might be the most obviously dreadful of them, but it seems they are all signed up to the deindustrialization and anti-wealth, anti-business agenda.
December 4, 2024
It’s self-assured destruction.
Started by the Tories and finished off by Labour.
Imagine what this lot will do in a couple of years when they realise the game’s up and Reform are waiting in the wings with a strong poll lead. Total annihilation.
What do we do? Stay here and fight or quit the country for somewhere warm or more sensibly run?
December 4, 2024
The greater the destructive impact of Labour’s conscious acts of industrial vandalism are, the more likely will be their oblivion at the next election. Like the Conservatives they will become 20% parties – in fact they already are in opinion polls. The real test is whether Reform will (1) be able to build it’s ground operation in the constituencies quickly enough to benefit and (2) develop a compelling policy platform to appeal to voters and businesses alike that will enable an economic renaissance.
December 4, 2024
It isn’t the UK Government’s policy: it’s the UN’s policy (Agenda 2030), filtered down through the WEF and the EU’s Environment Policy which we are obliged to conform to because of the Brexit “deal.”
Europe is to be de-industrialised to deliver the UN’s “levelling” down policy.
December 4, 2024
Sadly the only opposition is Reform, all other Parties seem to agree with this madness.
We will eventually have levelling down, and redistribution of poverty if the situation does not rapidly change.
December 4, 2024
Who would be their Chancellor?
December 4, 2024
The government has been rinsed by the climate body and they look like idiots. The climate body have not provided any model at all to evidence their net zero 2050 claim despite decades of researching the subject.
It means they cannot evidence net zero nor its need by the year 2050.
Their real motive is to advance living in a âgreenâ world and they advocate this NZ2050 farce to scare people into it. Thank God for President Trump and the Republican Party
December 4, 2024
When there is mass unemployment with no industry and we’re all relying on state benefits with hyperinflation, Millipede et al will sit back with a contented sigh and claim “Job done”.
December 4, 2024
I spend a couple of months in Florida USA every year and there is little evidence of Net Zero. They still have large gas-guzzling cars, very few EVs and virtually no charging points. Our politicians need to wake up to the fact that they are putting our country on a suicidal mission that few other countries, and certainly not the most polluting ones, are following. They will go down in history as the biggest idiots who destroyed their own country, for no benefit, without a shot being fired. Why voters don’t see this is a mystery to me.
December 4, 2024
It all started many years ago under the policy of Globalisation. That’s how we ended up with formerly UK companies being owned by foreigners. That did immense damage to industry and the workforce.
Now Silliband is determined to sacrifice all UK remaining industry on the alter of saving <1% of Global Co2 emissions.
However he's too stupid to understand spending Trillions on this folly will economically destroy the UK. It will create more mass unemployment and ultimately, achieve nothing. As the big Co2 producers will release even more as they produce the goods we need for us.
December 4, 2024
Iâve always felt that those politicians demanding a Net Zero life for citizens should live one for 5 years before inflicting their cult on the rest of us.
December 4, 2024
Talking of self harm policies our phobia in the UK for protecting species and habitats such as voles,bats,mice is reducing the amount of industrial land available because now we have to identify what habitats are on the land, and under the Environment Act which came into force this year have to put aside an amount of land to continue to accomodate species,which is known as Bio Diversity Net Gain[BNG]
In effect we are foregoing valuable industrial land and putting employment/jobs second to protecting habitats.
December 4, 2024
Great piece. Tragedy is the the word…
December 4, 2024
Strange isnât it how concerned the High Priests of Globalism were about the future of farming and the motor industry when we were voting for Brexit. Now they are happy to sacrifice both industries, and our entire industrial future, in pursuit of the greenhouse gas fantasy.
December 4, 2024
The left don’t quite understand what an economy is and why it is needed. First and foremost an economy creates the funds to handle the future. If you cancel the ability to earn, you cancel the future. Making things, selling things – earns.
Everyone that has sat in Number 10 and Parliament this century, more so since the creation of Mrs May, has ensured the UK has been on a downward spiral for no other reason than the need to cancel, to remove the way for the Country to earn. So the UK can no longer respond to events.
When you feel the need to change direction first you need the money, the wealth and then you need the viable sustainable alternatives. The UK Parliament with its religious fever and creed has fought against common sense and logic, it has chosen the path of destruction. They haven’t even been able to step back and consider why is the rest of the World marching on while the UK declines. They haven’t noticed the one big difference between themselves and the rest of the World – the rest of the Word is growing because they haven’t cancelled their future. We are talking of UK only policy/Laws that none of our competitors would dream of engaging in. Parliament is full of Walter Mitty characters all living in a dreamworld that they will be provided for by some unknown power. When the only power is the wealth of the people and their ability to make things happen and provide – but Parliament its MPs have cancelled that, they refuse to listen, hear and work with those that ‘do’.
December 4, 2024
2 nuclear stations to close by 2028.
2 more by 2030
1 left and maybe the European Pressurised Reactors at Hinkley might be running by 2030, having been a disaster in France and Finland.
No new gas stations ordered and most of those running about to conk out by 2030.
Wind generation to be doubled.
We are now paying towards a billion pa to wind farms not to generate when it’s windy.
But smart meters will report every half hour so that we can be billed at different rates and cook and have the washing machine on at night. Mad Ed thinks this is all going to be fine. Who needs jobs in industry when we can all be green zealots buying Chinese cars made with coal power ?
December 4, 2024
I despair that most of these decisions were made by Tories.
December 4, 2024
Germanyâs Schultz went to Ukraine and was taken to see some of the soldiers whose devastated and broken bodies just about maintain life. He was visibly shocked.
His Finance Secretary, the Green Harbek has told Germany, screaming in its deindustrialization death throes, to âcalm down – Germany remains the 4th biggest economy in the worldâ.
It transpires that these Globalists have no concept of reality. They believed that they could fund a âclean, happy, victorious warâ, and they believe they can clean up the world and get rid of all the hard work and dirty industries whilst having no detrimental effect on income and provision.
These are magical thinkers, narcissists who have done more damage than any other political generation in history. We are literally on the road paved with âgood intentionsâ – which will be their unsuccessful Defence.
Two good things about the bankrupting of The UK:
1. all the ânew Britishâ might well go home!
2. The State sector will be cut to the bone.
December 4, 2024
Tucker Carlson’s been in Moscow this week,taping a long interview with Sergey Lavrov;it should be released in a few days time.
December 4, 2024
I agree with the blog but British governments and political parties are allergic to intelligence – so we are Cassandras (foreseeing and telling the truth but never being believed).
December 4, 2024
âIt is a tragedy for the U.K. It will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.â
This argument cuts no ice with either the Marxists driving the false CAGW claim, or their deluded useful idiots or the grifters because they all say that Net Zero is necessary to save the planet. Anyway, according to the tax-payer funded government UK FIRES report âAbsolute Zeroâ, all shipping is to be banned. So they say there will be no imports.
December 4, 2024
The lack of energy and industry will cause impoverishment and the rationing of energy, food and travel.
But even more dangerous to our nation is the transition to the electrification of everything.
Should we have another winter like that of 1962/63, there is no way that freezing wind turbines will be able to supply any power and since electrical energy cannot be stored, unlike coal, gas and oil, there will be no power at all for many days. Our National and local grids will be plum targets for hacking attacks and could even be totally destroyed by a Carrington event. There is no way that our depleted armed services can protect hundreds of square miles of North Sea wind turbines or hundreds of miles of undersea cabling from drone attacks.
December 4, 2024
âDelayed decision on which bidder will take forward work for a fleet of new smaller nuclear stationsâ
Or any major nuclear programme. The fact that nuclear, the only low CO2 emitting source of power which is affordable and reliable, has been deliberately ignored is another proof that there is no climate danger from anthropogenic emissions of CO2.
December 4, 2024
âFailed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generation thenâ
It may well be the governmentâs intention to phase out all gas fired power stations by 2030. But this will against NESOâs advice in their recent report âClean Power 2030â to continue with 35 GW of gas fired power to 2030. Not that 35 GW will be sufficient and either imported power or rolling blackouts will still be required to prevent a collapse of the National Grid when the renewables fail.
December 4, 2024
âStrengthened emission trading, carbon taxing and high company tax regime and put up managed energy prices to make high energy using business in U.K. very uncompetitiveâ
The climate Marxists are still falsely saying that renewables are 9 times cheaper than gas. This is because:
– They do not cost for the intermittency/unreliability of renewables. The irony is that renewable power cannot exist without gas generated backup unless we are to have any energy system where we do not know if we have power from one minute to the nextâŠ
– They use 2012 prices for renewables, today the prices are double.
– They use the Ukraine war spiked gas prices.
– They compare renewables with hydrocarbons with carbon taxes added, which means that they can always make renewables appear cheaper in any future predictionsâŠ.
December 4, 2024
It takes a lot to get British people angry and demonstrating on the streets. But the Labour Government might just trigger enough anger to cause it. In less than 6 months, they have upset the farmers, business people of all sizes and kinds of businesses, pensioners and many ordinary people. At this rate, they will create the spark that ignites the anger of these different groups and who knows what will happen.
The nonsense of Net Zero/CO2/Global Warming/Climate Change will destroy this Labour Government. The only question is when and how much damage they will have done by the time they are kicked out.
December 4, 2024
âThe U.K. does have a deindustrialising policyâ
Not the UK but Parliament and the Civil Service using the BBC and the government department, The Met Office, to broadcast extreme climate propaganda, often using âmodelsâ that predict events that never happen but are designed to frighten or at the very least provide false information as they are never corrected later.
Almost 85% of all Met Office sites are NOT deemed acceptable for climate data reporting purposes by the World Meteorological Organisation and International Standards Organisation stated requirements.
79% are junk status :
49% class 4 +- 2 degrees C
30% class 5 +- 5 degrees C
Furthermore of the 302 Met Office sites quoted, over one third (103) do NOT even exist. Their data is entirely made up from measurements from other sites.
This is in addition to the positioning and use of thermocouples to measure temperature which can record 1 minute highs when jet aircraft pass by as happened with the highest ever temperature recorded at RAF Coningsby in July 2022.
There is no way the Met Office can be relied upon for climate data.
December 4, 2024
And what happens when global emissions go from a higher concentration tova lower one.!
December 4, 2024
Just continuing what was started by the previous PM, and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that… No different from the Party that was in power for 14 years.
December 4, 2024
The unions of all those people in those sectors seem very quiet and compliant too don’t they.
December 4, 2024
Why didn’t Kemi ask at PMQs today :-
Why is Vauxhall closing at Luton
Why net-zero
Why business taxes are high
Why is the cost of employing someone high
Why is it impossible to get a doctors appointment outside working hours and why do you have to make an appointment that same day at 8am
Why is business rates so high
December 4, 2024
99% of Parliament wants Net Zero. The Civil Service, quangos, regulators, institutions, academia and the judiciary want Net Zero. The MSM, led by the BBC are desperate for this great leap forward to save the planet As a result there is next to zero discussion allowed.
Given this and that Net Zero will bring impoverishment, the rationing of food, energy and travel plus additional restrictions, should not the PM allow a peoples vote to decide if Britain wants to be the UNâs futile gesture?