When will we be offered an industrial policy that works?

The government came to power saying it would put jn an industrial policy. So far it has been running an anti industry policy for the UK.

It is banning all new oil and gas drilling and development, running down this tax generating high pay industry faster.

It is toughening the complete phase out and closure of all factories making petrol and diesel cars.

It has failed to sure up some of the promised investments in electric vehicle manufacture, and not attracted new ones

It has promised lots of green jobs, whilst the wind turbines and solar panels are still imported

It decided to allow the closure of the UKā€™s last blast furnaces to make new steel

It allowed the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery

It launched a big tax attack on businesses with its National Insurance and iht increases

If it wants an industrial policy it needs to

Reverse its tax rises

Set a competitive Corporation tax rate like Ireland, which brings in more tax per head

Get energy prices down a lot by encouraging more gas power generation as baseload

Lifting the bans on oil, gas, ICE cars

Using its planned increase in defence spend to commission more orders from Uk based competitive production

 

 

87 Comments

  1. Oldtimer92
    March 10, 2025

    Who, among MPs in parliament, has any actual experience of running a large scale manufacturing operation? On the Labour benches, who has any actual experience of running any business, whether large or small? My impression, based on policies imposed over the past 30 years, is they are all clueless.

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    1. Ian Wraggg
      March 10, 2025

      But what’s happening is their industrial policy. We are to have NO industry.
      It’s not accidental what’s happening, 2TK has his orders from Schwab and is diligently following them.
      Look at the next seven year plan from the unelected, unaccountable CCC, agriculture is the next target and that’s begun with the inheritance tax raid
      From April 1st. Larger cars are being taxed to oblivion which will eventually extend to your average family runabout. Owning a car will become unviable for your average family, job done
      The people are slowly awakening to what’s going on. As the song says I see trouble ahead.

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      1. is-it-me
        March 10, 2025

        @Ian Wraggg – successive Parliament’s and Government have been getting their orders from somewhere and it not for those that empower and pay them. Presumably that why they all(the elected and the unelected) turn up in their droves, paid for by the taxpayer, to the meetings each year while the rest of the World shuns the same.

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      2. Ed M
        March 10, 2025

        How to develop the UK’s High Tech industry is key to our country’s industrial economy and military defence.
        The Pentagon and American gov played an important role in the development of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley now contributes massively to the US economy – and increasingly involved in US defence.
        As been banging on before, that’s why the UK gov needs to take a role in helping to develop Cambridge-Oxford as world’s second Silicon Valley. With Cambridge more focused on hardware and Oxford on software and design.
        With the Leeds-Sheffiled area (we’ve got to develop the north so that southern taxpayers aren’t so burned on paying for the north) area producing more heavy industry but where there is some kind of overlap with the hardware and software and design from UK’s Silicon Valley. Leeds-Sheffield area would be a great place to build the British, high-value, high-value cars of the future (British brand cars – not Japanese being made in Britain – and cars the equivalent of Germany’s Audi and Volkswagen – not just niche cars for rich people).
        But Silicon Valley didn’t just pop up by its own. Government played a key role.

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    2. Lifelogic
      March 10, 2025

      Who in parliament has any knowledge of science, physics, energy generation, electrical engineeringā€¦ only a handful failed to vote for the climate change act and Mayā€™s moronic net zero insanity was just waved through.

      Cheap, reliable, on demand energy is vital for industry, quality of life, defenceā€¦

      I see on electric car fire in a tunnel at Heathrow is causing huge delays. So that car will certainly not be saving any CO2 and will inconvenience and cost many millions.

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      1. Lifelogic
        March 10, 2025

        At least it was not on a car ferry, car transporter with six other EVs, in the Mont. Blanc tunnel or a shuttle train going through the channel tunnel?

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        1. hefner
          March 10, 2025

          There was a fire in the Channel Tunnel on 11/09/2008 and ā€¦ it was not the end of the world, 14 minor injuries.

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          1. Sam
            March 10, 2025

            It caused a great disruption to thousands of people hefner.
            Not the end of the world you say….well yes.

          2. Lifelogic
            March 11, 2025

            It was not a battery fire I understand but a diesel truck I understand,

      2. Know-Dice
        March 10, 2025

        Apparently a diesel car, which is strange as diesel doesn’t normally burn like that.

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        1. Lifelogic
          March 10, 2025

          Could be a hybrid perhaps or just the battery for the start stop system at traffic lights it was reported as electric on the radio. I have not seen the video yet. What car was it?

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      3. Lifelogic
        March 10, 2025

        An industrial policy that works – simple reverse everything that Labour are doing – we need to ditch net zero, deregulate, halve the size of government, didch the workers rights bill, ditch 20% vat on school fees, ditch IHT, ditch the war on Non Doms (as they will leave)… just for a start. 20 new Labour QUANGOS SO FAR jobs for the boy and girls. BUT THIS WAS THE FAKE CON-SOCIALIST AGENDA TOO for 14 years!

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    3. Dave Andrews
      March 10, 2025

      Our local Labour MP runs a business as well. Rare but it does exist.

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    4. John
      March 10, 2025

      Yes thatā€™s my impression as well
      The front bench need to report to Alan Sugarā€™s Board Room for reeducation

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    5. is-it-me?
      March 10, 2025

      @Oldtimer92 ā€“ it is also possible to conclude that in those same 30years it is the BLOB & as Ian W says Schwab that run the Country not our elected representatives. So if Parliament has been made impotent why do we have one?
      They are making themselves irrelevant, while stroking personal self-esteem

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  2. Wanderer
    March 10, 2025

    Not much chance of the changes you suggest until the next election ISA few months away. Even then it would just be false promises.

    If our inept, deluded foreign policy brings us into armed conflict with Russia perhaps re-industrialisation will be suggested. But its not something one can switch on and off like magic. In any event we are more likely to buy EU weaponry, as they are already rushing to transfer their electors’ money to european arms manufacturers.

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    1. Lynn Atkinson
      March 10, 2025

      What are they going to use for energy and steel?
      Romania has banned Georgescu – even if they stopped him campaigning he would win, so he canā€™t stand, having won the last election. He says ā€˜A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide. I have one message left. If democracy in Romania falls the entire democratic world will fall. This is just the beginning, itā€™s just that simple.

      Europe is now a Dictatorship. Romania is under tyranny!

      Christians being slaughtered en mass in Syria and elsewhere.

      Not one word from the British Church, Government or King.

      Why would they worry about deindustrialising the U.K. when they have no objection to the end of all that made Britain?

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      1. Donna
        March 10, 2025

        + 1

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      2. is-it-me?
        March 10, 2025

        @Lynn Atkinson – agreed

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      3. Know-Dice
        March 10, 2025

        And Ā£50 million from our wonderful Foreign Secretary to who in Syria?

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  3. Cliff.. Wokingham.
    March 10, 2025

    Net Zero or Growth? I doubt we can have both.
    Kids are leaving school brainwashed into the new religion. We are bombarded with climate change messages continuously. How many times a day do news programmes mention climate change… Too hot… Climate change. Too cold… Climate change. Pound struggling…. Climate change… Price rises…. Climate change. Who are they trying to kid? Everybody.
    Any industry will need cheap reliable energy and a skilled, reliable, affordable workforce… We have neither.

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    1. is-it-me
      March 10, 2025

      @Cliff.. Wokingham. – all our competitor Nations seemed to have grasped it. One you talk about and one you get on with. The former cant happen if the funding isn’t being created.
      Of our competitors Nations only the UK, has chosen malicious punitive laws before viable resilient alternatives have been found. Then in a screwball way have cancelled the means(the economy) to respond should a change of direction be required.
      They are only kidding themselves and the people of the UK, the rest of the World is flourishing

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  4. JayCee
    March 10, 2025

    We know you are right.
    But you are whistling in the wind, too many decision makers are believers in the End of Civilisation religious cult.

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  5. Paul Freedman
    March 10, 2025

    It seems especially absurd they are damaging UK industrial output as now is an opportune time to benefit from trade deals with the rest of the world. The US is embroiled in trade disputes with almost all key economic regions simultaneously (and vice-versa). We should be negotiating bilateral trade deals to our advantage right now. Carpe Diem!

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  6. agricola
    March 10, 2025

    When socialism and consocialism are removed from or marginalised within Parliament. They do not work for the country or the individual. All are vested interest politics. We need to maximise the creation of wealth and ensure its distribution based on input and christian principals. The result should only be taxed to cover the cost of those things that the individual would find it difficult to provide. Defense, policing, fire services, and education come to mind. Behind it should be the principal of self reliance. We might then be in a position to support those in society who for a myriad of reasons cannot support themselves.

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  7. Mark B
    March 10, 2025

    Good morning.

    They cannot admit they are wrong, no more than when the Tories were in office. They are not steering the ship and setting the course. That has been ‘out-sourced’ to others.

    Before we can do anything suggested here or elsewhere, we must first reverse ALL the Blairite reforms. Which we know, under this government, is not going to happen.

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    1. Donna
      March 10, 2025

      It won’t happen under any branch of the Uni-Party. Our only hope is to destroy it, which is why I am continuing to support Reform despite the events of the past few days.

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      1. ChrisS
        March 10, 2025

        I agree, Donna, but someone needs to get serious and bang some heads together.
        The Reform Party can ill afford to lose people as effective as Rupert Lowe and NIgel needs to realise that and stop seeing everyone else as a threat. As a Refprm member, I despair at recent events and if they are not careful, that vital momentum will be lost and the party will go the way of UPIK before it.

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  8. Old Albion
    March 10, 2025

    Sir JR. While politicians of all stripes remain captured by the ‘climate change’ nonsense none of what you suggest has a hope in hell.

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  9. MPC
    March 10, 2025

    For the most part Labour is following the same approach to governing as the previous Tory administration. Net Zero rules everything, and while its targets remain mandatory the countryā€™s managed declines continues to accelerate.

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  10. Bryan Harris
    March 10, 2025

    Yes, and it’s done so much more to make sure that Britain is not the place to do business. Everything labour promised they delivered the opposite.

    Tying us ever closer to the EU will not help our productivity, nor if we have our armed forced under EU control.

    I will stick my nose out and predict that UK industry will see only a fraction of the extra money for defence, if that, while the majority will be focused towards Ukraine. These socialists are very keen to keep this war going while Britain rots from the inside, our borders become more porous and our defence capability aligns with the 3rd world.

    Any extra expenditure for our armed forces will go to Europe.

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  11. Bloke
    March 10, 2025

    The crazy way Labour operates does not even shore up its own support to govern.

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  12. Donna
    March 10, 2025

    The Government said a lot of things before the General Election and they were all lies or not intended to be taken seriously (or both).

    They are accelerating the policies required to deliver The Great Reset. That doesn’t require an Industrial Strategy, it requires exactly what they are doing.

    It’s deliberate. We are to be completely de-industrialised.

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  13. Denis Cooper
    March 10, 2025

    Like the last government, this government very clearly has a policy of deindustrialisation.

    Luckily without dirty old industry we can offer the world great legal services and popular musical productions and fantastic university education, and that is how we will still be able to pay for all the stuff we need to import.

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  14. Lynn Atkinson
    March 10, 2025

    Judge them by what they do, not by what they say.

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    1. Peter D Gardner
      March 10, 2025

      The unfortunate position of voters is that they must make their choice before the politicians perform the acts by which voters can judge them.

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      1. Lynn Atkinson
        March 10, 2025

        Voters need to get involved in freely selecting their candidates. Then the MPs will know who gave them their seat. They will know who can sack them. Atm they just get bumped to the House of ā€˜lordsā€™ when they fail.

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    2. hefner
      March 10, 2025

      Yes, youā€™re right ā€˜Judge them by what they do, not by what they sayā€™: talking is very cheap and only mugs take any interest of what talks, blogs, etc ā€¦ are reporting.
      Ex.: DJT had promised that he would lower grocery prices from Day One of his presidency, and what is the expected month-on-month US inflation in February: 0.3%.
      cbsnews.com 07/03/2025 ā€˜Some economists think inflation is likely to rise in 2025ā€™.

      Reply 0.3% delivers a small fall in inflation.

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  15. Berkshire Alan
    March 10, 2025

    Afraid many politicians will say almost anything to get elected.
    Unfortunately too many people believe in what they say, only to then find the opposite happens later.
    We will cut the Counties emissions
    We will grow jobs to combat Climate change.
    We will grow the economy
    We will encourage investment in the UK
    We will sort out unemployment
    We will make work pay.
    We will not tax Workers.
    We will sort out the NHS
    We will sort out the Benefits System
    We will sort out our Prisons
    We will sort out Social Care
    We will raise Education standards
    We will increase Police numbers
    We will increase our home security and Defence
    We will smash the boat gangs
    We will cut immigration.
    We will cut the cost of the Civil Service.
    Yet all of their policies announced so far will do the exact opposite of the above.

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    1. Lifelogic
      March 11, 2025

      Exactly

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  16. Alan Paul Joyce
    March 10, 2025

    Dear Mr. Redwood,

    Permit me if you will to repeat some of my post from just yesterday.

    I read in Guido Fawkes that not a single member of the cabinet has any real-world business experience. None of them have ever run or managed a successful private enterprise. Instead, itā€™s a cabinet full of career politicians, union apparatchiks and those whoā€™ve spent their working lives in the public sector. Guido gives the numbers:

    7 career politicians, 4 union workers, 7 lawyers, 2 charity workers, 2 academics, 1 accountant, 1 journalist –
    (Yvette Cooper ā€“ for two years in between being a career politician).

    To make up for their absence of knowledge and experience, all work has been delegated to committees and quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations.

    Bonfire of the quangos anybody? What about a bonfire of our useless parliament along with its equally useless MP’s (with notable exceptions) who prove themselves again and again of being incapable of running the country. Maybe, Guido Fawkes had the right idea!

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    1. Mark B
      March 10, 2025

      Please don’t tell me that that one accountant is Rachel. Even if she is said to be from accounts.

      The EU’s long term plan was for the Parliaments and governments to have as much power removed from them and given over to various EU controlled bodies, thereby removing any democratic control the people have. No matter who you vote for, those with the real power will just continue as before regardless. Politicians, even if they wanted to, cannot change or do anything.

      See my post above.

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  17. is-it-me?
    March 10, 2025

    Sir John
    A while back you put out the idea that each Government can change the direction of the Country to undo the damage that their predecessor’s have created.

    Since the wrecking ball of Blair, who set out to destroy the very fabric of a successful and dynamic people and country, we have not had a Parliament wishing to roll back on bad ideas. Instead, we have had successive parliaments wanting to build on everything that hampers moving forward. They have all had a choice they have all stopped the very essence of a dynamic, resilient self-reliant economy.

    The flaw is that we are able to find a way to get a Parliament that will work with the People and the Country

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    1. Lynn Atkinson
      March 10, 2025

      The way is to select the candidate you want – not from any partyā€™s ā€˜listā€™. That includes Reform which also has a list and as Katie Hopkins says, they way to get close to Nigel is by having and sharing money.
      Not a way to run a party much less a country.

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      1. is-it-me?
        March 10, 2025

        @Lynn Atkinson
        Democracy, is said to be Government by the People for the People. How can Government by a Gang leader who chooses their obedient servants, solely based on loyalty (ability never comes into it) ever going to become a Democracy let alone called one.
        Some complain about FPTP, but that has never been the problem. Candidate choice and candidate funding screws democracy

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    2. Mark B
      March 10, 2025

      The political class have realised that they can offshore their work and responsibilities to the EU and to various bodies / QUANGO’s and still get paid. That is why none of them want to change the Blairite policies – it would mean too much hard work.

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      1. is-it-me?
        March 10, 2025

        @Mark B – I think the word you are looking for is ‘free-loaders’ there because elsewhere they would have to keep promises and serve those that pay their wages – the electorate. All the while knowing that once they loose that job their loyalty to the gang leader will get them promoted to the QUANGO regime

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  18. glen cullen
    March 10, 2025

    A clear & simply analysis of current industrial policy ….I do hope that labour & tory are reading this diary today

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    1. hefner
      March 10, 2025

      You really think that?

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  19. Sakara Gold
    March 10, 2025

    Yet again the right-wing press are in ecstasies over the weekend’s latest utterances from Trump and his minions

    “Ukraine may not survive”

    “Zelenskyy must make territorial concessions to achieve peace”

    “Sanctions must be placed on the top ten Ukrainian oligarchs”

    “Zelenskyy is an obstacle to peace and must resign”

    “Ukraine must hold elections even if fighting continues”

    “Putin is only doing what anybody else would do”

    Whose side are these rags on? Maybe what’s really needed is that Trump and his flunkey Vance should visit Ukraine and see the effect of Russian barbarism themselves. Trump has bravely refused to do so. Repeatedly.

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    1. Mitchel
      March 10, 2025

      So why aren’t you ‘bravely’ there with your rifle?

      I’m sure your orchids could survive for a few weeks,assuming you last that long.

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      1. Sakara Gold
        March 11, 2025

        @Mitchel
        What a crass and stupid comment. Has your local kintergarten been bombed by the Russians this week? Or your residential block? The Russians are estimated to have killed over 21,000 civilians and children in the past 3 years

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        1. hefner
          March 11, 2025

          SG, +1

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    2. Denis Cooper
      March 10, 2025

      As I understand recent developments, the US has a new President who has decided to withdraw US support for further eastwards expansion of NATO and the EU. Maybe he is right to do so, if he can then detach Russia from its alliance with China. I recall that Churchill and Roosevelt were prepared to work with Stalin against Nazi Germany.

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      1. Mitchel
        March 11, 2025

        That’s not going to happen.Sirius Report podcast yesterday:”China & Russia move to dominate the AI sector.”

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    3. Roy Grainger
      March 10, 2025

      Youā€™re making that up – link to a single newspaper which approved of Trump saying those things rather than just reporting them. You canā€™t.

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      1. Sakara Gold
        March 11, 2025

        @Roy Grainger

        A typical, ignorant “armchair general” comment from someone who clearly doesn’t read the Sunday press. Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Observer, and Sunday Mail. Do try and keep up with current events before you post, there’s a good chap

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    4. Donna
      March 11, 2025

      How many dead young people (Ukrainian and Russian) will satisfy you Sakara? 1 million … 2 million?

      Trump wants to negotiate peace. The EU/UK want war and with his ridiculous posturing (and 72,000 enlisted soldiers, not even enough to fill Wembley Stadium, Two-Tier is risking a rift with our most important ally.

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  20. is-it-me?
    March 10, 2025

    The World is destroying itself, so-called democracies are destroying democracy. From the media ā€œHe does not have a seat in the Canadian House of Commonsā€- Now he is Prime Minister of Canada. He fought against Brexit, and is seen as a Woke zealot running the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Some of us feel he was part of the UKā€™s ā€˜project fearā€™ who perpetuated in his own way the ‘Blairite Agenda’ in the UK. A sad day for Canada.

    The saving grace for Canada is the must now have a GE before October

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    1. Lynn Atkinson
      March 10, 2025

      +1 and they do have a good alternative.
      In the U.K. we are stuck with Hopsonā€™s Choice.

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  21. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    ā€œSo far it [Parliament] has been running an anti industry policy for the UKā€.

    Yes, otherwise known as Net Zero.

    Socialism depends upon people remaining poor and the Far Left surely could not believe it when their supposed opponents (PM May) gave them the tools by making Net Zero by 2050 the law (without a proper debate, without a vote and without a costing) followed by writing the manual (PM Borealis Johnson) on how to achieve it, the ā€œNet Zero Strategy ā€“ Build Back Greenerā€.

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  22. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    ā€œIt [parliament] has failed to sure up some of the promised investments in electric vehicle manufacture, and not attracted new onesā€

    If it were not for the Net Zero Strategy ā€“ Build Back Greener electric vehicles would not have been allowed on the roads. The danger from burning and exploding batteries emitting highly toxic fumes would have ensured these vehicles were never allowed to be produced and sold in bulk. The thought of electric vehicles catching fire on a ferry or in the Dartford tunnel is too awful to contemplate

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  23. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    ā€œSo far it [Parliament] has been running an anti industry policy for the UKā€.

    Socialism depends upon people remaining poor. The Far Left invented the CO2 global warming scam as an excuse to destroy our industry in order to save the planet.

    CO2 has little or no effect on the planetā€™s temperature as shown by the science. Happer & Wijngaarden have shown that using the IPCCā€™s own radiative warming theory that a doubling of CO2 leads to a mere 0.7 degrees C of warming (IPCC themselves calculate 1.2 degrees C). Shula & Ott have shown that the greenhouse gases provide no greenhouse gas effect at the planetā€™s surface because of thermalisation whereby the loss of absorbed IR energy via collisions with nitrogen and oxygen molecules is 50,000 times more likely than through spontaneous photon emission. And Palmer & Gallagher have shown that CO2 in the lower atmosphere exists not as CO2 molecules but as carbonic acid whose IR absorption bands lie outside the planetā€™s Stefan-Boltzmann IR distribution curve and hence have no greenhouse gas effect at all.

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    1. hefner
      March 10, 2025

      0.7C? 1.2C? How comes we appear to already have had a 1.5C globally averaged increase in 2024? (climate.copernicus.eu 10/01/2025 ā€˜2024 is the very first year to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levelā€™)

      H2CO3 (carbonic acid) rapidly converts into H2O and CO2 at temperature, pressure, and humidity prevalent over the surfaces of most of the planet, so apart in caves (and in sodas!) it is very rare to find it as such.

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      1. Original Richard
        March 10, 2025

        hefner:

        The increase in average global temperature (currently 0.14 degrees C per decade according to UAH satellite data) is obviously not caused by increased CO2 from burning hydrocarbon fuels. Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 did not cause the warming to exit the last ice age 11,000 years ago or the warm periods since as evidenced by receding glaciers in BC/Canada revealing 7000 year old tree stumps (3000 year old stumps in Iceland) or the Roman Warm Period when vines were grown up by Hadrianā€™s Wall or the Medieval Warm Period when Icelandic Norsemen colonised Greenland for several hundred years prior to the Little Ice Age requiring temperatures 5 degrees C higher than today. Or, indeed, the initial temperature rise out of the Little Ice Age. Perhaps solar activity and the Milankovitch cycles are a better explanation?

        If CO2 did not exist as carbonic acid at the planetā€™s surface why would plants need the enzyme/catalyst, carbonic anhydrase, to breakdown the carbonic acid into CO2 and H20 before being used by the plant to conduct photosynthesis? Rain is also found to be slightly acidic from carbonic acid and furthermore increasing precipitation decreases the amount of HCO3- showing it is scavenged from the atmosphere during rainfall.

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  24. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    “Using its planned increase in defence spend to commission more orders from Uk based competitive production”

    The Net Zero Strategy is deliberately designed to de-industrialise and make us defenceless.

    We will not have the industrial capacity to build the weapons we need and wind turbines in the North Sea will be impossible to defend. When the National Grid goes down everything will stop dead.

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  25. glen cullen
    March 10, 2025

    237 criminals arrived in the UK yesterday; from the safe country of France ā€¦

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    1. Mark B
      March 10, 2025

      Thanks, glen.

      At this rate we will need more 4 star hotels than houses.

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    2. Original Richard
      March 10, 2025

      GC :

      When is someone going to ask the question why the Government wants this invasion to continue?

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      1. Donna
        March 11, 2025

        You won’t get that question from the Uni-Party or their tame pals in the MSM. I believe the Uni-Party reached a secret agreement with the EU as part of the Brexit negotiations that “we’d take our fair share.” It’s the only thing which explains the apparent failure, the refusal to deny the migrants “free everything” and the very close coordination between the British and French authorities.

        For the sake of appearances, the Government pretends it wants to stop them and Macron pretends he is trying.

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  26. Peter Gardner
    March 10, 2025

    Starmer’s Gang is motivated by hatred. It knows only what it hates. It has no love for anything British. So it can destroy effectively but cannot build, cannot nurture cannot support except that which also hates Britain and its foundations in Judeo Christianity.

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    1. Lynn Atkinson
      March 10, 2025

      All of WOKE is powered by ā€˜HATEā€™. Thatā€™s why they deny it so aggressively.

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    2. Mark B
      March 10, 2025

      All Socialists hate countries, especially patriotic ones with strong family ties and religion. Harder to breakdown and rebuilt (Build back better) into a Socialist Dystopia where, you will own nothing and be happy – ie Communism.

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      1. Original Richard
        March 10, 2025

        Mark B: “All Socialists hate countries, especially patriotic ones with strong family ties and religion.”

        Not all countries. They like Afghanistan and Gaza.

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  27. Keith from Leeds
    March 10, 2025

    The comments pretty much sum it up. The majority of our 650 MPs would be unemployable in the private sector!
    The conservatives had 14 years to change things, but did nothing sensible. Labour are following the same course, just a bit faster, worshipping at the God of Net Zero. Until you get rid of all that nonsense, we will never have a proper industrial policy.
    The conservatives ignored you when in power, Labour will ignore you now.
    Perhaps you should run training courses for conservative MPs and candidates, so we might have some MPs who actually understand and apply conservative values. But if you offered I guarantee they would turn you down!

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  28. forthurst
    March 10, 2025

    Because of the inept policies of the parties I have not voted for for 20 years, I see us as a country on the wrong side of history in many areas of endeavour: industry, foreign policy, immigration. We are on a path to self-destruction and blather about punching above our weight as a country is simply self-deception: on its present trajectory this country will fall apart under the weight of unassimilable aliens and their cost to us despite the parties I do not vote for having attempted to hide the vile behaviour of some immigrant communities who have been allowed to predate on English girls for the sake of ‘community relations’. No amount of warmongering abroad will affect our weakness on the home front caused by the flooding of our country by people from outside Europe who can never assimilate and do not wish to.

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  29. glen cullen
    March 10, 2025

    Breaking news
    ‘Heathrow Airport LIVE today: Travel chaos as car explodes and 17 flights cancelled’
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2024814/Heathrow-travel-flight-cancellations-delays-latest
    This is our future with net-zero

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  30. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    When will we be offered an industrial policy that works?

    Never as long as the anti-democracy fifth column continue to fool most of the country that we must unilaterally destroy our industry and prosperity to save the planet employing the assistance of our agitprop national broadcaster who daily uses the tactic that if you tell a big enough lie often enough people will eventually believe it. Youā€™ll never see them interview a real scientist such as Happer or Wijngaarden, or Koonin, or Moore or the 2022 Nobel Prize winner for physics, John Clauser.

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  31. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    ā€œIt has promised lots of green jobs, whilst the wind turbines and solar panels are still importedā€.

    How can it be safe for China, a state described by our security services as ā€œhostileā€, to supply all our energy infrastructure ā€“ wind turbines, solar panels, the metals and minerals for motors, generators, batteries and cabling?

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  32. Original Richard
    March 10, 2025

    ā€œIt decided to allow the closure of the UKā€™s last blast furnaces to make new steelā€

    How can it be safe to deindustrialise so we cannot make steel and munitions and hence military equipment?

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  33. Denis Cooper
    March 10, 2025

    Mark Carney, who was keen for Britain to be part of Europe, now insists that Canada can never be part of America.

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  34. Roy Grainger
    March 10, 2025

    Do the government need an industrial policy at all ? Beyond getting government completely out of the way of the private sector. Does USA have an industrial policy ?

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    1. iain gill
      March 10, 2025

      The US industrial policy is broadly “put America first”, which is why they are threatening car manufacturers with sanctions and tariffs if they do not move production back to the USA from South America etc, and other similar stuff. They are drilling for oil and gas as fast as they can to have energy as cheaply as possible. etc.
      The UK does quite the reverse, and has people who are loyal to other countries in senior positions.

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  35. iain gill
    March 10, 2025

    you have to laugh at the RAF running out of fast jet pilots having illegally discriminated against white males (especially working class ones) candidates and serving people for years, and putting out emergency press releases asking for candidates to reapply, and pilots who have left the service to come back

    the folly of woke nonsense really does come home to bite

    shame none of the senior officers who led them into this state of affairs will feel any sanction

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  36. iain gill
    March 10, 2025

    I see Trump is planning to “socially engineer” USA to bring most ship building back to the USA, away from foreign yards. Quite the reverse of what UK governments have done over the last 50 years…

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  37. javelin
    March 11, 2025

    The Government are sixth form eco warriors who think industry belongs in the past or overseas. The lack of mature thought is dangerous.

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