For a UK government that has no money they are very good at spending. That is of course why they do not have enough money for crucial services and welfare benefits. This week it was the turn again of the battery car industry. This time they have been offered a £650 m bung to try to bring the price of battery cars down a bit. The subsidy is not even limited to UK car makers, saying it is for UK and other manufacturers. Broadcasts say it does not apply to Chinese cars, yet that does not appear in the official UK government press release. We await details of which cars do qualify. Whatever the outcome China will be a winner as they export many of the batteries or materials for the batteries which is such a big proportion of the total cost of a battery car.
In the same week the Foreign Secretary decided that Singapore, with GDP per head two thirds higher than the UK, needed a £70 m grant from UK taxpayers to speed transition to low carbon activity. Singapore performs so much better than we do economically thanks to lower taxes and better state spending control.
The government statement said that its spending plans now include £4.5bn to “supercharge the switch to electric vehicles”. Battery cars enjoy tax advantages. When supplied free of charge through the Motability scheme they are also VAT free. The government is giving subsidy to companies to install charger points, benefitting Chinese car exports as well as domestic product. They are also spending on encouraging home charging, which tends to help better paid people who have driveways and larger homes where it is easier to fit a charger.
These policies are damaging as well as being expensive. They are hastening the collapse of the UK car industry, based as it is on successful petrol and diesel models. It is helping China with its dominant share of the battery and battery car market. The UK is not protecting its industry with high tariffs against Chinese cars in the way the EU and US do. As with the other net zero policies this is a policy speeding the de- industrialisation of the UK.
July 16, 2025
You wouldn’t believe that a government would put so much resource into a project which is like taking a grain of salt out of an ocean at the expense of care at home, however people believe and disbelieve in the way that suits their own needs first.
Some think that progress is wars, ruination of the planet, a breaking up of human communication,over producing children to swamp the planet with a selfish careless way of life, religious fanaticism, concreting the planet . What a shame !
July 16, 2025
MBJ:
I don’t know yet about a DESNZ Net Zero plan to take a grain of salt out of the ocean but they do fund a project to take CO2 out of the sea:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr788kljlklo
July 18, 2025
‘As ‘and ‘like’ are similes..literary devices to emphasise a point .Removal of CO2 on a small scale alone will not change the atmosphere hence the literary comparison. .
July 16, 2025
The article i read says the subsidy was £3750. Of course it’s damaging uk car manufacturers, that’s the whole point. De industrialise the country to reduce CO2 output, Milibrain will be delighted.
I see Holland is now having scheduled power outages because like us they’ve gone headlong into unreliable renewables and now it takes years to get a grid connection for a home or business.
Where is the power coming from to charge these EVS in the winter when wr are short of generation, Europe is unlikely to be helping out as they have their own problems.
Just why is there this collective madness in Europe and Australia to destroy the countries.
July 16, 2025
As I understand things it is a qualified subsidy/grant – two as yet unspecified bands for vehicles upto a maximum of 37k. I don’t know the full details as I have never qualified and it’s likely to disappear into leasing companies accounts without making it to the punters anyway.
It is damaging UK car assemblers because they didn’t adapt to the new fad – ever heard of what happened to buggy whip manufacturers? But mainly the foreign owners of our “manufacturers” decided to invest elsewhere as they have no loyalty to anything here.
I can charge my car off the solar roof in winter for the mileage I do, the same is quite likely the case for the average user. Those regularly making more extensive use of roads will have a different energy demand profile and some proportion could charge overnight, or at work – can’t satisfy everyone.
It would be helpful if there were more detailed information and projections on what actual demand-supply might be.
Where is your petrol and diesel coming from? – note a refinery went unexpectedly bust very recently (it seems after directors had paid themselves a very generous dividend) and supplies of fuel stopped. So what mitigation is there on the wider scale if imports of gas and petrol/diesel suddenly stopped.
July 16, 2025
£37k for a car? One that in five years will prob. be worth less than £4k. I doubt if my average car purchase price was more than about £5k even after adjusting for inflation. £13k the highest I ever paid.
July 17, 2025
If we had a properly set up economy where the majority of elements were onshore and local owned/staffed that would be investment into the national economy driving many other jobs and activities including R&D which grows business and quality of llfe.
If you view this simply as a personal cost then nothing is ever going to be worthwhile but then you would get nothing back, no market, no infrastructure, no services ..
If you do not buy a new products you are contributing nothing to that business/industry and eventually it will whither and die and you have no grounds on which to complain it and related industries and activities disappear.
July 16, 2025
Indeed winter power demands on cold days if we all switch from oil, gas or solid fuel to heat pumps and EVs will be ten times current demand. Plus we get virtually no solar in winter. We will need a grid with 10+ times capacity all connecting up to all the 20 times more wind turbines in various remote sites. Then gas back up for all this wind vast extra generating capacity that will all be wasted for 90% of the time. This extra grid capacity wasted too for 90% of the year.
Great plan from that pleasant but scientifically ignorant Classics Oxon lass heading up the sick joke CCC and Tomb Stone ED! I would not want to fly on an aircraft or rely on any energy systems designed by Classics and PPE dopes like these two.
July 16, 2025
@Ian Wraggg – the Government, its Cabinet, more than 50% of Parliament and 50% of the Lords support this action. Even the little ole ‘girl’ from complaints has handed over our money with this cabals approval.
The destruction of the UK is well underway with malicious inten.
July 16, 2025
Seems so!
July 17, 2025
A large interconnector to Uganda!
July 16, 2025
Cannot argue with any of the Points you raise JR.
Our Politicians and Government Ministers in Particular, none of whom have ever run a business themselves, let alone exposed their own money to that commercial and business risk, do not seem to have a clue about finance, budgeting, or as I have said many times before Human Nature.
The taxpayer once again is being asked to pick up the expense of financial mismanagement and pie in the sky ideas of economics, the cost of which is crippling their own personal financial planning and daily costs.
July 16, 2025
We should be concentrating on ethical business,not just any rubbish which sells and focus on building up the UK in a productive way.!
July 16, 2025
Exactly, then we had yesterday the truly appalling revolutions of Afghan super injunction £ billions.
Miliband was asked in the house how much net zero will cost, who will pay and what difference to World temperatures the UK hitting this target will make? He gave no answers and said the answers were in the CCC report. They are not really.
Then he said it would cost the country far more if we did not do net zero. Yet another blatant lie, unless he really is that ignorant and daft. Misleading and lying to the house is becoming the fashion – unequivocally safe, Afghan super injunctions, climate change, government web sites still claim no CO2 is produced by walking and cycling which is another blatant lie!
The answer as to how much hotter it would be is less than 1/10000 of a degree C on average (not even really measurable). This if all the other millions of things that also affect the temperature like solar activity being the same (which they clearly will not be anyway).
July 16, 2025
To be a socialist or even a Con-Socialist it is virtually essential not to understand human nature. Nor real economics, logic, reason or much else! I suppose they isolate some socialist genes in due course. How much is nurture and how much is genetic from birth. Is Ed (and David) Miliband a mad, green lunacy socialist due to his father’s/Mother’s genes or his father’s indoctrination when he had a young even more vulnerable mind? His mother also seems to have held left wing views too.
Most lefties I know are pleasant but deluded, but in positions of power they can be very dangerous.
July 16, 2025
@Lifelogic – so very true and we all know it. Disciples of WEF, supporters and funders of China with ‘our’ money, there is an however his actions are supported, approved and cheered on by more that 50% of the HoC and 50% of the HoL. Otherwise he wouldn’t be happening
July 16, 2025
Sir John,
It is crazy the way our government throws money around.
I see that President Trump is going to sell American weapons to NATO members to give to Ukraine. How much will that cost us given Starmer’s pledge to support Ukraine for one hundred years? It seems Europe is determined to have a war with Russia soon.
July 16, 2025
Cliff
Like him or not, that is a business man’s brain working, why give it away when I can sell it, if the fools who buy it then give it away, that is up to them.
July 16, 2025
Cliff
They call it “soft power” in the belief that we may get rewarded in some other way eventually, but the World takes the money, and takes us as fools !
July 16, 2025
Correct
July 16, 2025
All this and more does not surprise; the responsible minister displayed his NZ zealotry without restraint recently, and so we are going to be made weak and poor without reason.
There was the possibility of financial restraint, but the minister who could found no support, and so we will rush headlong into de-industrialisation, restricted power supplies and reduced food production.
We really are being run by the Raving Loony Party!
July 16, 2025
As I have said here many times before, our system of government gives too much power to too few people and politicians like nothing more than to experiment with their zany ideas at our expense and we have no way of stopping them. They have too much power to spend too much money and with an elective dictatorship nothing can be done by the people. If Starmer and Milliband want to bankrupt the country, with a huge majority of daft self seeking MP’s looking out only for themselves we are doomed. Some democracy this is – the people hand power through the voting system to people they don’t know, have no idea what they will do in power except renege on their promises in their worthless manifestos.
July 16, 2025
From a private sector oik’s perspective it looks very much like exporting our industries and commerce, infrastructure and assets while destroying whatever is left has been state policy since the 80’s.
This government is not really doing anything much different in effect than previous governments – fixated on receipts from the city rather than a sustainable and secure economy across the country, over-spending and over-borrowing.
Complaining about how subsidies and strategies simply enable our economic enemies to prosper at our expense are simply complaints and ring hollow – why no efforts to exploit the opportunities and develop the manufacturing?
What can we as individuals do about it because we surely cannot depend on the state to protect our interests?
So many whine on here about EVs being a threat to freedom and yet an individual cannot build/afford a hydrocarbon power plant to fuel their home or car. An individual can install solar panels and get more of a measure of energy independence for domestic and EV use than ever possible relying on state “supported” HC fuel networks.
Clearly, some see only threats while others see opportunities.
Raw hydrocarbons are not a sustainable energy source, we need to re-embrace UK nuclear and re-establish the industry.
July 16, 2025
Of course people can install solar panels – if they can afford it. To blithely say as you have about an ‘individual’ shows a complete lack of understanding how probably 90 per cent of this population lives and do not have either the capital or the ability to borrow the thousands it would cost. Anyway governments don’t want that, if everybody did it the grid would bust and their friends in energy production would lose some of their huge profits. Can’t have that.
July 16, 2025
I do not have a “complete lack of understanding” I have children, family friends and acquaintances across the piece just like most.
What I did do was prioritise – I didn’t go on holidays year after year or buy the next great mobile phone or gaming machine year after year or all the other consumption therapies. Instead I focused on clearing a mortgage and investing in things giving a reasonable return, in this case panels and EV which also give me more independence than the ICE vehicles.
In any case I believe there were schemes for example where you could have third parties put panels on your roof for free, you got the free electricity and they got the FITs.
I question the “grid going bust” position, any exported domestic generated surplus, after house usage car and battery charging if any, would reduce the power already imported from France et al via the interconnectors. Note the grid is an energy exchange/market where the companies losing out would be the generators.
July 17, 2025
Being a pensioner I haven’t been on holiday for over 20 years, don’t bet, go to the pub , go to the theatre or anything like that. Don’t have an iphone, just a basic one to do calls when away from home. Still can’t afford solar panels and even if I could I’d never recoup the cost. This is the result of the poor pension which it looks like the well off are now arguing to stop the increases, with a small private pension, much smaller than promised due to ineptitude of governments and financial institutions in that I had to buy an annuity at the bottom of the market. So I’d say, yes you have no idea how the other half live and the grid could not support the power as I suggested. Putting free panels on the roof de-values the property and if you have a mortgage probably would not be allowed anyway.
July 17, 2025
dixie
Not sure about an EV giving you “more freedom” than and ICE vehicle, please explain.
My ICE vehicle does 750 miles on a tank if diesel, it takes me 5 mins maximum to refill it.
I travel long distances on Holiday (when going to Europe) and also to visit family in the UK.
Christmas 2023 I saw a 4 hour queue at Membury services on the M4 waiting just waiting to get their EV’s ONTO a charging point.
I had stopped for a short comfort break, (I did not need fuel) information gained from speaking to few EV drivers on my walk back to my car.
Our many of overnight stops on the Continent do not have electrical charging facilities, in the last 5 years we have stayed at only one, it had a Tesla site next door, and again there was a waiting queue of cars for chargers.
Short distances close to home, with charging at home (if you have a drive) no problem, but the depreciation of an EV is Staggering.
July 18, 2025
Everything is relative.
Relative to my needs which are average I am independent of fuel deliveries to local port terminals, refineries and petrol stations, industrial action, refineries going bust etc. Some years back there were significant fuel shortages because of strikes, what happens if national supplies are disrupted or we are blockaded?
An ICE owner is only as independent as the imported fuel supply chain and his wallet allows.
Cars in the UK drive an average of 19 miles per day, for the average user EV range is sufficient to only need to charge once per week and according to the RAC 68% are parked on drives and private land in England for 96% of the time – plenty of time to be charged. So yes there are a proportion of users that need more charging and some don’t have a driveway.
If the government policy is to move the nation to EVs then the answer is more public chargers in addition to power supply etc.
July 16, 2025
There is clearly scope for development of transesterification on a small scale .Plant based oils and animal fats can be processed and refined to produce bio-diesel for vehicle and generator use. Some ‘pilot’ schemes are already underway using chip and other used cooking oils.
July 16, 2025
Not enough chippies and wasn’t it all being bought up for aircraft biofuel. In any case for the volume needed the feedstock would still need to be imported and vulnerable to a Putin/Macron disruption
We should be focused on expanding our nuclear fission fleet and exploring catalysts (eg copper based) for syngas/synfuel production and then you can keep your HC vehicles and power plants with a reliable, sustainable fuel supply. But that will never happen because people just want cheap energy and won’t actually take responsibility for their own circumstances – easier to complain at social media thank actually do something constructive even to address their own individual needs.
July 16, 2025
They found £7 Billion to fund Afghani immigration but there is no possibility of finding £700 million for triple lock pensions.
They are not ashamed that we have the poorest children and the poorest pensioners in the developed world. We have more Afghanis – so rejoice.
There is only one way these politicians will be stopped in their tracks.
July 16, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson
A duplicitous State, running on empty and forcing their two tier world on the only paymasters they have – the Taxpayer
July 16, 2025
They are not shamed because they have no shame. Look at how the Labour leadership free loaded on Lord Ali for instance, and of course they never vote to have their pay either paused or cut whilst they know how hard it is for their constituents, (those that are interested in their constituents of course, very few in my experience until election time).
July 16, 2025
Yes Louise Eikoff, a brilliant psychiatrist, described the new ‘shamelessness’ for the British Housewives’ League. She noticed that people stopped blushing!
July 16, 2025
One might ask why we have taken these Afghan army personnel without founding a ‘Foreign legion’ .As partly trained ,they surely would be capable of receiving more and could be used in defence of our overseas interests. If they are unable to be loyal to our leadership, they should not be considered as potential citizens.
July 16, 2025
Farage has said in the Mail today that if he is elected the days of the UK being treated like a charity for the rest of the world to exploit will end.
Reply He and other Opposition MPs are elected. They need to make common cause for urgent reform of both illegal and legal migration, which are far too high.
July 16, 2025
A link in Daily Sceptics shows that the job role of MPs has changed. From the Parliament website.
What do MPs do?
Version: 14th June 2025
“The UK public elects Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and can propose new laws as well as raising issues that matter to you in the House. This includes asking government ministers questions about current issues including those which affect local constituents.”
What do MPs do?
Version: 1st July 2025
“MPs work both at the UK Parliament and in their local constituencies. How and where they work is largely up to them to decide. There is no job description or contract of employment for MPs, nor any rules on how they should balance the competing demands of these two roles. However, MPs must abide by standards of conduct, rules
and conventions. For more information see Accountability and Standards.”
Should we be worried?
Alex Kriel the author on website Thinking Coalition says he intends to express his displeasure by writing to the Speaker of the House of Commons and require him to re-introduce the old text.
He doesn’t expect any result!
July 16, 2025
The new text was written and approved by UN WEF Davos …..with a nod from Starmer
July 16, 2025
Just more evidence of our politicians determination to deindustrialise and hence disarm the UK.
It would be helpful if we were told what the objective of these government policies are? If it is to remove the last vestiges of UK wealth and influence in world affairs, then it is clearly a very effective and well delivered strategy.
More Net Zero anyone?
July 16, 2025
The established political class is the enemy within.
July 16, 2025
It’s all about trying to save 4PPM of Co2 in the earth’s atmosphere. For China and other countries to take up.
July 16, 2025
I wonder if the sea’s around china & india are rising and if they’re bothered …….the UN IPCC says we have to do the ‘climate change’ thing to stop the sea’s rising …but the rivers aren’t rising ? Maybe it’s the weight of the 108 billion tonnes of new ice in the antarctica ?
July 16, 2025
An under reported part of Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech was the government’s 100% subsidy of the construction cost of the new electric car factory in Northern Ireland for the revived Delorean. This time the gull wings will open and close automatically, via more powerful batteries purchased by the government from China. This initiative is set to supercharge economic growth in NI and stimulate further EV purchases throughout the UK as the green transition truly takes hold.
July 16, 2025
Delorean was not a success the first time around.
They have absolutely no brains. They can’t even choose a proven winner to copy.
I am dying to know how unofficially rejoining the EU cuts red tape. The explanation should be a study for psychopathic behaviour for all time.
July 16, 2025
Just as this subsidy to Chinese batteries will components is announced, they have broken the previous practice not changing VED duty. I bought low emissions petrol and diesel cars 10 years ago which were zero taxed as an incentive to save the planet. Now these are to be taxed. They really can’t keep their fingers out of the til. I suppose that with Mastermind touring the world in his personal Airbus and playing loadamoney to rich foreigners, they have to find some cash to fill his money box.
July 16, 2025
Just as this subsidy to Chinese batteries and components is announced, they have broken the previous practice not changing VED duty. I bought low emissions petrol and diesel cars 10 years ago which were zero taxed as an incentive to save the planet. Now these are to be taxed. They really can’t keep their fingers out of the til. I suppose that with Mastermind touring the world in his personal Airbus and playing loadamoney to rich foreigners, they have to find some cash to fill his money box.
Corrected
July 16, 2025
Off Topic. from BBC website.
Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose 3.6% in June. That compares to 3.4% in May. A significant jump. Food price inflation rose for the third month in succession. Bad news for people struggling to make ends meet, as food is something you can’t really cut back on. Transport costs were a big factor. Interestingly, fuel prices actually fell, but not by as much as they did this time last year – so they weren’t offsetting rises elsewhere.
Looking at the big picture – the Bank of England is still widely expected to cut interest rates later in the summer, the 2% target, but officials there might be starting to feel ever so slightly nervous.
July 16, 2025
Why nervous ? The BoE don’t care if they are wrong on interest rates and inflation, there are no consequences, they let it go over 10% in recent years and they all kept their jobs.
July 16, 2025
We attempted to negotiate with our business park for over six months, even involving our solicitor, to request permission to lift the pavement for 20 minutes and re-lay it, in order to install an electric recharge cable in the parking spaces we own, located adjacent to the building we own. They wouldn’t give permission. We had to buy a couple for people’s homes, but it worked out better because charging at night is lower cost (and less demand on the network in the daytime). A year later, they suddenly gave permission, too late. I actually like electric vehicles for daily use, no visits to gas stations, and less maintenance. I just have no faith in them on long trips because chargers are often out of use or busy with queues or not conveniently located, so a typical 20-minute stop can turn into 1 hour and 30 minutes. So, I can see why they want to increase the number of charge points if they want to persuade more people to use them.
July 16, 2025
Two thirds of the country live in flats or terrace houses that can’t fit EV charging ……If it works for you great, but it shouldn’t subsidied nor imposed on people ….the other 2/3s of the country
July 16, 2025
Rachel Reeves was a talented junior chess player. Unfortunately for the UK, in Government as a Chancellor she doesn’t think even one move ahead, nor has awareness of the knock-on consequences of her every gesture.
July 16, 2025
She says she was talented does she? 😂🤣
Chess, economist, the woman is a wonder.
July 17, 2025
According to Guido Fawkes, Reeves did indeed play in the British Under 14 championship. She came 26th. In the Under 13s Championship Rachel came 29th. She came 19th in the Under 12s in 1990.
July 16, 2025
Sir John
That’s the bit that is hard to comprehend Taxpayer money used to fill the coffers of Foreign Governments, some of the hostile and anti UK. All the while everything possible is done to suppress UK Industry and Enterprise.
How many petrol stations has the taxpayer been forced to fund?
July 16, 2025
“Cloud cuckoo land” was the verdict of the recently retired Director of the IFS on the UK economy. Your examples amply demonstrate and confirm this to be true.
July 16, 2025
To our Governments these are our friends and the Millibrain is their biggest supporter who steals from the taxpayer to encourage their growth, while remains anti-UK at every step
July 16, 2025
A recent video on YouTube features a look around the fire-devastated parts of Los Angeles in the company of a Public Loss Adjuster who is assisting people with their insurance claims. In one part of Pallisades he points out where the fires were even more devastating and points out that was where people were parking their EV’s!
July 16, 2025
I am all for World Trade, even just ‘free trade’ as amongst other things it is a great leveller and causes things to advance.
The big however, is the Worlds Political Class especially those with an embedded Socialist mindset. They just can’t resist the meddling, to bend and twist thing into their own personal image.
Everywhere tax is taken then handed out to others as sweeteners is a government twisting and warping minds and markets. Half the benefits handed out in the UK if taxes weren’t taken to distort the market place in the first place wouldn’t be needed and everyone would pay less tax.
Any country subsidising, giving tax breaks to any and all enterprises is first and foremost a government declaring ‘war’. Internal of the Nation that is pure manipulation, once these entities get to escape on to the World Stage that is one Nation declaring war on other Nations.
The WTO was supposed to eliminate this practice, but instead they enhance it. They define the countries they wish to give a ‘bye’ too. They ignore the barriers of pseudo standards. In fact, the WTO today is the root of World Trade wars that even POTUS is having to fight back on.
July 16, 2025
UN WTO = China Control
July 16, 2025
I don’t understand how these subsidies and foreign aid grants are of any benefit to the average working person in the UK on an average salary
July 16, 2025
If EV’s are to become a thing it should be the market that decides not governments. As it stands, we have a government seeking malicious destruction not advancement.
If the UK was permitted to have its own industries, industries operating in a free-market place they would have filled the need, advanced the skill base and been ahead without costing the taxpayer a bean.
Using the taxpayer as a foil for every increasing personal, very personal even illogical personal take on world manipulation will only end in disaster. Removing the seed corn for tomorrow, money, from the market place, removes the means of tomorrows harvest, tomorrow’s existence.
It’s a classic take you reap what you sow. This Two-Tier shower supported by those that opened the doors are sowing the seeds of a better world for places like China paid by the UK’s beleaguer taxpayer. These and recent action ensure the destruction of the UK, not its advancement, not its tomorrow. Parliament is stuffed full of agents for foreign powers.
July 16, 2025
Social engineering baby social engineering
July 16, 2025
And they can’t even engineer that.
July 16, 2025
+1
July 16, 2025
Your piece today deals with symptoms of a government that has completely lost its way, assuming it ever had one. Just to build on the first 365 days of insanity and maliciousness there will be more.
The task of any incoming government is to have ready to go legislation to rectify the all pervading ills of the U.K. elections do not change the blob, so a comprehensive re-structuring of the way we run the U.K. will be essential. Residue Blair cannot be allowed continued life that in effect hamstrings any incoming government. Cameron (heir to Blair), May, Johnson, and Sunak perpetuated it.
Up for fundamental change are the judiciary, lawyers, police, and our umbilicals to EU law and regulation. NI must be returned to. UK membership unencumbered. Our tax system of 20,000 pages must be re-written in support of an entrepreneurial U.K. and its citizens. Our civil service is in dire need of reduction and professionalisation under a fresh contractual regime. Quangos must cease and their function returned to ministries. No more off piste government. None of this ends at national level. The ills of local government are also in dire need of rectification. These needs must be prepared well before any incoming government hits the benches. Without them the problems we see daily will continue.
July 16, 2025
We’re spending our way into massive debt;
We gave up control of Singapore in the early 1960’s so what’s the reason given for donating £70 million to speed up their net zero carbon contribution.Singapore is a well managed very small country ,very wealthy with a ‘service’ based economy and are capable of sorting themselves out.
Who decided and why to give away the UK taxpayers money in this way and is it subject to Government scrutiny and audit.
To promote electric car sales nationally and seemingly internationally by giving away £650 million seems a strange way of promoting electric vehicles and indicates desperation on the part of the Labour government to achieve net zero at any cost.
Is there an over riding benefit to the UK in giving money away that we don’t have? I hope that these questions are asked at PM’s question time in Parliament so we can get some explanation and reasoning why!
July 16, 2025
When will this wretched government stop handing out our money to foreigners? We are deep in debt, getting deeper by the day, yet these deluded and self-opinionated people see fit to buy more from overseas and less from their own citizens. What will it take for them to address their problem?
A complete collapse of Market confidence, a run on the GBP and a financial crash a la 1929? Or worse, another serious war in Europe?
Mr Starmer note well: We cannot afford to save the world nor treat the world nor house the world nor fund the world. We’re broke!!
Why can you not see that, even through the squinting eyes of a Human Rights Lawyer bereft of any political or economic know how?
July 16, 2025
Miliband has confirmed his intention to ensure industry shuts down by writing to NESO to ask them to procure just 40.1GW via the capacity market for 2029-30, to include supply via interconnectors and from batteries that are a net consumer of electricity. This compares with recent demand peaks on the transmission system of over 45GW. The alternative will be power cuts.
July 16, 2025
6,900 (data breach) 20,000 (via support routes) & 15,000 (via illegal routes) were illicitly transported, into the UK since 2020 from Afghanistan …* GBNews estimated analysis as government figures are unknown
July 16, 2025
“As with the other net zero policies this is a policy speeding the de- industrialisation of the UK.”
Correct. The false communist initiated CAGW and its Net Zero “solution” is designed to sabotage our energy, economy, national scurity and democracy. The belief that our anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are causing a climate crisis and that we must unilaterally sacrifice ourselves in order show leadership to the rest of the world in how to save the planet is as daft as the Aztec belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the sun to rise each following morning. With regard to evs, DESNZ knows full well that because 80% or more of our local grids can only supply 1-2KW/household continuously it means that only 1 house in 7 can currently charge an ev. There will need to be a massive, expensive and disruptive upgrade to the local grid for evs, and even more so for heat pumps, to be feasible. DESNZ and the CCC know all of this of course.
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/82722/pdf/
July 16, 2025
Speaking of subsidies – another £100m of taxpayer money being given to the undeserving – improved WiFi on trains.
Why shouldn’t it simply be put on the ticket price so user pays.
July 16, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer suspends at least three rebellious Labour MPs from the party, two weeks after he suffered the biggest revolt of his premiership. One Labour MP told The Telegraph that some Left-wing backbenchers had been summoned to see the Chief Whip on Wednesday afternoon. The disciplinary meetings appear to be an attempt by the Prime Minister to stamp his authority on the party after he faced a rebellion of 49 MPs over his welfare reforms.
‘trouble at mill!’
July 16, 2025
Super Injunctions are redundant in the days of alt media.
The only people who read newspapers online or paper and who watch
mainstream news channels are oldsters ( who won’t riot ).
Beauty is truth Truth beauty.
Always tell the truth.
July 16, 2025
I am 80yrs of age.My grandfather died during WW1 and my step-grandfather was grievously wounded.
WW2 my father was killed in action in France and my step-father grievously wounded in Burma.
Despite lack of money,rationing and scant medical/dhss provisions this country came through.
Quite simply:we all came through.As I walk around my scenic coastal town and observe
tomorrows generation I am lost for words.It starts in the home.Not in the classroom.
SLI
July 17, 2025
You really need to understand that Starmer’s Gang are hard left international socialists led by a Trotskyite turned human rights lawyer. Like the International of the 1900s they believe the nation state is the main obstacle to the progress of mankind. The International would have prevented WW1 and hence also WW2. It failed for one reason only: nation states selfishly pursuing their own interests. As a nation state, UK does not qualify for any special treatment. On the contrary, nation states should be abolished and UK needs to changed into a mere territory available to all and in which the only laws are those made by the International.
July 19, 2025
You couldn’t make it up, Labour are blinded by their bigotry, while all the time calling the ret of us bigots