2026 will determine whether Labour has a future. Its current low in the polls reflects anger and disappointment at how badly it has been governing. This year there is still time for it to change course and show it has learned from a bruising year and a half in office. It should start by going back to its Manifesto. It needs to think of the many voters who are not socialists who either voted for it or voted tactically in ways which allowed it a big win in seats or who stayed at home thinking they could live with its likely impact. They took comfort from the Manifesto.
They liked the idea of smashing the gangs and ending illegal migration. They were relieved there would be no tax rises other than the targeted VAT on school fees and the Non Doms changes. They agreed with the idea of going for growth and creating more jobs.
The collapse of support comes from government reneging on all three of those crucial pledges. The latest Home Secretary talks tough but acts weakly, failing to deport illegals arriving by small boat, failing to intercept small boats or arrest the gangs and boat drivers to stop the trade, The Chancellor has run two budgets as ways to threaten anyone who works hard , owns their own home and saves with yet more tax. Net zero zealotry closes industries and loses us jobs.High taxes lead talent and those with big money to go elsewhere. The way to some recovery for Labour lies with reversing all this.
It is unlikely they will do so. Meanwhile they deter many voters, with the agenda they did not put in their Manifesto. Scrapping many jury trials. Delaying elections. Pushing through unwanted reorganisations of Councils regardless of local opinion. Limiting free speech excessively.
Worse still is the way the Prime Minister spends much of his time abroad giving money, territory and our rights to self government away. People want a leader who puts the UK and the needs of UK voters first, not someone who apologises for our past and seeks for damaging interpretations of international Treaties to make the UK pay.
December 30, 2025
The three pledges were in effect a denial that Starmer’s Gang would be a socialist government. It was taqqiya, adopted from their allies. A socialist is a socialist is a socialist. Full stop. But it is no longer the old class envy. Starmer’s Gang hates Britain and its Judeo-Christian foundations and legacy as much as its Islamist allies, ie., viscerally and with religious fervour. Its policies and actions are all negative, destructive. It knows only that it must tear down and destroy all that it hates.
And, no, there will not be a general election in 2029 or anytime soon after. There is nothing in law to force it to face the electorate, only convention. Not even the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 requires a general election following the automatic dissolution of a parliament after five years. It leaves the government in office with no sitting MPs. What a golden opportunity for Trotsky Starmer and his Gang of Fabians and communists.
Reply There is no basis or precedent to believe they can cancel a General election unless a world war had started and the UK Parliament had put us into it as a combatant.
December 30, 2025
Reply to reply. Hence our Ukraine policy. We may get there yet. Some of them are definitely toying with war as a means to extend their time in power.
December 30, 2025
Reply to reply.
Funny you mention that JR*. Only over the past year there have been numerous rumblings of war with Russia.
* Now that you have been ennobled, how does your Lordship wish to be addressed ? I think you are a man who does not stand on too much ceremony, but I am genuinely curious.
Cheers
Reply I am awaiting a date to become a Lord. I do not mind how I am addressed if it is polite.
December 30, 2025
There is no precedent bit liebour will create one. Starmer talks of the 10 year plan and this should be a clue.
Everything they do is part of the great reset. It is instructive that the only other two countries pursuing such damaging policies are Canada and Australia, New Zealand recently ripped up the net stupid agenda as they saw the damage it was causing
Destroying the middle class is a classic Marxist agenda because they are the backbone of the country
I think it’s worth a punt at the bookies on elections being cancelled.
December 30, 2025
To reply:- I would not put anything past Starmer he is already Gerrymandering all over the place!
Labour are dead already, their many “let’s kill growth policies” are unsurprisingly killing growth and will reduce the tax take in this and subsequent years. We are in the Reeves doom loops! No sign of any of the hundred of U turns needed yet.
But 2 Tier Kier’s says of his top priority:- “Alaa’s case has been a top priority for my government since we came to office. I’m grateful to President Sisi for his decision…” Was the dire Kier not on about what Farage might or might not have said about Jews as a teenager a few weeks ago yet Alaa is his top priority and an OBE of a lass connected to the BBC’s Gaza/Hamas documentary too!
December 30, 2025
“ It is unlikely they will do so. ”
Indeed. Labour will be preoccupied with internal power struggles. There may be a different prime minister, chancellor etc.
December 30, 2025
While I agree with your comments regarding the current Government the problems actually started long before the last general election. In my view Boris Johnson was the most recent competent Prime Minister and there has been persistent lack of leadership ever since. This is why Labour won the last election.
December 30, 2025
Reply to reply there’s no precedent for many things which this government is doing against the will of the people.
Increasing taxes to prohibit growth, stopping oil drilling, importing immigrants, stopping recruitment through employment measures, adding to country’s debt pile, cow-towing to the EU. Whilst the Conservatives started the ball rolling, the fervour of this lot in going contrary to the people’s will in these areas is unprecedented. Messing around with local elections is already in the mix and being trialed as you know. Somehow we’ve ended up with a number of parties which have no compunction in defying precedent, ignoring their manifesto or indeed what the majority of UK people actually want.
December 30, 2025
Reply to Reply
Please don’t give them ideas!
December 30, 2025
@Reply – although they have so far to date used the need for structural changes, as a means to delay election. For some the 2nd year in a row. So I wouldn’t hold your breathe on that. The rumour of direct rule of the KCC if put into practice and Parliament lets them get away with it yet again, anything could happen.
December 30, 2025
Reply to Reply.
Don’t give them ideas, Sir John!
They might just get desperate enough to remain in power by signing us up to join Ukraine.
December 30, 2025
“unless a world war had started”
Well that might be the way they do it Sir John.
They certainly are not investing in our defences at the moment, so we don’t look like we’d put up much of a fight…
December 30, 2025
Labour has outdone the Tories. It took the Tories over 10 years to become utterly detested; Labour have achieved that in less than 2 years. That’s progress, of a sort.
We need new checks on our governments. Swiss style referendums would be a way forward. They allow some democratic steam to escape the authoritarian pressure cooker.
December 30, 2025
Good morning.
They do not care. They do not care what we say or think. They do not care what the polls say. These people are ideologues. Fanatics. They know they will not be in office, but they do know that they, or their 5th Column (QUANGO’s) will be. The job of this government it to hollow out whatever is left of this country. To finish the work of Tony Blair.
When you know that, you know that no kind words to change direction will work.
December 30, 2025
No one could argue with that overview Sir John. The troubling fact is this Labour administration does not see the impact they are having on peoples everyday life. They plough on imagining their socialism will make right that which people are genuinely worried about. They do not accept they are making things worse. With that being the background it is difficult to see any change happening ever. They have betrayed the pledges presented in the Labour Manifesto 2024 but that has zero impact on their direction of travel. The most troubling feature of their betrayal is the cancelling of democracy and our democratic rights which now includes the Crime and Justice Secretary cancelling our most basic rights to trial by jury.
It of difficult to think of any event other than a hot war changing the destructive policies this administration is pursuing.
We can’t even relax with the thought we will be able to vote them out of office. They are quite prepared to stop/change the democratic voting rules when ever they feel threatened by the voters right to choose.
December 30, 2025
On a lighter note(?), anybody seen odds on the first regional power-cut coming in the first week of January? Looks like there’s a prolonged cold snap coming; will this be Millipeed’s Waterloo?
Prepare your back-ups!
December 30, 2025
Peter
Yes the old independent gas fire (no electrics at all) we installed in our Lounge many years ago still works well, and at full power will warm up the ground floor of our house if all doors left open.
Unfortunately our more modern built in gas hob in the kitchen has an electrical safety cut out feature, which would make that bit of equipment useless in the event of a power cut.
Guess the new gas central heating boiler will be the same, likewise the circulation pump !
Perhaps should look for a small diesel/petrol generator for back up ?
December 30, 2025
We have a gas Aga, no electricity supply needed, and have just fitted a 7kW catalytic gas fire in the lounge which has a battery ignition system. We also have a 5KVA petrol generator which can be positioned outside the garage where the boiler is located and will power its pump, ignition, programmer and both thermostats via an extention lead while there is a switch to isolate the heating circuits from the mains.
If we find we have power cuts over the next year or two, I already have a plan in place to install a very quiet, fully encapsulated diesel generator capable of powering the whole house. It will have an internal fuel tank capable of powering everything for 60 hours using cheap Red Diesel, and a nearby gravity-feeding fuel tank holding enough reserve diesel for a whole extra week of continuous running. In other words, we will be 100% Miliband-Proof. The complete installation will cost less than £10,000.
December 31, 2025
Chris
Your solution similar to my own train of thoughts, and I would be doing the same if more rural, It certainly is a lot less costly than the installation of a heat Pump System ( quote I had 4 years ago was £25,000 – £35,000) and will still not work in power cuts.
December 30, 2025
Channel tunnel power failure 🤭 and it’s still quite warm.
December 30, 2025
Labours only appeal is to the minority left zealots and the economically illiterate. Their only function via their lumbering incompetence is to create an electoral pathway for Reform.
Every utterance fom the Lib Dem leadership is vomit inducing, not forgetting what they presided over for postmasters. The Greens are with the birds and irrelevant apart from dividing the left vote.
How long Labour last is in the hands of the money lenders. They have lost a basic real politique understanding that whatever branch of communism they represent, they need to be financially successful. To date they are a total failure.
December 30, 2025
You forget the many who voted Labour, LibDem or neither because they’d never again vote Tory and wanted a Labour government to fail and fail badly to pave the way to change the system with a proper right wing government. A risk, of course, but the long game is sometimes the only game in town.
December 30, 2025
They cannot row back. They have revealed themselves and the mind of the people is settled.
The Conservatives are in the same boat.
Nobody has looked closely at the Green yet, their poll rating is based on the fact that they are neither of the big two.
We will have an election. The question is who can we vote for?
I see no prospect of a competent government. Farage will deliver a dead cat bounce at best.
December 30, 2025
Two-Tier/Labour are doing exactly what they intended. The Manifesto was a smokescreen to fool the gullible and, since they only got 20% of the available votes, relatively few outside their client groups (public sector, welfare claimants and the Muslim bloc vote) were taken in.
Labour got the massive majority because millions of people were furious with the Not-a-Conservative-Party and they refused to vote to be CONNED by them again. Even Tory members didn’t want Sunak as Leader, which is why they didn’t vote for him in the first place! He was foisted on them by the same LibCONs who had betrayed their members and voters for the previous 14 years.
Labour will not change tack; it will double-down. It will throw money and policies at its client groups to retain, and hopefully grow them, and Two-Tier will continue to deny democratic accountability, by delaying and cancelling elections it fears it will lose.
If we do ever manage to get rid of them, this will be the last Labour Government this country has to suffer. But by then the damage inflicted by NuLabour/NaCP/Two-Tier over the previous 30 years will probably be irreversible and irrecoverable.
December 30, 2025
Can only hope the Labour Party implodes and gains a more sensible leader, although goodness knows who would fill that role, as none of the other Party’s appear fit or ready yet to Govern.
Sadly too soon for the Conservatives and Reform who still have to get their teams and policies in order.
LibDems just a waste of time with their dreamland policies, as indeed are the Greens.
Given you will be in the house of Lords shortly John, would you be open for a cabinet position (like Chancellor) if asked ?
Reply Once I have been admitted I will be happy to undertake appropriate roles where I can help. Main jobs in government usually go to elected MPs for obvious reasons.
December 30, 2025
Now that you’ve done a job of praising the (temporary once again?) leader of the Conservatives, when are you going to balance with the outright main contestant ie Farage of Reform? Always ready to have a pop at lying Labour, some of us would like to read comparisons.
December 30, 2025
Reply to reply
I wish I could agree with what you say. But Peter G’s point was that there is no statute requiring a general election to be called after five years, only tradition (precedent). As Starmer tries to lock us more and more into written legal arrangements, especially with the EU, Britain’s unwritten constitution will look less and less reliable as a defence of our sovereign liberties.
December 30, 2025
the unwritten constitution demands trial by jury as a right, it calls killing a full term baby murder, it regards replacement of the native population as treason, it expects action after lengthy public enquiries, it expects police to be sacked when they have turned a blind eye to gang rape of children, it expects our borders to be defended, it expects politicians to actually reduce immigration when they promise that at election time, it expects the precious freedoms of British citizenship to be guarded carefully and not handed out to vast parts of India, Pakistan, and populations which actively hate us, it expects public services to be for the public and not the rest of the world, and so much more.
December 30, 2025
The Constitution is not Codified but it is written – extensively – but it includes little of what you list.
December 30, 2025
There is indeed an expectation of voters, possibly those who do not qualify or cannot see the point, that a fair, open and just commonsense be applied to governing this country. The disaster that grew year on year by the labelled Conservatives cleared the playing field, allowing the disaster to proceed like a tsunami gathering speed to drown everything before it in the headlong race to destroy the land.
December 30, 2025
See Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
December 30, 2025
What does it say that’s relevant? Please tell us.
December 30, 2025
Labour is so far down, steeped in disgrace, yet they continue wasting and causing damage with bad decisions and actions hostile to the UK. There is virtually nothing of them worth saving. Now even some Conservatives begin to look ‘better’ against so much badness. Chris Philp seemed weak, yet consistently raises what are sensible and strong arguments. Reform is far more in tune with what voters most want. They are using the time available to strengthen their organisation and exhibit clear signs of becoming victorious in pursuit of policies the nation needs.
December 30, 2025
Unfortunately Reform is in tune with wat most voters don’t want. Very few of the parties have answers.
December 30, 2025
Because they have to appeal to too many demographics in order to get elected.
Everyone wants something.
January 6, 2026
It is normal for most voters not to like what a specific party offers, but such a party can win most seats.
December 30, 2025
evidence for that view? Reform is winning here, to steal the lame duck slogan.
December 30, 2025
Even if the government did change direction – who would trust them? They are just as likely to go down an equally destructive path if they did.
We have the prospect this year that private firms will need to be liquidated once the owner dies, in order to pay an inheritance tax bill. So that’s jobs lost and no incentive to build businesses.
December 30, 2025
The PM, 2TK and his team have from the get-go shown/demonstrated their contempt and hate for the Nation and it People.
However, suggesting that the Labour vote has collapsed is wishful thinking, You GOV shows Labour at 19% of the electorate, down from the 20% of the electorate at the GE. Putting them equal to the Tories who deserted the party and their supporters at the GE. So in a straight fight both those party are a fail and come up short.
The question if an election was held today and based on actual records and promises, which party could find the support to win an election? Or world the electorate as last time abstain or head to a protest group?
Reply The polls try to forecast likely votes cast as a percentage of that total , not as a percentage of all voters
December 30, 2025
Ian B
Like it or not, when your whole existence is dependent upon receiving Benefits, even when that route is chosen, although you could work, who would you vote for ?
Labour see increasing Benefits as a natural way of increasing their votes !
Simple policy, even though it will in the very long term fail through lack of money.
Eventually those who do work will say why should I bother !
December 30, 2025
John,
As much as I love you I dont think you realise the reality of the anger and disgust in the rank and file ordinary people.
There is such a massive gap between the ruling classes and everything that is good and proper that the balloon is going to burst one way or another.
Your gentle analysis and approach, and polite criticism of Europe and socialism is no longer appropriate.
Things are going to blow up one way or another.
I say this in sadness.
The basics have got to be restored, its not complicated.
The simple stuff we should not have to fight for have gone.
This is not a stable democracy, this is a banana state likely to break our into civil unrest any day.
All bets are off.
December 30, 2025
Iain
Sadly what you say is how many of us now think !
December 30, 2025
and what else is going to steer things back to reason?
December 30, 2025
@iain gill +999
December 31, 2025
David Betz, Prof of War Studies at Imperial College, has recently appeared on several “respectable” YouTube Podcasts I follow calmly explaining that the country has all the conditions in place necessary for civil war and it is probably now unstoppable. His explanations and predictions are very concerning but sound very plausible.
The first time I listened to him I was shocked; now I’m not. Now I’m wondering WHY he is being allowed (encouraged?) to appear on so many right-of-centre podcasts giving his warnings. I no longer think he is speaking out on his own initiative – I think he has been “weaponised” by the Establishment.
They are preparing us for what is coming.
December 31, 2025
I know quite a lot of people in various layers of the military. there is a lot of frustration that they are not being mobilised to defend our beaches in the south east. as I said before all bets are off.
December 30, 2025
In essence, they are a dishonest shambles, whose manifesto was a lie. Every Labour Government of my lifetime has pushed up taxes, borrowed money, and made life harder for ordinary people. The only difference this time is that they are even worse than usual and have crashed the UK economy more quickly.
Normally, a Conservative Government has stabilised the UK finances, so Labour can spend happily. This time, they have inherited a serious financial position and simply made it worse.
What does it say about the UK education system that Labour Ministers and MPs are so clueless abouit what to do!
December 30, 2025
Not wishing to put the dampers on your loyalty and clear support for the conservative party now that you are on their team in the Lords, but is this the same party you were an active Minister in? From the outside looking in it is not even a mere shadow. What remnants of a Conservative Party that existed before the lase GE seem to have been forced out.
As for promises, promises, ‘get Brexit done!’. We were given a vague version of Brino. Not a sign of Brexit, even EU Laws were incorporated on mass because the party couldn’t be bothered. Then there was the expulsion of industry, quality steel production needed for security/defence, the fishing industry and so on. That is without getting to the lunacy of Net Zero and high electricity costs, banning North Sea production – none of which was in any manifesto. Again from the outside looking in both Labour and Conservatives have levelled the playing field in working with the people and the country.
Reply The Conservatives under Sunak reversed the ban on new oil and gas and delayed the ban on new petrol cars. Kemi Badenoch and Claire Couthino have gone further, exposing the damage Labour’s extreme net zero policies bring. They propose cheaper energy with more domestic production. The new leadership has proposed exit from ECHR, extra clamps on migration, cutting public spending to reduce the tax burden. I agree with and have campaigned for these policies.
December 30, 2025
I would like to see, and the Country desperately needs a Conservative Party. I cant see that happening, the only hope for the moment would be Yourself and Sharon taking over the reigns, getting the activist at the grass roots energised and find a Conservative Team, Party that will work with (they are like labour still fighting) the people. Other wise it will be a generation lost
Reply Kemi is changing things for the better and is in charge
December 30, 2025
@Reply – my concern is the baggage this team carries as they own the wrong path they as Ministers in a Collective Responsibility Cabinet took. As often mentioned here believing what someone says to get elected has been proven time and time again not to be the same as what they do in practice, as such it is their proven actions is the only reality we can be guided by.
That goes for all, those that inhabit the HoC. From the outside looking in, the rot has well and truly taken hold
December 30, 2025
and what of reduction in UC to levels somewhere between minimum wage and average earnings after tax? What of determining the lack of motivation in working harder, putting in the hours to earn, when taxation kills the enthusiasm? What of scarce NHS services being readily and instantly available to those arriving uninvited on the coast near Dover? What of state employees whether in education, health, law, quasi- transport, administration civil servants, Post Office….all benefitting from pensions?
December 30, 2025
INDEED!
You’d probably have to sit Starmer down in a very quiet room, away from the bustle, to ask him what drives him – what his ultimate goal might be, what he dreams of while in bed, dozing.
Whatever it is it can only be an extrapolation of everything else he has already done, and plans to do. Ultimately, that must mean moving us closer to a utopian communist state while making use of everything written in the novel; 1984.
Just pray with all your worth that he never gets the war he so desires.
If, as it seems, REFORM are our only hope for a better future, then we need to be united in getting this awful government removed while we still have something left of our country.
December 30, 2025
@Harry MacMillion – it is clear the system needs to be disrupted. We have always had what is considered a party of protest, a no idea party, the limp dems – but that has got us nowhere.
In reality all that is missing is a party stripped of ego wanting to work and inspire the people and the country. It has come to a head that we have had since Blair attacking egotist all fighting the very people that can make things happen.
Just think an MP working for the electorate and the nation, before their own self-esteem and ideology, we would have a thriving wealthy self-reliant and resilient nation that we could be proud of
December 30, 2025
The whole corrupt shower need to go. The best hope is for Labour to get severely hammered in the local elections (those they are letting us have obviously) Putting pressure on Starmer to go. I live in hope …..
December 30, 2025
@Old Albion – as each day passes I get the feeling he doesn’t give a monkeys, at best he sees the outcries as validation of his plan is working.
December 30, 2025
Another day and yet another £13bn of extra public spending announced by Miliband !
Free solar panels and heat pumps for the poor, ie benefit claimants.
Inevitably, this largess will be concentrated in the North of England in a doomed attempt to try and bolster Labour support, exactly where solar and heat pumps are least effective.
At least Nigel will be able to cancel it before much of the money has been spent.
December 30, 2025
The North of England is least able to generate solar power.
December 30, 2025
Lynn
Logical thinking does not come into it when you have your eyes set on one policy objective no matter what the cost !
December 30, 2025
as Chris said.
December 30, 2025
Exactly !
Miliband must have been told this but I don’t think he cares !
This whole government now seems too be focussing only on providing bribes for their remaining supporters : that is benefit claimants, Muslims, and supporters of overseas aid.
They will find out soon enough that that is not a sufficient base to keep them in office.
Even the unions are turning against them, but for all the wrong reasons. The new breed of far left Union Leaders like Graham are totally out of touch with their working members.
December 30, 2025
“unless a world war had started and the UK Parliament had put us into it as a combatant.”
Would not fancy the UK’s chances in any large war under two Tier Kier and the deluded Miliband with his mad renewables religion! We have incompetent procurement and a DEI recruitment system where ability seems to take last place! Bus I would not trust Starmer not to cancel the next election he is a serial liar and has already cancelled local elections. Doubtless many Conservative councillors will wish to go along with this too!
December 30, 2025
“Would not fancy the UK’s chances in any large war”.
Would that be because our armed forces are too depleted?
Or would it be because the British population aren’t prepared to fight, so that the new arrivals move into their place when they don’t come back?
Or is it because of a large enemy contingent already invited into the country?
Or is it because the country already has a National Debt consistent with several years’ war and couldn’t afford it?
December 30, 2025
Labour campaigned very quietly so as not to scare the horses, they had little buy in for their doctrine because other than denying what they might do, they didn’t tell us what they would do.. They rode in on a high horse and couldn’t live up to their own moral compass from the off.
Labour can not bear scrutiny or criticism, pulling out the far right card at every opportunity and the Labour back benchers think that every cause is worth funding “oh the children”, “the disabled”, “refugees”, “net zero”. There is no consideration that scammers gonna scam (Covid loans, furlough anyone). If government makes money available it will attract the dishonest.
Lower our taxes, stop people coming into the country, stop giving away our money at home and aboard, balance the budget, lower energy costs, take benefit in kind tax and IPT off private medical health insurance, and leave us alone to live.
Governing could be quite simple.
December 30, 2025
Whilst all the points made in today’s post are important, the overriding issue of our times is the global climate emergency and our response
Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the obvious climate changes taking place to our planet (“it’s a Chinese hoax”) which are caused by burning fossil fuels demonstrates where a lot of his campaign funding came from – the fossil fuel cartel
China is rapidly developing the technology needed to collect and transmit the vast amounts of free energy available from it’s sunny and very windy deserts. Definitely, China is now the global leader. America, however, is becoming more and more dependent on fossil fuels – to the extent that it is now seizing tankers of Venezuela’s oil.
Trump’s obsession with the oil industry is taking America down some very dangerous paths
December 30, 2025
Now tell us how Ukraine is winning the war .. 🤣😂
December 30, 2025
well Putin isn’t. Four years ago you said all over in weeks, a bit later some months, A year or two after with Trump getting played it seemed possible. With the face of warfare no longer fighting from trenches, tech being lead by Ukraine, has extended the horrors to mean no clear end to it. The rest of the world watching with interest Russia getting down to WW2 military and trying to bully the world with talk of 8 minute nuclear, no regard to the rapid reprisals fired off before the first attack strikes home.
December 30, 2025
SG:
Whilst it is true that China has built a lot of renewables, mainly to convince the useful idiots in the West to transition from fossil fuels to renewables as well as sell all the infrastructure, the Wikipedia 2024 data is solar 8.3%, wind 9.9%, fossil fuels 63%, hydropower 14% and nuclear at 4.5%. Furthermore China has recently increased its coal plant building to a 9 year high. I don’t see this changing much as they have just declared their UN NDC to be “7-10% by 2035 while “striving to do better””. The UK’s NDC for 2035 is 81% for comparison. China has built 100GW/year of coal for years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 and in the pipeline plans exist for a further 370GW. More importantly, however, it is not the pipeline installed capacities which need to be compared between the various fuels but the amount of additional energy each fuel type pipeline plan will produce and using Grok’s figures I calculate the following: Coal 175 PWhrs, Nuclear 56 PWhrs, Solar 14 PWhrs, wind (almost all onshore as offshore too expensive) 24 PWhrs. PWhrs = 1000 TWhrs. So China is concentrating on coal, followed by nuclear. They wouldn’t be doing this if renewables were cheaper and more reliable would they? The Communists know that they have only a limited amount of time to pursue this hoax as they know that global cooling is coming and this will be the end of it. According to Antarctic Vostok ice core data for the last 450,000 years, when both CO2 and temperature have been exceptionally low, CO2 has followed temperature up and down 5 times.
December 30, 2025
A 1.3 degree rise in global average temperatures since 1850 is not a climate emergency SG.
The predicted runaway/ tipping point post 2000 that all you alarmists predicted never happened.
In fact the rate of increase reduced.
December 31, 2025
climate.copernicus.eu 10/01/2025 ‘Global climate highlights 2024’.
It is sooo good to have the eyes of a ‘specialist’ to tell us that, from fig.1 * whether considering annual or five-year averages, the rate of increase in global surface temperature has decreased. If it’d have increased for him, how would it have looked, one can wonder?
* Copernicus includes C3S, JRA, GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp, BerkeleyEarth, HadCRUT5
December 31, 2025
What are you claiming here hefner?
Sarcasm makes for a very poor argument.
January 1, 2026
Your comment about sarcasm is what you use when you don’t have anything to answer. A bit feeble.
Anyway, Happy New Year.
January 1, 2026
Desperate useless response.
So I challenge you hefner.
1. Do you think a 1.3 degree increase in global average temperature as measured, since 1850 can be correctly described as a climate emergency?
2. Do you agree that the post 2000 tipping point of runaway temperature rise as predicted by many leading alarmists has not happened?
Looking foward to your response.
January 2, 2026
Hello
1/ It all depends where you live. If you happen to be from a developing country, heavily relying on agriculture for income, and vulnerable to various extremes of weather, the global average of 1.3C is likely to have translated in a 4-5C increase with more frequent droughts or huge persistent precipitation. For such people that’s a ‘climate emergency’ that might push them to migrate, possibly to the UK where, as can be seen from this blog they will be ‘warmly welcome’.
2/ Just look at the curve, no ‘tipping points’ but global temperature continues to grow year after year. What do you want? A deluge? July snowfall in the UK? A tsunami on the British coast? 45C in the Midlands?
What would be a tipping point for you?
It is rather difficult to exchange with people unable to figure that an average goes with standard deviation around such average, and that the ‘globe’ is slightly bigger than the UK.
Reply Snow in July is unlikely with global warming. We have experienced big floods long before CO 2 increased and need to manage water flows as for centuries we have done in the Fens.
January 2, 2026
Still not answering my questions hefner.
Off at a tangent as usual and sadly unable to reply without some form of personal attack.
Glad you agree with me that years of alarmist predictions of a tipping point post 2000 never came true.
Is 1.3 degree rise since 1850 really an emergency?
Where are the countries you claim a 4 to 5 degree rise in temperature?
January 3, 2026
It is certainly not an emergency for people who are not curious enough to look (and understand) maps.
Can’t you look for yourself on the reference I gave: fig.3, temperature increase 3-5C.
January 3, 2026
A simple google search shows “no countries have experienced sustained increases of 4 or 5 degrees celsius compared to pre industrial times”
More alarmist monsense from you hefner.
January 3, 2026
So, tell me, are the areas showing increased temperatures by 3-5C in Fig.3 invented by the meteorological centres?
Or is’a simple Google search’ (likely to show the 10 most viewed sites) biased by default by all the searches made by climate sceptics?
And is ‘a simple Google search’ likely to refer to academic studies or to sites like WhatsUpWith…? or the Shula&Ott’s YouTube presentations?
Have you ever considered the possibility that the most viewed sites does not guarantee being the most relevant sites for a given topic?
January 3, 2026
Have you ever considered hefner that the sites you consider as perfect are perhaps feeding you dodgy information.
Many of the temperature sites used by leading agencies are badly sited and are below the best level of accuracy.
Then there are the recent changes in the mixture of land based and satellite measurements to get a final figure to produce a hesdline figure which the MSM lap up.
As usual you shift the argument to avoid answering any question I ask.
I realise the tactics.
Divert avoid and abuse.
January 3, 2026
Clue yourself up on how present-day meteorological analyses work then we’ll talk.
In the meantime even the question you ask is meaningless as there is not ‘a mixture of land based and satellite measurements’ but more likely a four-dimensional assimilation of spatial 3-D fields and their temporal variations for measurements of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind components, ozone, GHGs, …
As for considering these results as perfect if you had any real understanding of what you are talking about or if you had read the reference I had given you would have realised that the results presented in the reference are given with error bars/uncertainties coming from the different institutions using different methods to deal with those measurements.
You can play the game to ask questions and expect answers but if the questions you ask proves that you are far from mastering any aspect of the topic at hand you only succeed in one thing: looking ridiculous.
December 30, 2025
“Net zero zealotry closes industries and loses us jobs.”
Correct. CAGW is a communist hoax and its net zero CO2 “solution” is devised to impoverish the Western democracies and destroy their industries, economies and security. Hence ‘Clean Power by 2030’ was Labour’s Mission #4 at the last GE and Mr. Miliband and his Fabian Parliamentary colleagues including the PM, together with the CCC, Ofgem and Mission Zero are determined to force through this manifesto pledge whatever the cost and damage caused to the country. Etc ed
December 30, 2025
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Politicians including Sir Keir Starmer welcomed his return last week. After he appeared to call for violence against Zionists, the police and the burning of Downing Street in a series of online comments.
Return? The Man was never a UK Citizen until he was jailed in Egypt. He will now get to walk freely amongst the people he hates
Then Lucy Connolly is silenced by being thrown into prison? For reacting to the horrific murders in Southport of young girls
The two tier justice and morality of Parliament, they all have it in for the Country and its People by importing more haters.
December 30, 2025
[John] Redwood, which ever way it is spun it is not just 2TK and Team, not just Labour, its the whole of Parliaments that has got its moral compass so screwed they cant even tell you why they are in Parliament and what their job is – but thank-you for the money from were ever that came from. I think they think they are paying themselves and it is not the taxpayer so responsible to personal ego alone
December 30, 2025
He was released earlier this year after lobbying from senior figures including Jonathan Powell, Sir Keir’s national security adviser.
He is not advising on UK Security I hope
December 30, 2025
From the Telegraph
“Britain has attracted the lowest level of investment of the G7 nations this year, in a blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s ambitions to boost growth.
Investment by the Government and businesses in the UK as a percentage of GDP stood at just 18.6pc in the three months to September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
It means investment in Britain was even lower than in Germany, which is currently in the grip of its longest period of stagnation since the Second World War.”
Why is that surprised when those that earn are kicked out, people & industry. Those that save, savings create investment flows are taxed out of existence. The Government and Parliament is fighting the hardworking people and the nation by throwing their money down the drain
December 30, 2025
Starmer is not interested in growth, lies constantly via others that is a target, when social and economic destruction is his mission.
December 30, 2025
Quite so!
December 30, 2025
This Labour government under Starmer has been a calamity for our country. Lies, broken pledges, tax increases piled onto working people and businesses. Policies exposed as failures, our border wide open with huge numbers of overseas migrants entering illegally imposing huge burdens on local authorities, NHS and other institutions. Little or no thought by Home Officials given to local people when seeking migrant accommodation. Police have abandoned their duty to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour, whilst similarly show little or no interest in traffic policing. DEI abounds the Civil Service, NHS, policing and many other institutions. Our streets like our country generally are a mess, dirty, overgrown with weeds and roads festooned with potholes. Individual human rights trump everything with little or no focus on personal responsibility. This Prime Minister revels in overseas trips meeting and hugging fellow leaders rather than concentrating on the interest and concerns of local people. This situation cannot be allowed to continue.
December 30, 2025
The PM’s airmiles has been matched by his Special Representative for Climate, Rachel Kyte, who has herself flown 150,000 miles this year, equivalant to 6 times round the planet. They know that increasing atmospheric CO2 does not cause global temperature to rise.
December 30, 2025
The King appoints and still holds the power to prorogue.Of course he won’t.Today’s BIG NEWS
announcement New Years Honours.Gongs “EMPIRE” from BEM (lowest of the plebs)to DBE/KBE.
When did we last have an empire?What we do have is a cherished COMMONWEALTH and that’s
where we must(alongside USA-who value it)concentrate.
December 30, 2025
I’m quite certain they won’t.
But sadly there’s little credible alternative available. The British Electorate however will work it out and come through on the end, possibly not in my lifetime however
December 30, 2025
“A message for 2026”:
The final paragraph in energy consultant, Kathryn Porter’s, Watt-Logic Blog today headed ‘Offshore pipeline closure risk: the hidden threat to GB energy security’:
“This Labour Government is not just sleepwalking into disaster by forcing the UKCS (UK Continental Shelf – gas from the North Sea & East Irish Sea) into premature decline, it is racing towards it. And for what? Because we’re not reducing gas consumption by reducing North Sea output, we’re simply replacing domestic production with more carbon intensive imports. Irrational ideology is putting our energy security at risk, undermining affordability, increasing real world emissions, and hard-wiring vulnerability into a system that already operates close to its physical limits.”
December 30, 2025
“Worse still is the way the Prime Minister spends much of his time abroad giving money, territory and our rights to self government away.”
Yes, but will we even know what’s happening when government/civil service collude with the judiciary to hide the worst from us using super-injunctions?