The U.K. does have a deindustrialising policy

One of the main reasons the  US is a lot better off than the U.K. and growing much faster is the UK’s self harm policies in the name of net zero. Under President Trump the US increased its output of oil and gas by 50%, adding plenty of extra tax revenue and well paid jobs. Even under President Biden more oil and gas licences were allowed and output went up a bit more. Both Presidents put America first and encouraged much more US based manufacture by tax breaks and subsidies. As a result the USA was able to save Europe over the Ukraine crisis, sending LNG from its own surplus to replace Russian gas. Meanwhile the current U.K. government has

1 Banned all new oil and gas exploration

2 Delayed or blocked opening up new oil and gas reserves about to be developed

3 Increased high windfall and corporation taxes on domestic oil and gas to ensure remaining investment is throttled

4. Strengthened emission trading, carbon taxing and high company  tax regime and put up managed energy prices to make high energy using business in U.K. very uncompetitive

5 Allowed policy mix to lead to closure of Grangemouth refinery to make us more dependent on imported oil products

6. Confirmed inherited policies and approved closure of all remaining  steel blast furnaces

7. Failed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generation then

8. Delayed decision on which bidder will take forward work for a fleet of new smaller nuclear stations

9. Brought forward ban on all petrol and diesel car sales to 2030 and failed to remove fines for unrealistic inherited targets. Plant closures now following.

10. Failed to find a buyer for Britishvolt giga battery project which had entered administration

11. Unconcerned at hostility of policy mix to ceramics, cement, paper, glass, aluminium, petrochemicals and plastics manufacture in U.K. Likes the  import model.

Policy needed  amendment to promote industry when they came to office. Instead Miliband’s sole preoccupation with domestically produced CO 2 has made the U.K.uniquely  hostile to high energy using industry. It is no good the  Industry Secretary saying he doesn’t agree with deindustrialising when that is his government’s  policy. It is a tragedy for the U.K. It will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.

 

 

79 Comments

  1. Ian wragg
    December 4, 2024

    You have to realise John, it’s nothing to do with CO2 it’s the Marxist philosophy to destroy capitalism. By destroying industry and expanding the public sector the goals of Marxism will be met.
    Massage immigration loved by the uniparty will accelerate our demise by bankrupting the welfare state.
    This is a plan which has been long in preparation and which Milibrain and 2TK know they only have 4 more years to implement.
    Our only salvation is for Trump together with Nigel to blow the lid off what is no longer a conspiracy theory but a fact.
    I see another high profile tory has joined Reform. As the Speccy reports the Ravens are leaving the Tower.

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    1. Peter Wood
      December 4, 2024

      Don’t fret, the Great Starmer has the solution — we have Great British Energy for all our power needs, we have Great British Railways for our transportation. No doubt this is only the start of a great vision for a new economic paradise, overseen by our new Dear Leader, whose benevolence and brilliant intellect will deliver happiness to all.

      (Just getting my thoughts on record for insurance when the full takeover comes….)

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      1. Berkshire Alan
        December 4, 2024

        Peter, they may even take over Thames Water as well !!!!!

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    2. Donna
      December 4, 2024

      +1
      Yes, it’s deliberate. UN Agenda 2030 is basically a plan to impose global Socialism.

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      1. Lifelogic
        December 4, 2024

        Seems so. If energy costs in the UK were 1/3 of current – as in the USA and as they could v. easily be with Net Zero and the vast market rigging ditched the. how much would that take of prices of energy and every other product?

        My rough estimate is that about 20% could come off retail prices on average on almost everything. Food, cars, building costs, oil, gas, electricity, fertiliser, paint, furniture, the internet, healthcare, hotels, drinks, cleaning products,
 literally almost everything. But Zealot Ed is in the way with his and May’s mad new religion.

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    3. Lifelogic
      December 4, 2024

      Indeed.

      We need energy costs to be about 1/3 of current levels as they are in the USA. We need to stop rigging the energy markets, car markets, heat pump and boiler markets


      Miliband is a deluded zealot, but then Claire Coutinho and Kemi are just the same still pro-net zero just a bit more slowly. Still sitting on the fence.

      Thank goodness Trump is a climate realist and a covid “Vaccine” realist. Has Sunak corrected his lie to the house about Covid vaccines being unequivocally safe yet? Why then are the government so reluctant to reveal the raw statistics suitably broken down so easy to prove if they wanted to? Just as they are so reluctant to break down the crime statistics by migrants status and ethnicity?

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      1. Lifelogic
        December 4, 2024

        Lack of cheap on demand energy is also dangerous for our defence as well as wrecking the economy.

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    4. glen cullen
      December 4, 2024

      I must agree with you Ian

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    5. Denis Cooper
      December 4, 2024

      Alternatively it is about CO2 in the sense that some people want to take us back to the Stone Age before mankind learned to control fire. For Europe that could have been about a quarter of a million years ago:

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3069174/

      “On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe”

      “The emergence of stone tool manufacture and the control of fire are undoubtedly the two most significant events in the technological evolution of early humans. Although stone tool use and manufacture were regular activities from at least 2.6 million y ago (1), the timing of the human control of fire is a controversial issue (2), with some claims for regular fire use by early hominins in Africa at ∌1.6 million y ago (3–5) …”

      But later for Europe.

      Those who view mankind as a disease infesting the planet would prefer us not to exist at all.

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    6. Original Richard
      December 4, 2024

      IW :

      Absolutely correct. The false CAGW and its “solution”, Net Zero, was initiated by the Communists to destroy the democratic West. It was then taken up by Stalin’s useful idiots and grifters. The whole science of climate has been totally corrupted by the vast sums of money made available. If Trump cannot end this madness then it will only end with a terrible event ad the loss of many lives.

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    7. Sharon
      December 4, 2024

      You put that better than me, Ian!

      Our government has bought into the great reset, hook, line and sinker!

      BTW Nigel Farage has co-founded Action on World Health to challenge The WHO!

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  2. Ian wragg
    December 4, 2024

    Just a thought, John. What if the rest of Europe follow the iport model so loved by these idiots in Westminster. Where will all the food and raw materials come from because India and China won’t be able to supply them and we’ll have no money to buy them

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    1. Mitchel
      December 4, 2024

      Not only will India and China not be able to supply them,they will be consuming them in ever increasing quantities themselves.With BRICS members trading increasingly with themselves and in their own currencies,how much will find its way on to ‘world markets’ in future.

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  3. agricola
    December 4, 2024

    As you itemise, Labour is out to de-industrialise the United Kingdom with the same determination that Arthur Bennet of Bomber Command applied to Germany. The only positive note is that their programme contains the elements of their self destruction. They are the flat earthers returned in a space and cyber age, and as such, totally irrelevant to the future of GB Ltd.

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    1. Narrow Shoulders
      December 4, 2024

      Seems very Dr Beeching

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    2. miami.mode
      December 4, 2024

      Gordon Bennett! Don’t you mean Arthur Harris.

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    3. Ian B
      December 4, 2024

      @agricola – – I would suggest to you it was Mrs May, her Parliament, her Laws that have been fully embraced by all those that followed her. They have all continued by choice the to de-industrialise the United Kingdom. Not one has thought about the damage, the alternatives and at the end of the day where does money come from( Oh I forgot Governments have got their 70 year high tax and borrowings by taking it from those that used to work – they see that as earnings, their earnings. The fact that the resource by Government decree is receding doesn’t figure)

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  4. Wanderer
    December 4, 2024

    Deindusrialisation is not unique to the UK. Look at Germany, too. It’s not just misguided and innefectual anti-CO2 policies here; there’s also I’m sure some foreign influence in the mix.

    In the US the neocons want to isolate Europe from Russia, and big oil likes us to be dependent on their US hydrocarbons, not Russia’s.

    While these powerful foreign interests generally oppose a rapprochement in Europe (and particulary any resumption of Russian energy supplies, as articulated pre-Nordstream by Biden and others), our politicians will obediently keep to deindustrialisation. Why? Some are CO2 believers, some want to please the US, some may profit from the policy.

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    1. Lifelogic
      December 4, 2024

      Indeed.

      JR says “It will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.” It Obviously will do this not the a bit more CO2 is a bad thing. But it also hugely i’m creases the dost of energy, freezes pensioners, increases the cost of food (which is also energy) and decreases out ability to compete and to defend ourselves.

      The policy followed by Cameron, May, Boris, Gove, Sunak, Stamer and the deranged Miliband is insane. But also essentially supported by Kemi and Coutino who should know rather better.

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  5. David Peddy
    December 4, 2024

    Incoherent , counterproductive, chaotic ineptitude

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  6. Peter
    December 4, 2024

    Never heard of Arthur Bennet.

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    1. Dave Andrews
      December 4, 2024

      Arthur Harris?

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    2. IanT
      December 4, 2024

      My Dad worked for someone called Arthur Harris – also known as “Bomber” .
      He was a Flight Engineer in Bomber Command, did two tours (50 ‘operational’ flights) and somehow survived.
      He never received a singel medal for his service & courage. I’ve often told my sons that we are lucky to be here!

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      1. Lynn Atkinson
        December 4, 2024

        There is a statue to Bomber Harris unveiled by the Queen Mother. I believe he emigrated to South Af4ica after the war, so hostile to his winning strategy were the founders of WOKE.

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  7. Mick
    December 4, 2024

    One of the main reasons the US is a lot better off than the U.K. and growing much faster is the UK’s self harm policies in the name of net zero.
    I’ve been saying this for years labour/tories have taken us down the self-destruction route on net zero crap, it’s all about screwing Joe Public out of as much of our money they can and the sooner people wake up to this the better before Bob Geldof and Midge Ure go off to Africa to raise money for us with a new band aid single

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    1. glen cullen
      December 4, 2024

      The Saudi energy minister has said the world is currently going through a “reality check” on Net Zero and energy security. …..not in the UK

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    2. Ian B
      December 4, 2024

      @Mick – even if NetZero was a thing, not having earnings, wealth and viable alternatives is just plain suicide.

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      1. glen cullen
        December 4, 2024

        Country wide blackout to the whole of Cuba ….net-work at work

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      2. Lifelogic
        December 4, 2024

        Net zero is a thing it is a mad and evil religion. Anyone who really think CO2 is an effective world thermostat is obviously a deluded and dangerous nutter like Ed Miliband.

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  8. Peter
    December 4, 2024

    Growing unrest and subsequent violence will shortly put an end to all Labour policies. Then rebuilding will have to take place.

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    1. Ian wragg
      December 4, 2024

      Peter it can’t come soon enough

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    2. Lifelogic
      December 4, 2024

      See the “Kier Starmer is unfit to be Prime Minister” on David Starkey Talks video.

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    3. glen cullen
      December 4, 2024

      But only after 5 year due to The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

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      1. glen cullen
        December 4, 2024

        Amended
        The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022

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  9. Rod Evans
    December 4, 2024

    It is such a pity the previous Tory administration spent so much time fighting among themselves. Had they have behaved as a united Party it would have been possible to put in place an effective industrial and energy policy post Brexit.
    Sadly the infighting caused the nation to suffer eight years of stagnation and distraction. The policy to deindustrialise was established by the 2008 Climate Change Act introduced by Ed Miiband and endorsed by Theresa may when she appended the Net Zero legislation to it without any Parliamentary debate or vote, simply a statutory instrument. That legislation along with signing the UN protocol on Assisted Migration i December 2018 was the most destructive self harm ever delivered by a failing PM.
    Now having destroyed energy, destroyed manufacturing, they are coming after the countryside determined to destroy farming.
    Why did our MPs allow this self inflicted economic destruction to happen?

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  10. M.A.N.
    December 4, 2024

    ‘Failed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generation’.

    End use of existing gas fired power stations or just no new ones? Can you in layman’s terms describe what the situation will be in 2030, only 5 years away. Is no one in Whitehall concerned?

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  11. Sakara Gold
    December 4, 2024

    Well done to Miliband and his Labour party colleagues for moving the UK industrial base away from burning hugely expensive fossil fuels to cheap renewables.

    Three brand new gas-fired plants – Hirwaun Power in South Wales, Progress Power in Suffolk, and Millbrook in Buckinghamshire were expected to be operational by 1 October and add nearly one gigawatt of capacity to the national grid. They have been delayed for at least six months because there is insufficient grid capacity to take the electricity produced.

    Whose fault is it that the grid has not been sufficiently upgraded?

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  12. Sakara Gold
    December 4, 2024

    The Labour government has today announced re-nationalised three of the railway operating companies – South Western Railways, c2c and Greater Anglia. South Western Railways’ services will be the first to transfer into public ownership next year.

    Many folk concerned about sewage dumping and contamination of the drinking water supply (no less than seven times this year) would have preferred re-nationalisation of the water companies

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    1. Martin in Bristol
      December 4, 2024

      Sakara
      How quickly after nationalising the water industry would the problems you outline be sorted in comparison to the current set up?

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  13. Narrow Shoulders
    December 4, 2024

    Domestically produced CO2

    Carbon accounting hiding all the rest that we use.

    Carbon is either bad or it is not, if it is bad, hiding it using carbon accounting should not be possible. That is just wealth transfer, I can’t imagine too many other countries allowing that.

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    1. glen cullen
      December 4, 2024

      CO2 is god given, its essential for plant life and therefore human life …..who is man (politicians) to say otherwise

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    2. Lifelogic
      December 4, 2024

      Carbon is good you can burn it gives you lots of heat and electricity and it leaves CO2 which is also good. It is beneficial plant, tree and crop food.

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  14. Magelec
    December 4, 2024

    What sort of jobs will many of our young people do when we have so little industry? Those that cannot go on to higher education.

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  15. Sakara Gold
    December 4, 2024

    Trump and his advisors are publicly and privately floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future – and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.

    Capitulation to the war criminal Putin’s maximalist demands would merely allow him to re-group, re-arm and prepare the next phase of Russia’s conquest of eastern Europe.

    After forcing a Ukraine surrender, disarmament and absorption into Russia after three years of war involving hundreds of thousands of casualties fighting for their independence, nobody will believe any American security assurances again.

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  16. Bryan Harris
    December 4, 2024

    The U.K. does have a deindustrialising policy

    Yes – this has been obvious for some time now, although it has been largely ignored as a topic of interest.

    This government tells us it wants high production and a thriving economy, but their actions tell us they are using double-speak. They do the opposite of what they promise.

    Apart from the actions by HMG that deny us adequate energy and close factories, the excessive taxation hits businesses and individuals such that we see town centres dying because less money is available to families to have a decent lifestyle. How many are now in real poverty because of HMG dogma?

    We shouldn’t be surprised at any of this because HMG have already laid out the full path to deindustrialisation. We should though be fully analysing and discussing the blueprint of this betrayal – it’s all available on the web. Much of which is wishful thinking, however it does mean HMG means business in closing us down.

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  17. MPC
    December 4, 2024

    All this would have largely continued had the Conservatives remained in office. Most elected politicians are part of an insidious non rational ‘green’ ideology. The indoctrination is being applied even to children too. I am working with a major local authority in deep financial trouble. It’s ’taking net Zero forward’ team has just been proud to announce the success of of a Young People’s COP 29 Debate where schools throughout the city competed with one another to debate the best way to take forward the abolition of fossil fuel use.

    The lack of adult debate in the televised media and a balanced education for UK children all contribute to the abolition of evidence based policy. Deindustrialisation is already well established and, in the absence of major unrest, the current government is merely continuing with it to its completion.

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  18. Richard1
    December 4, 2024

    Yes Labour are turning out to be even worse than expected. Labour governments always do huge long term damage, the extent of which often only becomes apparent years after they’ve left office – the nationalisations and statism of the Attlee govt, the over spending over taxing, inflation and submission to union rule by the Wilson and Callaghan govts. The deficit and financial crash, botched bank bailout, sale of gold, devolution and EU mission creep of the Blair brown govt.

    Unfortunately we will all pay a very heavy price for this current govt. Milliband might be the most obviously dreadful of them, but it seems they are all signed up to the deindustrialization and anti-wealth, anti-business agenda.

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  19. Sir Joe Soap
    December 4, 2024

    It’s self-assured destruction.
    Started by the Tories and finished off by Labour.
    Imagine what this lot will do in a couple of years when they realise the game’s up and Reform are waiting in the wings with a strong poll lead. Total annihilation.
    What do we do? Stay here and fight or quit the country for somewhere warm or more sensibly run?

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  20. David Andrews
    December 4, 2024

    The greater the destructive impact of Labour’s conscious acts of industrial vandalism are, the more likely will be their oblivion at the next election. Like the Conservatives they will become 20% parties – in fact they already are in opinion polls. The real test is whether Reform will (1) be able to build it’s ground operation in the constituencies quickly enough to benefit and (2) develop a compelling policy platform to appeal to voters and businesses alike that will enable an economic renaissance.

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  21. Donna
    December 4, 2024

    It isn’t the UK Government’s policy: it’s the UN’s policy (Agenda 2030), filtered down through the WEF and the EU’s Environment Policy which we are obliged to conform to because of the Brexit “deal.”

    Europe is to be de-industrialised to deliver the UN’s “levelling” down policy.

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  22. Berkshire Alan
    December 4, 2024

    Sadly the only opposition is Reform, all other Parties seem to agree with this madness.
    We will eventually have levelling down, and redistribution of poverty if the situation does not rapidly change.

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    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 4, 2024

      Who would be their Chancellor?

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  23. Paul Freedman
    December 4, 2024

    The government has been rinsed by the climate body and they look like idiots. The climate body have not provided any model at all to evidence their net zero 2050 claim despite decades of researching the subject.
    It means they cannot evidence net zero nor its need by the year 2050.
    Their real motive is to advance living in a ‘green’ world and they advocate this NZ2050 farce to scare people into it. Thank God for President Trump and the Republican Party

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  24. William Tarver
    December 4, 2024

    When there is mass unemployment with no industry and we’re all relying on state benefits with hyperinflation, Millipede et al will sit back with a contented sigh and claim “Job done”.

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  25. Christine
    December 4, 2024

    I spend a couple of months in Florida USA every year and there is little evidence of Net Zero. They still have large gas-guzzling cars, very few EVs and virtually no charging points. Our politicians need to wake up to the fact that they are putting our country on a suicidal mission that few other countries, and certainly not the most polluting ones, are following. They will go down in history as the biggest idiots who destroyed their own country, for no benefit, without a shot being fired. Why voters don’t see this is a mystery to me.

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  26. Old Albion
    December 4, 2024

    It all started many years ago under the policy of Globalisation. That’s how we ended up with formerly UK companies being owned by foreigners. That did immense damage to industry and the workforce.
    Now Silliband is determined to sacrifice all UK remaining industry on the alter of saving <1% of Global Co2 emissions.
    However he's too stupid to understand spending Trillions on this folly will economically destroy the UK. It will create more mass unemployment and ultimately, achieve nothing. As the big Co2 producers will release even more as they produce the goods we need for us.

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  27. Martin Griffiths
    December 4, 2024

    I’ve always felt that those politicians demanding a Net Zero life for citizens should live one for 5 years before inflicting their cult on the rest of us.

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  28. Paul W
    December 4, 2024

    Talking of self harm policies our phobia in the UK for protecting species and habitats such as voles,bats,mice is reducing the amount of industrial land available because now we have to identify what habitats are on the land, and under the Environment Act which came into force this year have to put aside an amount of land to continue to accomodate species,which is known as Bio Diversity Net Gain[BNG]
    In effect we are foregoing valuable industrial land and putting employment/jobs second to protecting habitats.

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  29. G
    December 4, 2024

    Great piece. Tragedy is the the word…

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  30. RichardP
    December 4, 2024

    Strange isn’t it how concerned the High Priests of Globalism were about the future of farming and the motor industry when we were voting for Brexit. Now they are happy to sacrifice both industries, and our entire industrial future, in pursuit of the greenhouse gas fantasy.

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  31. Ian B
    December 4, 2024

    The left don’t quite understand what an economy is and why it is needed. First and foremost an economy creates the funds to handle the future. If you cancel the ability to earn, you cancel the future. Making things, selling things – earns.

    Everyone that has sat in Number 10 and Parliament this century, more so since the creation of Mrs May, has ensured the UK has been on a downward spiral for no other reason than the need to cancel, to remove the way for the Country to earn. So the UK can no longer respond to events.

    When you feel the need to change direction first you need the money, the wealth and then you need the viable sustainable alternatives. The UK Parliament with its religious fever and creed has fought against common sense and logic, it has chosen the path of destruction. They haven’t even been able to step back and consider why is the rest of the World marching on while the UK declines. They haven’t noticed the one big difference between themselves and the rest of the World – the rest of the Word is growing because they haven’t cancelled their future. We are talking of UK only policy/Laws that none of our competitors would dream of engaging in. Parliament is full of Walter Mitty characters all living in a dreamworld that they will be provided for by some unknown power. When the only power is the wealth of the people and their ability to make things happen and provide – but Parliament its MPs have cancelled that, they refuse to listen, hear and work with those that ‘do’.

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  32. Stred
    December 4, 2024

    2 nuclear stations to close by 2028.
    2 more by 2030
    1 left and maybe the European Pressurised Reactors at Hinkley might be running by 2030, having been a disaster in France and Finland.
    No new gas stations ordered and most of those running about to conk out by 2030.
    Wind generation to be doubled.
    We are now paying towards a billion pa to wind farms not to generate when it’s windy.
    But smart meters will report every half hour so that we can be billed at different rates and cook and have the washing machine on at night. Mad Ed thinks this is all going to be fine. Who needs jobs in industry when we can all be green zealots buying Chinese cars made with coal power ?

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    1. a-tracy
      December 4, 2024

      I despair that most of these decisions were made by Tories.

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  33. Lynn Atkinson
    December 4, 2024

    Germany’s Schultz went to Ukraine and was taken to see some of the soldiers whose devastated and broken bodies just about maintain life. He was visibly shocked.
    His Finance Secretary, the Green Harbek has told Germany, screaming in its deindustrialization death throes, to ‘calm down – Germany remains the 4th biggest economy in the world’.
    It transpires that these Globalists have no concept of reality. They believed that they could fund a ‘clean, happy, victorious war’, and they believe they can clean up the world and get rid of all the hard work and dirty industries whilst having no detrimental effect on income and provision.
    These are magical thinkers, narcissists who have done more damage than any other political generation in history. We are literally on the road paved with ‘good intentions’ – which will be their unsuccessful Defence.
    Two good things about the bankrupting of The UK:
    1. all the ‘new British’ might well go home!
    2. The State sector will be cut to the bone.

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    1. Mitchel
      December 4, 2024

      Tucker Carlson’s been in Moscow this week,taping a long interview with Sergey Lavrov;it should be released in a few days time.

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  34. Geoffrey Berg
    December 4, 2024

    I agree with the blog but British governments and political parties are allergic to intelligence – so we are Cassandras (foreseeing and telling the truth but never being believed).

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  35. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    “It is a tragedy for the U.K. It will bizarrely increase world C0 2 given all the extra fossil fuel expended on the imports.”

    This argument cuts no ice with either the Marxists driving the false CAGW claim, or their deluded useful idiots or the grifters because they all say that Net Zero is necessary to save the planet. Anyway, according to the tax-payer funded government UK FIRES report “Absolute Zero”, all shipping is to be banned. So they say there will be no imports.

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  36. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    The lack of energy and industry will cause impoverishment and the rationing of energy, food and travel.

    But even more dangerous to our nation is the transition to the electrification of everything.

    Should we have another winter like that of 1962/63, there is no way that freezing wind turbines will be able to supply any power and since electrical energy cannot be stored, unlike coal, gas and oil, there will be no power at all for many days. Our National and local grids will be plum targets for hacking attacks and could even be totally destroyed by a Carrington event. There is no way that our depleted armed services can protect hundreds of square miles of North Sea wind turbines or hundreds of miles of undersea cabling from drone attacks.

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  37. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    “Delayed decision on which bidder will take forward work for a fleet of new smaller nuclear stations”

    Or any major nuclear programme. The fact that nuclear, the only low CO2 emitting source of power which is affordable and reliable, has been deliberately ignored is another proof that there is no climate danger from anthropogenic emissions of CO2.

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  38. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    “Failed to commission new gas fired power stations which previous government was looking at, and altered policy to end their use by 2030 to decarbonise generation then”

    It may well be the government’s intention to phase out all gas fired power stations by 2030. But this will against NESO’s advice in their recent report “Clean Power 2030” to continue with 35 GW of gas fired power to 2030. Not that 35 GW will be sufficient and either imported power or rolling blackouts will still be required to prevent a collapse of the National Grid when the renewables fail.

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  39. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    “Strengthened emission trading, carbon taxing and high company tax regime and put up managed energy prices to make high energy using business in U.K. very uncompetitive”

    The climate Marxists are still falsely saying that renewables are 9 times cheaper than gas. This is because:
    – They do not cost for the intermittency/unreliability of renewables. The irony is that renewable power cannot exist without gas generated backup unless we are to have any energy system where we do not know if we have power from one minute to the next

    – They use 2012 prices for renewables, today the prices are double.
    – They use the Ukraine war spiked gas prices.
    – They compare renewables with hydrocarbons with carbon taxes added, which means that they can always make renewables appear cheaper in any future predictions
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  40. Keith from Leeds
    December 4, 2024

    It takes a lot to get British people angry and demonstrating on the streets. But the Labour Government might just trigger enough anger to cause it. In less than 6 months, they have upset the farmers, business people of all sizes and kinds of businesses, pensioners and many ordinary people. At this rate, they will create the spark that ignites the anger of these different groups and who knows what will happen.
    The nonsense of Net Zero/CO2/Global Warming/Climate Change will destroy this Labour Government. The only question is when and how much damage they will have done by the time they are kicked out.

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  41. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    “The U.K. does have a deindustrialising policy”

    Not the UK but Parliament and the Civil Service using the BBC and the government department, The Met Office, to broadcast extreme climate propaganda, often using “models” that predict events that never happen but are designed to frighten or at the very least provide false information as they are never corrected later.

    Almost 85% of all Met Office sites are NOT deemed acceptable for climate data reporting purposes by the World Meteorological Organisation and International Standards Organisation stated requirements.

    79% are junk status :

    49% class 4 +- 2 degrees C
    30% class 5 +- 5 degrees C

    Furthermore of the 302 Met Office sites quoted, over one third (103) do NOT even exist. Their data is entirely made up from measurements from other sites.

    This is in addition to the positioning and use of thermocouples to measure temperature which can record 1 minute highs when jet aircraft pass by as happened with the highest ever temperature recorded at RAF Coningsby in July 2022.

    There is no way the Met Office can be relied upon for climate data.

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  42. MBJ
    December 4, 2024

    And what happens when global emissions go from a higher concentration tova lower one.!

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  43. JayCee
    December 4, 2024

    Just continuing what was started by the previous PM, and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that… No different from the Party that was in power for 14 years.

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    1. a-tracy
      December 4, 2024

      The unions of all those people in those sectors seem very quiet and compliant too don’t they.

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  44. glen cullen
    December 4, 2024

    Why didn’t Kemi ask at PMQs today :-
    Why is Vauxhall closing at Luton
    Why net-zero
    Why business taxes are high
    Why is the cost of employing someone high
    Why is it impossible to get a doctors appointment outside working hours and why do you have to make an appointment that same day at 8am
    Why is business rates so high

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  45. Original Richard
    December 4, 2024

    99% of Parliament wants Net Zero. The Civil Service, quangos, regulators, institutions, academia and the judiciary want Net Zero. The MSM, led by the BBC are desperate for this great leap forward to save the planet As a result there is next to zero discussion allowed.

    Given this and that Net Zero will bring impoverishment, the rationing of food, energy and travel plus additional restrictions, should not the PM allow a peoples vote to decide if Britain wants to be the UN’s futile gesture?

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  46. Barbara
    December 4, 2024

    ‘ Get ready for another crackdown on climate dissent, says Chris Morrison

    The British Government is one of the main financial backers of a new international campaign designed to suppress online climate science scepticism ahead of next year’s ‘make-or-break’ COP30 in Brazil. Run by the United Nations and UNESCO, the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change was signed off at the recent G20 Summit in Brazil. Part of its remit will fund non-profit outfits rooting out so-called disinformation and promoting ‘public awareness campaigns’. Commenting on the campaign, the UN’s global communications flack [?] Melissa Fleming noted that a growing number of people are waking up to the harms caused by climate disinformation and “toxic information ecosystems in general”. She suggested that a global movement for “information integrity” is “gaining momentum”.’

    Daily Sceptic

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