The first policy to change is the ban on new oil and gas exploration and development. Importing instead means no well paid ,jobs in the UK. It means large tax revenues on producing fossil fuels goes to the government of the country we buy from, not to the UK Treasury. More CO 2 is generated, especially when importing gas as LNG. That requires large amounts of energy to compress and cool it, keep it cool, transport by diesel ship and then convert it back to gas.
The second is to consult on a way we could reinstate exploration and production onshore. There can be strict rules about drilling well away from homes and towns, about concealing from view the well head workings as at Wytch Farm in Dorset, and community participation in the revenues for those closest to the development or owning land above the reservoir. No other country leaves such an important resource untapped. We could extract it with less environmental impact than the gas we import imposes on somewhere else.
The third is to remove the ban on producing more diesel and petrol cars in 2030, and to remove the intermediate targets and penalties on companies making too any of them in the run up to 20230. This is massive self harm, undermining our industry and leading to more imports after 2030 as people will still want to buy diesel and petrol cars, and will buy nearly new if they are banned from buying straight off the production line. Overseas companies will have a great market opportunity to send us new cars with whatever the minimum mileage is to qualify as second hand in the UK on the clock. No government can stop us buying and selling second hand diesel and petrol cars.
The fourth is stop paying guaranteed prices for new wind and solar projects, but to let them bid into the system as other generators do. The government should end renewable subsidies. Adding more heavily subsidised renewables with high guaranteed prices makes electricity dearer, not cheaper. It adds to the need for very expensive expansion of the grid to handle the interruptible power often coming from many miles away from the consumers. We need more reliable gas power stations in the areas where most people live and businesses are located.
The fifth is remove any idea of banning gas boilers and subsidising heat pumps for residential property. Gas boilers usually remain the cheapest solution to install, and we lack the extra electricity to allow major switching to electricity for home heating.
October 5, 2025
All very nice john but falling on cloth ears in government. The motor industry is all but finished and it will be too expensive to resurrect. Alk uk mass producers are foreign and will go the same way as Honda
Producing in Japan and exporting to the UK. Milibrain is positively ecstatic at the loss of more industry in Britain.
Revenues lost by the Treasury which are enormous will have to be clawed back by taxing EVs which will reduce demand and be self defeating.
There is no chance of any company being interested in spending millions to set up fracking and then being taxed at 78% only to fund a future government re banning it.
We are too far down the plughole to recover. I just hope when judgement day comes as it surely will, the perpetrators of this national sabotage will be brought to book.
October 6, 2025
+ 1
The Sunday Telegraph reports that Johnson has admitted that “he got a bit Carried away” (pun intended) with the Net Zero nonsense.
Johnson “said he got “carried away” by the idea that renewable energy sources could replace fossil fuels and, as a result, electricity is “too expensive for ordinary people”. He warned against “junking net zero altogether” but said Labour’s target of making the UK carbon neutral by 2050 should be pushed back.
Labour’s target? No, no, no, no, no. It’s the Not-a-Conservative-Party’s target. And HE pushed it as hard as he possibly could, authorising Alok Sharma to blow up two of our remaining 3 coal-fired power stations and celebrating the destruction of our energy security.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/05/boris-johnson-too-far-too-fast-net-zero/
October 5, 2025
Sir John,
Whilst I agree with you fully, I suspect it will not happen because, as in common with many so called government projects, too many people are making too much money, out of it.
October 5, 2025
All sensible suggestions but Ed the Labour party and Ed are mad zealots!
So Kemi has finally been dragged to half sensible positions on the ECHR, immigration and Net Zero after nearly 12 months – if she ever gains power. But why after 14 years of the Tories not even TRYING to delivering as promised why would voters trust her?
I suspect she has about a 10% chance of still being leader at the next GE, about a 1% change of winning a full majority and about a 0.1% chance of doing this AND actually delivering on these issues.
Even if reform will a full majority they will struggle to deliver given the forces wages against them.
Reply Silly made up odds. Politics is very volatile and 3 years is a long time.
October 5, 2025
What are the odds that the next election will be in 2029?
The way the Labour government is messing up the economy, they might have to throw in the towel early.
What happens when the government still wedded to vast borrowing finds the money markets charge unsustainable interest rates? Reeves will have to resign or be sacked when she refuses to rule out spending cuts. Her replacement will fare no better and the markets will spit him/her out as well. The turkeys (Labour backbenchers) won’t want to vote for Christmas, but their position will look increasingly untenable whereupon they will have to call a general election and renew their manifesto.
Reply When a previous government was forced to borrow from the IMF and issued debt at 15.5% it did not offer a general election but struggled on for the 5 years
October 5, 2025
Just my estimates I agree. I am not against Kemi but she has an impossible jobs after Cameron through to Sunak. Currently almost invisible and third (at best) in the polls. As an engineer she should surely know that Net Zero is not remotely desirable, vastly expensive and with no net positive effects anyway. She should state this. Plus why does it take 337 days to decide to promise leave the ECHR when it is so obviously needed to control immigration levels! No it is not a “silver bullet” but is a vital first step!
October 5, 2025
The betting odd imply only an 18% chance Kemi will be leader at the next General Election
October 5, 2025
They say a week is a long time in politics. I think this week will be particularly interesting. Badenoch has thrown down the gauntlet in advance of the Conference and made clear her direction of travel. Needless to say there have already been howls of protest from the Wets, led by Baroness May. There are several possible outcomes. The dissenters may suppress their opposition for now, preferring to stay in the party and undermine the new line from within. Or they may try to depose Badenoch (perhaps she might get her retaliation in first by removing the whip). Or those who agree the new line might themselves split off, potentially joining Reform (which would give a boost to them with some more policy detail, parliamentary firepower and experience of dealing with the blob).
In any event the internal split will be there for all to see.
Reply All parties have big splits. Labour left against Reeves spending plans, departure of Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe from Reform, LibDems battle with Greens etc
October 6, 2025
Indeed. Your Party is already a split in Labour, although they seem to draw the support of those who had left Labour to infiltrate the Greens: there is clearly a large faction of Labour support e.g. from the unions who want Miliband sacked although within the party he is said to be the most popular senior figure. Advance is ideologically evangelist, while having a very limited support base. Reform is internally going through the big debate on whether to be socialists with big nationalisation programmes or whether to let markets work. But this week is the Conservative conference with the divisions on display.
I’ve just watched a Bright Blue session on consumer energy protection which was full of deluded nonsense (the most intelligent remarks came from the invited Guardian journalist who has contacts among the current cabinet who admitted heat pumps are uneconomic and not going anywhere). I also watched Claire Coutinho’s speech – just light polite applause – despite a well set out logical argument in support of cancelling carbon tax and cutting ROC subsidies as well as CCA repeal, which are important first steps towards lowering energy cost.
October 5, 2025
You say “Gas boilers usually remain the cheapest solution to install” also the cheapest to run as gas so much cheaper than electricity despite market rigging, most convenient, most quiet, cheaper to maintain, can heats a house v. quickly so can be left off when out or on holiday, does not require huge electricity grid investment (the gas (grid is already there) or large radiator, can provide hot water instantly without a tank, copes far better with excess winter demand… so better in every possible way then!
October 5, 2025
There is a very long way to go (and much more pain I’m afraid) before we get to the next General Election LL
Whatever the polls say today, they cannot predict the distant future. A week is a long time in politics, never mind nearly four years. I have no objection to Kemi Badenoch’s general direction of travel, although we may differ on the detail. She has a difficult path to navigate, with many “Conservatives” in Westminster circles objecting to both her policies and beliefs. I heard a commentator state that this was some 25% of her MPS. I would venture that more than 25% would be very comfortable supporting Lib Dem policies wrt Net-Zero & Europe. Hopefully, they will defect to Ed Davey just before the next GE and can be replaced with real conservatives.
So I was encouraged this morning when Kemi stated that if any existing/prospective Conservative MP did not fully support the Conservative Party Manifesto (including ECHR changes) they should not stand at the next election. Hopefully, that manifesto will also include throwing out all (and any) Net-Zero policies that make Zero-Sense. I also look forward nearer the time, to any prospective Conservative MP in my area standing up and committing 100% to the manifesto they are being elected on.
However, I didn’t hear that from the Conservative candidate standing here last time (just homilies about local issues) and I wasn’t at all suprised when she didn’t get elected. If the Conservative Party want my vote next time around, their candidate had better sound a lot more committed (and convincing) on these key national issues.
October 5, 2025
Kemi, in her speech today, didn’t even mention ‘brexit’ nor the repeal of EU laws
Reply It was a short introductory speech to launch the new immigration/ anti ECHR policy. She makes a longer speech at the end of Conference in the traditional Leader’s slot.,
October 6, 2025
She did mention it briefly as one of the things Conservatives had done in their 14 years: offer a referendum and implement the decision. Though I don’t think BRINO entirely qualifies as implementation.
October 5, 2025
Yes Sir JR all perfectly sensible. Unfortunately mad Ed Milliband and his chum Starmer ain’t listening.
One caveat: I also wish car manufaturers could carry on producing ICE vehicles with no end date. But we’re only five years from the ban and most car makers are already running down ICE production and moving to electric or even considering abandoning UK manufacture alltogether. If the ban were to be cancelled, would they or indeed could they go back to ICE?
October 5, 2025
Once again today we are exporting electricity at £13.45 per mwh and paying Orsted £200 to generate it. Thankyou Mr. Milibrains.
October 5, 2025
Yesterday there weren’t many takers for our surplus (basically only Norway which was at the centre of some weird circular trade Norway->Germany->Denmark->Norway). The result was that we paid out over £15m on system balancing and curtailed over 86GWh of wind – an average of over 3.5GW or more than the potential output of Hinkley Point (3.2GW).
October 5, 2025
as at 16:00hrs importing 15% energy from europe
October 5, 2025
+1 total lunacy! Then many millions on many days to pay wind farms switch off due to lack of grid capacity. When they gave the wind farms the huge subsidies and permissions did grid capacity not occur to them? Moronic, incompetent or just vested interests & corruption.
October 5, 2025
Aphra Brandreth MP, Lord Carlile, George Monbiot, Emma Reynolds MP on AnyQuestions with Alex Forsyth as chair.
So as usual with the BBC no one with sensible realist views on the climate scam. Gyles Brandreth’s daughter Aphra the nearest to a sensible view. Worst of all we have the chairwomen (a deluded politics graduate Portmouth?) chipping in with her daft BBC thing, climate alarmist views. She helpfully tells us Sharma, Zac Goldsmiths, Lord Gummer/Debden, Theresa May… were all conservatives – well they were in Cameron’s dire Con-Socialist Party I suppose!
October 5, 2025
Monbiot (for once in his life) did however say something sensible. He wanted more direct democracy a parliament by lottery ticket. Well they are unlikely to be any worse than Mojor, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris, Sunak, Two Tier’s governments. These Zoologist really should not far for the climate alarmist religion but they do even the usually sensible athiest(?) Richard Dawkins.
Sorry twice in his life he did (eventually and reluctantly) move to accepting more nuclear!
October 5, 2025
Sorry “should not FALL for the Climate Alarmist/Emergency religion.
October 5, 2025
All sensible but so what if the politics is not aligned and as we saw recently, a Kemi move was immediately pushed back by Theresa May. Fortunately and as we saw in the latest Czech elections, they are moving towards a more pragmatic outcome.
Starmer certainly doesn’t have the authority to curb Red Ed but economic needs might so I am expecting the next budget to set out changes, but ‘slowly’ to save Red Ed’s face.
One aspect to be careful about, whilst acknowledging current industry needs there, is clear evidence that big data centre investment, heads of agreement recently signed with Trump will be predicated on providing sufficient green energy and a lot of it.
All the hand wringers forget that the Net Zero drive is not only political, vast ‘ethical’ corporations are pushing it as well plus their shareholders, so if we want their business and I suggest they are the future, it will need a proper economic evaluation.
Currently the argument is binary. People on both sides need to grow up and find a third way.
October 5, 2025
” a Kemi move was immediately pushed back by Theresa May ”
Yes and this is going to be the main problem for Kemi. The “Broad Church” dogma has held sway in the Conservative Party for many years but that was back in the days of two-party politics. I’ve felt for a long time that many Conservative MPs were only there because they thought the CP offered better opportunties than the Lib Dems could.
However, we now live in a very different political world. Some former CP MPs have already moved ‘right’ to Reform but some may choose to move left, to the Lib Dems (their natural home). If Kemi’s intent (with her utterings today) is to force these issues, then I think she is correct to do so. The Conservative Party can be still be saved but not if it continues to rip itself apart intenally. The Conservatives don’t need a new Leader, they do need common cause. Without that unity, they will be dust…
Reply Mrs May can only disagree from the sidelines. Conservative policy on net zero has been decisively changed by the Leader
October 6, 2025
Mrs May will be just one of the voices whispering from the shadows Sir John. Like the acidic Anna Soubry (who appeared on Sky News last night) or that ancient dinosaur Michael Hezeltine (that the BBC like to drag out of his museum whenever they want to disparage the Tories). I don’t know any of these people personally (although I’m sure you do) but I have experienced ‘personal politics’ in my career and understand the motives behind it. Mrs Badenoch will need to watch her back, as I am certain she is only too well aware. The Conservative Party needs to decide if it ever wants to be relevant again.
October 5, 2025
Completely agree, so repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 and disband the Climate Change Committee. That said, many of your former conservative colleagues, those in the House of Lords, the Civil Service, in Quangos and other Institutions are still wedded to the nonsense of Net Zero 2050? How will this essential change in policy be successfully implemented, or should there be a national referendum?
October 5, 2025
It primarily means the blocking of the UK’s ability to have the money, the funds, the wealth to respond to a having a future.
None of the UK’s primary competitors have blocked their own means to earn.
This UK Parliament, its MPs, its government has taken the fight to the electorate. It is maliciously seeking the UK’s decline and in a vindictive way ensuring no one that follows them can respond and earn. The Punishment of a Nation in the hands of 650 freeloaders.
October 5, 2025
Miss-placed posting apologies
October 5, 2025
@Michael Saxton – From his first destructive outing Ed Milliband’s (Now called Red ED) as Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change in 2008, his thoughts and his ‘costs’ that have been known and adopted. The consequences of the destruction to be/and are being caused to the country were known.
We have numerous administrations since then all with the same knowledge of the ‘cost’ destruction to the UK they were doing all refusing to change direction
October 6, 2025
Start by removing the power of OFGEM and NESO and the CCC to centrally plan the system, granted by Shapps’ 2023 Energy Act which should be repealed. Replace with a new team in a Department of Cheap Energy, with a focus on how to emulate the French success in building a cheap nuclear grid, and how to bridge to get there using gas and perhaps even coal for diversity of supply. Halt the stranded asset investment in wind, solar, batteries, pylons and HVDC connections. Get oil and gas development going: plenty of good people now jobless who could enable that. Gut the ONR and put it under DCE with new people.
A bonus idea: those who lose their quango jobs should be employed in heat pump sales on £10k plus £500 per system. Most would soon give up, and learn how impractical the policy was.
October 5, 2025
Remove subsidies for EVs .
Remove subsidies for renewables- let the market decide
Cancel all carbon capture
October 5, 2025
Gets my vote
October 5, 2025
Sir John, your list of changes is all sensible stuff but could be seen as treating the symtoms of the problem rather than the cause.
We only need one action to put things right regarding energy policy.
We need to repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 and thus remove the Net Zero legislation appended to it from the statute book.
By doing that simple sovereign thing, which is something Parliament could do tomorrow, we would be free of the straight jacket wrapped around us by internationalism and foreign interests. Those external bodies have no care whatever for the wellbeing of Britain, outside of us being a cash cow.
Reply Just repealing the Act does not reverse all these policies. The present government is not going to repeal the Act. I did not support the Act.
October 5, 2025
Sir John, repealing the Act sends a clear message to the agencies pushing this Net Zero policy. They would quickly about turn and follow the new legal instruction. I accept there is a lot of work to do to change the direction of energy travel, but we have to start with the basics and then progress the policies you have outlined.
I have been racking by brain to try to remember the all embracing legislation that gave civil servants and quangos authority over government, you may be able to help me put a name to it.
October 5, 2025
The first job is to amend the 2019 SI that established the net zero target which can be done by declaring a new target already l9ng ago surpassed, using the previous in the Climate Change Act to do so in reflection if new scientific understanding. The CCA can be tackled later, after its Carbon Budgets have been properly dissected as based on false assumptions starting with no proper costings or modelling of the energy system and including review of the alleged scientific underpinning.
The most urgent thing is to stop the path to more grid and more renewables, which will entail repealing the 2023 Energy Act, and cancelling contracts where little work has been done. There will be Miliband legislation to be unwound too. A plan for how to proceed while keeping the lights on is needed. That will include a complex analysis of the legislation, grid codes, market operation and much else. It is not simple. There are international dimensions too: threats from CBAM taxes on exports, withdrawing from IPCC commitments, etc.
October 5, 2025
previous = provisions
Autocorrect!
October 5, 2025
All sensible ideas Sir John. What a pity that none of the mainstream parties in this country had the good sense (or courage) to stand up and state them before. Like so many other things, we have drowned out all practical logic with good intentions and a great deal of posturing. We are all now paying the price of this stupidity, with more pain to come. It is only small consolation that the fools & charlatans that led us here are now unelectable. Whether the next bunch are any better remains to be seen.
October 5, 2025
It primarily means the blocking of the UK’s ability to have the money, the funds, the wealth to respond to a having a future.
None of the UK’s primary competitors have blocked their own means to earn.
This UK Parliament, its MPs, its government has taken the fight to the electorate. It is maliciously seeking the UK’s decline and in a vindictive way ensuring no one that follows them can respond and earn. The Punishment of a Nation in the hands of 650 freeloaders.
October 5, 2025
Don’t forget the other place with an additional 1,000 freeloaders
October 5, 2025
The only way that reality will have any impact would be a massive outage this winter when I suspect people will take to the streets.
October 5, 2025
These are all sensible, logical suggestions, which would appear obvious ways forward to any sensible thinking person, particularly as they do not predicate an end to reducing carbon emissions, but simply slowing the rate of progress to something that is likely to be feasible. That they are so, is further demonstration, if any were needed, that the drive to ‘Net zero’, that was put in place by the previous Government and intensified by the present one, is driven by the self aggrandising zeal and fervour of what is almost a fanatic sect, and not with any regard for the interests of the people, working or otherwise, who pay the taxes in this country.
October 5, 2025
It seem to me that all the measures and policies being implemented in the name of Averting Climate Catastrophe are really about government control over us. The more we use digital technologies for our activities the more information about what we do can be monitored. The notion that if only we in the UK all bought EVs, solar panels and cover the country with wind turbines then climate change would be averted is surely nonsense. But the degree of control government could exercise over us is limitless. Other posters have given examples of idiocies committed that are supposed to be environmentally beneficial (Drax!) but the recent trade deal with the US where the number and size of data centres is set to dramatically increase with their huge demands in electricity supply shows the move to renewables with current (no pun intended) technology to be utter nonsense.
October 5, 2025
All sensible suggestions, Sir John, but the fact they will not be applied is evidence that CAGW is a hoax and Net Zero has nothing to do with reducing anthropogenic emissions of CO2 but rather to give a reason to de-industrialise, impoverish, destroy national security and control the population through electrification using smart meters.
October 5, 2025
“No government can stop us buying and selling second hand diesel and petrol cars.”
Are you sure, Sir John? Surely they could ban the importation of ice vehicles and even ban their use by, say, 2035?
October 6, 2025
They could just ban the selling/buying and use of petrol and diesel.
I don’t doubt for one minute that it is on the Coercion and Control Unit’s (Cameron’s nudge unit) stages of “encouraging” compliance.
Reply Even this government could not do that. No food in shops, no growing and harvesting food etc
October 5, 2025
“The fourth is stop paying guaranteed prices for new wind and solar projects, but to let them bid into the system as other generators do.”
Correct, and to apply Professor Sir Dieter Helm’s recommendation in his 2017 “Cost of Energy Review” to make the contracts so that renewable electricity is dispatchable. DESNZ, and hence all energy ministers, including those of past administrations when energy ministers, stand by their ‘Electricity Generating Costs 2023’ report which continues to state that the price of offshore wind to be £44/MWhr despite offering for the next forthcoming AR7 auction up to £113-£117/MWhr for fixed offshore wind and £271/MWhr for floating offshore wind (necessary says the CEO of GB Energy as we are running out of shallow water). The price for gas generated electricity in this report is £114/MWhr of which £60/MWhr is the carbon tax. The £44/MWhr figure is still used by the CCC and MPs.
October 5, 2025
Sixth: Cancel the carbon tax. If renewable electricity is 9 times cheaper than gas, as we are constantly told, why do renewables continue to need subsidies?
October 5, 2025
“The fifth is remove any idea of banning gas boilers and subsidising heat pumps for residential property. Gas boilers usually remain the cheapest solution to install, and we lack the extra electricity to allow major switching to electricity for home heating.”
Not only do we not have the electricity to support domestic heating using heat pumps the local grids do not have the capacity to deliver the required electricity. Heat pumps, which because of their low heat output need to be run 24/7 in cold weather, require 4 KW or more, and much more on start up, and local grids are only designed to provide 1-2 KW/household CONTINUOUSLY. So to Net Zero our domestic heating using heat pumps it will be necessary to upgrade almost every local grid in the country at a cost of hundreds of £billions not including all the costs of disruption.
October 5, 2025
All sensible stuff JR but sadly those who have the power to change things will not move any time soon.
Climate change policies, subsidies, and penalties need a 180 degree change of direction.
Interestingly our recent drive back from the South of France showed that France as well as the UK also lacks the electric infrastructure that EV’s need for lengthy journeys, many cars were queueing up to get access to the few electric chargers in place at motorway servicing points.
My Diesel SUV averages 53 miles per gallon (fully loaded with 4 people and all luggage on board), so only had to be filled up before we left, and a 5 minute top up just over halfway, to get us the 950 miles back home.
The small historic village we stayed in did not have a single commercial electric charging point, neither did any of the overnight hotels we stayed at en route, both out and back.
Most of the windmills we passed en route were not turning at all.
Thus Fantasy politics at great expense !
October 5, 2025
The following is a snippet from a piece written by Manhattan Contrarian, an American observing the UK.
“The simple conclusion to be drawn is that the inevitable cost impact of chasing the impossible net zero dream has caught up with its proponents. With soaring costs now crippling British industry and crushing consumers, net zero has become electorally toxic. Miliband can try blaming Thatcher or oil companies or whoever he wants, but at some point the voters aren’t that stupid.
It may be a while until the next election, but when it comes, I would expect it to be the death knell for net zero in the UK. ”
I think climate scepticism is indeed spreading. As one or two other posters on this site fear, let’s hope it’s not too late to rebuild our industries.
October 5, 2025
Because of its later industrialisation China has the advantage of being able to pick the best technology, rather than testing, trialling and often failing with duff technologies. So you would think that since we are now told that renewables are 9 times cheaper than gas generated electricity, and since China is supplying most of the renewable kit, that China would only be building renewables for their own electricity. But when you examine the details you find that China has committed to build 175 PWhrs of coal, 56 PWhrs of nuclear and just 38 PWhrs of renewables (solar 14 + wind 24 PWhrs). [PW = Petawatts = 1000 Terrawatts]. And 90% of their wind is onshore, unlike the UK whose current policy is to rely upon offshore wind (fixed and the twice-the-price, floating). This is in addition to building 1000 GW/year of coal plants for the last 4 years including for 2025. So why is this? And why has China just declared their UN NDC to be “7-10% by 2035 while “striving to do better”” whilst ours is 81% by 2035? Could it be that CAGW is a hoax and its Net Zero “solution” is simply a device to destroy the West’s industry and hence wealth, democracy and security?
October 5, 2025
The problem with green fanatics (aka The Labour Party) is that they seem incapable of rational thinking. Sir John’s columns have clearly set out arguments, even accepting their CO2 agenda, that their policies increase CO2 emissions whilst damaging the UK economy, jobs, profits and taxes. None of what Miliband does makes any sense.
October 5, 2025
Seems very sensible. An added twist might be to lift the ban on petrol cars only for cars manufactured in the UK (and maybe the Commonwealth).
October 5, 2025
Another very important area for amendment is the laws and arrangements in support of insulation etc. The new Building Code has led to a sharp decrease in housebuilding because builders cannot easily sell undesirable costly net zero compliant designs. Plans to force landlords to achieve EPC C threaten to create a housing crisis on a gargantuan scale if tenants are evicted from non compliant homes. The Ecohomes and other green deals supported through electricity bills should be cancelled. Audits have shown they have negative real returns. Let the market operate. The emphasis should be on lowering energy cost.
October 5, 2025
All sensible suggestions, with not a chance of this Government doing any of them.
You highlight exactly what is missing in this and previous governments. Net Stupidity at all levels, in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Civil Service, and the MSM. A complete lack of intelligence and common sense, and blind adherence to a false premise.
You can’t water down Global Warming/Climate Change caused by human activity, when it is complete nonsense.
Why is no other country in the world following the UK in this mad pursuit of Net Zero? It will never happen and only damages the UK in a very competitive world. When the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch!
October 5, 2025
Agreed but your voice is in time, a decade out. You may claim I didn’t vote this or that.
Doesn’t wash.
Net Zero is nonsense, as it obvious to anyone who has taken the trouble to study the subject.
Let’s talk about WT7.
Let’s talk about 7/7
Let’s talk about Oct7
Lets talk about the SMO and its build up.
Your Blog, spect you will avoid the main issues.
October 5, 2025
But who’s going to make these sensible policy changes? It will not be Parliament or even the Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero or even the PM. Our Net Zero and energy policy is now in the hands of the unelected DESNZ (Permanent Secretary), the unelected CCC, Ofgem, Mission Control, The North Sea Transition Authority and finally the unelected judiciary when the unelected tax-payer funded activists take the SoS to court. The UK Parliament has very little authority in any matters and the country is now run by the unelected Civil Service and quangos acting in the same way as does the unelected EU Commission for the EU where the EU Commission decides policies and makes the law and the EU Parliament is just a rubber stamping exercise. We’ve essentially become a copy of the EU system of government by unelected elites who say they know what’s best for us.
October 6, 2025
Say you achieve all the above and also manage to achieve positive action in that direction .. then what?
You have not established a long term solution – the UK wasted it’s oil and gas assets over my lifetime, what about my childrens’? What were the returns from the oil & gas used for – where is the sovereign wealth, the investment to build and maintain our long prosperity?
The only productive industry you seem to consider in urgent need is car assembly – majority owned by overseas companies and employing 200k (?) people out of a private sector of 28 million. Why not lorries, vans, buses, trains, aircraft? And what proportion of those 200k are productives as opposed to doing regulatory make-work such as HR, legal, DEI, EU compliance …
If you are using energy as the keystone why not the digital service sector (approx 1.8m employees). What comparitive revenue and employment will be associated with the AI and other tech sectors?
What of the 99% of private sector employees your urgent action ignores?
Reply I am arguing for our petro chems, ceramics, steel and all high energy using industries. Cars are particularly hit as they face a complete ban of all their popular products!
October 6, 2025
Gordon Brown blew the entire North Sea tax take from 1970 to 2008 in bailing out the banks in the financial crisis for which he was largely responsible through lax policy on mortgage lending that privatised the borrowing to support socialist spending.
October 6, 2025
In that context I agree lifting the ICE ban is urgent but overall we need a radical change of attitudes in the government and public sectors to the private sector across all industries.
No private sector means no-one to pay to pay taxes and so their wages, nor earn foereign currency to import all their toys and food and energy ..