21 Comments

  1. R.Grange
    November 9, 2022

    SJR on the climate change conference: “We’ve all got their message. We understand their arguments for reducing fossil fuel use.”

    Sorry, I don’t. Their argument is based on the alarmist claim that climate change is driven by burning fossil fuels, and can be reduced by ceasing to do so. This claim is looking very threadbare by now.

    1. Lifelogic
      November 9, 2022

      Indeed the “solutions” they push – EVs, hydrogen, public transport, wind, solar, cycling, walking. burning wood at Drax… save trivial or no CO2 anyway when fully accounted for and CO2 is not even a serious problem anyway. EV cars actually increase CO2 compare significantly compared to keeping your old ICU car (this in almost all situations).

      1. glen cullen
        November 9, 2022

        Iā€™ve just read an analysis report that China has produced more co2 in eight years than the entirety of the UK ā€¦ever

    2. rose
      November 9, 2022

      What Sir John says doesn’t mean he agrees with it, just that he’s got the message – who hasn’t – and understands the arguments.

      1. R.Grange
        November 10, 2022

        Good try, Rose, but it won’t wash. As I see it, he needed to say he understood the arguments were flawed.

  2. glen cullen
    November 9, 2022

    SirJ a good interview and I applaud your pluckiness in maintaining real conservation economic values & doctrine in the face of a Sunak economic folly ā€“ However you maybe the last conservative MP in the commons

    1. Nottingham Lad Himself
      November 9, 2022

      We saw exactly what a “truly Conservative” – in the words of the Daily Mail – mini budget did to the financial stability of the country, didn’t we?

    2. turboterrier
      November 10, 2022

      Glen Cullen
      Not maybe. Is more like it.

  3. a-tracy
    November 9, 2022

    I enjoyed the interview, Mike Graham distracts me flicking through his iPad screen whilst you were talking. He canā€™t be concentrating on both what you are saying and reading at the same time.

    How many people with your skills on economic matters are there in the current Conservative party? Do you ever get together with these MPs and thrash this out so that you can make a strong representation to Sunak so he canā€™t just ignore you as Kwasi did.

    The unions holding us all to ransom is getting very concerning now, this is why they shouldnā€™t be a big monopoly we have no choice but to use them.

    1. Bloke
      November 10, 2022

      Mike Graham probably needed to be aware of what was on screen, especially if info was changing. However his high frequency of lifting his cup and simulating drinking from it was a strange and needless distraction. The answers he received were so full of good sense, that in the absence of any comment beyond agreement he probably felt he should be doing something: using the cup and screen glimpses as props. However, he is generally a fine presenter with good content.

  4. glen cullen
    November 9, 2022

    ā€˜ā€™ An NGO humanitarian vessel carrying hundreds of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean has been granted permission to dock in the French port of Marseille after the newly elected Italian government repeatedly refused it permission to offload passengers in Sicilyā€™ā€™ https://rmx.news/italy/france-forced-to-accept-ngo-migrant-boat-after-italian-pm-meloni-refuses-to-back-down-in-call-with-macron/?fbclid=IwAR0nuA2921eumkNPkk9ibjwO4rgxL9WWq_4x1uI8K–yoqVOrUEgdj9y-zc
    AND THEY ARE ALL HEADED TO THE UK ā€“ IF ITALY CAN SAY ā€˜NOā€™ WHY CANā€™T WE

    1. turboterrier
      November 10, 2022

      glen cullen
      Exactly. Rocket science it is not.
      Actions speak louder than words.

      1. Lifelogic
        November 10, 2022

        The only actions we see are ever higher taxes, ever more regulation, road blocking and even worse public services by the day.

    2. Donna
      November 10, 2022

      Because the Government doesn’t WANT to.

      The Italians now have a Government which WANTS to stop the criminal migrants. We don’t.

  5. Peter
    November 9, 2022

    I wouldnā€™t mind being in Sharm el Sheik now, on expenses and with excellent security.

    There is great scuba diving there, though they have had armed guards where the boats dock for a good few years.

    I bet Boris manages to slope off and enjoy himself. Probably avails himself of the great skiing at Davos too.

  6. Bloke
    November 9, 2022

    A fine broadcast, with excellent response: High quality answers to every question posed with supporting reasoning.

  7. Geoffrey Berg
    November 9, 2022

    I very much agree with Sir John Redwood that we should not be paying any compensation to ‘developing countries’ for the historical industrialisation in Britain and the West which discovered and pioneered the technology that massively increased the standard of living and comfort of just about everybody in ‘developing countries’. If anything there is a better case for them paying us for our help in massively improving their living standards.

    1. glen cullen
      November 9, 2022

      I see that the USA have decided not to pay any ā€˜compensationā€™ unless China does the same, as they now consider China to be a first world nation

  8. Original Richard
    November 10, 2022

    Not only did the Industrial Revolution bring prosperity to the world it also brought increased agricultural yields by increasing the very low levels of atmospheric CO2.

    CO2 has been dropping from many times todayā€™s level over the last 150 million years as shelled marine animals were sequestering the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere/oceans to build their shells faster than volcanoes were emitting carbon dioxide. This is why the earthā€™s crust contains 100 million billion tons of carbonaceous rock. During the last 800,000 years carbon dioxide levels dropped 9 times to just 180 ppm, only 30 ppm above the minimum level of 150 ppm below which plants cannot survive. The last occasion being the last ice age which we exited just 11,000 years ago. We narrowly missed extinction 9 times and if the whole world was to apply our unilateral net zero CO2 emissions policy and volcanoes did not emit sufficient CO2 then we would be heading for extinction.

  9. Original Richard
    November 10, 2022

    Not only did the burning of coal allow the Industrial Revolution to occur and hence increase wealth and prosperity around the world and emit CO2 to green the planet and increase food production but it also stopped the destruction of forests.

    The UKā€™s forest coverage had reduced from 15% at the Norman Conquest to 5% at the end of the 19th century and in Europe as whole the coverage had halved from 2/3rds to 1/3rd as the land was cleared for agriculture and the wood either burned for fuel or used to build ships.

    Rather than pay reparations the UK should be receiving a dividend from all the world’s nations.

    1. a-tracy
      November 10, 2022

      OR, David Starkey made a good point on Patrick Christies GB news show tonight, he said the Industrial Revolution helped to stop slavery and people being utilised for arduous work. That the British did more to stop all slavery and our Navy in particular than every other nation, with much annoyance to Portugal and other big slave nations. It was a very interesting slot and we need to see more rounded history shows of the whole picture.

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