We are publishing an excellent comment today by reader Jimi Cazot that he wrote in response to a Telegraph article on the introduction of Covid vaccine passports. Jimi asks: “If you could go back 10 years and speak to your former self, what would you tell that unsuspecting fool?” His answer below is bound to resonate with many readers.
In the future, many of your national assets will be owned by China. Most of the goods you buy will be made there too, which you will not purchase from your fellow countrymen but a sole supplier owned by an American.
The most successful politicians will not be elder statesmen committed to public service but young upstarts who view the job as a stepping stone towards tremendous personal wealth in later life.
Your Government will pass bills to quash peaceful protest and enable the recruitment of child spies. This won’t be limited to the intelligence services but bodies like the environmental and food standards agencies too. When you ask “why”, nobody will be able to tell you.
Your Government will set up ‘nudge units’ staffed by unknown behavioural scientists. They will tell you what to eat, drink and how you should behave. There will be patronising health and safety signs everywhere you look.
“The media will grow dependent on Government advertising revenue and cease reporting opinions and events that contradict official narratives.
The internet will be dominated by a small number of big-tech companies who will delete all information that they disagree with.
In the name of safeguarding students from harm, schools and universities will cease debate and enquiry. People with contrary views will be barred from campuses. Even student newspapers will be censored by ‘sensitivity readers’.
At work, you will be made to undergo psychological re-education. The people lecturing you will have no knowledge of psychology but nonetheless try to change you at a subconscious level.
People will be sacked from their jobs for saying there are two biological sexes or for telling an ill-judged joke. They will not be forgiven if they apologise.
Every major institution and employer will sign up to this censorious culture and soon you will censor yourself when speaking to friends and colleagues without even knowing that you’ve done so.
When a virus emerges that only kills 0.3% of those who catch it – the majority of which older than the average span of a life – you will be bombarded, 24-hours a day, by terrifying public messaging.
The police will stop you from meeting a friend for a coffee in the park. They will rummage through your shopping bags to make sure you’ve only bought things that they deem essential. They will film you as you walk in the countryside and put the footage on the internet so to shame you.
Neighbour will be told to spy on neighbour, and when you have friends round for dinner the police will knock on your door and give you a fine.
You will be told to stay two metres away from other people at all times. You will be made to wear a facemask even though there’s no evidence that they do anything at all. When this becomes apparent, scientists will say you must wear them so as not to frighten other people. Your freedom will end where another’s fear begins.
Families will be kept from dying loved ones. Widows will be denied the comfort of human touch. Daughters will be arrested for collecting their mothers from care homes.
Vast numbers of children will be sent home from school and denied a proper education just because one classmate lost their sense of smell.
Weddings will be cancelled. Nightclubs will be closed. Churches will be shut. Singing and dancing will be prohibited. Lovers will be kept apart.
Vaccines will be created using messenger ribonucleic acid technology. When the inventor of that technology warns against its use by those at little risk from the virus, records of him will be expunged and someone more ‘helpful’ will be credited with his work.
You will be told that the vaccine isn’t compulsory, yet those who refuse might be sacked from their jobs. They will be made to queue for longer at airports. They will be put under house arrest if they come into contact with someone who has the virus, whilst those who have had it will not. They will be stopped from going to bars and stadiums. There will be two classes of people: the clean and the unclean.
Your unassailable and decadent leaders will ignore the rules they set for others again and again, blissfully untroubled by the cries of hypocrisy.
Global leaders, bureaucrats, scientists, royalty and the super-rich will meet in private to discuss how we all must live. They’ll say there are too many people and not enough resources, but nobody will ask who we should get rid of and how. Blinded by hubris, they’ll believe that they alone can bring about a utopian future. The language they speak will be impenetrable to most, it made up of meaningless phrases like ‘stakeholder capitalism’, ‘collectivisation’, ‘sustainable development’ and ‘Build Back Better’. Every now and then, however, they’ll make things very clear: “You will own nothing. You will rent everything. You will be happy.”
Few will question what this means, how it will be brought about or what mandate they have for doing so. Those who do, or any of the above, will be insulted, ridiculed and so pushed to the margins of society that they are effectively silenced.
Most will stand on their front doorstep at 8pm every Thursday, clapping their hands and bashing saucepans.
Now, what do you think your former self would say?
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It will take 20 years for the rest of “The West” to change course.
The lunacy is deeply embedded. And now, simply opposing US policies is a central commitment of most of the airheads in so-called “governments” and state departments.
With the USA – the biggest World economy – and nobody else outside Europe playing the game, that means 85% (and growing) of the global economy is not part of the Net Zeroid fantasy.
”Europe” with its shrinking economy, depends on that 85%. Putting up carbon tariffs will only hurt “Europe” whilst the rest of the economies of the World trades with each other and enjoys increasing prosperity.
As Bill Clinton’s election campaign manager wisely said: It’s the economy, stupid.
If Government are so keen on green energy, let them lead the way by immediately and completely giving up centrally heated offices, ministerial cars, and jet transport
Thought not…
It isn’t that they are “Keen on Green Energy”—–It is that they are taking their instructions form their globalist bosses at the UN and WEF that we in the wealthy west must give up fossil fuels because we have used up way more than our fair share of what is a finite resource in the ground. 8 billion people in the world all cannot have the same standard of living as us in the wealthy west and so our Political Class have agreed and are forcing wind and sun on us all at astronomical expense. —-Luckily for Americans Trump is not falling for this communist eco scam.
I think my point remains…
Yes your point remains. But Politicians have never done the things they expect us to do, so don’t be too surprised.
Indeed. Lead by example.
They kicked off about noisy heat pumps in the H of C. Bloody thieving, treasonous hypocrites.
The Energy Transition always was a fallacy predicated on climate claptrap.
The game has been given away any number of times down the decades:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2010/11/19/climate-talks-or-wealth-redistribution-talks/
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth…”
…Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC economist, interviewed ahead of Cop-16 in 2010.
Meanwhile Britain blunders on under the deadweight of the 2008 Climate Claptrap Act, passed by an overwhelming majority of parliamentary lemmings, on an afternoon in late October when snow fell in London.
Bonkers is as bonkers does.
The ‘overwhelming majority’ underplays the near 100% support for the CCA.
Miliband says “People around the world can see the climate crisis is here”—–Oh really? Where? Do people look out of their living room window and say “Oh look at all the climate change”? —–No they don’t.—- If they had not seen all this climate crisis talk on their TV every day they would never suspect anything was amiss with the climate, and that is mostly because there isn’t. ——So what is it that Miliband thinks people are actually seeing?—–He is ofcourse a total fantasist and since energy is the most important commodity it is essential that this idiot is nowhere near energy policy. But having said that there are many more eco fantasists among the Political Class. They are almost all in on the scam. ——-But this idea that the “energy transition” s driven by markets is total nonsense. No one would ever build a wind turbine without the subsidy, because they are totally uneconomical. Coal Gas and Nuclear can always produce full time energy much cheaper, whereas the cost of the back up has to be factored into the cost of wind, sun, tidal or any other of the part time energy solutions.
If they had not seen all this climate crisis talk on their TV every day they would never suspect anything was amiss with the climate
Exactly right.
In exactly the same way that if people hadn’t been fed an unrelenting diet of terrifying propaganda five years ago, they wouldn’t for a second have believed there was a ‘deadly’ killer virus out there…
I look at my weekly gas use and see no crisis but a lot more gas consumption this year compared to last year despite the alleged hottest January ever. Put simply I have used 10 weeks gas in 8 weeks.
Climate cannot be observed. It is a statistical analysis of weather condition over an extended past period.
Climate does not exist – it’s like “the average man”.
Yes—–So what is it that Miliband thinks people “see”?—–
Kill Energy Transition Forever
Is it? How come I don’t notice it?
Maybe it’s like the corpses piling up from COVID, or the epidemic of racism, or the violent bigotry against trans people all of which only seem to exist in the minds of deranged activists.
I have to say, I am keen to see how the counter revolution taking place in the US is going to affect us here in the UK.
So far all I see is the woke and climate extremists in power doubling down on their extremism.
Excellent points.
I think what is happening generally in the US with the Trump administration may embolden politicians and their supporters who were already sympathetic to his politics, and equally embolden those who weren’t – in short, the battle lines will be drawn more clearly. On the whole I think that’s a good thing. The more extreme the socialist fascists become, the more people will wake up.
This morning’s glorious sunshine has made me optimistic
It was nice yesterday in the sun but chilly in the shade. It is meteorological spring now and the sun on my conservatory is warming up nicely.
Will soon be bright enough to start making Vitamin D.
It should be no surprise to UK readers that that “unstoppable” word was used by the country’s most dangerous person, the green ideologue Ed Miliband
Yes, an unstoppable train, heading towards the buffers, and full of gullible people saying everything is on track and fine and dandy.
In 20 years time the current energy “transition” may well be seen as a pointless waste of money, as small modular nuclear generators become widespread, and old wind farms are decommissioned rather than replaced.
Precious fossil fuels would then be used exclusively for making steel, lubricants and chemicals.
“… engage in what Harold Demsetz called “nirvana economics”, a term that describes the tendency to compare real-world situations with unrealistic, idealised alternatives, often leading to flawed conclusions about the efficacy of proposed policies.”
Same playbook, different domain. We’re all going to die if we don’t do as we’re told:
IPCC = WHO
EPA = CDC
Greenhouse gasses = viral pathogens
Net Zero = herd immunity
Renewables = vaccines
High energy prices = high positive test rates
etc, etc…
… and just like pandemics, one has to be repeatedly reminded there’s an actual climate crisis.
“Mr Bremmer claims that “technological breakthroughs, steep learning curves and plummeting costs have made clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels…”
Not according to my electricity bills and the demand by the wind/solar subsidy harvesting farms for ever higher Contract for Difference rates – currently £128 per MWh, over twice what fossil fuels can give.