Telegraph Money has published an excellent feature today which reads like a submission to the review Chris Skidmore is carrying out on behalf of the Government into whether net zero is being met in an “economically efficient way” and will not place “undue burdens on businesses or consumers”. As Telegraph Money makes clear, it is already placing considerable burdens on businesses and consumers. Here is an extract, breaking down the burden in three different areas:
Home Insulation
Under the race to reach net zero, the Government has said it wants Britain’s housing stock to be much more energy efficient, but the burden of doing so has been laid squarely on property owners.
And as record-high energy bills eat away at household budgets, property buyers have become more discerning about “EPC” ratings.
Every property has an Energy Performance Certificate, ranging from A to G. Homes with a rating from A to C are considered to be energy efficient, while anything below is considered poor. The average rating for a British home is D.
Sellers are facing increasing pressure to invest their money into home upgrades in order to stay competitive. Vendors who have spent money to improve their EPC rating have pocketed 16pc extra on average when selling their home, according to research from the property website Rightmove.
But not all homeowners can afford the upgrades necessary to move up a band. Big upgrades such as insulation improvements cost thousands of pounds. For example, paying for foam insulation in cavity walls for a three-bedroom home would cost £1,200. This could save £285 a year in energy bills at current prices, but this means it would take at least four years to pay off.
Heat pumps are another source of frustration for many homeowners. The Government has committed to heat pumps as the replacement for gas boilers, with a target of 600,000 devices installed each year by 2028. By 2025, gas boilers will be banned from newly built homes, and by 2035 the Government wants to phase out all gas boiler installations.
However, the upfront costs of installing a heat pump versus the cost of installing a gas boiler has put many homeowners off.
Until 2025, homeowners who opt to install a heat pump will receive a £5,000 grant to do so as part of the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme. But installation costs can be in excess of £10,000. Meanwhile gas boiler costs range from £1,000 to £4,000, according to Boiler Guide, a network of gas and heat pump engineers.
Running costs are not always cheaper for heat pumps, either. In June, the Climate Change Committee, an independent Government adviser on tackling climate change, estimated that the cost of running a heat pump was 10% higher than gas.
Petrol- and Diesel-Driven Cars
The Government push towards electric cars has also caused much tension, especially as charging infrastructure across the country is not yet extensive enough to support all drivers. Last year it announced that it would ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, forcing many drivers into expensive decisions.
The average cost of an electric vehicle is £43,896, compared with an overall average £23,185 for a medium-sized car, according to the price comparison website NimbleFins.
However, electric car owners could save money in the long run on petrol, the price for which has rocketed this year. The cost of charging will also be cheaper under Liz Truss’s plan to cap the cost of electricity units.
Energy Bills
Households are currently charged a green levy on energy bills which adds £150 to the average energy bill. The proceeds are used to fund renewable energy subsidy schemes.
Net Zero Watch, a campaign group that monitors the impact of decarbonisation, has estimated that the policy costs the British economy around £11 billion a year, adding a total £250 to the annual cost of living per household.
Liz Truss has pledged to cut the green levy out of energy bills, but it is not clear yet whether this will last beyond the next general election in 2024.
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What do you think of this development, Michael? Do you think it is a good thing, or are you sceptical?
I know what the Telegraph thinks, but what do you think?
Oh dear it is the beginning of the end.
Be brave Bellathebrave! The UK regime are depending on us losing hope.
Fake vaxports or real vaxports, both are based on lies and deceit.
Will these “passports” be as good as the track and trace scheme? I’ll wait and see. If it’s a government initiative it’ll be a pile of shiite with various workarounds, if not it’ll be slowly forgotten.
It’s just another ploy to get the sheeple to compile.
Track & trace has been ridiculed for costing millions & being crap ! BUT I reckon it was being set up for the vaccine that’s not a vaccine passport bollocks !
Yes, like predictive programming to get the public in the swing of things. Track and trace probably allowed the government to learn how the public reacted to such a system, and showed any weaknesses that needed tightened for when the passport system kicked off.
Spot on
all about the conditioning – psychological that is
T&C hasn’t cost £millions.
It’s cost£billions.
I knew it did , just needed conformation before I go again ! Dirty Dirty Bastards , letting the proles think T&T was a joke & could be thwarted , Well it won’t be when it’s proper use starts !! These Fuckers are out to sort us good & proper ! Someone posted that HMG are signed up to WEF / Schwab & Gates , if so it’s a done deal !! 😭😭😭
The proper name is ‘Gene Therapy Passports’.
For a disease with an IFR of 0.15.
Which you cannot spread if you don’t have symptoms (unless you had the gene therapy infusion).
With the gene therapy being based upon a computer model of a non-isolated virus, or in plain words, a pure invention/fantasy.
With a high chance of that virus not really existing or being the real problem, but Beriberi.
Why is the pseudo-vaccine & testing to see if you HAVE the virus paid for by the taxpayer yet testing to see whether you naturally have immunity by gaining immunity from catching COVID costs you quite a bit to test?
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing/antibody-testing-to-check-if-youve-had-coronavirus/
Will be worth it to avoid the experimental jabs
That’s precisely why antibody tests have never been made widely available and why they claim you can catch it more than once.
You don’t need antibodies to be immune, it is T cell immunity that is important as it these that provide immunity memory. B cells cannot unilaterally create antibodies.
Rather beside the point when they’re claiming the only way to protect yourself whether you’ve been previously infected or not is by having their magic potion.
If you can catch it twice, then vaccines are pointless…except to continue vaccinating everyone every year or more.
Not available yet. Quelle surprise!
The “vaccines”, by the manufacturers’ own admission, don’t not make you immune to the virus. They do not stop you becoming infected and they do not stop you infecting others. At best, they may result in fewer symptoms if you are infected.
So in what way is a vaccine passport, which proved that on some date in the past that you had a vaccine that doesn’t stop you become infected with coronavirus, a valuable tool to prevent the future spread of coronavirus?
I’ll give you a clue. It isn’t a valuable tool to prevent the future spread of coronavirus.
A valuable tool to prevent the future spread of coronavirus* would be to test someone when they were about to leave, and/or when they arrived at their destination, because then you will know (subject to the inadequacies of the test process) that they did not have the virus at the actual time of their arrival.
*if indeed such a tool was even necessary, or desirable, for a virus which is becoming endemic with a mortality rate only marginally worse than seasonal influenza.
So let’s be CRYSTAL CLEAR what vaccine passports are about. They are not about public health. They are not about preventing the spread of viruses. They are about controlling (and, no doubt, reducing) freedom for ordinary people to travel abroad.
Michael, and LS generally. Can you PLEASE start being a bit more sceptical about the vaccines which aren’t actually vaccines, and the vaccine passports which have nothing to do with public health?
Who is Michael ? I’ve Been in Wales for a week 🤪
There’s lovely. Isn’t it?
It was as it happens ! Like being abroad ! 😎 Those were the days ! + Is it me or is all the Shit being ramped up !!!
Michael Curzon, author of this LS post.
Hold on, Drakford says you’re not allowed to ‘go to Wales’ !
I know & it’s part of the UK as well 😂 With no hard border as far as I know ! & he’s a twat !
The article author.
I think it’s bloody Gove.
and why haven’t the oh-so-compliant media asked the idiots promoting these ridiculous ideas what happens when the next virus hits?
Will the world need to stop again for another year or two until they invent a a new potion and jab everyone for that?
So there will be panic to get these passports so people can go to the Costas for 2 weeks in the summer. 1. will these so called passports be available, 2. will the travel industry be ready to take back tourists, 3. will the aircraft that has been sitting on the ground for the past year be functional, 4. will the travel industry still be operational as so many have gone bankrupt, 5. doesn’t this discriminate against the young and unvaccinated. I’m sure there are many other issues but those are 5 to get on with.
More fear and panic by our overlords.
They are absolutely desperate for people to be vaccinated.
Why?
Two possibilities:
While I love me a good conspiracy theory, most of my money would go on option number 2.
“people will start asking all sorts of other awkward questions”
You wish. Not much sign of the majority doing so at this point. They might ‘break the rules’, but they’re not challenging the framework – a year on.
Agreed. But if the scale of vaccine injury becomes public knowledge, or the fact that vaccines which aren’t vaccines are being used as a Trojan horse to bring in all sorts of other undesirable things, that could change very quickly.
How????
If only it was football 🤦🏼♂️
It’s bread and circuses time again…
If you wanted to manufacture a situation that roused and then immediately defused people’s anger in a safe way, it would be hard to manufacture a better scenario than the Euro superleague.
The European super league has been a work in progress for several years at least.
I was surprised at the amount of time devoted to it in the news. It struck me as a diversion…
I’m not sure if the fans protests were the reason the idea was dropped but if the government think they are being clever by showing apparent ‘people power’ that can be a two edged sword.
there was a certain irony in that crowd turning up to Stamford Bridge to complain about the Super League-yet behind them the gates were locked preventing the fans watching their team play.
Same here !
Certainly not number 1. Dead people don’t pay taxes.
They don’t get paid pensions either.
The third possibility is that the demand for them has gone down the pan, as they try to work through the age group, if it follows the trend of the ONS ‘hesitancy survey’. It could just be that there is a fair bit of potential travel trade that says ‘NO’.
I hope you are right.
https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/european-parliament-to-investigate-who-pandemic-scandal.html
The “golden triangle of corruption”
2010:
“European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal
by F. William Engdahl
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma’s industry’s influence on WHO.
The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry.
The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.”
I love the idea of pitchforks but I fear the elites and their cohorts have learned so much from previous revolutions that the people with pitchforks will be coming for the unvaccinated….
I think it is both 1 and 2
If you accept this, you deserve your digital slavery and future life decided by an ‘App’.
I would rather live as a natural, spiritual human, thanks.
You are not an animal.
Sadly, this was inevitable – because it is dependent on other countries’ demands. Not in domestic control. This government, however would not have resisted the idea, by any stretch of the imagination.
The main focus has to be keeping the idea out of domestic use, and resisting the thin end of the wedge that is being pushed onto the hospitality indistry.
Actually I don’t believe it has to be inevitable. IF (and yes that’s a very BIG if) the UK refused, other countries would follow, because they NEED British tourists!
The clout of the UK paddling its own canoe shouldn’t be overestimated.
https://www.air.tv/watch?v=MTfX78b5ROGE5vrbiuITCw
Tucker: Vaccine Passports Will Create a ‘Second Class Citizenry’ For Those Who Don’t Want Them
The U.S. federal government has said it won’t bring in vaccine passports but they’re not stopping businesses and large corporations from demand them.
Several states have banned them, but it will need more to join in to stop them coming in across the country.
It’s a shame we have so few people here who will stop them.
I even object to international vaccine passports, on the basis that it will become permanent even when CV19 effectively disappears into the background.
oh thats nice…. but were just getting warmed up folks. Get ready.
Ah, but will carry the government’s own vaccine caveat as printed on the NHS Public Information Leaflet ‘What to Expect after your Covid-19 Vaccination’? I quote:
‘We don’t know how much it will reduce the risk of you passing on the virus’.
Might I suggest for international travel the front design of the certificate is printed thus:
For further into:
’https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/943125/PHE_11843_Covid-19_what_to_expect_leaflet.pdf
Not that far fetched, the tiniest electric gadget these days comes with a multi-folded instruction leaflet in 20 or more languages.
And you can have fun and see if they all say the same thing (more or less)!
I never went to your school 😬
Ha ha! Neither did I half the time.
😉
It could start by something like: This is a meaningless piece of junk…
But what about Greek, Italiano, Cymraeg, Gaelic and so on?
Its like a big old pyramid scheme, you start off with changing the definition of ‘pandemic, you add lots of Fear and the pinnacle of the pyramid is ID (ID 2019)
Nice little earner for De La Rue who used to produce the burgundy EU British passport but missed out on the contract to produce post Brexit Blue ones. They must have loads of spare capacity.
Then there’s the cost of recalls for confirmation of booster jabs for new variants or time expired.
The opportunity for falsification comes when applying for the vax permits. To get an actual Passport or approval by the Vetting and Barring Agency (formerly CRB) requires you to produce various original documents and an in-person encounter to prove you are who you claim to be.
What stringency was applied for ID when vax’s were dished out in numerous settings; GP Surgeries, Care Homes, hospitals etc. ?
None! When I get my summons I’m tempted to try and blag that I already had it and didn’t they know that? Quite a few places round here were giving out leftover Pfizer jabs at the end of the day to save having to bin them, and you didn’t need anything.
Sort of feel like a bit of a hypocrite though since I wouldn’t have it anyway!
Where’s today’s news? I only just got the hang of this version. I hope I haven’t missed it somewhere.
I heard a rumour the house market has collapsed in some areas and I wanted to see if it was true. This is the best source of news I can find. 🙁
MHRA ADRs are up
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting
Total 961 deaths now.
33 million people vaccinated.
1 death per 34,400 people vaccinated. Ouch.
691,529 adverse reports.
1 adverse reaction per 47 people. Double ouch.
And these are only the deaths and reactions that have been reported.
I know of at least two in my family which have not been reported. I am sure there are thousands more.
How much longer can they keep a lid on this story?
7 million of those vaxes, Arthur, are second vaxes. So far as I’m aware, we can still die only once. So one death per 28k jabs. That they’re admitting to.
According to OurWorldInData,
33 million people
is the “Total number of people who received at least one vaccine dose”
while
43.46 million
is the “total number of doses”
and
10.78 million
is the “total number of people fully vaccinated”.
However this assumes the government is telling the truth about how many have had it, and that the government is good at counting. For both of these assumptions, the jury is still out.
Oh, right. I was going on the hmg stats linked to above, which gives a bit over 27.25m first jabs.
Oh OK. Who knows what the truth is…!
Mystery solved. The OurWorldInData numbers are for the UK, the 27.25 is the number for England only.
All the people I know who have had the vaccinations and had reactions from quite nasty to mild know nothing about reporting them on yellow card so it is certainly massively under reporting.
The MHRA itself has estimated that only 10% of serious reactions and between 2-4% of non-serious reactions are actually reported.
Yellow Card: please help to reverse the decline in reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
973 with the 12 deaths reported from “unspecified brand”.
Good point, thanks.
I guess data about the moderna gunk will also start to appear. I know someone who has had that so it is obviously out there.
Edit: I have found the report. It’s here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/979479/COVID-19_Moderna_vaccine_analysis_print.pdf
Only 44 ADRs to date. No deaths so far.
This was the entire point. Governments won’t and can’t make the vaccines mandatory, but they’ll happily turn those who won’t or can’t have the vaccines into 2nd class citizens, thereby exerting coercive pressure on them to submit and conform, and they won’t care who dies as a result, or made seriously ill.
It’s not about CV19, it’s about control.
What about people who genuinely can’t be vaxxed for health reasons? there has to be a get-out (i hope!) . Or can we find any ‘friendly’ vaxxers out there who will say they gave you the vaccine but actually threw it in the bin?? What if you make an appointment, even show up but then run away just before your jab – reckon it’ll find it’s way onto your NHS ? or contact NHS after to say they made an error and forgot to record you but you can show you had an appointment that you went along to and want record correcting?……. hopefully some one of these may work to avoid it!
Everyone: get up to London on Saturday! We must stop this nonsense!
What? I thought something was planned for May15th (on Telegram). I can’t get to London at short notice – but best of luck!
Where is the info for this?
There are many links, but most info has come via Telegram. Just search freedom protest 24th April. It is a follow on from 20th March where the tens of thousands were counted as 100s by the BBC.
#thegreatreopening #standup #wedonotconsent #mybodymychoice #nomorelockdowns #Freedomoverfear #onemillionplus
newtube, bitchute, ugetube, brandnewtube
All those most important lessons, rules and principles we supposedly learnt from history they said we must not forget seem to be conveniently forgotten.
If the aim is to prevent spread of the virus, it doesn’t make sense either; we still expect some vaccinated people (about 1 in 10 or 1 in 5? or lower depending on vaccine and new variants?) can catch it and pass it on, so in that respect they would potentially be no different from unvaccinated people, and (by their logic) the system could be worse if such people can travel and mix unrestricted without being tested or under same restrictions as the unvaccinated.
But could we be underestimating how many vaccinated people catch it because they are less likely to be tested, more likely to ignore mild symptoms?
So many of my friends have been vaccinated just to be able to travel. I will continue to travel without the vaccine and use a negative Covid test. I think it is important that as many of us as possible travel without having the “vaccine passport”.
the con was demanding a PCR before and after the return flight even if you have been vaccinated. Now with the vaccine passport no need for the PCR tests which weren’t cheap.
I know – it is all immensely annoying and difficult to deal with BUT we have to show there are people who are going to travel without this so that they make it possible.
Once the world bank comes and they have our money we are stuffed.
Their ultimate goal !!
The pisspot says you’re immune?
This is a lie, on the manufacturers’ and government’s own showing.
Even with Boris the bastard saying we can go on holiday, will the travel infrastructure be in place by then. Don’t aircraft thats been sitting around for a year plus require servicing, testing and a certificate of air worthiness which won’t take 5 minutes. Thats assuming the airline isn’t nearing bankruptcy and who would get all their aircraft operational only to be lockdown in a couple of months time.
you will prove you have taken the experimental drugs pushed by the people who advocate population reduction before going to the pub or on holiday.. and you will be happy..
you will be sterile and you will be happy
anyone had an elderly relative take the vaccine and then they suddenly started losing hair?
I don’t know about hair but one of my elderly relatives has seriously lost their memory – all post vaccine
Is it just coincidence that this is announced when the gov are trying to roll out the “vaccines” to the younger age groups and perhaps finding that these aren’t proving so popular as in the older age groups? If they can’t get the masses on board with the vaccine programme, the whole house of cards starts to collapse. People will see that vaccines are unnecessary, and serious side effects will become even more of a concern. So they have to get the vaccine programme completed before people wake up to this fraud. They don’t want people rebelling. So first start with bribery. Holidays for jabs. If that doesn’t work, then blackmail, withdrawing access to basic services unless vaccinated. I don’t think there are any depths they won’t sink to. Stay strong and resist. It isn’t futile! (The Borg- Now there’s some clever programming for you!)