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62% Want a Net Zero Referendum, Poll Finds

by Will Jones
27 November 2022 9:00 AM

More people than ever want a referendum on the Government’s Net Zero policy, a survey has found. The Telegraph has more.

A poll by YouGov found that 44% of adults in Britain supported “holding a national referendum to decide whether or not the U.K. pursues a Net Zero carbon policy”, with 27% opposed, while 29% said they did not know.

When the “don’t knows” were excluded, 62% wanted a referendum. A poll on the same question a year ago found that 58% wanted a ballot on the issue.

Excluding “don’t knows”, 66% of 2019 Labour voters backed a poll, compared with 60% of Liberal Democrat voters and 56% of Conservative voters.

Lib Dem voters were the most decisive group, with only 15% “don’t knows”, compared with 25% for Labour and 24% for the Tories. Both Remainers and Leavers supported a referendum, at 58% and 61% of those expressing an opinion, respectively. 

The survey was commissioned by Car26, which is campaigning for a referendum on Net Zero and a pause in carbon-related regulations until such a ballot is held.

However, speaking to the Telegraph, the Conservative MP carrying out a review of Net Zero delivery for the Government, Chris Skidmore, said there could be no delay to measures such as banning petrol cars because it would damage public trust…

Mr. Skidmore was commissioned by Liz Truss in September to carry out a review of Net Zero focusing on “maximising economic growth”. 

The review was retained when Rishi Sunak replaced Ms. Truss as Prime Minister last month.

As Energy Minister, Mr. Skidmore was responsible for signing into law the Government’s policy to achieve Net Zero by 2050 – a target which his review is not questioning. 

He revealed that his review would not recommend delaying the ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, nor plans to ban gas boilers in newly built homes from 2025 and ban the installation of new boilers in all homes from 2035.

Instead, it will look at what needs to be done to make sure the targets are achieved.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Carbon dioxideCarbon EmissionsClimate AlarmismClimate changeNet ZeroReferendum

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

Perhaps sane, robust politicians in various parts of the world, so that the US biodefence lot are TTFO. And reasonably intelligent normal people might do the same thing.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
2 years ago

All fairly plausible, but the timing of Event 201 in Oct 2019 doesn’t feel like a coincidence.

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riskit
riskit
2 years ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

also too coincidental – 2020 completed Bill Gates’ ‘The Decade of Vaccines’

The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration

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Paul B
Paul B
2 years ago

“why it all carried on once it was obvious the virus was not a major threat to human life and the extreme responses were not justified.”

They never were, if people around you are dropping dead in the streets you will not need to be told to stay in your home. And even if you were short of shooting people some would and some wouldn’t, and society would have collapsed anyways.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

This video is from 2020 and the chap presenting has done a stellar job of looking at bioterror and pandemic simulations starting in 1990. Yes, the infamous Dark Winter and Lockstep are covered too;

https://rumble.com/v1ro8sw-paul-schreyer-pandemic-simulation-games-preparation-for-a-new-era.html

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gedhurst
gedhurst
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I’m in France and my wonderful government have banned Rumble. I know I can use a VPN, but it is so tiresome living in a regime whose philosophy is so fragile and inconsistent that it is compelled to ban information rather than counter it.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  gedhurst

That’s pretty horrific that your government can just ban a platform such as Rumble. What is their reasoning?

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gedhurst
gedhurst
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

I don’t know: misinformation spreader? I mean, if official government pronouncements had any plausibility, people wouldn’t be looking for other sources of information.

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riskit
riskit
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

I’m in France too ! the notice given is :

Because of French government demands to remove creators from our platform, Rumble is currently unavailable in France. We are challenging these government demands and hope to restore access soon.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

But we live in a democracy, so the solution is very simple. If we don’t want our.lives to be subjected to the ambitions and whims of the US biodefence establishment and their various technocratic stooges around the world, then all we have to do is vote for the party that stands against that at the next election and if they win they’ll make it happen for us, because they represent the people and that’s what the people want.

That is the ridiculous story that most people still believe in. That we live in a democracy and our representatives run the country according to the will of the majority and with respect for the minority.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

For a moment I thought you’d been kidnapped and were sending a coded distress message.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’m sorry to say that we aren’t a democracy in any traditional sense anymore. We can vote for a government, but as soon as the votes are counted they just go their own sweet way. Suddenly the welfare and the wellbeing of citizens is out and following supranational groupthink that we are never asked about is in, which we are committed to at enormous expense. Even our Prime Minister looks like the Regional Manager of GlobalCorp, there to follow policy, or be dismissed…

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

I appreciate that a lot of work has gone in to producing this article but I do not buy the story. The planning and the wholesale Lockstep approach, virtually worldwide undermines Dr Jones’ version of events. Event 201 was no coincidence and neither was the virus at the back of their table-top exercise, oh yes, they named it coronavirus.

The so-called “vaccines” had been in preparation for years and Fauci had patents already sorted. The only bit of the story that might be plausible is that there was an accidental lab leak and given that their planning was pretty much complete they decided to take advantage and kick off the Agenda 2030 programme although this is stretching the story. I am not convinced.

Too many countries adopted identical scripts and spouted the same trite slogans:

‘No one is safe until everyone is safe.’

‘Build Back Better’

…and so on.

Hospitals emptying old and sick patients in to nursing homes and then killing them.

Criminalising the few decent doctors who attempted early treatments. The worldwide outlawing of two of the safest drugs on the planet – Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine and which pertains to this day.

The worldwide adoption of NPI’s in the full knowledge that these could only adversely affect health.

Worldwide pushing of “vaccines.” And why? It is now clear that the purpose of the injections is to chip, maim and kill or in shorthand, depopulation.

No, I will never accept cock-up theory for any of this. What we are living through has been years in the planning and nothing short of massive civil disobedience can derail it.

Stop ignoring the obvious and less overthinking. What is happening is simply hidden in plain sight.

I am weary of cock-up theory.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Agree 100%
Whilst one should never underestimate the incompetence of those in charge it seems incredulous beyond belief that they were all so incompetent at the same time.

What has and still is happening is beyond evil.
Meanwhile bastards like Hancock et al enjoy the limelight, and adulation? – made possible only by a compliant MSM and sheep.
My only solace is that Hell awaits them all.

Wake up you F*****g morons.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Good post Sforzesca.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

What makes me think it might have been an accidental release and that they went early is that lots of planned repressive legislation isn’t yet in place and it has been very easy – for the non-gullible minority – to find info on the internet that disproves the official lies.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Yes, that’s a reasonable assumption.

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RJBassett
RJBassett
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

If you had ever experienced the senior decision making processes in government, any government, you would know that “cock-up theory” does explain 99% of our problems. The other 1% is the product of megalomaniacs but the amplification comes from the fools who validate Hayek’s proposition that, “in government, scum floats to the top.”

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well said, HP, and I concur. The cock-up theory suits those that haven’t fully realised the dire shitstorm we are in and who somehow wish it wasn’t happening, that’s it’s all a dreadful mistake. I do think that there are those involved in the process who are little busybody types who can’t admit to a darker agenda and who think that what they do is OK – this includes the health service, government, MPs, media and so on. These people are the enablers, just as the millions of compliant masses who refuse to see the truth or who only listen to the propaganda are also enablers. The dark forces in the shadows rely on these enablers.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

Was the Pandemic Orchestrated as a Trial Run for Responding to a Biological Attack?

Pretty shit effort if it was.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

I still have a sneaky suspicion that in a parallel universe where, in 2016, the UK voted remain and the US voted for Clinton, 2020 would be a year that had a nasty bit of flu and life carried on as usual. COVID-19 put the technocrats back in charge, impoverished populations and saw a massive push towards Agenda 30 that had been derailed by the possibility of more populations getting ideas that don’t chime with the elitists.

COVID-19 was convenient for all the wrong reasons. And now the people who caused this mess are completely in power and telling us we have to suffer to clean up their mess.

The difference between our world and that blissfully ignorant parallel world is that a significant proportion of our population knows what these supra-national organisations are about, who is tied up with them and just how dangerous they really are.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Dangerous yes ! Someone posted the ex Vodaphone whistleblower explaining The Internet of Things etc ! It was mixed in with a bit of religious / spiritual stuff which actually didn’t detract anything , in fact maybe it is Good V Evil , God help us !

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Given Klaus Schwab’s presence at G20 (where many of the leaders are his acolytes) I begin to wonder if this really is apocalyptic Good vs Evil stuff!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell is also at the G20. Why?

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007point5
007point5
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Yes and no ..Much of what we are currently experiencing was planned and published BEFORE Trump and Brexit, while the ‘elites’ still believed they had the cash and propaganda infrastructure to control us Plebs… I believe when Trump and Brexit occurred despite the extreme efforts to the contrary of the ‘Western’ / NATO technocratic elites, I reckon they fast tracked a plan that is consequently occurring too soon… The technology it relies on investing in simply isn’t there yet … the preparatory brainwashing of our kids is not complete …and grumpy old dinosaurs like us should have been dead … 😉

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Human Resource 19510203
Human Resource 19510203
2 years ago

It’s a plausible scenario but I don’t think I buy it. Malice aforethought on the part of the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, WEF, Fauci, BiS, IMF, etc is much more likely.

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TJN
TJN
2 years ago

That’s a great article thanks Will – a laudable and as far as I’ve seen thus far the best and most plausible account of what happened late 2019 – early 2020.

Doubtless it will have to be revised over time and – as other posters have pointed out – the timing of Event 201 does seem a remarkable coincidence which may have to be explained.

But as a first stab at history this is pretty good imo – the sort of thing the MSM should be doing, and only a few years would have been regarded as a major piece of investigative reporting, which would have gone far to making the journalist’s reputation. How times have changed.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

I see nothing much to disagree with in either the contents or conclusion of this article. I believe this was an orchestrated event and an orchestrated response by Globalists who want maximum possible control over the global population and will do anything they deem necessary to achieve it.

We have been subjected to a massive medical and psychological experiment and – sadly – our collective response was not good. But that was partly because so many ordinary independent thinkers took time to identify the PsyOps Campaign; link to the scientists and medics who were speaking out and issuing warnings and then to get themselves organised ….. all made far harder because of the suppression of free speech at the scientific level and at the demos level by closing the pubs.

We will be much better placed to push-back the next time they try this. We are many; they are few. And they fear us just as much as we fear them.

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gedhurst
gedhurst
2 years ago

The best account of plandemic origins yet. Still to be revealed is the real reason they wanted a jab in every arm. I mean, the Deagel 2025 Population forecasts were fake, right?

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RJBassett
RJBassett
2 years ago

A very impressive piece of work, thank you Mr. Jones for connecting the dots and trying to ensure that these villains are held accountable for the damage they wrought.

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
2 years ago

Thanks for another brilliant article, Will.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
2 years ago

Another event plays into the biowarfare scenario and that is something was going on at the Lab in Winnipeg that involved 2 Chinese scientists working on something in the Lab that was funded by the Chinese biowarfare unit. These 2 scientists were suddenly told to leave Canada and have vanished. The Trudeau government refuses to release any information on what transpired there even when held in contempt of Parliament. It is also suggested that Trudeau called the last election in 2021 to thwart the Parliament seeking answers.

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wryobserver
wryobserver
2 years ago

I have never believed that conspiracy trumps cock-up. Until now. This is compelling stuff. If true, there is one sure thing about the emergency protocols people were so keen to test; they don’t work.

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007point5
007point5
2 years ago

I don’t buy that #TheGreatCovid19Fraud was ‘just’ an overactive BioSecurity response…Too many coincidences… I see it this way; #NATO was facing an existential crisis with Trump and Brexit turning away from an organisation that has failed to repurpose itself post fall of USSR, and the loss of ‘elite’ Authority Trump and Brexit embodied and represented. Brexit had to be emasculated by binding the UK to a NATO wide biosecurity strategy, and the economic benefits Trump was bringing to AverageJoeAmerican had to be destroyed to ensure he lost the Election. Tie this to a NATO strategic aim to maintain its global supremacy via ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’ /#TheGreatClimateRobbery and the rest is History…Boris and The Donald were bounced into this by a Financial/Security establishment that routinely manipulates politicians to preserve its long term policy aims beyond the political cycle… Obviously the long term plans that ignited #TheUkraineShitshow tie neatly into this aim of re-establishing NATO authority, and have been long in the making. One thing is for sure.. “cock-up” this is not! ..(it’s pretty much all laid out in the 2010 published WEF _ Rockefeller Foundation_”Scenarios for the future of Technology and International Development” ) ..I blame the Nazis …;)

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
2 years ago

Very plausible explanation indeed.

It would also explain why the new Health Security Agency was set up in the UK – when it was discovered that actually we didn’t really have a biodefence network.

You might also have mentioned that the EcoHealth Alliance made a proposal for gain of function research to America’s Defence Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018. EcoHealth claim their research is to help prevent pandemics – in which case, why look to the DEFENCE projects agency to fund it?

DARPA rejected the proposal but EcoHealth then went on to obtain funding for this research from Fauci’s National Institutes of Health. At that time such research was illegal in the United States (having been banned under President Obama). And we know that EcoHealth had close links with the lab in Wuhan.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/01/darpa-rejected-ecohealth-alliance-proposal-for-coronavirus-fauci-allowed-it-project-veritas/#:~:text=DARPA%20had%20rejected%20the%20proposal%20saying%20it%20is,USA%20as%20well%20as%20Wuhan%20Institute%20of%20Virology.

There are smoking guns all over the place on this. I’m sure people will end up going to jail over it.

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007point5
007point5
2 years ago
Reply to  adamcollyer

We did have a sensible biodefence network , and sensible pandemic plans, headed up by the Health Protection Agency and Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, headquartered at the Civilian side of Porton Down … The HPA was abolished in 2013 following a masterplanning exercise to explore its future configuration called ‘Project Chrysalis’ on account of cost .. The then director died at the outset of #TheGreatCovid19Fraud… The UK Health Security Agency is the HPA’s National Socialist successor … 😉

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Crouchback
Crouchback
2 years ago

This reads like a foundational document for us erstwhile Lockdown Sceptics, describing the original lies that brought us all together as people who simply could not align the emerging data on the virus with what we were being told by our leaders. Don’t stop!

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