In the aftermath of the release of the Lockdown Files, the public is slowly coming to terms with some fairly shocking facts: that the Government was willing to lie and mislead, and to scaremonger and manipulate the media, in order to achieve its Covid policy objectives (or even just to garner a few headlines). The news is still sinking in, but a day of reckoning for those involved looks likely.
For those of us bearing the scars of long engagement in the climate and energy wars, however, none of this was a surprise. It has long been clear that the inhabitants of the Westminster village were happy to hype up fears of climate purgatory and to fib about the road to redemption – renewables – and the cost of taking it. Once the public understand the depth and extent of the deception, and the damage done to the economy and the prospects for our children, the trickery over Covid is going to look decidedly peripheral.
The latest report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) is a case in point. On the surface it’s a roadmap to a decarbonised electricity grid, but in reality it’s merely a sales document, full of tricks, evasions and outright falsehoods that would make even the most cynical used car salesman blush.
For example, in a number of places, it says that decarbonisation of the grid will be ‘cost-effective’, but you will find next to no information on what it will cost. The game that is being played becomes a bit clearer when you read the reference to ‘carbon prices’. In normal usage, the carbon price is the estimate of the damage done by a ton of carbon dioxide, but in the CCC’s parlance it is an estimate of what it will cost to decarbonise. So, while it gives you the impression it has done a cost-benefit analysis and is going to be saving you money, in reality it is only saying that the bill to be paid will be the same as previously advised. It’s a trick.
Another trick is to assume that wind power costs will be only a quarter of what they actually are. For years, the industry has been pushing claims that they have brought about a cost-reduction revolution. The problem is that windfarms’ own financial accounts show that it isn’t true. And with new windfarms now saying they will not come on stream without further subsidies, the deception has been exposed.
I’m picking on the CCC here, simply because it is in the news today. But it’s not just the CCC. None of the bodies whom the public expect to tell the truth about the Net Zero project will do so: the Royal Academy of Engineering is silent. The Royal Society likewise. National Grid pretends the task is a cinch. The National Infrastructure Commission just repeats the Government line verbatim. Parliament asks how soon the job can be done, not whether it can be done or how much it will cost. Everywhere the tricks go unchallenged and the lies are swept under the carpet.
Such deceptions mean that we are storing up catastrophic harms for our economy, and for our children and grandchildren. Energy that was said to be as cheap as gas is actually going to cost three or four times as much. The costs of ensuring supply when the wind doesn’t blow are an order of magnitude larger.
And whether it was delivered on the back of a lie or not, you are going to have to pay for it. A huge pipeline of wind projects is in place already, each eligible for an astonishing array of hidden subsidies – the list is too long to give here. Once built, they will suck wealth from our economy and hope from our society. They will be hard, if not impossible, to close down – they have been made exempt from windfall taxes and the Government cannot simply switch them off without destroying investor confidence in the economy as a whole. If we do not reverse course soon, our children will never know the wealth we have enjoyed until now, just poverty and rationing and hardship. And all because everyone is too scared to challenge the lies. Just like Covid.
Andrew Montford is Deputy Director of Net Zero Watch.
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“TfL announced its ban, which includes other symbols and flags, amid concerns it could distract drivers and other road users”
Bollox!
Are rainbow flags mandatory yet.
in the past I have seen national flags on cabs.
Soon you’ll be a bigot for not wanting to date a tranny.
Teen in Germany gangraped and only one got jail time. But of you highlight the problems with ‘diversity’ in Germany, that could get you arrested!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUW-YTgo-g
There is one obvious way to overturn this blatant act of treason – all taxi drivers call one day a week flag day and on that day they fly a flag on their taxis. And if they are fined they refuse to pay the fine.
Yes great idea. But as you and I know you would have great difficulty getting everyone in your street to agree to action never mind all of London.
But a mural for Taylor Swift is fine.
Or projecting ‘from the river to the sea’ on the Elizabeth Tower.
OK. I admit it’s not as permanent as a mural.
Pity the poor guy who marries that thing.
I’ll just leave it at this London bus then.
They voted for the muppet. Go figure?
This idea to stop people flying flags comes from the globalist mentality that countries should not be Nations anymore but just Regions of the International Community. The likes of the cretin Khan take their responsibility to get rid of National Identity seriously.
The formalisation of regions populated by tribes and factions unified into a national identity worked reasonably well in history. A down side to a national cohesion was the occasional dispute which was far larger than a tribal action.
Todays, Globalisation, multi cultural, and equality agendas will see a return of tribal, factional, and sectional grouping to re appear, has they are now doing within the west. The perfect divide and conquer strategy for todays world, giving total control and power to the elites, and chaos and conflict to everyone else.
oooooooooooooh. it appears the down ticks have taken an exception to my reference to national social collapse, by the segregation and disintegration, of social cohesion.
I would urge EVERY taxi to display the English flag from now on.
Do you sport an England flag on your work desk? Are you a political activist with Reform UK? Do you have an England flag displayed on your car? If you are then I salute you.
He’s not wrong.
Khan hates England and the English.
In London, the Great Replacement has already happened. Only 36% of the population is English. Why would anyone expect to see an English flag?
Nigel is absolutely right.
Khan hates “England & the English”.
The Scots, Welsh and Irish hate “England & the English”.
The EU hates “England & the English”.
The UN hates “England & the English”.
The entire Third World hates “England & the English”.
So why do “England & the English” keep lavishing money upon all these people, allowing them to trample “England & the English” underfoot?
Time for “England & the English” to declare themselves to be an Independent Nation.
Some Welsh people do, not myself though.
Even the mildest local Welsh Christian ladies have expressed the need for solidarity among the “Celtic peoples”, the Welsh, Scots & Irish, united together against the English “oppressors”. And yet they have never learned to speak Welsh, and have chosen to live in England for most of their lives, and hardly ever visit Wales. Just like many other “Celts” in Britain. And then there are the Third World immigrants, jostling for top government posts.
It’s astonishing how many millions of people hate England & the English, and yet choose to live in England.
The problem is that far too many English over the last thirty years have voted for English establishment parties that hate the English! Swathes of English have voted for their own replacement. Never ever vote for any establishment party!
A public forum for publicly paid officials features a string of threats against the Reform UK leader, GB News can reveal
Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage has been the subject of violent threats on an online forum for civil servants, GB News can reveal.
Threats posted by publicly-paid officials included physical violence such as punching, assault and one commenter even implied they wished to see Mr Farage killed.
Seems to me that the vast majority of hate come from the left, from people who are often quoted as saying hate won’t win. That sentiment is only ever applied to the right.
Well done for pointing out that news. I was shocked to hear the same violent threats against Nigel even here in a local shop, where the “liberal” shopkeeper and a customer were saying that they wished the milkshake attacker had thrown rocks instead.
I hope you openly expressed your support for Farage to the shopkeeper!
Course he does. He’s a lipstick Muslim. Doing the ummahs good work.