Little known to the voting public, Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all signed up to legally binding five-year plans, known as ‘carbon budgets’, which stipulate a “detailed programme to re-engineer society to cut emissions by a specific amount”, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph. And any deviation could be open to legal challenge, meaning Governments have almost zero leeway to delay or cancel extreme measures like bans on boilers and petrol cars, no matter how unpopular or impoverishing.
Did you know, dear reader, that we are now on our fourth such carbon budget, valid from 2023 to 2027? Did you realise that the next two – up until 2037 – have already been enshrined in law, making a mockery of the next two or even three general elections? Were you aware that all of the consumer-facing changes – in 18 months, no newly built home will be fitted with a gas boiler, in seven years’ time, it will be illegal to buy new petrol cars, in 12 years, you will no longer be allowed to replace your existing boiler like-for-like – have been accounted for in the plans, gravely limiting room for political manoeuvre? Did you realise that any significant deviation from these carbon budgets could trigger legal action from pressure groups?
As Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband pushed through the Climate Change Act in 2008, committing to cut emissions by 80% on 1990 levels by 2050, with the support of all but five MPs. It was the equivalent of another Maastricht Treaty, a huge shift that will, in time, trigger a furious reaction from the electorate when it realises that it is no longer in control. It was apposite that, in 2019, Theresa May, fresh from sabotaging Brexit, amended the Climate Change Act by statutory instrument, increasing the target to a 100% cut in emissions by 2050.
That distant date has lulled many into a false sense of flexibility. Why can’t we delay the ban on combustion engines to 2035 or even later, naïve souls ask, and still meet Net Zero on time? The reality is that it could well be unlawful because cuts to emissions must be phased in according to a strict timetable.
The Government is obliged to set binding, five-year carbon budgets that cap the maximum amount of emissions allowed during each period; each budget is much tougher than the previous one. Meeting them is no joke: they need to be legislated 12 years in advance and be accompanied by credible policies to deliver them in full. Miliband’s Act created the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a ridiculously influential quango which advises the Government on the level of each budget and how much of a contribution each sector should make.
Through a combination of a recession, continued deindustrialisation, insufficient house and infrastructure building and the shift towards renewable energy, the UK met its first (2008- 2012), second (2013-2017) and third (2018-2022) carbon budgets without needing to try too hard. We are now into our fourth budget, requiring a 52% fall in emissions compared with 1990; this, too, could be manageable, partly because of stronger than expected sales of electric cars. But the pain is starting, and the backlash – from landlords, from motorists – is beginning.
Real, Brexit-intensity political warfare will undoubtedly break out ahead of the fifth budget (2028-2032) and especially sixth (2033-37), which will include aviation and shipping, coincide with the ban on new petrol cars and all new gas boilers, a massive, hugely costly insulation drive and require a cumulative 77% cut in emissions.
The Government has very little leeway if it wishes to continue to accept the strictures of the Climate Change Act.
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Most so called journalists are either establishment lefties or they know which side their bread is buttered
Name some journalists who dug into the folly and evil that was “covid”. Toby Young, Peter Hitchens.
And how many had the stones to speak up for Julian Assange. They are a bunch of pathetic little worms who should change their career.
Good point. Hitchens banged on about Assange.
Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan at the DT were pretty sound ….. after the first few weeks when the DT was just promoting the propaganda.
Good to know. Precious few though.
Watergate couldn’t happen anymore. Most journalists seem to work in their pyjamas.
Watergate was an op. The reporters were useful idiots.
All true and beautifully articulated.
And yet 9m electors voted for this dangerous and entirely well-established bullshit.
We are screwed.
Well said. We have a uniparty state and millions of people who should know better voted for more of the same. Anyone who starts grumbling to me about the state of our nation under assault I first stop them and ask how they voted. If they admit voting for the Uniparty then I politely tell them they have only themselves to blame and they are part of the problem.
Probably people voted for the Uniparty because the available alternatives were perceived rightly as useless.
If it is your view that the alternatives are useless then perhaps, all things considered it is safer to vote for an alternative that is useless than any of the establishment parties who are committed to Net Zero economic chaos, wokery/transgenderism, the pursuit of critical race theory, the sexualisation of children, white population replacement, creeping back into the EU, courting war with Russia, the WEF agendas and further erosion of the nation state via cooperation and commitment to global NGOs.
Because a) the media are just loudspeakers for Government broadcasts; b) the media has got the Left-wing, authoritarian regime it desires, which is doing its best to shut down the media’s annoying, dangerous rival… the Internet.
This isn’t exactly news or surprising given that journalists did this through the entire Scamdemic, because they’re all bought and paid for establishment mouthpiece hacks.
Anyway, as regards to the two-tier justice situation, why didn’t this nutter go to jail because he’s a ‘terrorist’ based on this obvious demonstration of misogyny? Seriously though, is this ‘misogyny=terrorism’ supposed new law even a ‘thing’? Just send the guy down for assaulting three people, who happen to be women in this incident. But he’s Muslim so he got a suspended sentence instead. But if this is what he’s like in public ( a bit like the Nandos psycho hitting the waitress ) what on earth is he like behind closed doors? It seems to come a bit too free and easy to some when you see how comfortable and confident they are in attacking females. Almost like they know full well they’ll only get a slap on the wrist at worst….Yvette Cooper, take note. ( She will not. )
BTW, can anyone explain what the point of suspended sentences are? I literally don’t see the logic. You’ve either broken the law or you haven’t, which carries a jail sentence or it doesn’t. White people are being sent to jail for literally doing the opposite to this guy and NOT attacking/hurting anyone yet he walks?
”A man berated three women “prostitutes” for not wearing traditional Asian dress and putting on make-up, then violently attacked them, a court heard.
Muhammad Hassan, 26, assaulted the victims after spotting them at a petrol station in Bradford.
In a 51-second attack captured on CCTV, Hassan grabbed the driver and slammed her head on to the dashboard of her vehicle.
He then grabbed another woman’s hair and punched her in the head before hitting the third woman.
Hassan, from Bradford, was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for two years.
Ayman Khokhar, prosecuting, told Bradford Crown Court Hassan knew the three women.
The group had stopped for fuel at the Prince of Wales Service Station on Harrogate Road while on their way to a dinner on May 25.
Hassan pulled up alongside the women and appeared to be “refuelling his car slowly on purpose”, the court heard.
The women decided to wait until he had left before getting out of their vehicle as Hassan had previously objected to their non-traditional dress and make-up.
He called them “slags” and “prostitutes” and demanded that they dress conservatively, the court heard.
After paying for his fuel, Hassan marched to the women’s car and punched and pushed them before driving off while the women called 999.
The victims suffered swelling, bruises, red marks and scratches.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-assaulted-three-asian-women-175956196.html
Isn’t it just one additional step before a custodial sentence? Sort of like a last warning?
I think the above article just illustrates the two-tier justice the UK is experiencing perfectly. It’s all completely mental. Don’t attack somebody, you’re off to prison because you shared a meme or went to a protest and shouted at police/a dog. Attack somebody, you get to avoid prison altogether, just do a bit community service and keep your nose clean. That must surely reassure the victims that you’ve traumatized. It also makes Yvette Cooper look like a total idiot because the world and their dog can see that this entire ‘misogyny’ lark is all about curtailing free speech further. We don’t need any extra laws, just the ones that exist to be implemented appropriately, which is clearly not happening.
Meanwhile, Laurence Fox has the remedy for the above triggered douchebag and his ilk. I had to laugh at one reply: ”Close your eyes and think of Diane Abbot”
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/1828762903249400263
Couldn’t agree more.
We.could probably even get rid of quite a few.
It means if you reoffend – for anything – you go to gaol to serve the original suspended sentence plus whatever new sentence is imposed.
It is supposed to encourage you to be a good boy.
Still, not much justice for those women he attacked!
I would like to know what the sentence would have been if the assailant had not been a Muslim.
I’m guessing that it would not have been suspended (and the criminal would be having seven bells kicked out of him in prison).
It just seems to me that the UK law is fluid, which basically means it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Meanwhile, speaking of the dratted Yvette Cooper and Labour government. I think they’re going to have to recruit more police;
”The Home Secretary is understood to be considering a new “zero-tolerance” approach, which would see police officers encouraged to record more non-criminal hate incidents.
The move would be a reversal of changes to the laws brought in last year by the Tories, who issued new guidance that ordered the force to stop recording incidents just because someone was offended.
Coming into effect in June 2023, officers are currently restricted to only recording incidents motivated by “intentional hostility” and “where there is a “real risk of escalation causing significant harm or a criminal offence”.
The changes were implemented in a bid to preserve free speech after concerns were raised it was being curtailed.
One “trivial” case included a man accusing his neighbour of racial hatred after he whistled the Bob the Builder theme tune at him, whilst a student who was added to police files after scuffing a copy of the Quran caused Suella Braverman to act and implement the changes.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/yvette-cooper-considers-plans-to-bolster-hate-crime-laws-despite-fears-over-free-speech/ar-AA1pz3ZI
Of course if he wasn’t a Muslim he wouldn’t have done it in the first place.
Fair point. But if a white person did assault Asian ladies like that then it would have been viewed as a racist crime which seems to compound the felony by a significant factor, for reasons which escape me. Same as knife crime, not so much fuss made about black on black but if it’s white on black all hell let loose. Basically it is the ethnicity of the criminal which dictates all.
The whole George Floyd episode was based on racism but was there any evidence it was racially motivated when you consider that the Policeman and Floyd knew each other, and had ‘history’.
I’m sorry, but do people at the Daily Sceptic actually still believe the official press hold power to account at all? Really?
Here is a good rule of thumb. If you don’t want to be brainwashed by the establishment, stay the hell away from official media and journalists with credentials like Downing Street press passes.
You could hear Beth Rigby of SKY NEWS urging and imploring Starmer to rejoin the EU. She was desperate for him to give her the nod and the wink. But ofcourse he wasn’t going to give the “far right” any ammunition, so he just called it all “closer relations” etc. But you can see where this is going with Starmer stating “No, this is not about reversing Brexit”———–You total cretin, that is exactly what you want.
A side note: Chris Hope, from GBN, made the point that the “Rose Garden” did not have many roses in it. Only one rose bush, apparently – it was an invented name by someone relatively recently for whatever reason. Quite likely that the cameras used had wide angle lenses on to make it look larger than it is, as well. And he didn’t have the opportunity to ask anything.
He wasn’t selected to ask anything. This is why nobody asked any serious questions, Starmer invited only tame journalsits to speak.
Wow— they named it after the White House Rose Garden where US Presidents often give speeches to the media. It’s the same kind of unnecessary imitation of the US Supreme Court, when the British Law Lords were abolished and replaced by a newly-invented British Supreme Court, which has been busily practicing “Judicial Overreach” ever since then, just like its much older American counterpart.
There was definitely a pile of manure at the podium
Great article- thanks!
I’m thinking that comrade 2T S will be ‘protected’ from the hitherto normal rigours of robust public questioning. For political reasons of course. That said, I seriously doubt his personal ability or capacity to think on his feet.. I’m not precisely sure who said it but I think that as far as his substance goes ‘there’s less to him than meets the eye’!.
His speeches will be carefully crafted by ‘others’ and the behavioural insights language is easy to spot as is the ‘pre framing’.
Of course, the ludicrous ‘we’ve discovered that things are far worse than we thought’ will be appropriated to exonerate themselves from accusations of being dishonest with the electorate.
Despicable!
The only promise Labour made in the election campaign was for ‘change’ that ‘the country is crying out for’. People wanted the Torees out and they got what they were looking for – for ‘change’. Virtually no politics was discussed in the campaign and evidently none was required by the small percentage of people who actually did vote for ‘change’.
Thus, all these things are ‘change’. Increases in taxes are ‘change’ (and, indeed, not small change). Redesignating illegal migrants as ‘irregulars’ is ‘change’. Carpeting the countryside and the seas with windmills is ‘change’. Ceasing to heat pensioners while hotel guests are cosseted is a sort of ‘change’ that appears to recognise the wisdom of investing in those with a longer potential as possible taxpayers.
The British state dealing with lawbreakers (if only those who challenge its authority and who do not have community leaders or elders to negotiate with) with arrests and custodial sentences rather than with cautions and suspended sentences is ‘change’. While removing the instant ‘justice’ from shoplifters is an altogether different sort of change. A new treaty with Germany to help ‘working people’ is ‘change’ (though it must always be borne in mind that what Sir K means by ‘working people’ are those without savings).
Also nobody asked about a countrywide rollout of the 20mph when it is unpopular here in Wales. But as we know, consultations are part of the new fascism and sidestep ‘the people’. The modern ‘consultation’ and its conclusion are already decided.
Stärmer missed his true calling – as a de-motivational speaker…
Political Deception – ‘The act of politicking involving lies, self-presentation, promises, fabrications, and so on, to distract and keep people waiting for solutions in a political system’
KS – The Master Deceiver
Because if they upset 2TK, that would be the last time they ever got invited to the Rose Garden. They like having their place at the table.
Well done to David Craig for listing the questions most of the British People would like journalists to ask Starmer.
His article made me wonder why the media has gone all quiet about the jail sentences being handed out to British Patriots protesting against the Mass Importation of Muslim Men of Military Age, and the resultant horrific criminal acts immigrants have committed. So I tried doing a Google search, and found that the latest 3 British Patriots have been sentenced to prison for shouting, gesturing and lunging at police, and one for throwing stones, and one for also using a bicycle to shield himself from a police dog biting him, leaving him in a wheelchair. No police or dogs were actually harmed by any of those sentenced to 2 years and 3 months, 2 years and a 6-year criminal behaviour order, and 1 year and 8 months. Their humiliation was complete when their lawyers assured the court that the defendants were “thoroughly ashamed” or “utterly disgusted” with themselves, perhaps after telling the defendants that would get them a lighter sentence. It did not.
Hull riot: Three more troublemakers jailed after ‘miasma of madness’ in city centre – Hull Live (hulldailymail.co.uk)
“Campbell [now in a wheelchair from police dog bites] had six daughters and four grandchildren, who were the “light of his life”. He was in Hull to buy a suit for a funeral at the time of the disorder.”
Riot suspects warned ‘we will arrest you’ as police storm homes in morning raids – Teesside Live (gazettelive.co.uk)
“never in my 30 years’ service have I seen anything like that in Middlesbrough. What the community had to put up with that day was completely unacceptable.”
*Note that the English word “community” in the UK now means people with “community leaders” whose ancestral homeland is in the Third World, usually vast in comparison to the British Isles, and with no ancestral, ethnic or cultural connection to the British Isles.
Meanwhile,
UK: Muslim groups urge government to engage with Muslim Council of Britain after riots | Middle East Eye
“The declaration, issued by the recently formed Islamophobia Action Group on Wednesday, was signed by 80 organisations including the Muslim Engagement and Development Initiative, the Muslim Association of Britain and the Muslim Council of Wales.
It called on the government to “engage directly with legitimate, democratically elected representatives of Muslim communities, particularly the Muslim Council of Britain, to ensure that Muslim voices are heard and addressed”.”
To its enormous credit,
“The government did not respond to communications from the Muslim Council of Britain throughout the recent far-right riots.”
Long may that continue…
Well they can foxtrot Oscar for a start.
But just watch 2tk will cave, of course he will.
Useless fucker that he is.
Well, that’s a good question.
As far as I can see, during the Covid crisis the entire mass media became extremely compliant and unquestioning (that’s why I started reading the DS!) and afterwards never really returned to normal business.
It’s like some essential life-force has gone out of the entire journalistic business. The articles have become lazy, patronizing, banal; it’s like they assume that their target audience has become at least a little bit stupid.
Coupled with that I think it’s probably a waste of time to ask Starmer any questions. The guy is an empty suit. A machine programmed to spew out some stock phrases. Seriously, there is noone there.
Excellent piece as usual.
Still, looking on the bright side, his evident crookedness obvious even to normies must surely bring forward the day on which the worm will turn and we can kick these rascals out, and hopefully save something of the rather special even if not perfect country most of us were born and brought up in.
They don’t have any choice. Same in America when Kamala was annointed. Immediately the message was this is the person you need to support no matter what and of course the masses clap like seals. Just like they loved Johnson and Cameron and Blair. It is presented as the only option and your average joe stuffing his face with a Greggs sausage roll goes yep that’s the only option now leave me alone to enjoy my nasty pasty. You can’t do anything about these tendencies as lamentable as they are. It is a mucky business trying to turn that ship around.
I won’t hear a bad word said about the legendary and much revered Greggsy’s sausage roll, mind. All in moderation, of course, like all things. Anyways, won’t be long til I’m once again ”sittin’ in a sleazy snack bar suckin’ sickly sausage rolls” as I ”run for home, run as fast as I can, woooaaaah running, man. Running for home.”
To be fair, it was mostly the same set of journalists who were notable for their inability to ask the obvious questions during Covid, lockdowns and ‘cakegate’. Unlikely that any of them are going to win a Pulitzer, I’d wager…
There is so little money sloshing about now they will do anything to earm a few quid. Yes they are still scumbags but the world is full of such people. The fact that they call themselves journalists doesn’t mean that it is wise to listen to them. I understand the attraction of pretending to be naive but this is the wrong time to do it. We live in nasty cutthroat times. If you aren’t up to that challenge then reality will cut your throat.
Why?
Because most of them either support Labour, or want to keep their jobs and know that asking “difficult questions” would put them at risk …… or both.
REAL journalism no longer exists in the MSM.
It still persists to some degree on GB News and Talk Radio, but the alternative media, podcasters and citizen journalists are the only places where you’ll find something approaching real journalism.
And they’ll not be allowed within 100 metres of Keir Stalin.
Also TNT Radio News is doing a great job. Watch out for ex-BBC Journalist Jemma Cooper – she is excellent.
Great article. It occurred to me yesterday that the media can literally let politicians get away with murder.
Stalin wanted to show the World’s media how successful communism was and feted people like US journalist Durante to come to Moscow where he showcased happy citizens and a working society. Durante even went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for this.
While all the time Stalin was literally murdering millions all of which was kept hidden from the media. The film ‘Mr Jones’ is the story of one journalist who would not accept what he was told and travelled to Ukraine to see the horrific result of Stalin’s policies.
I suspect that today’s journalists are not only like Durante – who accepted what he was told, but are wilfully turning a blind eye to the obvious harms that the uni-party have inflicted on this country and refuse to report on anything coming near them or, God forbid, anything outside the official narrative.
I suspect that this winter stories of pensioners who have died as a direct result of no winter fuel payments will suffer the same fate as stories of the 1000s who lost their lives because of a certain medical procedure.
They are all guilty and complicit in this…. I despair of real truth ever getting out while people continue to get their news from these sycophantic liars.
Because they’re socialists
Thi swas an Orchestrated Circus…. So called journalists are just as good as Richard Burton’s Staff in 1984! Shameful…. what has happened to England!!
Same as the ‘journos’ who never questioned Nicola Sturgeon..too busy fawning over her while she trotted out the most awful lockdown restrictions on us Scots. Or droning on about Independence and the people of Scotland. A complete and shameless liar aided and abetted by gutless TV & Newspaper ‘investigative journalists’.