You probably know that a massive Energy Bill is being rushed through Parliament by our fake ‘Conservative’ Government in the first two days of our parliamentarians’ return from their generous summer break. The Bill is 446 pages long and written in dense, largely-incomprehensible-to-any-normal-person legalese. Moreover, many clauses in the Energy Bill make reference to other pieces of previous legislation. So, to fully understand the Bill, you would have to read at least a thousand pages of dense legalistic gobbledegook. Given that our MPs have just passed the Bill with a mere nine voting against it, one must assume that they have spent their summer holidays diligently reading through the Bill and other relevant legislation in order to fully understand what they were voting for.
Here’s the full title of the Bill:
A Bill to make provision about energy production and security and the regulation of the energy market, including provision about the licensing of carbon dioxide transport and storage; about commercial arrangements for industrial carbon capture and storage and for hydrogen production; about new technology, including low-carbon heat schemes and hydrogen grid trials; about the Independent System Operator and Planner; about gas and electricity industry codes; about heat networks; about energy smart appliances and load control; about the energy performance of premises; about the resilience of the core fuel sector; about offshore energy production, including environmental protection, licensing and decommissioning; about the civil nuclear sector, including the Civil Nuclear Constabulary; and for connected purposes
As you’ll see, this legislative monster covers an awful lot of areas – energy production, regulation of the energy market, CO2 transport and storage, carbon capture, hydrogen production, low-carbon heat schemes, hydrogen grid trials, heat networks, smart appliances, load control, energy performance of industrial and residential premises, offshore energy production and the civil nuclear sector. We must be considered fortunate in Britain to have MPs who have such a strong work ethic and such a deep understanding of all these disparate issues to be able to vote for the new Energy Bill knowing exactly what they are voting for.
Life is too short for any normal person to read and to try to understand this massive abomination of almost impenetrable legalise. But here are some choice titbits which I think I understand.
The Bill explains what a ‘Smart Meter’ is:
“Energy smart appliance” means an appliance which is capable of adjusting the immediate or future flow of electricity into or out of itself or another appliance in response to a load control signal; and includes any software or other systems which enable or facilitate the adjustment to be made in response to the signal.
So it seems that the conspiracy theorists were right yet again – a key purpose of ‘Smart Meters’ is not only to measure power usage but also to allow energy providers to control how much energy we are allowed to consume using “a load control signal”.
Moreover, authorities will be allowed to use “reasonable force” to enter any homes or premises to ensure we have the approved ‘Smart Meters’ installed:
Requiring persons to supply evidence of their compliance to enforcement authorities; conferring powers of entry, including by reasonable force.
All electricity and gas meters have dates by which they should be replaced. From what I have read the Bill gives representatives from energy companies the power to enter any home, with police protection if required, to replace traditional meters at the end of their lives with smart meters. Again, “reasonable force” may be used.
The Bill gives the Government the power to force us to have energy assessments for any premises:
The Secretary of State may make regulations for any of these purposes: (a) enabling or requiring the energy usage or energy efficiency of premises to be assessed, certified and publicised;
We can be fined up to £15,000 or face one year in prison for failing to meet any future energy performance levels any government imposes:
Energy performance regulations may provide for the imposition of civil penalties by enforcement authorities in relation to cases falling within subsection (1)(b), (c) or (d); but the regulations may not provide for a civil penalty that exceeds £15,000.
Under the totally misleading title of ‘Energy Savings Opportunity Schemes’, authorities can force any person or company to make energy savings using the threat of criminalisation for failure to comply:
The Secretary of State may by regulations (“ESOS regulations”) make provision for the establishment and operation of one or more energy savings opportunity schemes. An “energy savings opportunity scheme” is a scheme under which obligations 30 are imposed on undertakings to which the scheme applies for one or more of the ESOS purposes.
I could go on. But I imagine you get the picture by now. This ‘Energy Bill’ creates the means by which some puffed-up public-sector mini-dictator could gain powers to control us in ways most people would find completely unacceptable. Yet our useless MPs passed the Bill with a massive majority and the Lords are set to do the same.
If there really was a ‘climate crisis’ caused by humans burning fossil fuels and threatening the existence of the human race as the BBC and others of its ilk repeatedly claim, then you might be able to argue that some of the measures in the Bill could be justified. But given that changes in atmospheric CO2 levels have little to no influence on the Earth’s temperatures, that Britain only contributes less than 1% of world CO2 output and that developing countries like India and China each increase their CO2 output by more each year than Britain’s total CO2 emissions, we are creating a totalitarian regime which will intrude on people’s lives, restrict people’s freedoms, wreck the British economy and immiserate our country to fix a problem which doesn’t even exist and, if it did, would not be solved by our action anyway.
And if you fear this horror will lead to an intrusive, oppressive police state under the Tories, imagine how this will be used and abused by Ed Miliband and the climate fanatics in the next Labour Government.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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See also:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/27/seizing-everything-the-theft-of-the-global-commons-part-1/
And:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/11/08/seizing-everything-the-theft-of-the-global-commons-part-2/
It is all linked.
“Tragedy of the (unmanaged) commons” is used as an convenient excuse for the oligarchs to privatize the entire planet for themselves. Nestle gets all the freshwater supply, Bill Gates gets all the farmland, Elon Musk gets all the satellite orbits, and so on. “We’ll be good stewards of the Earth, we promise!” Riiiiight.
Those voting for establishment parties cannot complain of their and their children’s impending impoverishment and servility.
Correct.
They won’t even notice it. Too busy virtue signaling and waving their new heat pumps around… mine is bigger than yours!
I won’t tire of repeating, we live in a bureaucratic dictatorship.
Our parliament don’t make the rules and regulations, bureaucrats do. MPs are there to lend the process a veneer of legitimacy. We voted for them, and they approved the law, so there, it’s democratic. Now suck it up.
The whole thing is a bad joke.
What is equally unfunny is that the theory that we have too much carbon in the atmosphere and it needs to be scaled back has now been weaved into so many laws and regulations that even if the population decided they were done with it – (huge if) – it would probably take years to untangle.
We are so completely screwed. The only thing we are left with at this point is non-compliance. That’s is where our power begins and ends – which is not nothing if applied by enough of us.
Isn’t it funny how the ‘dodgy concrete scandal’ broke and then dropped out of the news again once this Bill passed?
I knew there was a reason it was timed to
coinincide with the schools going back. Those affected must be feeling the same despair brought on by lockdowns: the government flexing its muscles, even if it causes them scandal; they know all is lost, anyway.
And why schools in particular? Surely many other buildings are similarly affected; they keep telling us we’ll have to pay for Parliament and Buckingham Palace falling down.
Starting to think the concrete business with schools is only a pilot, to return later in autumn, just as hospitals filling up – and then it will be ….hospitals!
Let parliament and Buckingham Palace fall down.
Especially as I’ve just read that Heathrow knew about the problem concrete in one of their terminals (T3) a number years ago but don’t appear to have said anything.
I don’t think a smart meter is an energy smart appliance as it’s not an appliance at all. Energy efficiency of premises must already be asserted and certified.
I must admit I read it as the ‘energy smart appliance’ being a fridge freezer or tv that can shut down and start up again safely during power disconnects, perhaps even being pinged by the meter itself to do so.
Energy efficiency certificates are currently just a bit of paper. If your home rates as below C you don’t have to do anything about it, so you may as well not have a certificate.
Before too long (I can’t remember the exact dates) mortgages won’t be provided for people to buy homes with a rating less than C and landlords must have a C or better rating. This is the start of trying to force people to improve the energy efficiency of buildings they own. The energy bill takes it to the next level of threatening massive fines or prison if your home isn’t at least C. This level of energy efficiency is only possible with a heat pump and in older buildings could cost £20,000 or more. Who’s to say that in ten years time B won’t be the minimum legal requirement meaning even more expense?
Exactly, they have engineered a hamster wheel where the compliance becomes harder and harder until We are broke. On our knees begging somebody with a clipboard not to take away our home. It is truly revolting.
Our government, and 99% of Parliament are complicit in this disgusting scam based on 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere.
We moved in to an older rural property 3 years ago with copper connections.
A smart electric meter and water meter were fitted before we arrived
The smart electric meter had failed and we have been told at least 3 to 4 months to fix.
The water company still come twice a year to check our water meter as the connection is so poor they can’t access remote readings.
Englishman’s home is no longer his castle.
I’m putting a padlock on my meter box.
Which will undoubtedly be made an offence, if not so already
6 months in the slammer for you squire.
We need to talk to our neighbours, form action groups,the whole street, the estate, the village, the town…to stop and shut down these outrageous abuses of our Bill of rights and Constitution.
I have the same sinking feeling and despair about liberal democracy in the UK as reasonable, thinking Germans must have had in thirties Germany. I fear the only solution will be non-compliance and large scale civil disobedience
We seem to be well past the thin end of the wedge now.
With power off then no heat either which will lead to more Legionaries Disease from cooling hot water tanks, damp, and broken pipes leading to flooding. Guess that ok.
“Guess that ok.”
Of course it is OK. Anything which increases the sickliness of the population is absolutely in line with the DD agenda.
This is tyranny! All parties in Parliament – and the vast majority of MPs – are acting unlawfully, illegally and treasonably. They need to go!
A few months ago, I fitted undrillable key locks and wireless locks to my doors. I have external video cameras – even though evidence from these will probably be over-ruled by the corrupt legal system.
I really don’t know where all this is going. We need to detach ourselves from this globally-controlled puppet dictatorship: refuse to comply and stop funding them!
Well democracy is a facade, that’s an undeniable fact. The above article is but one example of debunking that particular myth. Just because we don’t live like Afghanistan, N. Korea or China doesn’t make it less so, there’s just a spectrum of totalitarian severity, is all.
“there’s just a spectrum of totalitarian severity, is all.”
Totalitarianism in a suit and tie.
That is seriously bad. ‘Proof Your Government Hates You’ exhibit 7,251. The fact it sailed through with such a huge majority says it all. What kind of individuals would even vote this through? Well the same corrupt, authoritarian, scumbags who voted to trample all over people’s basic liberties during the scamdemic, encouraged kids and pregnant women to get a toxic jab they wouldn’t benefit from and who walked out on Andrew Bridgen ( because ‘free speech’ ) more than once. The contempt they display towards citizens by their actions, not words, could not be more obvious if they just all wore hats with the message ”we hate your guts” written on the front. More here;
”The vast majority of households in the country will not currently comply with the new measures outlined in the bill, meaning homeowners will be compelled to pay out significant sums to transform properties and make them “energy-efficient” or potentially face criminal charges for so-called “non-compliance.”
The bill has angered a number of backbench Conservative MPs who have threatened to rebel against the legislation, with some claiming it is the latest installment in the government’s “cult-like” obsession with Net Zero.
“We cannot impoverish our country to meet some, well, I’d like to call it in some cases almost cultish policy until we can afford it. Until it works, that’s when I think we should adopt all these policies,” said Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset.
Others went further, with Tory MP Craig Mackinlay telling the Commons, “I have to say, I absolutely despise this Bill. This is going to be the first time that we are potentially criminalizing people in this country for not being adherent to this new code of Net Zero.”
He urged the government to tread lightly in its proposal to potentially throw fellow citizens in prison for a year “for an unknown offense of the future relating to Net Zero.”
“I’m a Conservative for freedom, not to put people in prison for not adhering to this Net Zero religion,” he said later in an interview with GB News.”
https://rmx.news/crime/new-energy-bill-could-see-brits-jailed-for-failing-to-comply-with-cultish-net-zero-regulations/
It’s not just that the majority of Tories voted for it, it’s that the Labour, Lib Dems & SNP abstained from voting.
Abject cowards.
Only 19 MPs voted against.
https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1628#ayes
Yes they are all appalling, traitorous little maggots. And while I’m in the process of venting, have you seen this masterpiece of propaganda, which even my non-expert eyes can see is 100% guff, but it got published. Go figure! The eco nutters will lap this up because it’s a cult. Anyone with an iota of critical thinking capacity need not apply!
”Researchers from Canada and Australia have published a study predicting a remarkable one billion deaths from climate change over the next 100 years.
Citing a “scientific consensus,” the authors analyzed 180 studies on climate change and mortality, converging on a “1000-ton rule,” which means for every 1,000 tons of fossil fuel burned, a person dies.
The article, published in the journal Energies, contends that “a future person is killed every time humanity burns 1000 tons of fossil carbon,” based on a calculation that “burning a trillion tons of fossil carbon will cause 2°C of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which in turn will cause roughly a billion future premature deaths spread over a period of very roughly one century.”
Estimates of world population growth suggest that by 2100 there will be just over 10 billion humans on the planet, meaning that 10 percent of humanity will die from climate change, if the study’s authors are to be believed.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/09/06/alarmists-predict-1-billion-deaths-from-climate-change-this-century/
That is absolute madness!
“…a future person is killed every time humanity burns 1000 tons of fossil carbon,” based on a calculation that “burning a trillion tons of fossil carbon will cause 2°C of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which in turn will cause roughly a billion future premature deaths spread over a period of very roughly one century.”
That is hilarious. A “future person?”
WTF are they on about? Now we are responsible for killing those not yet born.
We couldn’t make this up.
I know, it’s complete dross, but it’s the sort of crapola that these morons who glue themselves to the road or tip soup over pieces of art just thrive on. 100% cultish mentality. I mean, how does one rescue somebody from a cult?
These useless idiots in the Westminster cesspool will push the British people too far. The Blade Runners are wreaking havoc over ULEZ, which currently affects a relatively small number of people. This climate fascism will affect everybody, and in a much more sinister way. Blade Runners destroying cameras? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
I spoke to a taxi driver on Tuesday night about the ULEZ cameras going up all over Greater Manchester although of course the ULEZ is still “under review” – of course it is. Taxi driver told me the cameras are already being destroyed.
We need lawyers, guns and money, the sh*t has hit the fan. Thank you Warren Zevon
We needs guns and ammo…. lawyers we can happily eat.
They may a bit stringy. Although pickled???
Many of them are – George Carman QC being one example.
And I thought an Englishman´s home was his castle . . .
I am not going to be dictated to by this fascist government and I am prepared to fight on this.
No firkin way.
Ditto!
Beyond argument now that this is open warfare upon the electorate. As in Brecht’s poem, we have proved to be a great disappointment and it’s about time we were replaced: and we will be. They now have a backstop pretext to seize property for eco crimes, assuming financial collapse doesn’t force you into foreclosure anyway. Why else is compulsory purchase order process for local councils being strengthened. so that property can be seized and reconfigured for “common good”. Would-be gangsters and thugs, who will delight in watching you squirm from a safe distance; but also, gutless, frightened little (mainly) men, in a tiny minority, who will cry if you use the wrong pronouns or take their smartphones away. Time to get ‘up close and personal’: “you feeling lucky, punk?”
Is that you thumbs-downing, ‘Taliban’ Tobias?
Without delving into the detail of the Bill itself, a few comments related to the concept of the use of remote readable or remote controlled meters:
For a long time, the utility firms (which are separate from the District Network Operators (DNO)) have been promoting their use. A few years ago, the firm that used to be my utility provider was promoting them, and I contacted them about the option. It was SSE, but since then they have sold it on to OVO. As I have a solar PV setup at my place, operating under the Feed in Tariff deal (which will expire next year), they said that they are not interested in installing “SMART” meters at such places. In effect, if they had done, they would not know what to do about the FiT deal. Under my present deal, it runs on the basis of “50% deemed export”. If there was a modern “SMART” meter owned by the utility firm, it would become exact export, either read by me or remotely. SMETS2 meters have the capability of measuring export as well as dual rate import. However, the (unsmart) generation meter is mine, and does not belong to the utility firm, so they would not be able to put the generation and export figures together at all. Normally, I send in the generation figures 4 times a year, and they don’t actually want real values for export if I was able to measure them, ‘cos Ofgem would probably have had to pay more to me via the utility firm.
Re. the junk about using remote control via “SMART” meters, there have been some adjustments to the BS7671 standard to allow the concept, but it doesn’t make sense in the modern setup, with several different utility firms operating via the same distribution system. The term used is “load curtailment”. To any given street, there is only one system, but each individual house could have deals with different utility firms.
For the avoidance of doubt, the DNOs own the cable as far as the master fuses in each cabinet (inclusive), beyond which the meter belongs to the utility provider, and beyond that the house owner. They would all have to deal with each other and work out the priority. I suppose they could vary the prices every 30 minutes and auction it off to get the best prices for each other, but that’s just a bureaucratic game – but you never know.
This is, as the author states, an abomination.
I moved to a rural farm location anticipating the ever broadening intrusions of authoritarianism in this country, partly to shield my children from the maximal effect this would have in urban environments. I’m starting to wonder if that will be enough, even my kids are suggesting taking a step out of this country now.
We have our own water and grow our own food. We Ininstalled our own energy production, & storage system although I’m still attached to the grid, we barely if ever take anything from it. The electric companies kept wanting to install a smart meter, obviously I refused. I can’t imagine the response will be friendly if the try to use “reasonable force.” I doubt many of my neighbours will respond well either. Things could get ugly.
We will be making investigations into other less controlled countries in case the resistance here fails. It’s not looking good.
For the past couple of years our energy people have been constantly trying to get us to have a smart meter – our current meters function well and we are not put out with supplying meter readings. Any attempt by anyone attempting to force there way uninvited onto our property will be met with a show of force.
This is why the preppers are deluding themselves. You WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to hide in a cabin in the countryside. They will come for you. And for your chickens.
Escape only buys time. Of course, that might be very valuable.
The only long term solution is a global partition between those who value free association between largely self sovereign individuals, and those who do not.
Yes, another curious coincidence that DEFRA regs for registration of chickens are changing, so that every bird will now have to be on central register (previously no need if your flock was less than, I think, 50). Because “avian flu”. Just a cock up, I expect.
I noticed that. It will be very difficult to enforce this.
They want to control every living thing, then jab it and tax you for it.
Most of politicians and journalist seem comfortable in their own tyranny.
Leaflet to print
And so; I’ve read some of the comments here, I’ve listen to Neil Oliver and Nigel Farage but what do I do? What happens next? Non compliance? not complying with what? If they turn your electric off you will be cold, if they throw you in prison, in prison you will be. With what can I non comply?
I somehow feel that there is a huge incompatibility between the technical complexities of hi-tech energy stuff, smart meters, smart phones, energy certificates and such like stuff and the great mass of the UK population that much of this guff will founder when great swathes of the population are left confused and bemused, unable to operate any of the ‘smart’ stuff, unable to understand any of the energy compliance stuff and unable to pay for any of this net zero stuff. They cannot throw the entire elderly ‘non smart’ population in prison, can they?
I have a feeling that with all this stuff the ask is too huge, the energy industry cannot deliver, the ‘non smart’ population will be too confused to comply, nobody will have the money to buy the technology needed. You cannot imprison the entire population.
It sounds like a recipe for complete chaos and confusion. No need for Putin to invade the UK, it looks to me like we are going to do it from within.
Very difficult, I hope, to get the digital gulag imposed outside major cities, among the elderly and/or with a population which has ditched its smartphones. A 15-20 % non-compliance (or just non-take up rate) may be enough (as with “novel medical treatments”) to force a change of tack. But I still think their biggest weapon is financial collapse, threat of foreclosure and then ‘an offer you can’t refuse’ -eg ubi paid in cbdc, in return for you and yours becoming digital assets of the state.
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on scienceand technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” ― Carl Sagan
Better put some solar panels on the roof, buy a decent battery + inverter and invest in a wood / coal burning stove or, heaven forbid, if you have some land, erect a modest solar farm or a few wind-turbines
Trust me the average British bloke these days is lucky if he has the life force to get out of bed. Any talk about shenanigans should be considered with delight.
15 months to escape prison island..
See also Energy Bill criminalises net zero disobedience:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/criminalising-net-zero-disobedience
Creepy and dystopian
How utterly depressing this is. Is it worth writing to the Lords? How can we not comply against ‘reasonable force’? So far we have resisted very minor but fairly unremitting pressure to get a smart meter. Sometimes I see the attraction of burying my head in the sand and not knowing what’s coming, especially when you can do very little in face of the juggernaut heading your way. My only comfort is trust in God.
Hitler invited Albert Speer into his office. The Fuhrers favourite architect had uttered that he thought the “war was lost”. Hitler was badly shaken by this and asked Speer “Tell me if you HOPE the war can still be won, and give me your answer in 24 hours”………..This new energy bill means the war against eco socialist tyranny is over. There is now no hope this war can be won. We have LOST. ———I always knew that first comes the NUDGE and then comes the PUSH. But now with this preposterous act the period of NUDGING is over and now comes the PUSH to full Eco Socialist tyranny.
“The Secretary of State may make regulations”
“Energy performance regulations may provide for…”
“The Secretary of State may by regulations (“ESOS regulations”) make provision for…”
Yes, it’s a typical modern Enabling Bill. Most Acts of Parliament these days transfer power to Ministers to govern by regulation. In practice, of course, regulations are written by civil servants and signed by Ministers.
Toby asked in the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast how politicians were going to persuade the public to vote for immiserating green measures, and therefore suggested they wouldn’t happen.
This is how it will be done. Nobody will need to vote for these measures in an election. Civil servants will decide, write a regulation, and the Minister will be told to sign it. It really won’t matter which party that Minister belongs to, or what the people voted for in the previous election.
We saw this method of government during the pandemic, when lockdowns were imposed by regulation and not by parliament. We saw it when a regulation was issued allowing websites to be blocked by further regulations, and then a further regulation used to put RT on the list for blocking.
This is how our democracy is being hollowed out and bypassed. This is our post democratic future and this, Toby, is the reason why it does not matter a jot what votes we cast in future elections.
Extremely important points.
We get so caught up getting angry at the puppets we don’t bother discovering the people in the puppeteers box running the show.
Would it not be possible to attach names to these bills and work our way backwards to expose these people by name?
Thanks for this informative article. Its contents will come as no surprise to anyone who follows the works of Patrick M Wood. This law will cause chaos, out of which will come (new world) order. An athlete who spends a large part of her life on jet planes just effectively endorsed the net zero climate scam and disruptive protest. Her name is Coco Gauff. Are such people not aware of their own hypocrisy? Does she really believe that her so-called carbon footprint is justified because she needs to hit a ball around a tennis court and earn millions of dollars?
It’ll be hillarious when the politician stands up in parliament to explain how a computer hacker managed to turn off all the domestic electricity in the UK in the middle of January. This is not just about government coercive control it’s about personal security from bad actors.
Welcome to prison! This is just another step in the coup by the elite lead by the UN & WEF & oligarchs to seize power. They are destabilizing western countries and have no idea what powers and forces they are unleashing nor what the outcome will be. History is about to repeat itself.
https://sites.google.com/view/removalofimpliedrightsofaccess/
Copy these. There is no evidence whatsoever, long OR short term, that CO2 controls temperature. And even if it did, the capacity of CO2 to heat the atmosphere is almost completely exhausted
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Looks like The People were Conned into Voting for Criminals Disguised as Politicians. Soon, Pharma will break in to Vaccinate you? No… yeah… who thought you had to wear a mask to fly!?
So interesting article. It should be noted the Bill can still have amendments and Sir John Redwood who voted No gave the government a hard time on the penalty clauses as any of us would do. I’m disgusted that my own MP and others of an erstwhile Pro Brexit persuasion meekly complied, the implication being that they know better than their constituents what is best for them. Mental pygmies the lot of them.
So to summarise: illegal non documented aliens several of whose religion permits them to lie and calls for the killing of all infidels , are treated like celebrities and welcomed with open arms . All paid for with our money while the indigenous population of mostly hard working, tax paying voters are cowed into submission by a series of measures that remove our human rights.
I have a Masters in Microbiological Chemistry and a BSc in Chemistry and saw how easy it was for hand puppets and poor science fed to the population daily managed to scare the vast majority witless, I had none of it and our daily lives did not change one bit albeit being retired made this easier than most.
We all have choice in life and I’m pretty sure we’re all intelligent enough to know what needs to be done.
Funny how all of this GREEN crap is so good for us and planet that we have to be forced in law with fear of imprisonment to do it.. —-Or at least it would be funny if it were not so utterly pathetic. We are today governed by squirming eco parasites squeezing the last bit of prosperity out of us——–All for our own good ofcourse or face jail.
I will use reasonable force to defend my property. Can anybody really expect the UK Keystone Cops to leave their Xbox games to enter a property. Expect many widowed people.
You’d think the MP’s would have read and understood all the legalese especially as a good few of them can expect to be joining the rest of us plebs when they loose their seats next election and be just as likely to have the new meters installed and their power switched off.
On a side note, how would the power generated by my solar panels be switched off? Sure they’re connected to the grid at the moment but they could fairly easily get disconnected and direct connected to my house.
I believe the inverter still relies on the grid to function.
Re “ smart meters”.
Faraday cages incoming.
The Bill says force cannot be used to enter a house without a warrant from a JP.