The Government’s plans to force Britain to achieve ‘Net Zero’ CO2 emissions by 2050 seem to be falling apart. Few people seem interested in buying expensive, range-limited electric vehicles. Even fewer want to replace their cheap efficient gas boilers with expensive and poor-performing heat pumps. Offshore windfarms were a key part of our Government’s ‘Net Zero’ decarbonisation plans, yet there were no companies bidding for the recent group of offshore windfarm contracts. And our rulers seem unable to make up their minds about which technology to choose for Britain’s new generation of SMRs (small modular nuclear reactors) even though Rolls Royce has already developed a version which can work in the hostile underwater operating environment of nuclear-powered submarines and so could be quickly and inexpensively adapted for use on dry land.
However, having realised that it cannot provide sufficient electricity to power Britain as a supposed ‘renewable energy superpower’, the Government has come up with a brilliant solution – force us to use much less electricity.
I recently wrote an article for the Daily Sceptic explaining some of the more worrying aspects of the Energy Bill currently approved by a massive majority in the Commons and likely to be enthusiastically passed with a similar massive majority in the Lords.
In my article I quoted several sections from the Energy Bill. However, as these were written in almost incomprehensible legalese, I though it might be useful to describe three common scenarios which will arise once the Energy Bill has become law.
First, there is the replacement of existing electricity and gas meters. Our electricity and gas meters have a registered lifetime of anywhere between 10 and 25 years depending on the type of meter. Once a meter’s lifetime has expired, it should be replaced. Under the terms of the Energy Bill, someone from your power supplier will have the right to enter your home to replace your current meter with a smart meter. If you refuse him entry or try to refuse having a smart meter installed, he can legally return with police back-up, force entry into your home and use what is called “reasonable force” to restrain you while he rips out your old-fashioned meter and replaces it with a smart meter. “Reasonable force” might just mean handcuffing you during the installation or could even mean detaining you in a cell at the local police station while your meters are changed.
Second, there is what happens when you wish to rent or sell your home or another property. It seems likely that we will be banned from renting out or selling any residential property unless it has an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) rating of ‘C’ or above. Currently there are just over one million home sales a year in Britain. Of these home sales, around 41% have an EPC rating of ‘C’ or above. This means that under the terms of the Energy Bill, over 590,000 homes a year would have to have alterations made to improve their EPC rating before they could be rented out or sold. These alterations could range from just installing double glazing or adding a little loft or wall insulation to spending tens of thousands of pounds installing a heat pump which would include replacing all the pipes and radiators in a home and could even require ripping up carpets and floors to install underfloor heating.
Third, there are what are known as Energy Saving Opportunity Schemes (ESOS), where “opportunity” has a distinctly Orwellian flavour. With ever more homes having smart meters, energy suppliers will be able to identify towns, neighbourhoods, streets and even individual homes which Government ‘experts’ consider to be using too much electricity. The Energy Bill introduces ESOSs, which would give the legal right for energy inspectors to enter any home, using “reasonable force” if necessary, in order to make an energy-saving assessment and propose ways the homeowner could improve the property’s energy efficiency.
In all three of the above three scenarios, refusal by the homeowner to comply with the Government’s requirements would be a criminal offence with penalties of fines of up to £15,000 and imprisonment of up to one year. That a supposedly “Conservative” Government would use its parliamentary majority to introduce such intrusive and oppressive eco-totalitarianism is something that few of us would have imagined possible.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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Vote Conservative, get Communism.
It won’t make a scrap of difference who we vote for at the next election because the end results will be the same. Our lead politicians are simply the useful idiots being employed by the Davos Deviants to do their bidding.
I have stated time after time that the end goal is depopulation and eco totalitarianism is part of the program being run to achieve that end.
Nothing that is being done to us occurs in isolation. We must see their end goal and that is massive depopulation. Dr Mike Yeadon discusses this and I have quoted him on the Chinese thread.
Personally, I believe this winter will see a massive increase in deaths via respiratory viruses owing to depleted immune systems courtesy of their “vaccines,” even if the sheeple stay clear of ‘boosters.’
I agree about the voting – I guess my comment was aimed at the new/casual reader who may still hope that the Tories will save them.
Being an old country soul I can also report that judging by the volume of berries etc on the hedges these traditionally are signs of a hard winter, I think if it is the case the Government and its net zero b*****cks will be seen off once and for all when people start to die from hyperthermia because they are unable to heat their homes. Although I suspect they will try and blame it on Covid.
Any increase in deaths this year will definitely be attributed to a covid named illness and probably a newer scariant. The fact that scariants have to be less damaging than their progenitors will of course be ignored. Having said that, the newer scariants could well be dangerous to the multi jabbed.
A shafted immune system is a shafted immune system, whatever the underlying cause, leaving the individual more vulnerable to not being able to fight off an illness.
Cold, fear, anxiety about bills, being able to afford food, heating will only exacerbate underlying poor health. All of these factors contributing to worse health outcomes have been well documented for many years.
The psychopaths have just got better at manipulating these to achieve their desired outcomes.
Exactly.
You’re mistaking the government as caring , they won’t give a damn about the elderly dieing from hypothermia…
Have you heard a single word from them questioning or caring about the excess deaths……
Or Brexit
I’m not sure that the end goal is depopulation. The end goal may well be achieving net zero and total control, with depopulation seen as a way of reaching this end point or an inevitable consequence that the PTB don’t care about.
It won’t make a difference who we vote for because they are all in on the pretend to save the planet SCAM. People just do not see what is happening in front of their eyes. ———How many of us have tried at gatherings of family or friends to subtly point people towards at least checking out the direction this eco tyranny is taking without making too much of a nuisance of ourselves? Then how many of us have found that we are considered ” a bit of a conspiracy theorist” —-The propaganda machine is very powerful I know, and the idea that this is all about science and scientists telling us we must “save the planet” seems like a more powerful argument than your brother in law talking about this scam over a bottle of Budweiser at our sisters garden party, and so mostly the brother in law will not be listened to. ——–But unless the public start to wake up soon their entire way of life and prosperity will be GONE. Once the gas boilers and radiators are torn from their houses it will already be too late.
Yet the turkeys will still vote for Christmas.
And there will be plenty of zealots to serve as energy commissars.
A few well intentioned people with beer bottles full of wet sand, hammers and baseball bats, will make it a less appealing job.
I agree with huxleypiggles below – you might as well say ‘Vote Labour, get Communism’. Indeed, we now have a one party totalitarian state.
As I said above “I guess my comment was aimed at the new/casual reader who may still hope that the Tories will save them.”
Sure, I get that!
Someone on here a while back was arguing that we should vote Tory because realistically they will not be destroyed or replaced and they are slightly less bad than the realistic alternatives, and that there was no recent precedent in the UK for the complete destruction of a political party and its replacement. It’s a point of view – none of us can predict the future 100% – though not one I agree with.
It’s interesting to see the extent to which Western governments are adopting Chinese authoritarian tactics.
The Chinese government of the last couple of decades has imposed quasi totalitarian rule using a very similar approach.
People may think that China has been a totalitarian state since Mao, but they would be mistaken. China twenty years ago was in many ways a freer society than what we have here now in the UK. Day to day life was organised chaos and bureaucratic rules were quite easily circumvented. People could get on with their lives however they wanted pretty much.
But bit by bit rules and regulations would be added and the ability to circumvent them closed off, usually in indirect ways which didn’t appear authoritarian.
For example in Beijing they decided they didn’t want any more motorcycles. So they didn’t ban them, they just prohibited petrol stations from selling them petrol.
Today China doesn’t even remotely resemble what it was a mere 20 years ago. Every aspect of life is now highly regulated and conditioned.
I clearly see the UK and Europe on the same track now. A law passed here another there, none of them seemingly particularly aggressive, but one day you want to do something and realise you have been hemmed in. By the time anyone wants to react its too late.
You don’t have to comply if you don’t want, but you won’t be able to sell your house or rent it. They won’t need to arrest anyone or force themselves into anyone’s homes. That’s there just in case. But long before that people will have complied because they will have found they needed to just to get on with their day to day life.
That is totalitarianism imposed Chinese style.
Agree with every word. If people do not want to buy electric cars that is their choice, but it will still be the only choice available. If they want to keep their petrol car, again that’s ok, but other costs like fuel, ULEZ, and whatever comes next will price them off the road.
Exactly. And officials will stand up with a straight face and claim they didn’t force anything on anyone, people made their own choices.
Just like they shamelessly try to claim now that no one was forced to take a covid jab, it was their own choice. Apparently making your life impossible, losing your job, not being allowed to travel, being barred from large public gatherings, none of those constitute force.
It’s insulting really.
Yes, if the ban on ICE cars goes ahead in 2030, there will still be millions on the road for decades to come. So the Eco Nutters will (a) make it increasingly impossible to get the fuel and (b) make it impossible for them to pass the MOT.
Because the “party which supports private ownership” wouldn’t ban them outright and effectively remove your property or render it worthless ….. of course not. That wouldn’t be “Conservative.”
You may not agree with the concept of re-nationalisation but there is at least one political party who put nuclear power generation at the front and centre of their energy policy.
Become a member of the SDP.
“The contribution of nuclear energy to Britain’s electricity mix will be increased from 12% to 40% by 2035. We will renew our existing nuclear plants and develop new large-scale Generation IV reactors and small modular reactors. Planning rules for the approval of new nuclear facilities will be streamlined.”
https://sdp.org.uk/policies/energy-utilities/
This would have to go in that case
The SDP is internationalist and will honour and comply with our global environmental obligations.
And, to add insult to injury, I would bet that you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of useful idiot MPs who have read more than a couple of the bill’s (?446) pages. The royal fat fingers are no doubt already twitching to sign into law. Coercion and enforced obedience don’t belong in a parliamentary democracy – and won’t be overturned via the ballotbox. Have the other 650 ‘foreign security service assets’ in Westminster been arrested yet?
When we upped sticks and flit en famille to Spain 22 years ago, it was because early retirement beckoned and I didn’t like the proposed direction of travel of ‘Blair’s Britain’. In my wildest nightmares I couldn’t have foreseen what’s happening to the country since. Much of it under a putative conservative government too.
It’s horrifying. I sat there during the lockdowns thinking ‘Can’t you see what direction you’re taking us in?’ And lockdowns were only a culmination of a cultural revolution that began when John Major initiated the large scale surveillance state in the UK, that led to us being the biggest surveillance state in the free world and the third biggest in the entire world after Red China and N Korea.
A civilisation’s direction is like a road. The destination might be some way off, but the closer you get, the more the surroundings resemble your destination. Our society is steadily looking more and more like Red China. People keep writing off Red China, but if our society has become the same as Red China in a few years’ time, it doesn’t matter if the original Red China no longer exists.
The main reason behind a fall into totalitarianism is actually people in power who don’t know what to do. It’s easier to run a police state than a free country. So you can have ‘cock up’, because those in power are clueless, and conspiracy, because they can work to convince everyone that sacrificing their liberty is desirable.
I fear for the future. I’m 48 now. if I didn’t have elderly parents to care for, I’d be looking to flee, but I don’t know where. The insanity, be it climate fraud, race-baiting or gender ideology, seems to be spreading across the planet.
We weren’t sure where to flee to Dom, but sure as hell we weren’t staying put. The sun shines for 300 days a year here. We are 60 metres from the Med’, 100M from a bar. The beers, sangria and tapas are plentiful and cheap. We won’r have to buy an electric car or fit a heat-pump. What’s not to like? (I’m 75 in a month). Oh, and our two grown up children are bi-lingual and Uni fees are circa €1,000 p.a.
Oh do shut up. You’re making me feel bl**dy awful. I hate you.
Yes, I know a few fellow freelancers who have become digital nomads. A couple of them now live in Spain. I’m glad you got the Hell out of here. My spiritual home is Dartmoor and I wish I lived in the middle of nowhere there!
If the government’s current plans for net zero do fall apart there is always plan B, a controlled demolition of the economy. Invest some of your savings in gold, that’s what national governments are doing.
Mad Jock McBroon (The one-eyed scotch phuq-wit) sold a large chunk of UK gold for next to nothing, in order to help prop up the Euro
Yeah. If we rebel and vote for someone other than Labour or Tory, the Bank of England and the assorted globalist organisations around the world will automatically torpedo the pound. We have to be ready for that.
When governments run in one direction, run the other way. The time to buy gold is not now. The governments have driven the price up and now they’ve run out of (our) money. The smart ones were those who sold their gold to governments over the last two years.
The question is: why do people insist on voting for these two parties?? If people are able to get together set on buying a specific Rage Against the Machine single to stop The X-Factor winner from getting the Christmas No 1, why don’t all the disaffected Labour voters (ie the majority who a centre left, soft socialists, rather than elitist progressivists) pick a party such as Reclaim or the SDP and disaffected Tories (most of whom are centre right, soft capitalists and one nation conservatives) pick on a party such as Reform?
There’s a year to go before the election. That’s plenty of time for people to argue among themselves on what the Stop the Labour Party and Stop the Tory Party choice can be. Once it’s decided, everyone can go and vote for the relevant person. ‘Swing’ is a lie. A majority is overturned because there’s a fresh vote. The way the media talks, you’d think, say, a 20,000 majority means a proportion of those votes is counted towards the next election. It’s a clean slate and people have to use it. The choice between Labour and Tories is the choice between suicide or being murdered; a party that wants to enslave us and a party that has already mass-imprisoned us. The only option is to burn it all down.
“The question is: why do people insist on voting for these two parties”. It’s partly because some people simply never question anything critically. That’s partly their fault but also partly the result of almost 100% media bias. There are of course a few odd ones who truly want to be ruled over, patronised, and micro-managed by an overbearing, dictatorial state. Or at least, they want others to be governed in that way, but it’s a different matter when the state comes for them.
Only 30% of the registered electorate voted for the Tory Party at the last election and only 24% of Londoners voted for Khan. They don’t have a mandate to govern and this means the electoral system need reform, but it will never happen.
Whether one votes or not depends on ones belief in the greatest conspiracy theory of the post war era – i.e. that the government is working in the voters’ best interests.
And when the 2 main parties are so similar this conspiracy logically means that your vote is not needed – the new government of whatever stripe will make everything well again whether you vote or not.
I do think some people actually think like this, that they abandon all critical thinking about politics and lazily accept whatever happens.
They have been convinced by irresponsible and timid mainstream media that none of the bad stuff is the government’s fault and the government, whoever ti may be, will do their very best to fix it.
I remain astonished by the complacency and ignorance that allows this conspiracy theory to dominate many seemingly intelligent people’s lives.
And by what democratic process do We The People change this?
Sign a petition?
No, Vote Reform. They are out to stop this nonsense. See the Manifesto, and Listen to Richard Tice, he expresses all the opposition to all the above you can understand. However, Youtube will probably try and ban him next, the BBC etc have!
Quite a lot of premises don’t have EPCs at all. For the avoidance of doubt, the ratings range from A to G, with A & B being above C, so the lower consumption it has, the higher rating is granted. I had to have one done in 2014 for the Feed in Tariff regime on my house.
The numbers used in the rating graphs are somewhat obscure, and not an obvious relation with real results in operation. The one I’ve got actually recommends installing a gas fired boiler, in lieu of using night rate electric storage heating. They weren’t planning ahead when they wrote that!
It’s a bit of a lop side graph, with the smaller bars having the higher numbers.
I particularly liked the recommendation that you install a wind turbine at a cost of £1500 – £4000, which might then save you £20 per year!
Hitherto I’ve taken the position in my letters to my carp MP that he’s clearly on the side of the people and it’s his colleagues who are the totalitarian barstewards (so he might still be able to win my vote if only…)
Not now. I daresay anyone who still has the patience to contact their Member will have received the same reply as I got when I got onto him about the Energy bill. The usual BS about meeting Net Zero targets, decarbonisation, any penalties being reasonable and proportionate….yada yada. He got the works by return of email: I guess he will block me now.
Why should they care? They know they are going to lose the next GE so they can let Labour take the fallout as they brag about making this ‘progressive’ measure Law. Labour can carry the can for hypothermia deaths.
I’m torn: I don’t want anyone to die (well, with a few exceptions….) but if it takes a number of deaths to show how toxic this Bill is, then so be it. In my gloomier moments I fear they will show the same callous disregard for our lives as they have for the elevated rate of excess deaths following the jab rollout.
Anyone going off grid? There’s got to be a way out of this…
This isn’t a Conservative Government – it’s a WEF Junta.
If they can force smart meters and heat pumps on us they can force you out of your car, out of your aeroplane and force the steak and sausages of your dinner plate and that is exactly what is going to happen. The worst kind of tyranny is the one that terrorises you for your own good. At least the burglar and the rapist sometimes sleep.———–This idea that we should use LESS energy comes as no surprise to me. 10 years ago the head of the National Grid (Steve Holliday) said “We are going to have to get used to using electricity as and when it is available”.——-He was ofcourse referring to the fact that as we use more and more wind which is totally unreliable there won’t be enough electricity (base load) and therefore we better get use to NOT having it. ——Welcome the 21st century Green (RED) Eco Socialist nightmare.
Always good to be reminded of the comment from Steve Holliday. He also said that we would be generating our own electricity from solar panels and the grid would be used to top us up when needed. How did the UK lead the industrial revolution when we now have fools like him in charge?
Interestingly my most jabbed friends all share the same new groupthink regarding their old petrol cars. They tell me that one car is necessary, otherwise their school age children will DIE using the local unsafe public transport, but more than one car is evil and must be stopped.
These friends live in different parts of the Country and do not know each other but they all listen to the BBC.
If you set up your own trust with the government as Primary Beneficiary (you as Secondary Beneficiary), you can put all your calculated taxes and fines into this Trust (this avoids willful refusal to pay tax) and agree to pay the tax ONLY when your demands are met (it is your money after all). The government must show that none of your taxes are being used for criminal purposes (such as illegal wars) before they can collect the taxes. They are unable to prove this as all our taxes and fines go to the Parliamentary Consolidation Fund which siphons off 5-10% to military actions, most of which are illegal under The 1945 UN Charter. They can’t change the law, as they themselves use Blind Trusts to avoid tax. After the end of each financial year, if they’ve failed to meet your demands, you can use your money on non-criminal activities and sponsor a free school (or whatever). The debt is wiped and the whole process starts again for the next financial year.
I find this very interesting! Do you know of anyone actually doing it? What happened?
How will we be able to resist if this gets passed into law? What can we do now? – write to any lords we can think of??
What’s happened to those few MPs who were speaking out against lockdowns and jab mandates in the beginning? – they’ve gone very silent for months and months, though I noticed that Desmond Swain voted against the Energy Bill (but without contributing to the debate). The Northern Irish MPs have continued faithfully to be against all this stuff – good on them! (My father and grandfather were Northern Irish.)
Who are “our rulers”? It is not the politicians we elect to serve us because they are not holding the government to account. It isn’t the government because they are not acting in our interest.