Former Energy Minister and leading Net Zero proponent Chris Skidmore has announced he will be quitting Parliament “as soon as possible”.
Mr. Skidmore, who previously described Rishi Sunak’s relaxation of Net Zero targets as “the greatest mistake of his premiership”, said he could no longer support a Government committed to a course of action “I know is wrong and will cause future harm”. He added he could not support the legislation before Parliament next week allowing new oil and gas licences.
As Theresa May’s Energy Minister, Mr. Skidmore originally signed Net Zero into law. His resignation will trigger a by election in Kingswood in south Gloucestershire, where he had a majority of 11,220 in 2019.
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Skidmark should be forced to live in a tent in the Highlands with only a bucket of coal for warmth, if he lives by his principles he’d die of course, but obvs he wouldn’t. There are no words to describe what an appalling human this man is, excrement is too good a word. Doubtless a lucrative sinecure has been promised.
I’m reminded of this
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world ….
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
“Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
Absolutely brilliant, funniest thing I’ve ever read down here. Thank you.
Brilliant, funny and true. Someone posted it on the always worthwhile LockdownSceptics (reddit.com)
That is incredibly funny. ——–Is that totally out of your imagination? Or where does it come from? —-Hilarious.
Ah I see where it is from now as you mention it below. —cheers.
Brilliant! But you missed the punchline:
“I can’t live like this any more”, lamented Greta. Her godmother replied, in a reassuring tone “Not to worry, dear, we have plans to start importing all the stuff we need to live a half-decent life from China, where they continue to use petroleum products.”
“Thank goodness for that!”, sighed a relieved Greta. “Now, I’m off down to Ikea to look for some furniture to burn.”
Principles?
My bet is that his chances of retaining his seat at the next election are small and like the scumbag politician he is trying to profit from his demise with some posturing and virtue signalling. The kind that will get him a good set of positions on boards of renewables companies or of those NGOs that form part of the global governance system that’s being constructed.
Yes, where the real power is has gone.
Your views echo mine, he has no principles or virtues just the desire for a well paid job without the graft.
coal no absolutely not its a fossil fuel, so no oil, gas, coal or wood, I would suggest using his own dried poo, but thats full of nitrates hence the net zero focus on wiping out farming and meat farming especially. I suggest he builds his own windmill from fallen trees and generates his own power from that, but coal no way.
Or we can all just go back to the stoneage where the eco nut jobs will be running about telling us we are running out of stones.
When I saw you type Skidmark I had to scroll up and check his correct name. —–But Skidmark is actually a better name for him.
A tragic loss.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
If he’s that bothered why doesn’t he just quit the party and join another nut zero party or sit as an independent?
Dammit – beat me to it.
He’s been offered a non job obvs.
We disagree tof. He’s a Nut Zero nutter. He is leaving Parliament- apparently, eventually- just F O and go Skid.
Oh no I quite agree we are well rid
Cheers
Despicable as this man may be he was right on one point in his resignation speech when he stated that in 2019 he stood on a Tory party manifesto pledge to deliver Net Zero.
Those voting for the Tories in 2019 can hardly complain about the party rigidly pursuing Net Zero.
https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan
True though you could argue that the 2919 vote was about Brexit and that this overrode other considerations
Ah, yes, I forgot about the oven ready chicken!
Yes but isn’t he claiming that the Net Zero he voted for in 2019 is being watered down? —-If he is, then he is a liar because there was no vote in 2019. It was simply waved through parliament with no questions asked.
Of course the man is a liar, no dispute there. But the point I wished to make is that the Tories were committed to Net Zero in the 2019 GE and that a considerable number of fake Tory MPs use this as leverage to hold the executive to that manifesto promise.
Yep
Didn’t quit the whip? Didn’t have the courage of his convictions then?
I bet he’s driving an electric car which was made in China (as pretty much anything else he uses in his daily life) where they burn coal to power all their factories so that deluded idiots can have their net zero dream alive.
Good. Just too late.
My heart bleeds. I hope the clueless git decides to have his own personal net zero immediately, it’s going to be cold this week at least.
Quite a few by-elections coming up soon, just before a General Election. Spot the added expense to the electoral process. If the Chancellor was really concerned about it, they would avoid them all and just bring forward the General and merge it with the local council ones on 9/5/24. Otherwise, there could be some ultra short MPs that win a by-election and lose a few months later!
Good riddance. The last thing we need is brain dead idiots like Skidmore. Bloody parasite.
They are all in on it though. ——-So they are all parasites
So this is Rashi Sanook’s master plan to win the next general election – get all the useless Tory MPs to quit parliament. Problem is, there’ll only be a handful left and he’s not one of them.
Close the door on the way out Mr Skidmore.
Yeah, see ya, don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
I noticed this reptile served as Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation. It’s always interesting to see how much money our chum Bill has been bribing various people/organisations, so I thought I’d take a quick peek at how much our wholly benevolent friend has committed to UK universities; it turns out he’s kindly ‘donated’ over $70M of his hard won American cash to us. I wonder how our universities, and their handlers, get influenced?
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?country=United%20Kingdom&q=University®ion=EUROPE
STOP POINTING OUT AWKWARD THINGS FOR OUR BILL. HE’S A VERY CHARITABLE CHAP DON’T Y’KNOW.
A genuine Conservative Party would never have selected Skidpants in the first place. Nor dozens of other GangGreen morons. Goldsmith? May? Johnson? Cameron?
The list goes on and on.
We await with great anticipation his next appointment and salary.
After all, who would wish to employ an out of work politician.
Oh! International Rescue, Meta Platforms Inc., U.N., OECD………….
Good! The more that quit the merrier!
Good riddance! He is a totally brainwashed fanatic leading the most dangerous grouping in Parliament – the”Conservative Environment Network.
Anyone voting for the Tories in 2019 voted for Net Zero!
https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan
Unfortunately you are right, but to vote for any other party will only result in the same net zero agenda but with a variation to attain the same end. A total socioeconomic collapse. We have no representative politicians, just appointees to rubber stamp the edicts of the blob. Lenin and Marx would be over joyed to see this happening in the west.
You are absolutely correct if you refer to the futility of voting for an alternative establishment party. Why would any sane person vote for an establishment party when they are all singing from the same hymn from the same hymn sheet?
How can we restore some common sense in government if people who regard themselves as intelligent habitually play musical chair establishment party voting?
Nobody needs to vote for an establishment party.
Off you go, good riddance, I assume Mr Skidmore does not utilise anything in his life which is derived from fossil fuels. Which means unless he grows his own food, breeds his own sheep and feeds them on food he has grown, shears them with scissors, spins his onw wool and weaves and sews his own clothes. walks or cycles everywhere, heats his mud hut with something that is not gas, electric or wood powered. Then he really is not leading by example and showing us all how wonderful life will be at net zero.
Cycles?
Perhaps using his own hand knitted bike?
Place your bets now: has Skidmore already been promised a six figure position in the Carbonocracy?
Nothing noble about these ‘servants’ who ignore suppress real science, take the inducements of the blob and cripple the population with ever higher energy bills.
Good, let us all hope and pray that all the other lunatics that believe in Net Zero also resign and that they are replaced by people with brains…..oh no, sorry, just remembered no politicians have brains……so why do we keep voting them in……if I do not vote then idiots get elected and if I do vote then idiots get elected….its a lose, lose situation. fortunately for me I am quite old so I will probably die soon hahaha
So remember the previous Energy Minister Grant Schapps. —Actually he was the Minister for Net Zero and Energy Security. —He was asked on GB News just a few months ago if heat pumps were any good ————Here was his astonishing reply “I don’t know, but I am having one fitted in my house soon so I will find out”———This answer sums up exactly why the political class are a bunch of squirming parasites. They don’t know if green solutions to everything are any good and they don’t care one jot. They are only interested in fobbing us off with green energy anyway because that is the ideology they are all signed up to. ——-So this idiot Skidmore thinks that knocking back mandates for electric cars and gas boilers back by 5 years and drilling for some oil and gas will cause “GREAT HARM”. —-But great harm to who? Doesn’t the blithering idiot realise that the world is going to need coal oil and gas for many many decades to come and it makes no difference from which part of the world they are dug from? ——–But wouldn’t it cause “great harm” to all of those people dependent on their livelihoods for oil and gas (many thousands of people)—–But to the climate change morons the only jobs that count are green ones. —-But this buffoon would be losing his seat anyway, so he is simply virtue signalling his green credentials to line up his next brown envelope job.
I think you will find that the correct position is (and was) His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Net Zero Energy Security.
Well that’s a good start to the New Year. More please.
This is the best news I’ve heard in a very long time. However, the loathsome creature will continue with his nut zero propaganda as a professor at Bath Uni.