Nigel Farage will attend the launch of Liz Truss’s new ‘Popular Conservatism’ movement, known as ‘PopCons’, seen as a platform for Right-wing Tory MPs to advocate for hardline policies. The Times has the details.
The former UKIP leader is among several hundred guests expected at the event in Central London on Tuesday.
The movement, dubbed “PopCons”, is the latest initiative launched by Truss since she was forced from office in October 2022 and is seen as a vehicle for Right-wing Tory MPs. The group is expected to use it as a platform to lobby for more hardline policies, including on immigration and tax cuts, in the Conservatives’ next election manifesto.
Truss will be a headline speaker alongside her political ally Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Business Secretary, with Lee Anderson, the former Tory Deputy Chairman, also due to speak.
Mark Littlewood, who was credited as the architect of many of Truss’s libertarian economic policies in No. 10 and was unsuccessfully nominated by her for a peerage, will be director of the movement. He is the outgoing head of the libertarian think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. David Canzini, a former senior aide to both Truss and Boris Johnson, has been assisting with the launch.
Farage’s attendance will anger party moderates, who already suspect that Truss is using the project to stage her revival. It comes after it emerged that a small cabal of Conservative MPs and special advisers were attempting to oust Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.
One source claimed the PopCons appeared to be an attempt to build up a database of Tory supporters, with its new website inviting people to register their details for future updates.
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Well done for keeping pushing, their lies need to be exposed if we are to save what is left of the country our parents bequeathed us.
It really is that serious.
There lies have been evident since the start of the century.
It’s much worse than this because “renewables” are intermittent and there’s close to zero reliable storage so they require non-intermittent backups which need to be built and maintained and at least kept ticking over. Double bubble!
There are no non-intermittent back-ups. Storage is just that, it does not generate electricity.
Discharge cannot be continuous once the storage has drained, and recharge is dependent on intermittent recharge.
By non-intermittent backups I meant gas, nuclear etc.
Regarding storage you’d need enough to cover demand for whatever the maximum period could be that your intermittent sources might be offline – good luck calculating that! Anyway, such storage simply doesn’t exist and cannot be built with existing technology.
“It is clear the Department for Energy and Net Zero, under the previous Government,”
It’s the same Department/people with the same agenda. It doesn’t matter what government it is.
One difference is that the Tories knocked it back to 2035 for most of it. Not much of a difference but it was some. But the Eco Fundamentalists at Labour, led from the front by Miliband want it back inline with the UN Agenda 2030.
There will be a tipping point, not too far away, when this whole house of cards comes crashing down. The MSM will suddenly ‘wake up’ (I.e. they can’t deny what’s happening around them) and start asking why the Government has been misleading them.
It will probably need a really cold winter, or some incident that prevents power being imported. This Government is on collision course with reality.
Correct – and most of them are not in Whitehall.
What a wonderful photo of the “Reality Crocodile”! 🙂
Of course Labour’s plans can’t be delivered by the next election because the resources to do so do not exist. It will be amusing to watch as this reality begins to hit.
In 2027/8 when it’s become obvious that our electricity won’t be carbon free by 2030 they’ll no doubt blame the Conservatives for saddling us with too much debt and not investing enough in renewable energy. Similarly our sky high energy prices will be blamed on world markets and (possible) periodic black/brown outs on squirrels shagging on the transmission lines or anything else apart from. their madcap schemes.
From now on I shall refer to power cuts as “squirrel shagging incidents”.
funny
Yes, but as the Dark Lord has explained, that’s why we need to entrust him with a second term, from amidst the wreckage of his first.
It is all the rage at the moment for governments to attack “Fake News” and “Misinformation”. —–As it happens, and very bad news for ordinary people is that most “Fake News” and “Misinformation” we get all comes from Government. Everything we hear from them and the consolidated media is either a smidgeon of the truth or a bare faced lie, especially on the issue of energy and climate.
——I have been investigating the climate/energy situation since about 2007 so I don’t need to look at any graphs to know that Miliband and Labour are LIARS. Energy bills are going in one direction only ————UP.
—–But the other aspect to this is that they want the price to go up to discourage use. It isn’t the case that they have just made a mistake and really believe the prices will come down. They know full well that prices will rise astronomically. The National Grid estimates the cost of Net Zero to be 3 trillion and it is the people who pay for all of that via their bills. ———-But then we have to ask ourselves “Why are we forcing ourselves in law to do all of this by 2030”.? What is the big hurry? The rest of the world isn’t doing this so why should we? This pathetic group think answer that we want to be “world leaders” is utterly feeble. They want to do it by 2030, because that is what the UN Agenda 2030 wants. So our politicians are prepared to impoverish us all so they can suck up the arses of the UN.
Using “Bid prices” is the government’s way of adding confusion to the real data. Can we please have the following real cost:
That way the real cost of this monstrous con-job will become clear.
The strike price had to be increased because wind and solar companies weren’t bidding.
No more of Millibrain’s wind turbines will get built unless higher prices are guaranteed for the future, otherwise wind and solar companies cannot make a return on their investment and pay dividends to shareholders.
Adding increased uncertainty into any system does not reduce it. Adding more intermittency only increases the scale when – supposedly – more electrical supply is reliant on unreliable, unpredictable, inconsistent generation.
Physics + Economics = Bankruptcy.
Evidently the intent is to bankrupt the People.
Can someone point out where this £66 reference price comes from, I can’t find anything on it?