The European Union has backed down on Net Zero targets for agriculture, including drastic cuts in fertiliser and pesticide use and a recommendation that people eat less meat, following widespread protests from farmers. The Telegraph has more.
The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers and cut a target to slash agricultural emissions as part of the bloc’s net zero drive.
A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040.
On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, also proposed withdrawing the EU’s plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a “symbol of polarisation”.
“Our farmers deserve to be listened to,” she told the European Parliament.
“I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come.”
A recommendation urging EU citizens to eat less meat was also removed from the plan.
The concessions came amid mounting demonstrations by farmers in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy ahead of this year’s EU elections.
Blockades on supermarket distribution centres have left shelves empty in Brussels, while several people have been injured in traffic accidents caused by farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, as they dumped rubbish and set fires on highways.
Worth reading in full.
The Telegraph‘s James Crisp says farmers are “holding the EU hostage and winning”. The EU climbdown on Net Zero rules “will not stuff the Eurosceptic genie back into the bottle”.
Polls predict anti-EU parties will win June’s European Parliament elections in nine member states – Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia.
Now fully emerged from their defensive crouch after Britain’s painful Brexit negotiations, they are set to come second or third in another nine EU countries.
The EU fears that those results could be boosted by the farmers’ populist revolt.
Tractor protests against climate rules handed a Dutch farmer’s party a landslide victory in regional elections last year after the vote became a referendum on establishment politics.
After the ruling coalition collapsed, voters turned to Geert Wilders, an anti-migrant, Nexit-backing, farmer-supporting firebrand in November’s snap General Election.
Copycat tractor protests have since been held in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Romania, are expected soon in Slovakia and erupted in Spain on Tuesday.
Eurosceptic parties have adopted the farmer’s fight, robbing pro-EU forces of a constituency it has long regarded as its own thanks to the bloc’s huge agricultural subsidies.
A key battleground in the looming campaign is the pushback against the EU’s 2050 Net Zero target, a culture war given impetus by the cost of living crisis.
Also worth reading in full.
“One by one they crumble,” says Ross Clark, “the Net Zero targets that were dreamed up without any regard to their cost and practicality.” The latest to go in the U.K. is the ‘boiler tax’, hot on the heels of the delay on the ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035. “Over the next few years we are going to see many more of these targets having to be relaxed, delayed or abandoned – including, I don’t doubt at some stage, the holy grail of Net Zero itself. It is just that it is going to be a long and painful political journey to get there.”
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“….increasingly hostile environment for people seeking sanctuary in the U.K., feeding anti-immigrant sentiment, racism”. Elsewhere on its website, Schools of Sanctuary claims there is “widespread hostile – and often inaccurate – rhetoric in the public and in the media driving increasingly cruel immigration policies and encouraging attitudes of distrust and hate”.
Seems to me the public have every right to be concerned and declare that enough is enough. Go look at the crime stats in other European countries also. It’s all there in black and white and it’s not getting any better. We are entirely justified in now adopting an ”anti-immigration sentiment”, and it doesn’t have anything to do with racism.
Just one more recent example. I don’t know what it is about Germany and Afghans;
”A suspect armed with a knife killed one man before stabbing three others at a Euro 24 party in east Germany.
The male attacker, 27, was then shot dead by police called to the scene.
He launched his rampage in a garden where a family were hosting a private party in the city of Magdeburg to watch Germany’s 5-1 thrashing of Scotland.
At least three people were injured in the attack around 9.30pm on Friday night, with two – a woman aged 50 and a man 75 – suffering severe wounds. A second man, 56, was slightly injured.
Police have not yet released a statement as to the current condition of the victims.
According to local media reports citing police information, the perpetrator was an Afghan national.
A police spokeswoman said the attacker went for police officers on their arrival in Genossenschaftsweg in Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt. One officer drew his pistol and fatally shot him.
“Firearms were used,” a police spokesperson told Bild on Saturday morning.
“The perpetrator died in hospital.”
The knifeman is also suspected of murdering another man, aged 23 and also from Afghanistan, earlier in a high-rise building close to where the family party took place.
Police were alerted when he threatened people on an allotment on his way to the party venue, according to the Magdeburger Volksstimme newspaper.
Germany on high alert amid fears extremists could target the European football tournament.”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/one-dead-three-injured-rampage-134646953.html
Round up ALL Afghans and send them back.
Job done.
Next.
I have down-ticked you for your comment. I know a lovely hard working Afgan who sought refuge here in the 00’s He is hard working and a taxpayer in the UK.
DON’T LUMP THEM ALL TOGETHER.
That’s a bit too simplistic. The guy who recently knifed a policeman in Germany made an asylum application in 2014 which was rejected. However, while the procedure was still ongoing, he hooked up with some female muslim and impregnated her. Due to revised German nationality laws (revised by the governing SPD with the ultimate intent to grow new voters for itself), this child was considered German and hence, as father of German, the guy got unlimited leave to remain¹. Until his knife attack on Stürzenbacher, he was considered a perfectly peaceful ‘well integrated’ family man by the German authorities. I don’t know he was on welfare or working.
¹ There’s obviously something fubared here if rejected asylum seekers just need to have sex with some random muslim tart in order to be allowed to stay in the country where they had sex forever. This seems like a weird way to qualify as valued immigrant.
Too damned right. Thanks.
The problem is Judy that we are beyond the point where we can allow “tribunals” to establish the decency or otherwise of immigrants. How much would that cost? And let’s imagine the tribunal process becomes infested with wokey lefties – we would be spending millions for no results. It cannot happen.
As I am always reasonably inclined I will moderate my suggestion: round up all Afghans on benefits and ship them out. If that doesn’t work then my original suggestion becomes substantive.
There is no glibness intended in my comments, we are quite simply fighting for the soul of our nation. I have no issues with foreigners who have signed up completely to Britain and the British way of life. So long as they are working I don’t have a problem.
Good to see you back. 👍
I cannot express how much I loathe the London parties and the civil service. My once lovely town now has gangs of threatening men from the third world wandering around. I read Cameron utterances with both astonishment and fully ashamed that I once voted for that man. Apparently not wanting to import rapists and criminals from the third world makes you racist, Cameron even said mass migration was Enoch Powell’s fault. Under no circumstances will I ever vote Tory again. This from someone who cried the day Mrs Thatcher left office, I loathe the Tory party now with a contemptuous hatred.
I expect socialists to be mad communists who wreck and destroy everything, I also expect politicians who claim to be conservative to show an ounce of courage and undo the wreckage on mass migration, net zero and COVID lunacy. Instead the Tories have gone with crazy Marxism to please brainless posh jerks like war monger Tobias Elwood, to “tack to the centre”. Apparently it’s a “winning” strategy.
How can this Liberal Progressive woke virus be wiped out. Maybe we could put Astra Zeneca on it. Then once they develop the vaccine it should be made compulsory as a condition of employment in schools.
Very good.
I think you are on to something varmint.
Forbid all “charities” from having access to schools, or making “suggestions” about the school curriculum, or demanding compliance with “suggestions” in order to obtain “charity accreditation”.
Schools don’t need “accreditation” from anyone but the education authorities.
I’m glad my sons are both adults and I have no grandchildren, with no likelihood I ever will.
Western civilisation is being dismantled before our eyes.
As a start the legitimacy of “charity” status has to be addressed and for the vast majority of organisations the tax exempt status must be removed. This crummy, racially divisive outlet is a perfect example. What right has this organisation to be anywhere near schools and by whose authority? Who is running the checks on Sanctuary Schools and their “curriculum?”
Personally, if I had children in this school I would be kicking up a right stink. This sort of freelance invasion of the education system has to stop.
The targeting of children is all part of the globalist agenda and somebody has to start the fightback. It is heartening to know that there are good, brave and honest teachers such as Anonymous Teacher who are prepared to do this work but what an indictment of our society and our establishment that we have allowed such festering viruses to even get a toe-hold in our schools.
Those in charge of our education system should be advised they are not far from a court appearance.
I was at Trinity College of Music in the late 1970s with a Martin Speake. He went on to become a brilliant Jazz Saxophonist. This year he was suspended from Trinity Laban because he wrote a private email where he disagreed with the stance of the College in regard to inclusivity and how BLM was being invoked to describe UK Jaz as Institutionally racist. I pointed out on a Trinity Facebook page that BLM are Marxist and received strong emotional responses followed by my removal. It seems students across the music colleges are demanding Martin’s suspension and he has lost some gigs as well. Here is one such demand from a ‘distressed musician’
https://www.change.org/p/to-the-privileged-equality-feels-like-oppression
As a student at Trinity Laban, I have been deeply affected by the recent comments of Martin Speake. Comments that have perpetuated harmful and defamatory narratives about black musicians in the jazz industry. His lack of sensitivity for individuals of diverse races and backgrounds contradicts the principles that every educational institution should uphold. Furthermore his actions have created an uncomfortable and distressing learning environment, undermining my trust in his ability to provide fair and unbiased supervision or assessment.
The impact on my mental health has been significant, causing me great distress and discomfort within this learning space. Unfortunately, I am not alone in this experience.
Jazz is rooted in the African American experience and has been shaped and enriched by generations of black musicians whose talent and innovation have left an indelible mark on the genre. Martin’s behaviour undermines the contributions of black musicians and the idea that black musicians are overrepresented in the jazz industry overlooks the systemic barriers and challenges that black artists continue to face in the music industry. It is widely known that black musicians have encountered (and continue to encounter) discrimination, limited opportunities, and unequal access to resources compared to their white counterparts. The Musicians from the Global Majority Insight Report demonstrates that discrimination is still an unfortunate reality for musicians from the Global Majority, with 85% saying they had witnessed or experienced some form of discrimination.
We demand that Martin be removed from his position at our university immediately as his conduct and beliefs are inconsistent with the values and principles of the institution. This is essential not only for creating a safe and inclusive environment but also for upholding the university’s educational ethos around diversity, inclusion and providing an excellent student experience.
Sign here if you believe that all students deserve an education free from racial bias and for the immediate dismissal of Martin Speake from Trinity Laban.
There are several links to this story and most on the side of DIE (EDI, EID, DEI whatever) and most sound like how I would imagine a Red Guard would sound during a struggle session. There are currently two partitions for and against Martin. I know Martin and he is not only a brilliant saxophonist but a good person.
Please sign the following petition in favour of Martin
https://www.change.org/p/support-martin-speake
Signed.
Thank you Hux.
Me too.
Whether it’s so called refugees or racism or transphobia or climatism or whatever, it is all the same anti western poison, and intended to be destructive of western culture. Here are the demands from BLM
1. Dismantle capitalism
2. Climate change is ‘racist
3. Abolish prisons
4. Get rid of borders
5. Unemployment is ‘violence’
6. End stop and search
7. Get rid of the police
8. The government appointment of a Pakistani heritage woman is ‘racist’
9. Condemn the suffragettes
10. Churchill is ‘staunchly racist’
11. Big charities are ‘colonisers’
The founders of XR Stuart Basden asserted the following:
“And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life…
– The delusion of white-supremacy centres whiteness and the experience of white people, constructing and perpetuating the myth that white people and their lives are somehow inherently better and more valuable than people of colour.
-The delusion of patriarchy centres the male experience, and excludes/hinders female assigned people from public life (reducing them to a possession or object for ownership or consumption). Patriarchy teaches dominating and competitive behaviours, and emphasises the idea that the world is a place of scarcity, separation and powerlessness.
– The delusions of Eurocentrism include the notion that Europeans know what is best for the world.
– The delusions of hetero-sexism/heteronormativity propagate the idea that heterosexuality is ‘normal’ and that other expressions of sexuality are deviant.
– The delusions of class hierarchy uphold the theory that the rich elite are better/smarter/nobler than the rest of us, and make therefore better decisions.
There are other delusions. (S Skinner: of course there are, it’s endless) These delusions have become ingrained in all of us, taught to us from a very young age…”
I guess that ‘Gays for Palestine’ have similar demands?
So, are XR going to declare war on the islam contingent because their belief systems are clearly at polar opposites?
What a thought – they could wipe each other out.
The delusion of homonormativty propgates the idea that it’s not normal for humans to have offspring as sex just isn’t the way mammalian reproduction works and in any case, humans are certainly not mammals. It really cannot be in any other way as human women don’t neccessarily have wombs and so, how are humans supposed to be able to reproduce, anyway? BTW, I’m absolutely no madman, the universe is just wrong about itself while I cannot possibly be!
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It would be nice to keep these people in some separate, dedicated place where they can delude each other in circles without causing harm to themselves or anything else …
Where did you get that quote please RW? It’s very, I can’t think of the word, but perhaps interesting?
That’s no quote. I just wrote that with the intent to parody this list of insanities. As usual, could have been better. 🙁
Brilliant. I couldn’t tell that it was parody such is the quality of some of the arguments floating around.
Evergreen College in the US went through a racial inspired melt down over 4 years ago and sadly many people have considered what is self evidently bad to be a blue print.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Wny9TstEM
Why do schools need to be accredited by this organisation? Surely the only approval a school needs is that of the education authority.
The only free dental care the NHS provides is telling people that there is no such thing as free dental care by the NHS. Or rather, if you go there with a problem now, they’ll cheerfully tell you that a dentist might eventually see you some time next year.
That said, £49.18/ week is the disposable income of asylum seekers and people who’ve been granted asylum and that’s very little money for English standards. Insofar the state provides other things to them which have a cost (eg, NHS treatment, housing or free school meals for children who have to go to school), the total cost incurred in this way should be divided by the number of people eligible for this (most of them will not be using any NHS services at any given time). One could then make a statement that an asylum seeker recieves £49.18/ week and causes an additional average cost of £…/ week.
I was very concerned to read this article and checked my grandchildren’s schools. Fortunately they are not participating in the scheme.
Whilst I am very happy for children to be taught to have concern and care for others I strongly object to the indoctrination of young children.
it seems quite clear that this scheme oversteps the mark by a country mile and has strong political aims that it seeks to impose in a totally one sided manner.
I just rechecked and indeed my grandchildren are at a city of sanctuary school!
The proud boasts are unfortunately expressed with a number of grammatical mistakes. I guess English grammar and the King’s English is no longer seen as a priority for educating young children! If the teachers lack basic literacy perhaps a competent proof reader would be valuable.
Some glaring errors below;
…….Junior School has been recognised as a School of Sanctuary by the charity – City of Sanctuary. This awarded was given for the work the school has done in raising awareness of the plight of refugees.
We are proud to be acknowledged for this award as it recognises our HEART values and one of our British Values- Mutual Respect and Tolerance.
Teachers plan a week of cross curricular work in which RE os taught through all subjects in creative ways. Each class visit the place of worship for their faith and learn a dance from the faith or culture.
Are they not aware of how the sanctuary city idea went down in the US? They have plenty of opportunity to see black neighbourhoods wanting to stop the migrants.
Tiring of this damp, chilly and dismal English “Hottest Ever” Summer, I was thinking of a trip to India, from where I can travel to the Pakistani border, destroy all documentation and claim to be a refugee from those racist English people. No doubt I will be speedily put up in a four star hotel, given free and very speedy medical and dental treatment as well as over £49 a week spending money.
If you want to join me we could build a nice big church, run a bacon sandwich joint and the youngsters amongst us could get involved in the drugs trade and help pretty 12 year old schoolgirls to discover themselves, quoting odd phrases from the scriptures as justification.
I think there may well be a Pakistani Director of Public Prosecutions who would be absolutely fine with all that, because Diversity.
So who’s coming with me?
Absolutely brilliant! 🙂
😀 😀 😀
I suggest a bacon sandwich joint with an illegal scotch distillery in the backyard everyone knows about and handling samples of the product out to all bypassers interested in them in order to turn them into regular customers. Properly multicultural.