Last week, the Chief Executive of Centrica/British Gas Chris O’Shea caused outrage when he told a House of Commons committee that so-called ‘smart meters’ should be compulsory. But anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention. The ‘smart grid’ has always required that all domestic and business consumers are fitted with smart meters, and compulsion is the only way that energy companies can manage the scarcity created by the U.K.’s aggressive climate policy agenda. It doesn’t matter how much this policy agenda is wrapped up in fluffy PR, it transforms the relationships between individuals, energy companies and the state.
According to the Times, O’Shea told MPs:
We think that in order to have the proper smart grid that’s required to keep costs low in the future, everybody should have a smart meter. … One of the things we should consider as to whether this is a voluntary programme, or whether it should be mandatory. … If you mandated it, then we could have that programme completed within the next five years.
Other energy retail bosses have said the same thing in the recent past.
Like many of the daftest climate and energy policies, the smart meter rollout was first devised in 2009 by Ed Miliband. Back then, the Government believed that 50 million smart meters would have been installed by 2019, but they didn’t start being rolled out until 2013.
Meanwhile, energy company bosses were candid about the reality behind promised upsides of the green agenda. In 2011, National Grid Chief Executive Steve Holliday told BBC Today :
The grid’s going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking about: we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It’s going to be a much smarter system, then. We’re going to have to change our own behaviour and consume it when it’s available, and available cheaply.
In 2013, a National Grid Director, Chris Train, caused controversy by appearing to suggest that electricity use is a ‘luxury’.
The problem that smart meters and the smart grid were always intended to solve was the fact that renewable sources such as wind and solar only provide intermittent energy. Whereas fuels like coal and gas can be stored and burned as required by power stations, neither the Sun nor the wind responds to human needs and wants. So our increasing dependence on these sources via the smart grid requires something to regulate our demand – to encourage our use of power when it is available, and to discourage it when it’s not. That mechanism is, of course, price. The smart meter, then, would encourage rationing through ‘dynamic pricing’. Furthermore, energy companies have lobbied for legislation that allows them to balance supply and demand by switching off appliances – and even supply – remotely. Hence National Grid senior staffers explaining that vast investments are required to achieve the U.K.’s emissions-reduction targets, and that the way we use energy will have to change radically.
Not surprisingly, take-up of smart meters has been far slower than governments have hoped. Nobody wants a device in their home whose only function will be to enable an energy company to charge them five quid for a shower before work. Yet to avoid public pushback, ministers since Miliband have falsely claimed that smart meters will help households ‘reduce bills’ and put the onus on energy retailers to implement the rollout – if they don’t show sufficient effort in enforcement of the Government’s policy, they can then be fined. Thus, the public standing of energy companies has diminished over the duration, fuelling a growing antagonism between customers and retailers, as smart meters and other policies, such as the destruction of coal-fired power stations, have caused power prices to triple since the early 2000s. Energy companies take much of the blame for Westminster’s policy failures.
Don’t misunderstand the point. This is not a defence of energy companies. Of course, companies like National Grid have their greedy eyes on the opportunities created for them by green dirigisme. But only a fool would expect them not to. And one thing that there is no scarcity of is fools in SW1A. Energy companies have been relatively candid, if one cares to look, whereas Energy and Environment Ministers, from Gummer, Yeo, and Huhne, to more ideological zombies such as Miliband and Davey, have promised that climate targets can be hit with no downsides. But whereas the targets are binding in law, the upsides they promise are not. Anyway, rationing is good for you, donchaknow?
Even as Ed Miliband was preparing his speeches to promise ‘lower bills’ back in 2009, his own office, the now defunct Deptartment of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), produced an analysis that, according to the Daily Mail, showed smart meters would produce “annual savings of just £28 a year off a typical annual duel fuel bill by 2020, meaning it will take around 12 years just to recoup the initial installation costs”. Not so, replied DECC officials, “if people were more proactive in using the meters they could actually slash around £100 a year off their bills”. Between 2009 and 2020, however, domestic electricity prices rose by over 30% in real terms, having already risen by a third since the turn of the century.
Westminster’s climate ambitions, epitomised by Ed Miliband, don’t even give us the option of running to stand still. Even less does Miliband’s characteristic dogma and intransigence allow debate and democracy to represent our views.
Legal force was always going to be required to put smart meters into the homes of people who did not want them, and who recognise that such devices are not capable of serving their interests. And that antagonism was necessarily going to require a transformation of the relationship between consumers and energy companies. Henceforth, the latter would require unprecedented statutory powers, including a suspension of the requirement to supply reliable power to customers, who would be paying ever more for an ever-diminishing level of service, while energy company profits were underwritten by the Government. And that is made necessary by the fact that the wind is not always blowing, and today’s generation of politicians are no more capable of responding to reality and the public interest than a wind turbine can move without wind.
There is therefore nothing surprising about Chris O’Shea’s remarks.
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I suppose that’s why PHE report
“Little evidence is available at present and results are inconclusive”
for the drugs
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1029606/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-43.pdf
page 8
I was interested to see if the trend of more cases in the vaxxed was continuing, but I see they have made a direct comparison impossible, by changing the metric from per 100,000 to just a total.
They just don’t care any more, if they ever did. Anything that looks like challenging their narrative gets manipulated with impunity.
Look at page 19.
Thanks for that, they’ve just moved the data around.
So the trend is indeed continuing.
The un-jabbed are more likely to require emergency overnight care, but 78% of all covid deaths are double jabbed.
So the jabbed feel much less poorly when they ‘catch covid’ but drop dead anyway.
This data reeks of bullshit.
Im still confused as to how a covid death is defined, especially when there is so much doubt about the accuracy of the tests for this unknown pathogen. If 78% are double injected, to me that implies that the contents of the injection is an effective killer in its own right.
Or is there something missing between my ears?
Khan calls for MORE masking – tell him where to get off
https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/contacting-city-hall-and-mayor-5/complaints
Not content with his own highly dubious mask mandate on the tube and London buses, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has just been in the papers sticking his oar in again:
“I’m calling on the Government to put simple and effective steps, such as mandatory face coverings on public transport, in place to halt the spread of the virus now,” he said.
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This debate organised by Steve Kirsch is worth a listen.
The trials are a disgrace to science.
https://youtu.be/SUmicxBfWuo
I love how they start out aiming for an hour long session …. a great listen, I learnt some new things, thanks.
this is quite an interesting story, in theory we should be glad British experts favoured the Astra Zeneca jab for some reason.
Ha ha! You’re clutching at straws there. What makes you think AZ were any less fraudulent? Shouldn’t come as news but you can’t develop a new class of drug safely in a matter of months. Pretty obvious.
that is why I said ‘in theory’, you clot.
> What makes you think AZ were any less fraudulent?
no such claim has been made nor a sign found, so you are just a clot spreading random ideas!
> what makes you think AZ were any less fraudulent?
since it was a different trial run by different people. It’s a bit too paranoid/ stupid to assume all pharmaceutical doctors are corrupt.
I’m glad of no such thing. The whole mass vaccination program stinks to high heaven from start to finish, as does almost everyone involved in it at a high level.
. stink to high heaven,… I am certain vaccine has no odour at all.
If you can’t smell the sulphur yet ewloe you must be suffering from the lurgy. Maybe the jab is a placebo at best and something more sinister at worst.
‘Interesting’ isn’t the word I’d use. Here are some alternatives:
There. Some alternatives for you.
all those things are interesting you clot, so I was correct.
Not sure ‘clot’ is a good choice of word in this context.
On the other hand Pfizer is the vax that’s being used for younger people in the UK.
perhaps we should change that policy, if these claims turn out to be right?
Do you support the vaxxing of kids? If so, please explain your reasons.
The ‘vaccines’ don’t work
The solution is ‘vaccine’ passports
Well, maybe it’s only the first 3 that don’t work so well – might need to try a 4th, and failing that a 5th. I’m sure by the time we get to a jab every other month it might be what we are looking for….
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://health.p0l.org/
That was Uttar Pradesh with a population of over 240 Million. The protocol that was distributed under WHO advice contained Ivermectin. The cynic in me believes this was setup to fail and end the Ivermectin debate once and for all. It was an outstanding success and that’s why you hear nothing about it from the MSM.
Indonesia now dispensing IVM as well.
Apparently its the reason for the incredibly low no of cases in Japan, but no one mentions the Fight Club.
https://wentworthreport.com/2021/10/22/indonesia-proves-ivermectin-works/
The world doesn’t have enough whistleblowers. When one does come forward, they should be listened to.
This whistleblower’s claims paint a picture of a clinical trial that was not legitimate or appropriate … and the FDA had reason to know this and did nothing with this information.
Latest from the Daily Fail.
‘UK statistics watchdog scolds PHE’s replacement body for publishing ‘misleading’ figures which anti-vaxxers have seized as proof that Covid jabs don’t work’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10155799/Stats-watchdog-scolds-PHE-replacement-data-misuse-supports-anti-vaxxers.html
Relates to previous DS ATL and BTL postings on this phenomenon.
Well worth checking out the best rated readers comments! People are increasingly questioning the narrative.
Is the UK statistics watchdog going to have a go at the Dutch public health authority too?
It’s been keeping track of vaxxed infections compared to unvaxxed since August.
In August the unvaxxed were in the lead by 63% to 37%. Vaxxed started coming up on the outside in October. By end of October they had almost closed the gap at 51% unvaxxed, 49% vaxxed.
Happy to say that the figures posted today show the unvaxxed have lost the race – vaxxed infections have ‘surged’ (to stick with the favoured terminology) past the unvaxxed, at a strong 55% (52% 2 dose, 3% 1 dose) to 45% unvaxxed.
Sounds remarkably similar to what happened in UK – unvaxxed leading initially in infections, then hitting a peak and dropping, while vaxxed infections keep rising.
This should not surprise anyone, it’s what’s called survivorship bias (in this case, often in a literal sense).
What, because so many unvaxxed are dying?
I think the real story here is that the vaccines aren’t significantly effective at stopping you getting infected. I don’t trust any of this data enough to conclude much more than this either way.
Most people don’t need to conclude more than this. If you are young and healthy there is no need to get vaccinated for yourself or others.
The impact on deaths/hospitalisations should be more interesting to those people that are at risk. That doesn’t include me, but nevertheless I’ll defer judgment on this topic until well into 2022.
In a general sense I find the getting infected point irrelevant, as indeed most people don’t get ill, vaxxed or not. However, it is important for 2 reasons.
1) The so-called success of the vaxxine is being used to make those who have chosen not to take this stuff a scapegoat and to exclude them from society, presumably to deflect attention from the vaccine’s failure to bring the politician-inflicted crisis to an end. A modern-day witch hunt, pathetic and outrageous.
2) The fact that the infections seem to reach a peak and start dropping fairly rapidly in the unvaxxed, while they keep rising in the vaxxed, rather than simply trailing by a couple of days/weeks, as initially seemed to be the case, could be an indication of ADE or some form of immune suppression, both important matters that need further research and transparency rather than continued denial.
Good luck with Number 2.
Just heard that you (in The Netherlands) are starting on November 6 new rules. The use of face masks will be required in higher education facilities and all publicly accessible buildings which do not require a coronavirus pass.
Passport papers are going to be required for even more buildings which are open to the public. Oddly including cafe and bar terraces.
The distance regulations will be reinstated just a month after it was abolished about a month ago.
Yes, face rag back, unfortunately. The coronassi pass is required for cafes – up to now terraces were exempt, not any more. Because literally thousands of people are sitting out in the pissing rain drinking a coffee and treating each other to doses of covid … They advise but do not mandate the 1 1/2 m rule, supposedly because they don’t have enough people to enforce, but in reality because they realise no one, but no will abide by it anymore.
When they gave up all the rules but the coronassi pass at the end of September and said they would discuss beginning November what to do next, I said that they knew full well infections would rise – it being autumn and all – and that they would be in full swing by November and would seize the opportunity to expand use of the pass. Exactly what happened and if that pr*ck health minister along with the even bigger pr*ck justice minister had their way, it would have been expanded to the workplace as well. They would have to change the law and they said that would take to long, but the truth is they know they couldn’t get it through parliament. It is all about the pass. The rate of the rise in infections is slowing, we are near hitting the peak, I’d say another week or so, then a few more weeks of pressure on the hospital and it’s over. They must know that as well as I do, this has so clearly been engineered. They want people to start getting their 3rd clot shot in December – just in time to start up a winter wave…
All of this and Rutte cannot form a government. Should be a limit on time for negotiations. Fail and hold elections yet again.
Rutte along with the likes of Johnson and Trudeau I wonder how they got re-elected.
this is a truly dark day for The Netherlands. The horrible masks are back, unvaccinated are banned from anything fun. And there’s more on the table, I can’t share your optimism regarding making vaccination mandatory in the workplace. Netherlands is no longer a free country and a small group of “leaders” have chosen to obstinately ignore the Dutch people they allegedly serve, in their quest to please their puppet masters. What completely dispirits me is that I think the Dutch will just accept everything again as obediently as last time. Two years later into this lie!!
So, this new proposal that people can be punished for publishing or posting items on the internet that could cause upset – who will qualify for a 2 year jail term:
The authorities who publish the official data
The ONS for drawing attention to it
The Daily Mail for reporting what the ONS have said
The people who comment on the Daily Mail article
The Daily Sceptic for reporting all this on tomorrow’s update
Isobar for providing a link to the DM article
Me for replying to the comment
The vaccinated people who have had Covid
Pfizer for rolling out a crap ‘vaccine’
Our government for buying it?
Will Patel be putting people in her Black Hole of Calcutta?
By January they’ll have to stop reporting any data whatsoever, lest it be seized on by ‘anti-vaxxers’.
Their ask is to make it clear those vaccinated are more likely to be running around living life again, among other ridiculous and short sighted claims, as excellently called out here.
https://youtu.be/gSKfanmsUWY
So what is going on then? The vaccinated are running around and so more getting infected they say. So it doesn’t stop infection. And if they are the ones running around more, they are spreading it yeah? So it’s non sterilising too.
You see, when you are telling lies, and trying to cover those lies with more of the same, you end up sounding like, well, a liar.
Additionally, for anyone who’s not yet seen it – well worth watching ‘Politico’s’ latest video in which he examines the figures in detail and eviscerates the UKHSA’s pathetic attempt to explain away the difference between the vaxxed and unvaxxed figures and why the data can’t be relied upon. Enjoy . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKfanmsUWY
Great video – thanks!
As one of the critics already stated “The one thing the drug companies are very good at is running the trials.”
There are no mishaps or coincidences with them, just deliberate manipulation.
Another good example for that was the efficiency dropping off after 3/6 months- exactly the two time periods used in the trials….
The pharma companies and their oversight bodies are all in cahoots, so what could go wrong?
It’s the same type of corrupt cozy relationship that caused the financial crisis, where the rating agencies who got all their fees from the banks gave CDOs packed with garbage loans AAA ratings.
No point in degrading shareholder value with expensive thorough testing of a product when governments have aleady placed millions of advanced orders.
Jab coercion fanatic storms off when questioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4W5I6JGyMQ
She’ll only answer “question” for pro-narrative sources…
News is what people don’t want you to hear, which is why the MSM is ZERO news.
Why was Shergar speaking without her nosebag on? Doesn’t she know there’s a deadly virus going round?
She won’t need a tombstone on her grave, they can just leave her teeth sticking out.
Do they still have immunity if they’re proved to have faked the safety data?
Does it matter much? Governments are in this up to their necks, courts have gone along with it. The establishment and the opposition and the media are all in this together. Who would break ranks?
Yep.
They have known for some time that sadly for them the gene therapy no worky.
But, matters not, they have the MSM/BBC “propagandarised”.
I don’t know who I viscerally hate the most, the sheep, the BBC, or those behind all this. One day they will get what they deserve, maybe not on this earth, but ” I sit by the river and watch the corpses go by”.
Hold the Line.
There are more of us than you may think.
For me, the sheep marginally less until really serious discrimination against the unvaxed begins, like in all those countries where people are being fired for refusing the jab. Then the sheep, meekly standing by and watching while the last people left with any sense of freedom are marched out of their places of work, rise to the top of the list.
So as not to display favouritism, I’m prepared to hate all of them equally.
“I’m Spartacus” – well not exactly with respect , I’m 186no but you get what I mean…
Heresy, covid vaccines are safe and effective. Now if I can direct you to your nearest vaccination centre.
Regards
Chris Hopson
Interesting and not very surprising. But nothing the awesome power of Pfizer, the FDA, the CDC, the media and all the minion officials around the world that have staked their careers and reputations on vaccine rollouts, coordinated by Bill Gates and his crew of Davos bad boys can’t sweep under the rug.
No chance
The investigative journalists at the Beeb and G******n would be on them like a shot if they tried anything like that. Are you completely naive.
Sadly you have been disinformationalised by the dreaded vax deniers.
This is only how the pharma companies run trials for any new products — they weren’t particularly naughty just for the covid vaccines…
Well that makes it alright then
Not according to the whistleblower of 20 years experience. Did you read the article?? If they are always cutting corners then this must have been particularly bad.
She lost her job over it.
“speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety.”
You think?
Probably not, since those two aspects have been totally ignored throughout!
If only someone could have predicted this would happen at the time.
Oh. We all did.
speed wouldn’t have been needed if the treatment protocols developed by doctors with integrity who were genuinely trying, and succeeding, to treat patients at the outset had not been deliberately supressed, with those doctors being threatened with the removal of their licence to practise if they continued to treat patients
After re-analyzing a study performed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers, a peer-reviewed study has called for the immediate withdrawal of mRNA COVID vaccines for pregnant women, those breastfeeding, those of childbearing age and children after their shocking study reveals stunning results of pregnant mRNA vaccinated women: 92% had a spontaneous miscarriage in the first 13 weeks…while 81.9% of women who received the mRNA COVID vaccine had a spontaneous miscarriage in the first 20 weeks.
https://cf5e727d-d02d-4d71-89ff-9fe2d3ad957f.filesusr.com/ugd/adf864_2bd97450072f4364a65e5cf1d7384dd4.pdf
Dr. Tom Shimabukuro from the CDC comes in for a lot of criticism too.
In fact, if they’re correct he’s either Incompetent or corrupt.
It’s Peer Reviewed, but how much exposure these guys from New Zealand will get, goodness knows.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the vax passport was used to stop the vaxxed mixing in clubs and mass sporting events.
Farrar quits SAGE, but this happened a month ago so why are we only hearing about it now?
Fauci going down?
Farrar is the worst of them according to Yeadon
He’s probably concerned that the rates are too low and the whole scam might be over soon for him and his little chums.
i don’t disagree but can’t help but wonder if, because of his Fauci connections, he jumped before he was pushed?
‘Why…do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?’ (7:00)
https://youtu.be/x_wTYyjUkqo
Almost Christmas!
And just in time!
I have said that all that needs to be done is for Boris to drop his trousers in front of the cameras, fart loudly and exclaim “Oops! I’ve let another variant out!”, and half the country will believe it and put their face masks back on.
And it’s back to Chequers for some more rumpy-pumpy with Carrie.
Pfizer ‘encouraging’ the kiddies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_gLd7MjP0
I have also just been sent this.It is dated the 23rd Sept.2021 with an up date of 14 Oct.
The EU parliament have a motion for creating a European compensation fund for victims of the COVID-19 vaccines.
I have no idea on the time scale for this, like when will it be discussed or even if it will be.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2021-0475_EN.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10156793/Fully-vaccinated-air-passenger-infected-Covid-dead-flight-Turkey-Germany.html lol panicdemic
No 10 concerned as 4.5 million eligible people fail to get Covid jab boosters
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/no-10-concerned-as-45-million-eligible-people-fail-to-get-covid-jab-boosters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Plan B on its way!
Doesn’t seem like a biggie to me. Company cutting corners, is all. Wake me up when you have some hard evidence about major planned falsification of data…
Just a biggie to someone with 20 years experience and who sacrificed her job to speak out.
Have a word with yourself.
Pharma companies are rapacious. They exist to aggressively generate profits for their shareholders. Have a look at Violation Tracker’s record of immorality accrued by Pfizer https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=pfizer
Sickening Evil.. it must be stopped..