Former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has given his nod of approval to Labour’s green energy agenda, warning that achieving Net Zero should be tackled with the same urgency and speed as the race for a Covid vaccine. The Times has the story.
In a politically sensitive intervention for a former senior Government official Vallance, who stepped down as Chief Scientific Adviser last year, backed Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to decarbonise Britain’s electricity supplies by 2030.
This is five years earlier than the present Government’s target, and the Conservatives have attacked the promise as “mad, bad and dangerous”.
Writing in the Times, Vallance, who became a household name during the pandemic and was a key figure in the vaccine rollout programme, said the pledge was achievable and could be “done fast”.
He also appeared to criticise Conservative plans to delay the implementation of some Net Zero policies. He warned: “If we choose to go slowly others will provide the answers and we will ultimately end up buying the solutions.”
Last year, 33% of the U.K.’s total electricity was generated from fossil fuels, and under present plans this will be replaced entirely, or offset, by renewable energy by 2035.
Labour has pledged to bring that target forward by five years arguing that doing so will reduce bills, create new jobs and boost economic growth.
The Conservatives and some energy experts have questioned the viability of this plan, arguing that at a time when electricity consumption is rising, moving too fast would increase the costs to consumers and rely on buying up infrastructure from countries such as China.
Vallance said that he did not underestimate the technological and logistical challenges behind the pledge, but insisted that it could be done and would be in the national interest.
“I am often asked which of Britain’s many pressing public policy challenges need a vaccine-style approach,” he said.
“I believe that one such priority is the urgent need to end the era of excessive carbon emissions, high energy bills and energy insecurity by accelerating the Net Zero transition to clean, homegrown energy.
“With a determined effort using currently available technologies and those that are close to being deployable, a clean power system by 2030 is achievable.”
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I don’t want or need an apology from Sunak. I want the truth, and for him to spend the rest of his political career trying to undo the damage – as Bridgen has tried to do.
I want him and his billionaire wife to take up their USA Green Cards they’ve been keeping all this time.
Yeah he won’t be missed.
Didn’t he only apologise for losing the election not his calamitous premiership? It was a meaningless apology unless it was directed at those Tory MPs who lost their seats.
Yeah he probably thinks he was a great PM. Even the usually reasonably sane Desmond Swayne is still bleating about Liz Truss and her “mistakes”
Sunak and the entire Convict-Pharma-ment bar a few can issue their meas culpas from prison, just before they meet a guillotine.
A proper apology would be to admit that Covid was a globally-coordinated “plandemic” aimed at trying to shackle the people into digital straitjackets (vaccine passports which would morph into dystopian digital ids), with a dose of global depopulation thrown in for good measure. Don’t forget that Sunak made his fortune by investing in start-up Moderna (insider dealing?). Reiner Fuellmich and his team of experts sussed out the nature of the Covid plandemic over two years ago in their Covid-19 Crimes Against Humanity mock trial: https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.
A further proper apology would be to admit that the so-called consensus on “climate change” is a hoax which was hatched decades ago for the purpose of bringing about the collapse of Western industrialised civilisations. My debunking of the climate change hoax is here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/debunking-the-climate-change-hoax.
Thanks for posting. Brilliant work.
I wonder what these down-tickers are thinking? One of them was inadvertently myself when I looked to see if it clicking the symbol would give a list of user ids (it doesn’t) and now I can’t cancel it!
Are they happy that the economy was wrecked by the Covid plandemic and that the collective health of the nation has been perhaps irretrievably degraded by the untested, experimental jabs, all for a condition that was no worse than ordinary flu?
Are they happy that Net Zero based on false pseudo-science will wreck our energy infrastructure, further deindustrialise the economy and drive millions into poverty? The fact that the Lab/Con/Lib Uniparty all back pointless unilateral NZ when the rest of the world is not taking a blind bit of notice is the easiest giveaway that it is more than just a hoax, it is an assault on the people (as with Covid).
I’d like to see these down-tickers try to refute the evidence presented in the two linked papers. They won’t, though, just as my complicit parliamentary representatives never responded to my emails.
Excellent, ‘nail on head’ stuff, Douglas. I used to enjoy reading your letters posted by Joel Smalley.
As for the ‘Shadow Lurkers’, I’ve seen bigger balls on a Ken doll so you’ve not got a hope in hell where they’re concerned. In my opinion, any excuse for an insertion of our ‘Novax’ here and how he deals with the haters. A lot of time for the respectful peeps but to the hostile ‘scroteless wonders’, ”You guys can’t touch me.” Never stop dropping those truth bombs.
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“There is now a general scientific consensus…”
Consensus isn’t scientific, it’s religious.
Science isn’t a democracy, it is supported by evidence not show of hands.
That should have been in this article as Sushi’s apologia.
Why don’t PPE graduates point this out?
It should have been covered in their one year of Philosophy.
Or he could have said:
Sorry not to have done a ten minute Google in March 2020 to find out that SARS CoV 2 was a novel common cold coronavirus.
Sorry not to have supported Jesse Norman in cabinet when he asked for a cost benefit analysis regarding lockdowns.
Sorry not to have spoken to Anthony Watts and briefed myself on why climate change is not caused by CO2.
Sorry not to have placed defence of the realm, particularly borders, as my (and the treasury’s) number one priority
I will now campaign for proportional representation.
I’ll get my coat.
Nah. Damn they’ve changed the locks.
Rory Stewart, at the end of his recent conversation on Triggernometry, on YT, said that what ‘we weren’t talking about’ was excess information, especially at higher management levels, that leads to any basic, agreed, facts of the case, so mistakes are made.
I would expect this to be true when there’s an absence of experience in the discipline, especially when there’s no foundational education, say, to A Level standard. If all his friends are from the Arts, Humanities and Social Science bubble, he doesn’t have a chance.
How can a History graduate, with no interest in STEM subjects, or business experience, understand that NET Zero policies are a Trojan Horse, even if he understands the metaphor.
“preoccupied with the vain promise of “defeating covid” instead of acting with wisdom”
Or Eurasia fighting Eastasia!
No, it’s Oceania and always has been. Keep up
Nothing will convince me that the leadership thought they were “defeating covid” or that they thought there was anything much to “defeat”.
Brilliant summation of what Sunak should have said. Will the sheeple listen? Sadly no,they couldn’t care less.
Unfortunately, the hallmark of “something must be done”, without a proper understanding of whatever it is, applies to the relevant Departments across the board, regardless of which political appointments are in power. Wise politicians should try to influence it, or manage it, in some way, if they learn how to do it in due course.
This also applies to many professional institutions, especially if their reputation looks bleak on account of something.
Can we please not have any more photos or speeches of the Hindu Billionaire Utter Loser on here? It’s a national embarrassment that his Imbecile Constituents didn’t give him the boot.
Surely once he resigns as leader he will quit as an MP so he can take up a post with the UN, WEF, WHO, NATO, IMF, World Bank, Blair Foundation or whatever
Well, that’s an excellent point, though Klingons like him have a nasty predilection for clinging on, just like that new African Leader of Wales who has already shown his contempt for democracy by refusing to stand down, even after losing a clear vote of No Confidence in his leadership because of his corruption scandal…
I would have thought he’d find the life of a backbench constituency MP in a pathetic rump of an opposition far too humdrum.
He can’t be a Klingon – they were an honourable warrior race.
What Fishy should have said:
To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry.
I was manoeuvred into this job by my good friends at Davos and was given one simple goal – to bring this once great country to its knees, physically, spiritually, financially and psychologically. Although I gave the job my best shot and some of my targets have been partially met I reluctantly confess that I am just not up to the enormity of the task and for this I apologise. To my backers.
On the financial front I have largely succeeded principally by borrowing and printing money on such a scale that the country can never pay it back. I have managed to set inflation off like a runaway train and combined with wage stagnation – public services excepted – and soaring fuel costs I am confident that within a couple of years the country will be utterly bankrupt. My background in the banking world has finally been put to good use.
Physically, the destruction of national infrastructure is proceeding ‘at pace’ (Civil Service phraseology
) with roads particularly falling to near terminal collapse. Hospitals are melting at the seems and there is no money for schools given that the bill for our new and permanent invitees (hate the word) is growing exponentially.
Spiritually the eradication of the Church of England has moved on apace and for this I must offer special thanks to my good friend and WEF colleague Justin Welby. Justin has just announced one of the bravest and kindest gestures ever by the Church of England and has agreed to the laundering of hundreds of millions of pounds of parishioners funds across the third world to those countries that lost out when we violently ended their slave trading enterprises.
My greatest failure has been on the psychological front. Despite marshalling some of the most corrupt and anti-human psychos on the planet in to our mind games programmes – SPI B, SPI M and the rest and spending billions on vicious and cruel advertising campaigns designed to soil even the pants of our SAS there is still a sizeable residual population of patriotic diehards who refuse to accept our narrative.
These hangouts have developed their own enclaves at places like Together, Us for Them, HART, The White Rose, Urban Scoop, The New Conservative and The Conservative Woman and not forgetting challenger News Channels such as UK Column News.
Without doubt one of their strongest redoubts is The Daily Sceptic which has been a thorn in our side since the beginning of our reset program. I am confident that Sir Kneel will attend to these recalcitrants at his earliest convenience.
Sadly, I must offer my goodbyes. I want to leave office having been completely open and honest with you and I want to help a future Government avoid making the same mistakes over this final destructive period that I made over the initial period.
Farewell.
Sunak, Johnson, May, Bliar, Browne, should all be jailed for their dire performance and implementation of awful anti British, anti freedom policies and open door immigration.
All party manifesto items should be on the ballot paper. And, as well as putting a cross against a candisate, we should then put a cross against all the policies we agree with, and a ‘no’ against those we don’t. And if they get elected, a party must then only develop those policies that the electorate have supported. This way we would have more control over the political animals and we, the people, would rule more directly.
“The Government was preoccupied with the need to be seen to be doing something”——————–This is the problem with all government. My old dad used to say “When in doubt do NOTHING”. Governments today always intent on justifying their existence do EVERYTHING. It was never clearer that during covid and is clear as day with the Political Class doing “EVERYTHING” they can to pretend to save the planet to such an extent they are prepared to destroy the Industrial base, lower living standards and pursue ideological dreams rather than practical solutions. But if we thought the Tories were dumb in this regard then we “ain’t seen nuthin yet”——–This Labour Government with Miliband onboard will set about destroying prosperity with zeal never seen before.
“Sorry I did a great many things you didn’t want ….. and I didn’t do a great many things you did want. But my Controllers wouldn’t let me, even if I wanted to. And I didn’t.”