Ed Miliband is to relax planning laws to make it easier and cheaper for developers to build onshore wind turbines and solar farms. The Telegraph has more.
Ministers currently need to sign off on all new “nationally significant” turbines and solar developments that produce more than 50 megawatts (MW) of power.
But Mr. Miliband, the Energy Secretary, and Angela Rayner, the Housing Secretary, are hoping to increase the threshold to 100MW for wind and 150MW for solar.
The proposals, first reported by the Times, are part of a new consultation on the Government’s planned reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework.
Online guidance from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government reads: “With the changes in technology that have taken place since, many small or medium-sized projects now exceed the existing nationally significant threshold.
“This can be a barrier to the accelerated and streamlined deployment of these two cheap electricity-generating technologies at scales below what most people would consider to be nationally significant.
“Potentially allowing projects that fall beneath these thresholds to move through the local planning system, given they are less complex and geographically spread out, could result in faster consenting, and at lower cost.”
Mr. Miliband has already been accused of putting Britain’s food security at risk after signing off on the country’s biggest solar farm, which will be built on green land.
The Energy Secretary prompted fury by defying the planning inspectorate to green-light a 2,792-acre solar farm and energy infrastructure project in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Worth reading in full.
Ah yes, the ‘green’ movement that destroys the countryside.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/27/labour-plan-give-menopausal-women-right-work-home/
Surely this can’t be right? Labour getting brave and identifying ‘women’ as having a menopause? Tut tut, that must be some form of discrimination awaiting to be seized upon in some way or fashion…
There’s inequality you won’t see too many feminists fighting against.
Thanks Stewart. That brought a chuckle.
Here’s one – My first thought, as an XX woman of a certain age, was – WTF???? Utterly ridiculous. While I appreciate that for a tiny minority of women it is a medical issue, 99% can deal with it by taking a few simple steps which are plastered all over the health pages on the net. Cut the booze, get some exercise, sort your diet out and take the supplements, Stop using menopause as an excuse to skive off.
To my mind nobody should be encouraged to work from home, irrespective of being in menopause or if you’re in possession of a uterus or not. What the entire scamdemic did was, both deliberately and inadvertently, reduce the workforce actually going into the work place. You’d have perfectly well and capable doctors/nurses sitting at home because they happened to test ‘positive’ on their obligatory PCR test and you’d have work-shy individuals taking the pish, pulling a sickie because they had a snotty nose, or no symptoms whatsoever in fact. The scamdemic successfully produced a ”skivedemic”.
In my opinion there should be no more people working from home now than there was prior to the epic scam. Let everybody go back to normal and be as productive as they were in 2019 and prior. As you say, and I entirely agree, if women have managed to work for years and simultaneously go through menopause then I don’t really see why that should change now. Surely if you’re able to be well enough to work from home then you’re well enough to go into the work place. It makes no sense to me.
The WFH phenomenon plays into the hands of the WEF and this 15MN cities agenda. People just get ‘lazily’ used to dossing about in their pyjamas all day, apparently ‘working’ while actually watching TV, sleeping, having snacks etc and not using their cars or even their cash. Soon it becomes the norm and so if another lockdown happens, it’s all perfectly OK. I get it that some people are more disciplined and maybe even more productive but they’re just weird (sorry). No, WFH means easy access to the fridge, TV, guitar, book, cats etc amid the occasional Zoom call. If I had to travel on the tube, when I lived in the big smoke, walk through the rain or bitter wind, getting wet and cold to sit at a desk, drink bad coffee, eat a dubious sandwich, write stuff staring at a screen and then retrace my steps in the dark during the winter, missing trains and buses, then so can the little darlings of today.
Yes I agree totally. I’d be far less productive, self-disciplined and motivated. I think I’d feel lonely too. I’ve a job where I have to leave the house, otherwise I don’t get paid, so I don’t have the luxury of WFH, but I can totally see how it’d benefit TPTB. I only know one person who preferred to stay working from home after restrictions were lifted, everyone else was happiest going back to the office. I like the idea of having home life and work environments completely separate, but “it takes different strokes to rule the world.”
Entirely in agreement Mogs. Even clothes make a big difference – there are work clothes and leisure clothes and what you wear at any time affects the way we think.
What a quaint idea it is to think anyone will be cold in future. Almost as quaint as the idea that the purpose of the train companies is to run an in-time, adequate service.
and I’m not sure you will be drinking coffee anywhere, what with all those food mikes. How do you think you will boil the water.
100% agree Aethelred.
Will this include menopausal fire fighters?
Don’t forget the nurses.
Adam Scott openly admits his racism. But not quite how you might expect. Here is how, it’s worth watching. He’s a pretty clever guy.
https://youtube.com/live/4aaBpfVS2ig?si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Scott Adams even…
I always muddle the name. Off the bat if I had to give you his name, I would give you the golfer’s name 50% of the time.
Is that streetlight watching you – and eavesdropping too?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-that-streetlight-watching-you-and-eavesdropping-too/
Sally Beck
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Elms Field
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Was Stand in the Park deliberately timed for Sunday mornings to ensure those who might also go to church have to make a choice? (Divide and rule) Who came up with Stand in the Park in the first place? Has it done more than kettle objectors for surveillance?
Not sure about its origins but I go to a regular meet-up when I can or others when I am away. I don’t get a feeling of kettling or a divide and rule thing going on. In fact, there are some very spiritual people who attend. It has been a life-saver for so many though, giving them a place to talk and express and share their stories. The Stand just gets stronger and stronger, coming up with ideas or how to get the message across. It is a focal point for the resistance and we give each other support. We meet in places where there are no cameras or lamp posts like a lot of them. There are some very smart cookies among us and, as you would expect, some with quite wacky ideas but no one judges anyone else wacky ideas or not.
That’s good to hear. Thank you.
Now this finding is pure racism!
“47% of black Americans disagreed with the statement “its OK to be white”
And what, prey tell, are we supposed to do about it? change colour? We’re not bloody chameleons!
Well it worked for Justina Trudeau
It’s probably time to admit that racism is normal, that we are all racist – whatever our ethnicity – and that it isn’t actually a bad thing.
We have 3 million years of evolution driving our instinct to tribal grouping and no amount of wishful thinking or re-education is going to change that. I’m a racist. So are you. It’s what we do with that racism that matters – getting the balance between favouring your tribe and not being too negative to other tribes. But yeah, it’s ok to be racist.
No, it’s not. It allows some people to divide and rule. Human beings are basically the same and it is best to remember that.
But they’re not though, are they. They are very similar but not the same. The worst excesses of any ideology come from the idea that humanity has somehow fallen from some ideal state of perfection where we live together in harmony and peace – if only we could crush and wipe out x-group/behaviour which is holding us all back. The truth is we are animals, like any other, with instincts that can be mitigated but never overcome. We are hard wired to be tribal, to favour the company of those like us and feel discomfort or worse around those who are different- and the more different the more the discomfort. We can address that discomfort and we can compensate for it, but we never lose it.
I don’t see anything wrong in 50% of black people not being comfortable around white people. I suspect the number is higher, just as I suspect a similar number of white people to say the same about black people except for the fact that they’ve been trained to lie to themselves about their natural feelings.
We are tribal animals. If we accept that, and become ok with it, we can work out ways to embrace it without causing too much harm to others. But it starts with accepting that, no, we aren’t all the same, and yes it’s ok to acknowledge that. You can be different and work it out together; or you can suppress your natural instincts and let the double-bind of knowingly denying that which you know to be to true fester away within society until it bursts out in violence and resentment.
The irony is that racial harmony can only exist when everyone admits they prefer their own tribe to others and that that is perfectly ok.
Does it not depend on how we define “racism”? I think the essence of “racism” is a feeling of superiority linked to race – and this might lead to discrimination in hiring or pay levels, etc. I think it is debateable whether it is in any way racist to have a personal preference to mix socially with like-minded people and people with similar cultural influences and interests. For example, is the fact that person A has no Pakistani Moslem friends proof that he is racist?
That’s not what racism is though – certainly not in its recent definition. You don’t have to believe your group is superior at a God’s-eye view level, but it is normal to think it’s better for you.
So you are saying that the recent definition of racism is based on having a personal preference to mix socially with people of the same or similar cultures?
It’s not about mixing socially – it’s about having a society built on a single, agreed narrative about who makes up that society. A tribe (and we are all in a tribe) is by definition a group of people with a single story about their identity that everyone agrees on, at least at the broad narrative level. It’s perfectly possible to have different races within that tribe – although there’ll always be a natural instinct to more closely identify with those who look like us – as long as everyone agrees they are part of the same story and as long as the “outsiders” don’t try to force the story to change but rather find a place in it.
If I moved to Africa, I would always be an outsider and wouldn’t think that was odd – my story would be manifestly different to that of the people I lived amongst and so I would be an outsider. After a generation or two, if my grandchildren saw themselves as African, embraced African history and abandoned their European identity entirely then they might be accepted as African, but still not at the same level as their black neighbours. If they married locals and had children who looked more like them and shared the same culture, then eventually they’d be no different and be fully integrated. To me, that is entirely normal and ok. It’s no different the other way round.
What you can’t have, if you want a coherent and stable society, is to build one with a hundred different narratives, a hundred different stories. We are hardwired to reject those outside our story, the tribal animal in us will never accept them in the same way it accepts those who look and act like the tribe.
It doesn’t mean – in a civilised society – you have to act on that instinct in an aggressive way. But it does mean there is always “us and them” until all stories and identities align. That’s how we work as a species.
Yes, I am at my most content these days in the company of fellow freedom fighters at protests whatever the colour of their skin.
I agree with you that there are some issues that affect people of all races – such as freedom, as you say.
But there are other aspects of our lives which are not equally embraced by people of different races and cultures – for example, interest in football, rugby, tennis, golf; or interest in western classical or modern music; or interest in impressionist art. And, if we have a preference for mixing with people who, overall, might share some or all of our own interests, I would argue that that is not immoral.
Agree, Michael. I don’t have any close friends of colour. Most of my friends are white. My life story has meant that I just haven’t mixed much if at all with other races. That has not been by decision, by the way, it’s just how the dice fell. I have had work colleagues of colour in the past and have had a great time with them and liked them enormously as people but time passes and friendships fade as one moves and eventually there is no common ground. I would have absolutely no problem having friends of other races but I would hope to be able to share humour, banter, hopes and dreams and other interests in a natural way that wasn’t forced. That, I would say, is probably the same for a lot of you on here and it is certainly not racist.
The poll is a fraud. Out of 1,000 people polled, only 130 were black and the questions were leading. It’s a statistic pulled out of a larger poll and dressed up as something it isn’t.
Whenever you see a claim about a poll, you have to ask: Who is running the poll, what is the larger poll about, who is paying for it, who is being asked, what questions are being asked and in what order, how many questions are being asked and in what order, and what is the result the client is asking the pollster to find?
We know all too well from the last three years how polls are manipulated to get the answer the client is looking for.
All the demands from establishment figures for a full inquiry into the Wuhan lab leak don’t seem to be insisting on similar transparency from the US labs, nor the US virologists and security outfits commissioning and funding the research. Why does it look so much like an effort to demonise China and exonerate the West (rhetorical question)?
Agreed Jon, I put a similar comment on the article ATL yesterday…
Fauci, and particularly Peter Daszak from Eco Health Alliance should be the first to be questioned….
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414
Covid-19: Lancet investigation into origin of pandemic shuts down over bias risk.
Watch Victoria Nuland saying that Ukraine’s bio-labs don’t have any weapons, but she’s worried that Russia will take control of the labs!! Obfuscation on steroids…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydSf57SRtcQ
This can’t be separated from what the USA is currently doing in regard to China in my opinion…the anti-China rhetoric is becoming more strident, so anything that helps that cause will be wheeled out…that’s why the USA military is currently inflaming the situation in regards to Taiwan…arming it, sending soldiers….and flying through the Taiwan Straits..because they’re the good guys…..and it’s all to spread democracy?
One proxy war and the death and destruction it’s causing just isn’t enough….it’s all linked I believe….
Thank you for those links.
Morning all!!
Freddie Ponton..
@LFCNewsMedia
“France: COVID-19 primary vaccination for the general population is no longer recommended by the High Authority for Health (HAS)
Finally…
What are they going to do now with the million excess doses? Nobody wants them…”
While this is good news, they still recommend boosters for over 65’s, immunocompromised, children 6 months and up with severe co-morbidities…etc….
So does that mean people can return to their jobs if they’ve been sacked…and that transplant patients can’t be refused?
….https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Sweden-Discards-8.5-Million-Doses-of-COVID-19-Vaccines-20230213-0018.html
Feb 2023 Sweden Discards 8.5 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines
The doses, equivalent to about 20 percent of the vaccine doses Sweden has purchased, were intended for booster vaccination.
The country’s official international broadcaster, Radio Sweden, reported that the Swedish Public Health Agency has discarded nearly 8.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Sweden’s former national vaccine coordinator, Richard Bergstrom, most are “doses that people have decided not to take, i.e. the third, fourth or fifth (booster) dose.”
The discarded doses are valued at a total of 143 million dollars, Bergstrom told the radio station. “They were already purchased, and now they have to be destroyed.”
Now that the “vaccines” have been proven to have ‘negative efficacy’ – translation:
don’t bloody work and might kill you
Can we expect the ministers and public officials responsible for pushing them to be prosecuted?
Can we have our taxes back from the pharmaceuticals?
Never has so much money been paid by so many to so few companies.
I’m beginning to think all the Covid money is being ‘washed’ through Ukraine. U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev yesterday….where another $1.25 billion of taxpayers money was handed over…..
“Never has so much money been paid by so many to so few companies.”
And can I add…..for F#ck All!
It’s nearly two years ago since the Lockdown Protests, 10,000 to 50,000 strong, were marching round Central London chanting (to the tune of “She’ll be coming round the mountain”) “You can stick your Covid vaccine up your @rse” while parading effigies of Mr Gates. None of this was reported on the BBC, other than allusions to “a few hundred anti-vaxxers” and reporters crying that “vaccine hesitancy” was a crisis in the non-white community, being attributable to “racism” and “disinformation”. Incidentally, one rap lyric blared out by the ghetto-blasters on the march was “ma don’t take the vaccine, pa don’t take the vaccine, bro don’t take the vaccine”.
“We must never forget the Covid madness – a personal story by Jill Evans”
She’s summed things up beautifully.
I recently spent an evening with someone who used to be my closest friend. I now don’t know what to talk about as she’s fully paid up to the Official Covid-19 version of events and any attempt at a reflective conversation is met with the equivalence of “Aren’t kittens fluffy?” and a rapid change of subject.
We are navigating a a scary future.
…..I don’t know how many people will navigate this, other than, as you say, changing the subject….
I know a close friend who can’t talk about anything with their daughter anymore…Covid, Global warming, woke LGBT etc….as they disagree on everything…(the daughter is a believer in all)….but they still navigate through it…(and of course my friend has me to off load on!)
I think it’s also the reason people who are older don’t want to return or remain in the workforce..I think they find the whole thing too trying.
Within my own family, we also just don’t talk about it…they know myself and my brother aren’t jabbed, but they’ve never dismissed us…it’s never been discussed…..it’s odd really, they’ve seen that we didn’t die, and they know they’ve been duped to a greater or lesser degree…and this is being repeated in families all over the world!
It’s the same in my family. I am the only unjabbed one which everyone knows. I had one son pleading with me to get jabbed and I explained why it wasn’t happening. We now don’t talk about anything to do with vaccines in the last 2 years. I told them when I got Covid in October last year and everyone said oh, dear, sorry etc but the rest of them have all had it = possibly more than once. It remains an elephant in the room…
I meet the “aren’t kittens fluffy” tactic frequently. Perhaps it’s the first step on the road to Osterism, being an attempt by Emily Oster and her buddies to prematurely create an atmosphere of Truth and Reconciliation before the real impact of the Covid Response (or Plan) horrors are dug up and displayed. In other work decades ago I decided that “moving forwards” and “drawing a line under this” (both probably NLP constructs), when uttered by a civil servant, were indicants of public sector cover-up of horrors which had yet to be uncovered and which I was on the trail of.
Well this hits the nail on the head multiple times. Includes the video/transcript of Neil Oliver’s latest excellent monologue;
”The memo went out. The puppet masters among the globalist elite cabal are planting the seeds for the plebeians to accept what’s coming: massive shortages. Some might think this is just the powers-that-be getting ahead of what they perceive as a likelihood. But as many have been warning about for a long time, these puppet masters aren’t predicting it. They’re manufacturing it.
We have the poultry industries in western nations being decimated by a bird flu that has acted unlike any bird flu in history. Food plants continue to burn down. Crops are failing. It’s all (or at least mostly) manufactured and being intentionally spread to be blamed on climate change.
We have nearly every nation in the world at some stage of preparation and adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies that will change actual capitalism into “stakeholder capitalism” before it’s blasted into a full-blown worldwide socialist “solution” to the problems they’re creating. Economic collapse will be used for economic control. If you want access to the ability to buy or sell, you’ll need to line up with whatever they say.”
https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/rationing-is-the-new-globalist-buzzword
…yes, they’ve been setting us all up…..
This was Macron in August last year….but it could be any European leader…
“What we are currently living through is a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval … we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance … the end of the abundance of products of technologies that seemed always available … the end of the abundance of land and materials including water,” he said.
Macron added that France, Europe and the world had perhaps been too “insouciant” about threats to democracy and human rights and the “rise of illiberal regimes and strengthening of authoritarian regimes”.
“This overview that I’m giving, the end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions – it’s ultimately a tipping point that we are going through that can lead our citizens to feel a lot of anxiety. Faced with this, we have a duty, duties, the first of which is to speak frankly and clearly without doom-mongering,” he said.
In other words it’s Putin and Xi’s fault….LOL…..Not our Covid policies, not unregulated immigration, not our zero green agenda…nope…none of that…not our fault……!!
Will we ever know just how much ‘Covid Money’ was wasted???
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-dumps-200m-of-covid-supplies-for-500k
NYC sells $200M of COVID supplies for only $500K
One of the costliest items– 3,000 emergency ventilators, totaling $12 million.
And now—according to Smith’s investigation, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is selling that excess equipment– like masks, medical gowns, and ventilators– for pennies on the dollar in online auctions.
“The advertisement in the auction was for ‘nonfunctioning medical equipment for scrap metal,’ and they sold it to this junk dealer on Long Island for $24,600.
You can talk about lab leaks …you can talk about vaccines…whatever, but this Twitter Poll (still ongoing) says it all….It was ALL a scam…..and we shouldn’t let them side-track us….
Maryam Ebadi
@MaryamEbadi12
Replying to @MarioNawfal
Those who agree this was not a DEADLY pandemic, what should we focus our energy on?
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https://www.steynonline.com/13287/who-the-extremist#.Y_0LdZV4SCg.twitter
A good interview, with two grown-ups! Mark Steyn and German MEP Christine Anderson, touching on all sorts of subjects…
Name me a country or region anywhere in the world where there is a sizeable Muslim population (not necessarily a majority) and where there is tolerance of other cultures, other practices and other faiths (even other representations of Islam). We have the warnings writ large, but are failing to heed them before our towns and cities are turned over to mini Islamist states.
The over-reaction to what appears to be an accident by a minor is chilling, as it demonstrates that the community (school, police, council) is already slanted towards violent reprisal and that only the “graciousness” (ha!) of a few “leaders” is holding back the meting out of the “justice” that is due.
To whomsoever gave you a downtick, I wonder what response to the following is:-
The genius of the ‘Islam is right about women’ stunthttps://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-islam-is-right-about-women-stunt/
I’d welcome your response, but would be surprised if see one from you.
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In other news, is Australia about to ban sand? If they can’t tax the air we breathe, they ban the soil we build with, once again appealing to a faux health scare.
Final trawl of the day and saw this and thought to myself ‘WTAF!’ Ban sand? Australia is largely made of sand. It’s just one big sandpit. How can it ban itself? Oh…now I get it, clown world of course, silly me. Yes the twits are in charge and know exactly what they are not doing. Hopefully they’ll ban themselves into a bin and send themselves to a landfill…we can but hope!
“Australia about to ban sand?”
Could we have a link please?
Constitutionally this year is an important one for the UK & Commonwealth with the Coronation coming up in May. A Royal Retraction is now formally required before the Coronation Oath can be taken following the sending of a letter to the Duke of Norfolk. This is an important action in the pushback against the WEF tyranny & CCP style control being brought in via the treasonous barstewards in Westminster.
https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/1796555/normal_63f8ec624af74.pdf
What’s the betting that they completely ignore anyone who demands the retraction, Bertie? Anything they can’t deal with – and I use the Royal ‘They’ – they ignore as if it doesn’t matter. Common Law? Ignore. Magna Carta? Ignore. Sovereignty of the people? Ignore, ignore, ignore. What about all the protests and pushing back against LTNs (15 MN cities) digital IDs, CBDCs etc? They’ll ignore us. At that point, we’ll realise that we are indeed in a tyranny and at that point we will have carte blanche to wrest control back into the hands of the people if we can by using the constitution. I am of the opinion that we will prevail in this even though things could get ugly for a while because we are undeniably in the right and we have the country’s and our fellow countrymen and women’s best interests at heart – freedom to live our lives as we see fit within the framework of common law.
What’s the betting that Charlie Windsor deliberately lies under oath at his upcoming “do?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ccp-government-intentionally-released-covid-19-all-over-the-world-chinese-virologist-says/
TCW have just put this up as ‘Breaking News.’
The Chinese Government intentionally released the C1984 all over the world.
What do you think the intention is behind this, HP? To increase the tension between US and China? Ramp up the fear, perhaps? It certainly distracts us away from Fauci and his crew and all their GoF stuff and firmly points the finger at the dastardly Chinese. Those absolute rotters, as Terry Thomas might have said…
My initial thoughts Aethelred are that this is indeed intended as a distraction. Of course the question then becomes distraction from what?
At the moment the fuss is all about the C1984. Why? Billy is probably on the verge of releasing something “new” but I am not convinced a majority will fall for it.
Some sort of smokescreen is being erected for sure. The news, by which I mean the main stream, is wholly negative but I don’t think it is creating fear more a case of, “Oh not again, give us a break.”
Something is going to grab the headlines shortly but obviously it’s wait and see time.