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This Government’s Credibility is Blowin’ in the Wind

by Lembit Opik
1 October 2024 7:00 AM

I’m not a great cook, and I guess I wasn’t the world’s greatest politician either. But unlike the Prime Minister, I can tell the difference between “sausages” and “hostages,” just as I can distinguish serious climate science versus the “climate emergency”.

As a professional speech coach of 35 years’ standing, I’ve never observed a client make a gaffe as stark and public as Starmer’s Gaza hostage blunder.


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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
7 months ago

The trouble is, events are showing that they get more pay and benefits from millionaires and lobbyists than they do from the salaries we pay them, so that’s who’s calling the tune.

By the way, it’s not even a ukelele – it’s a small child’s beginner guitar, like my grand-daughter’s.

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10navigator
10navigator
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

……’it’s a small child’s beginner guitar..’ Highly appropriate for Miliband’s IQ.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
7 months ago
Reply to  10navigator

At least it wasn’t an electric guitar.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

😀😀😀

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T. Prince
T. Prince
7 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

🤣

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
7 months ago
Reply to  10navigator

Way beyond his ken.

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David101
David101
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Everything is out of tune… The guitar, his voice, and his connection to reality.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago

All good facts and common sense
Well said Lembit 👏

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Hardliner
Hardliner
7 months ago

Milliband had a decent education (Maths, Further Maths, Physics) so he is pretending to be economically and scientifically stupid to suit some other agenda or paymaster

Lammy and Rayner, on the other hand, are just plain vanilla 100% icebreakingly – but genuinely – thick, if not as dangerous as Milliband

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RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Red Ed’s education was at his, UK-despising, Marxist father’s knee.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

Indeed and his father was a refugee. We gave the Milliband’s a home so to now seek to destroy the country that feather-bedded his family is beyond insulting and proves his scant appreciation of Britain and it’s people. He doesn’t even have Anglo-Saxon heritage. I’m tempted to call him a traitor but that would suggest a genuine link to Britain. He is acting as a traitor but he’s more rightly a foul imposter who needs exporting to his ancestral lands.

A foul, disgusting little runt.

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
7 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I agree. Seeking to destroy the people and the country that gave his family succor in their hour of desperate need. Just how much lower can these creatures stoop?

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The Enforcer
The Enforcer
7 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Spot on. I suspect, like his brother, he is enriching himself in the knowledge that he will have made enough in 5 years to retire.

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The Contemptible
The Contemptible
7 months ago

“For politicians to believe human beings are responsible for dangerous warming with our modest CO2 emissions is as preposterous as believing the sun goes round the earth.”

Which was, of course, the “settled science” of its day. Those who dared speak out against it were cancelled, just like today (they just called it excommunication in those times). Turns out that the “deniers” were right…

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Q
Q
7 months ago
Reply to  The Contemptible

Indeed, as with pre-1666 (Newton) the [Authorities] denied that gravity existed.

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Peter W
Peter W
7 months ago
Reply to  The Contemptible

If by cancelled you mean burnt at the stake, then yes. I expect more than 97% of experts thought the sun went round the earth!

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coulie45
coulie45
7 months ago

Also we mustn’t forget that if the CO2 component of the atmosphere falls below 0.02% the world would start to deteriorate and die as plants began to struggle to survive and we would follow.

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RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago

“Many regard the first three months of this Government as a farce, paid for by British taxpayers.”

And the previous 34 years, ever since the Blessed Margaret was deposed.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
7 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

MT had a science degree, so that made some difference.

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bertieboy
bertieboy
7 months ago

Brilliant – great piece! Thanks.

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Richcro
Richcro
7 months ago

He’s tone deaf.

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Andy JC
Andy JC
7 months ago

Its a cult and you know what eventually happens to cults! The main question is how do we stop the net zero madness? Answers here please.

Last edited 7 months ago by Andy JC
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myk
myk
7 months ago

Their credibility may be blowing in the wind, but hopefully the times are achanging

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Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago
Reply to  myk

I didn’t realise that Labour has lost all three council byelections held since the election. If Rosie Duffield really wanted to hammer Two Tier she should opt for a byelection.

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LwM
LwM
7 months ago

Well that’s a classy article: to the point and scientifically literate.

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David101
David101
7 months ago

“The ants are my friends?” Yes, Mr Millipede, I’m sure they are!

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AndyLarge
AndyLarge
7 months ago

Ah yes. Lembit.

A “cheeky” reminder that this guy is a LD. Well known for giving cover to the eco-crackpot, sandal wearing, lentil-bothering fraternity. And hastening the drive for wider for socialism. It’s too late now Lembit. Some of the responsibilty for the upcoming catastrophe is on you.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
7 months ago
Reply to  AndyLarge

True.
But we should welcome sinners who repent.
Lembit’s piece has one error, it is 400 molecules per million (by volume), not atoms.
But AndyLarge is correct, the LimpDims just imagine they are a bit posher than Labour, but are equally eggregious.

In fact it is difficult to choose who is more of a venal, idiotic scumbag between Ed Davey and Ed Milibrain.
Both should have been breaking rocks on Dartmoor for many years.

It was Davey who boasted of “banning fracking” whilst trousering £18,000 p.a. for “advice” to a solar energy company and also chose the worst and most expensive option for the Hinkley Point nuke. Still nowhere near completion.

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JXB
JXB
7 months ago

Bacon and sausages do seem to present difficulties for the clowns in Liebour.

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Peter W
Peter W
7 months ago
Reply to  JXB

Ah, I see what you did there!

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varmint
varmint
7 months ago

Lembit—I have been looking into this issue since around 2007 and have read over 200 books, visited many many websites and listened to experts in the field and also people who know about and understand energy. The reason Starmer, Miliband etc don’t understand the science as described by you above is because none of this is really about science. The science is simply the excuse for the Politics, and that Politics is the UN’s Sustainable Devlopment Eco Socialism.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
7 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Absolutely correct.
Nothing to do with science. Everything to do with “The Settled Science” (as picked by the likes of Milbrain, Criminal Huhne, Davey and all the other venal nitwits, not forgetting Cameron and Johnson – both obeying their wives rather than basic common sense.)

When Dave Boy was picked as Tory Leader, Sir Reginald Sheffield, Samantha’s dad trousered £1,000 a day, rain, hail, snow or blow, for tucking eight modest wind turbines in a corner of his leafy estates. How much that has grown only he and God knows, but certainly enough to prevent Hug a Husky Dave from “getting rid of the green crap.”

And we should remember that our old Hungarian chum George Soros is now paying David Milband well over a million bucks a year for some very dodgy “Charity” work specifically designed to destroy the UK economy. Ed can be relied upon to assist his Big Bro and the likes of Dale Vince.

Follow the money…..

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varmint
varmint
7 months ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

Follow the money and also follow the globalist idea of a world run by technocrats we never heard of controlling all of the world’s resources, wealth and YOU.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
7 months ago

The Labour Party and the Democrats in the USA are facing God and He will always prevail. Make no mistake, God sent President Trump 🇺🇲

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Michael Staples
Michael Staples
7 months ago

I never realised before that there were sensible Lib Dems. Well said, Lembit.

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
7 months ago

Of course I agree with Lembit’s comments about the climate. But the idea of “performance reviews for MPs” makes me uneasy. We already have performance reviews. They are called “elections”.

The whole idea seems a little like those “citizens’ juries” that are beloved of some on the Left. They replace accountability to the electorate with accountability to a self appointed pressure group.

If the people are too insouciant to think before they cast their votes, or worse, if they can’t even be bothered to cast them at all, then they deserve everything they get from the hapless governments that result.

It is the people who must be won over – and it is ultimately the people who will determine whether our democracy survives.

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coviture2020
coviture2020
7 months ago

Lembit what happened I had to double check the author. Great article!

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SimCS
SimCS
7 months ago

Can we just charge Ed Millibrain with Extortion, obtaining money with menaces? After all, he’s loading our energy bills with subsidies and levies, paying wind operators to not generate, etc. all without our choice or consent. We are effectively being blackmailed – pay up or freeze! He’s certainly misleading Parliament, as there is zero evidence of a ‘CO2 heating effect’, and a large swathe of scientists now coming out saying he and the entire nut zero establishment are plain wrong. For Ed (& 2-tier Kier, etc.) to say in Parliament that there’s a ‘climate crisis caused by man’s CO2’ is an outright lie.

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Peter W
Peter W
7 months ago
Reply to  SimCS

Personally I’d charge him with treason.

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Peter W
Peter W
7 months ago

It’s a pity that Lembit isn’t in parliament. He was my MP once upon a time and I met him often. Intelligent and affable and a mile better than the two useless encumbants that followed him when Montgomeryshire swung Conservative.
The only thing I disagree with him over is excessive motorbike noise. The excuse that you can hear them coming a mile away is no excuse for this self-indulgent selfishness – I live alongside a trunk road and many bikes are louder than a 40 ton lorry!

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
7 months ago

But unlike the Prime Minister, I can tell the difference between “sausages” and “hostages,” 

Say ‘Release the hostages’ fast and merge the middle syllables. It slurs easily into ‘release sausages’. It’s a bit of lazy tongue, not a case of mistaken identity.

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kev
kev
7 months ago

A good article, if Lembit means what he says!

I had to double check the author, not something I would ever expect to read form a LibDem, even a repentant one.

Well done on ignoring the prevailing narrative and writing what you believe.

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