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The Curious Links of Led by Donkeys

by Charlotte Gill
18 December 2024 7:00 AM

Last week, you may remember I wrote about the curious links of the Assisted Dying Bill (the article is here in case you missed it).

Today I wanted to delve into the curious links of Led by Donkeys. This is the activist group that has engaged in numerous high-profile stunts across Britain. In August it was responsible for a banner at a Liz Truss event, which showed a picture of a lettuce and the words “I crashed the economy”. It is also responsible for a billboard in Clacton broadcasting Nigel Farage’s income, among numerous other campaigns – often involving outdoor media.


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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

One of the first questions (because it is the biggest cause of the cost of living crisis) the Conservative Party membership will ask is: where does each candidate stand on net zero?

It will be very interesting to detect the foot shuffling, hand wringing, averted gaze, equivocations, of the various candidates on this matter.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 years ago
Reply to  Monro

And the simple untruths. Candidates will claim what their audience want sto hear but vote according to convenience in Parliament to avoid upsetting their staff, other MPs and the MSM.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  Monro

I’m waiting for the various candidates to parrot the WEF line “Build Back Better.” That will be the clearest indication possible that the only thing which has changed is the face of the puppet.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Net Zero is a scam from top to bottom, a mechanism to make the populace fearful and therefore more likely to accept extra taxes to “solve the problem”, the proceed of which then finds its way into the pockets of crooks and their mates in the corridors of power. Crony Capitalism. Corrupt transfer of wealth from the many to the few. Doesn’t matter what colour the “government” is, they’re all the same. They get power because they want to control YOU. End of story.

Same can be said of The Deadly Virus. Obviously. But then everyone here knows this.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

Although there are lots of sheep out there following the mantra of climate emergency, many quite genuinely, the guys at the top driving all this stuff know its a load of hogwash. I’ve spoken to so many people who have said, ‘if only Boris would drop Nett Zero…Carrie this, Carrie that etc, etc’. We’ll he wouldn’t, he couldn’t. That decision is taken much higher than Prime Minister. Once you see the lie, and then you see the other lies, you finally realise that there is just one big lie. Its not going to end well, and we’re not on the good side.

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago

Cui bono?!
Provides the answer to this and almost every other question and folly.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Well it isn’t me who bono from net zero

And I don’t like Bono, eithers

Off piste is where we go

Renegades, true disbelievers

(Lines 2 and 4 rhyme if you use Cockney)

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Well if the polls are to be believed, cuddly Ben Wallace is favourite.
No one has heard of him which probably the point.
He may not be a warmtard but he’s a devout covidian and warmonger who called Brexiteers clowns.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I take it the Conservative party membership won’t be given a chance to choose anyone half way sensible (Chope Redwood Brady McVey Bone etc.)

I would have included Owen Paterson too but they’ve got him already…

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I cut up my membership card, and tweeted a video of the process, explaining exactly why, but then I got banned from Twitter. And no, I didn’t renew.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 years ago

I do not believe there is a majority in Parliament to overturn the Climate Change Act. Even if there was, they would not dare to take on the blob, the array of financially interested academics and the MSM who continue to bay for ever more action on the theory of man made global warming (or, as they now chose to term in, climate change).

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The most ruinously expensive legislation in UK history. Until the covid1984 shambles. I suppose nothing will be done until millions of us “waste” our vote like in 2015. Or am I being too optimistic?

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

No disrespect to Dr John Fernley, but I think anyone who thinks that the British Prime Minister has the power to go against global climate change policy should be automatically excluded from writing for the DS for being too naive.

Next we’ll have someone writing that the next PM should revoke the emergency authorisation of Covid jabs on the grounds that their safety record is not good enough.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

“Realistically, the world will make more progress in reducing CO2 emissions if green technologies improve.”

This one sentence destroys the whole case.

What a plonker!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

No attempt from the downticker to counter my statement. It is beginning to look more and more like a state employee, 99.9 % of which are sad firkers.

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Rose Madder
Rose Madder
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Aye. This retired scientist is a halfway-houser. Direction of travel…hydrogen…mini nukes. He has lost the argument before he starts. Better to go straight to the heart of the problem. CO2 follows temperature so cannot be the main driver of climate change.

https://www.history-of-geo-and-space-sciences.net/2021-05-26_hgss-2021-1_latest-version-of-the-manuscript.pdf

From low concentrations you get a bit of warming but the effect wanes and reaches a saturation point at current levels.

https://clintel.org/the-greenhouse-effect-summary-of-the-happer-and-van-wijngaarden-paper/

Furthermore, since CO2 is food, decarbonisation is one of the most evil things peopls can propose.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

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Prole
Prole
2 years ago

The next Tory leader appointment has got to be the right. Its more crucial than ever they get this correct. If they don’t get it right they are going to lose millions of voters. Personally I doubt if I would ever vote for a main stream party again, and I believe there are many Ex-Tory voters, rather than Ex-Labour voters, who are on the verge of a similar decision. I think this is make or break for the Tories, and if they get it wrong, it will be curtains for them, at least for the next 5-10 years.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

If the Conservative Party even so much as mentions ” Net Zero ” , their vote base will collapse. Remember, the last PM. We will be the “Saudi Arabia of wind”. I’m a fully qualified engineer and the political class are as normal; deluded.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

True, but the political class are bought and paid for by megalomaniacs who have created this nonsense so they can enslave the western population. Check out what’s happening in the Netherlands around Nitrogen. The guy who has driven the bill through parliament is brother to a man whose farming empire has just had £600m invested in it by none other than Bill Gate. We are miles beyond being able to dismiss this whole thing as a conspiracy theory.

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Anthony_Blighe
Anthony_Blighe
2 years ago
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Our wind will last forever.
Saudi Arabia’s oil will not.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

Interesting, to some extent. Note that “green hydrogen” is a storage medium for electricity generated by renewables. If it is only used for surplus output from the latter, it might be reasonable – but it is not exactly efficient. Compared with direct use of the electric output from anything (such as electric traction on a railway), it’s crap – roughly 30% thermal at best? Then there are costs to do with it’s storage and physical transmission.

There are some manufacturers promoting the use of hydrogen as a short term storage mechanism for some railway rolling stock, using fuel cells to release the power as required, but presently a lot of hydrogen is a by-product of other things, extracted from methane (‘natural gas’), from firms like Air Products. I think “blue hydrogen” is the moniker for the output via that route.

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Rose Madder
Rose Madder
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

Indeed. Horrible hydrogen. Since there is nothing wrong with co2 there is pretty much no need.

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2020/06/Hydrogen-Fuel.pdf

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Anthony_Blighe
Anthony_Blighe
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

Agreed. In most use cases hydrogen as an energy storage medium is silly. Direct use, or batteries make much more sense.

I’m puzzled as to why railway operators think H is the solution. They argue that some parts of the rail network are hard to electrify, so why not use batteries on trains to bridge these gaps?

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
2 years ago

The most absurd statement any politician has ever said came from the mouth of this roaring arsehole last year. In front of group of young children in Glasgow he referred to the first steam engine as “the doomsday machine.”

As another reminder for anyone whose friends or relatives still think net zero is a ‘good idea’ here what this three trillion pound scam is going to cost in actual stuff:

-636 missions to Mars.
-The cost of an Uber journey across our entire solar system and back.
-3 million KLFs with 3 million furnaces.
-6000 brand new hospitals with free parking.
-16 million fully trained NHS nurses for ten years.
– 6 million fully trained police officers for ten years.
-12 million ambulances.
-750 million ICU ventilators.
-24.8 million affordable homes or social housing.
-Free university education for 60 million students.
-A cheap briefcase containing £100,000 cash for every household in the UK.
-200 billion clean water tanks in Sudan.
-500 billion plastic taps in Sierra Leone.
-60 billion hand washing stations in Mozambique.
-3 trillion pounds towards cyber and physical defence against attacks by our enemies. 
-3 trillion pounds towards recycling and cleaning our oceans of plastic waste.
-3 trillion pounds towards protecting elephants, tigers, rhinos, whales and many other rare and endangered species across the world.
-3 trillion pounds towards finding a cure for Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Altzheimers, Malaria or any other devastating disease you can think of.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
2 years ago

Climate change is a trillion dollar a year business, all funded through western countries tax revenues. Too many people rely on this for income. Too many entrepreneurs, elite politicians, NGOs, media & climate scientists are making millions from this. Until western countries shut down this funding, this wave of abuse will continue.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Getting shot of Princess Nut Nuts will be a good first step in stopping the Net Zero nonsense

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Anthony_Blighe
Anthony_Blighe
2 years ago

“the more CO2 emitted the more the Earth will warm – but the magnitude of any temperature rise is highly uncertain”

– which is exactly why we should reduce GHG emissions as quickly as possible. Playing the Lottery is fine but Russian roulette is not.

If we get this wrong, having to rapidly suck GHGs from the atmosphere will be horribly expensive and be absolutely no fun at all.

Fossil fuels are finite (the supply is limited so they will run out) so we must make the switch to renewables at some point. Let’s not wait until we are forced to.

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