- “Trump says Putin faces ‘very bad’ punishment if he rejects ceasefire” – President Trump has threatened “devastating” consequences for Russia if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “What will Trump do if Russia says no to a ceasefire?” – The ball is in Putin’s court – and Trump has several strings he can pull if Moscow does not respond positively, writes Memphis Barker in the Telegraph.
- “Why Putin could reject a ceasefire” – Good news about a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but will President Putin be interested in any sort of deal right now? wonders Michael Evans in the Spectator.
- “Why Russia should agree to a ceasefire – and five reasons Putin might not” – In the Spectator, Owen Matthews weighs up the Russian President’s options.
- “Pro-Palestinian student facing deportation by US is former British embassy worker” – The Columbia University student who faces deportation from the US over allegations that he “led activities aligned with Hamas” held a senior position at the British embassy in Beirut, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Trump is right about Hamas-supporting activists. Britain should emulate him” – The American President is correct to deport jihadi-supporting agitators, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is too complacent, cowardly and woke to win the next war” – Other European nations are taking Russia’s threat seriously, while we remain obsessed with trivialities, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Britain has no friends, no money and no grasp on reality” – Neither America nor Europe has our back: we must become truly independent once again, says Alliister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s plea for Trump to spare Britain from 25% steel tariffs fails” – Keir Starmer is resisting pressure to retaliate after failing in his bid to persuade Donald Trump to spare Britain from brutal tariffs on steel, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer in race to secure trade deal to dodge Trump tariffs” – Britain is in a race to secure an economic deal with President Trump by the end of the month to avoid blanket tariffs, says the Times.
- “Keir Starmer defends welfare reforms as Labour backlash mounts” – Keir Starmer has launched a charm offensive to win over nervous Labour MPs to his welfare reforms, promising the most vulnerable will be protected, reports the Times.
- “Britain ‘no longer a rich country’ after living standards plunge” – Parts of the UK are now worse off than the poorest regions of Slovenia and Lithuania, according to Reuters.
- “Labour councils spurn UK defence firms to woo pro-Palestinian vote” – At least nine local authorities have voted to divest their pension funds from British defence companies in order to woo pro-Palestinian voters, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Two-tier’ sentencing rules may be discriminatory, says watchdog” – The equalities watchdog chief has warned that special treatment for criminals from ethnic, religious and gender minorities may mean unfair justice for white males, says the Telegraph.
- “Our £2 million-a-year Sentencing Council tells us some are more equal than others” – The Sentencing Council costs taxpayers just under £2 million a year, says Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph. But its true cost lies in its power to fundamentally alter the definition of justice under British law.
- “In this English village, asylum seekers may soon outnumber the locals” – In the Free Press, Dominic Green reveals a silent crisis in Wethersfield, where locals fear speaking out as asylum seekers outnumber them.
- “‘No way back for Lowe after rape gangs claims’” – Nigel Farage says that there is “no way back” into Reform UK for Rupert Lowe after Mr Lowe made a series of accusations about the rape gangs scandal, according to the Mail.
- “The ‘dirty dozen’ who crossed Nigel Farage” – Nigel Farage’s fatal flaw is his inability or unwillingness to share power and lead a team, says Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
- “What Nigel Farage needs to learn from the career of Nick Faldo” – Sometimes a performer must change his technique if he is to reach new heights, writes Patrick O’Flynn on his Substack.
- “Labour’s tack to the Right leaves Reform looking moderate” – With Labour’s increased defence spending and a space in prison “available to everyone”, Farage should be on high alert for policy theft, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Reform is a broken, infighting mess: it’s time for the Tories to take charge” – Robert Jenrick has a real opportunity to outflank Reform from the Right as the party collapses into infighting, writes Simone Hanna in the Telegraph.
- “Tory MP was paid £75,000 to advise Mauritius ahead of Chagos deal” – Sir Geoffrey Cox MP was paid £75,000 to give legal advice to the Mauritian Government in the months leading up to the Chagos Islands deal, reveals the Times.
- “Quangos are forever” – Keir Starmer’s mission to limit the quangos is doomed to fail, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The problem is not the civil service. It’s the inadequacy of our politicians” – Ever since Harold Wilson, our elected leaders have blamed the bureaucrats for their own manifest failings, writes Philip Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “Bangladesh court seizes Tulip Siddiq’s properties and imposes travel ban” – Guido Fawkes reports that Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission has secured a travel ban and asset seizures against ousted dictator Sheikh Hasina and her family – including Labour’s Tulip Siddiq.
- “Business Secretary forced to correct record after claiming to be solicitor” – Jonathan Reynolds has finally corrected the official record in Parliament after incorrectly describing himself as a solicitor more than a decade ago, reports GB News.
- “Wes Streeting’s aide accused of exposing himself to a 13 year-old girl” – A senior aide to Wes Streeting exposed himself to a 13 year-old girl and then chased after her, says the Mail.
- “Smart meters forced on customers by British Gas” – Households are being forced to fit smart meters by Britain’s biggest energy companies in a drive to meet Net Zero targets, reports the Express.
- “Ed Miliband’s heat pump was a farce. Why should the rest of us be forced to get one?” – The Energy Secretary is not some dippy but essentially innocuous dope, he’s a raving zealot – and could well prove to be this country’s ruin, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘In bad faith’” – A DC court has sanctioned climate scientist Michael Mann and his lawyers for misconduct “extraordinary in its scope, extent and intent”, reports Roger Pielke Jr. on his Substack.
- “Lockdown fuelled near-doubling of ADHD drug prescriptions” – Prescriptions for drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have increased 18% each year since the Covid pandemic, according to BBC News.
- “‘I received a £10,000 Covid fine – one jokey snowball fight has ruined my life’” – In the Telegraph, Mattie Brignal reports on a university student who was hit with a £10,000 fine for organising a snowball fight during the 2021 lockdown.
- “Angela Merkel ‘covered up report blaming China for Covid’” – Germany covered up an explosive intelligence report that found a strong probability that the Covid pandemic was caused by a laboratory accident in China, says the Daily Wire.
- “St Thomas’, where patients come second to politics” – In TCW, Niall McCrae blasts St Thomas’ as a hospital where identity politics trumps patient care.
- “Why isn’t Streeting cracking down on puberty blockers?” – If a government’s first duty is to protect its citizens, then Wes Streeting must step up to defend some of society’s most vulnerable, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Dyslexia likely does not exist” – Who is going to break it to Jamie Oliver that dyslexia likely does not exist? wonders Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Sturgeon to step down at Holyrood election” – In the Spectator, Steerpike reflects on the sorry political career of Nicola Sturgeon.
- “On the manifold fractal screwups of Chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz” – On Substack, Eugyppius catalogues all the ways that CDU Chancellor Friedrich Merz is screwing up.
- “Is Canada doing enough to stop the US trade war?” – In the Spectator, Jane Stannus argues that Canada’s trade war with the US is really a self-inflicted diplomatic mess.
- “Why tariffs are good” – The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to US trade with China, says Michael Lind in Tablet.
- “Trump provokes regime change in Greenland – but not in the way he wanted” – Greenlanders have rejected Trump’s advances by electing the pro-Danish Demokraatit party, reports James Crisp in the Telegraph.
- “More universities are choosing to stay neutral on the biggest issues” – As political pressure mounts, more US schools are opting to stay silent on today’s hot-button debates, notes Vimal Patel in the NY Times.
- “China builds ‘equivalent of Royal Navy’ in just four years” – China has built the equivalent of the entire Royal Navy in just four years as Beijing races to become a global maritime power, reports the Telegraph.
- “DEI activist shares answers to air traffic control entry exam” – A top ‘DEI’ activist has been caught on voicemail offering minority US air traffic controller candidates the chance to cheat in a make-or-break entry exam, says the Mail.
- “Snow White remake is so woke its premiere is being held in secret” – The premiere for the Snow White remake has been relocated to a remote castle in Spain after Disney was forced to “scale back” the promo amid furore over its woke content, reports the Mail.
- “Young conservative women build an alternative to the manosphere” – In Semafor, Max Tani highlights a rising wave of young conservative women redefining Right-wing media with “trad” values.
- “How to navigate transgender issues in the Trump era” – It’s possible to both condemn the bigotry of the Right and reject the excesses of activists, writes Cathy Young on the Persuasion Substack.
- “Is Christianity no longer in decline?” – There are still many headwinds facing American Christianity, but for now, they seem to have died down, says Ryan P. Purge in First Things.
- “‘People ‘hate-watching’ Meghan Markle’s Netflix show’” – Comedian Katherine Ryan has become the latest Netflix star to criticise the Duchess of Sussex, reports the Mail.
- “Michelle Obama hints at marriage strife in new podcast with brother” – Michelle Obama has spoken of her trying years in the White House on her new podcast, according to the Mail.
- “Meeting Margot: memories of a Marxist monster” – In History Reclaimed, former British Ambassador to Chile Jon Benjamin recounts his meetings with Margot Honecker, the unrepentant architect of East Germany’s education system and widow of GDR leader Erich Honecker.
- “In honour of Douglas Murray” – To celebrate Douglas Murray’s libel victory against the Guardian Group – and because they’ve been sadly missed on X since their departure – @Basil_TGMD has taken a stroll down memory lane to revisit some of the Guardian’s very worst.
In honour of @DouglasKMurray winning against the Guardian Group in court and because they've been sadly missed on X since they left.
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) March 11, 2025
I thought it time we took a stroll down memory lane and revisit some of the very worst from the Guardian
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Seconded! I won’t be buying one either! I’ll stick with my duster until it runs into the ground then ill buy a brand new one hours before the supposed ban and then run it till I run into the ground!
But they will tax your old pile of junk to Kingdom Come to get you to scrap it. ——-This reminds me off that old joke where a guy is facing the firing squad somewhere in the middle of Mexico and he is asked “Have you any last requests Senor”?–The poor guy replies, “Can I have a cigarette”? The guard hauls out a packet of fags and slides one out for the guy.——- With the ciggie in his mouth he asks “Can I have a light”? ——-The guard barks “”Sorry Amigo, only one request.”———–With everything Green we have no choice. We don’t even get a last request.
I’m actually in ireland but what happens in the uk is usually taken up here too.
Whatever they do I’m sticking with it!
F-em and their toy battery cars, people in rural ireland need rugged diesel vehicles and unlike the UK won’t just lay down and take it!
You had the chance to be out of the EU but your fellows fell for the bribe. So you might fall for the green bribes as well.
Maybe our streets will resemble those of Cuba
God willing, we’ll still have the choice!
Good summary of the madness of that racket.
I grade that as A****, or 100% in English.
I don’t understand why more MPs don’t understand. Is it scientific illiteracy, venality, messiah complexes or just plain stupidity?
It’s plain and simple greed
C’mon, all you really need is a PPE degree to know everything necessary to run a country. Everyone knows that!
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“There is also some doubt as to whether the U.K. National Grid would cope with the increase in demand for electricity by 2050.”
There is no doubt – it won’t. Firstly the work would need to be underway a decade ago, but it’s not even underway or planned now.
This is why mouthpieces for the Grid, tell us we will have to get used to not having electricity available all the time, and why domestic and business customers are being bribed to use less electricity at certain times.
It will require a huge amount of copper wire, which in turn needs copper extracted from copper ores. Given the global requirement for copper to make all the BEVs, chargers, grid equipment, power lines, electric appliances to replace gas appliances, there will not be enough copper being produced to meet demand.
There are no signs of scaling up copper ore mining to meet prisoectuve demand for copper.
The amount of capital, labour, manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy, labour to upgrade the grid, build power stations, make other changes in infrastructure is not available to meet the schedules.
It is very important to understand the reason why no preparations are being made, none are needed because Net Zero = zero energy and zero industrial economy.
“It is very important to understand the reason why no preparations are being made, none are needed because Net Zero = zero energy and zero industrial economy.”
And let’s not forget ‘net zero’ equals zero carbon and WE are the carbon.
I think you’re right about cable sizing, but actually a lot of it is aluminium, expect when more flexible cable is required. E.g the buried distribution cable along my street is 3-core aluminium, with short copper 2 core connected it into the houses (3 phase on the big one, and singles to the houses). So the use of (relatively expensive) copper is kept to a minimum.
Aluminium is also used for aerial conductors owing to its relatively low weight.
But regardless, BEVs are crazy.
The pylon cables have a steel wire core and aluminium outside. This is not about weight, it is strength! The load on those cables is many tons of tension, much more than the aluminium could stand.
Producing Aluminium needs vast quantities of electricity! Your suggestion about aluminium cables is largely correct, but there isn’t enough of that either! You see there really is no answer to the stupid grandstanding of politics. Britain is already virtually bankrupt. The next move will be to take all your money, and then we will all be dead!
When they say that they want to transition to EVs they are obviously lying. Not enough low carbon electricity, not enough raw materials, not enough investment in the grid. What they really mean is that they want us to transition to no car.
Sadiq Kahn is currently the chair of C40 cities. Their stated intention is to cut car ownership in London by at least 2/3 by 2030. ULEZ is just the start. Road pricing is also planned despite his recent denial. None of the politicians are going to stop it. Time for civil disobedience. Death to ALL the cameras.
The head of the National Grid (Steve Holliday) warned about 10 years ago —–“We are going to have to get used to using electricity as and when it is available”. ——It has long been known by politicians of all parties imposing this energy rationing climate garbage on us that there won’t be enough electricity go around, which is why they are bribing the idiots among us to get a smart meter so help curb use under the guise of not having an estimated bill. When you rely on part time energy like wind there won’t be enough and the planet savers KNOW IT
It is only recently that I was looking at the viability of the various electric option.
I immediately rejected pure EVs for all the reasons stated above.
I then looked at hybrids, and in my naivety I hadn’t realised there were two types.
The plug-in hybrid has a decent range on a battery and has the back-up of a petrol engine in the likely event of running out of leccy when you are nowhere near a charger.
Then I looked at the price! Of course you have the cost of both an engine and a battery.-nothing I could find under £30,000. But I think you can push these after a breakdown.
So the other hybrid type seemed ideal. You could just about manage a trip to the local shops on battery alone, and had the ever present petrol option was there for serious journeys. They are also attractively priced.
Then whilst listening to a radio programme about electric power, the presenter mentioned that sales of hybrids are to be banned along with petrol cars Curses.
Apparently hybrids are an even bigger con than full evs!
Those who have them just run them on petrol all the time because its lazier than having to faff about keep charging them, this means they spend more time running on a small inefficient petrol engine than on electric which leads to lower miles per gallon (also having to drag the weight of batteries around) using the engine constantly trying to charge the battery adds to the load and mpg problem.
The reason they sell well is government subsidies, fleets buy them by the hundred and save thousands in tax rebates then the workers just use them as petrol cars and never bother charging them! To get full efficiency you need to charge them and use them in electric mode as much as possible to get the promised savings or they’re no better than ice cars!
They are not all the same. Whether plug-in hybrids are any good depends on the way they are used by the owner. They are only worth it if they do a lot of short distance trips, e.g. The non plug-in ones do have the benefit of regenerative braking, along with engines that are more thermally efficient than other petrol engines, exploiting the presence of a traction battery so that they can both work together on the odd occasion that maximum power is required.
I’m a private owner of a Toyota hybrid – no financial interest in the trade, but I’ve had a couple of them over the last 6 years.
Don’t be conned by regenerative braking, they have normal brakes too. You do not recover much energy, but it sounds good!
It depends on how it’s driven, but the friction brakes normally only do much at low speed. I’ve never had to replace a brake pad on mine – they always record the measurements re that on the service records. Incidentally, regenerative braking may be quite new on the road, but it’s long been used on some railway locomotives, including most of the modern electric trains. In that case, the on-board output goes back into the grid for use by other rolling stock, or further afield, depending on the system concerned.
It is a good marketing ploy, like I heard a British Gas ad saying that their heat pumps were cheaper to run. They did not say what they were comparing it with.
One disquieting thing I heard recently (admittedly it was someone in the US) found that his particular brand of vehicle’s regenerative braking didn’t illuminate the brake lights on his vehicle, not too much of a problem during the day, but he thought at night it was far harder for someone behind his vehicle to register that he was slowing down.
My next door neighbour is shameless. He confirms that he chose one (a Mercedes SUV) as a company car solely because of the tax advantages. He never even drives it except on holidays as it is used by his wife for transporting the kids around.
A wise choice, for most people. I’m not interested in EVs either, although I’m content with hybrids, using electric transmission. It’s true that they can’t be towed on all four wheels except at low speed, as it’s not possible to disconnect the traction motor mechanically from the drive shaft. Some EVs use rear wheel drive as well (at least with front wheel, they can be dragged along with the front wheels being off the road – but in reality, most of them would need a trailer to take the whole thing off the road).
The one I have now is a Toyota Yaris, which has a relatively small Li ion battery. The previous one used a NiMH one – heavier and smaller capacity).
I think that the real issue to do with electricity supply for charging EVs is local distribution (the Distribution Network Operators domain), rather than the National Grid. Not that long ago, the DNO in my area replaced a lot of buried cable due to existing faults, and their local transformer as well. Thus I’m aware of it’s capacity, based on the cable rating and that of the transformer. A short story about it all here: https://youtu.be/LS8VFhRMsYY SSE did the work to replace dodgy cable, with no plan to upgrade it to cope with increased demand. However, the current BS 7671 does suggest that some kind of remote control so as to curtail demand could be used. I’m guessing, but the use of “SMART” control might become necessary, to stop everyone doing it all at the same time. They don’t advertise that.
Re the generation capacity on the grid, there are many hours during which there is plenty of spare, as long as the demand can be managed. https://grid.iamkate.com/
Re. the demand, remember we are meant to be moving all heating to electricity at the same time – that will increase demand significantly
JohnK
Whilst you make some useful points, the grid only has excess capacity when the wind blows strongly and the sun shines without too many clouds. The excess capacity is thus not real capacity, and in winter, night, or other times your electric heating will take a great deal of power. On average each property has 1-2kW available 24/7. The system works by diversity, that is all the loads are not present at once. But electric heating and car charging drives a coach and horses through that, as they are both constant large load for long periods. To work we need to approximately triple the Grid capacity, and probably 5x for the local distribution. That is the “secret” problem the politicians ignore because they are completely oblivious to any engineering!
I can’t think why I would want one, or what benefit I would get from owning one..or how it would benefit anyone else..it’s one of the biggest virtue signalling rackets going in my opinion.
..that’s besides the horrendous environmental cost..and I say this, not as someone who believes the whole green zero nonsense, but having seen numerous programmes, photos and articles about where the lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese etc come from…..the labour is mainly African, slave or poorly paid, includes children and leaves the land in those countries devastated…and looking like hellscapes….that’s a real environmental impact…not the rubbish they try to ‘sell’ to us……
The environmental costs of these, turbines and solar panels is humungous. We will be exporting vast CO2 output to the 3rd world.
However, for Greens (well, they are totalitarians, so this makes sense) the end justifies the means. So mining neodymium causes cancer for Chinese workers? Who cares? There’s plenty more where they came from? Kids mining Cobalt in the DR (ha ha ha) Congo? Again, plenty more where they come from.
Not to mention, the roots of environmentalism eh?
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=hist_fac
and Rupert Darwall’s “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex” available at all good booksellers.
And of course, Delingpole’s “Watermelons”.
”Why I will never buy an electric car”
Will many individual private people ever ‘buy’ an electric car? increasingly the whole electric car business seems to be moving to lease or subscription schemes. The EV business seems to not just be a change in the motive power of the car but a whole move away from the old pattern of car ownership and secondhand sales. With ICE cars there was a pattern of sales down the secondhand market such that low income people and new drivers could readily pick up a perfectly usable car at a relatively low price. Somehow it just does not look like this pattern is going to work for EV’s?
Are private people really going to happily purchase 3 year old ex leasehold EVs? These ageing EV’s will have a limited battery life, nobody is going to want to be the one holding an EV when it gets to the end of its battery life. Many EVs have the battery built in so you cannot just change it, when the battery goes the car is finished. My understanding is that our ability to re-cycle EVs is not properly developed and so it will not be long before the EV revolution will be halted by the piles of dead EVs that we cannot re-cycle.
So no, I doubt I will ever buy an EV either but the way things are shaping up that will mean the end of motoring for me and many like me. Millions of us will be forced to walk, bus or cycle and doff our caps to the small number of the elite who can glide past in their fancy corporate leased TESLAs. It is the new feudalism.
My 20 year old Honda Accord has done 125k miles and should last at for around the same again if I maintain it. I bought it for £2300, 8 years ago.
With an EV, replacing every 7 years (assuming that is when the battery is starting to go) means for a 20y lifespan I would have needed 3 EV, each for a higher initial outlay.
If looking only at my 8y ownership, I’d have needed 30k to buy a new Fiat500 (but it’s just too small!). Against my 2k outlay this is just nuts.
I argue I’m way greener just by not chasing the latest model, not lusting after a new 73 plate, simply by keeping my car going.
Agreed, the same for us with our 16 year old VW Polo diesel but will we be able to keep these old cars going? If the ban on ICE car sales goes ahead, will we still be able to get spare parts for old ICE cars? Will there be garages able to repair them? Indeed, will we be allowed to keep them? will the price of petrol and diesel be pushed up to drive us off the road, will the tax, pay per mile and ULEZ schemes all be jacked up to force these cars off the road.
So yes indeed an old car kept going is greener than an EV but greener still than that is having no car at all! and in my opinion that is the intention behind this. TPTB want all us hoi-polloi forced to give up our cars altogether, they are fed up with the common man travelling all over the place, they want us back in our boxes in their 15 minute cities.
They will have to prise my keys from my cold dead hands
The aftermarket parts business is doing very well thank you! It will need to be closed down by Governments to make old cars go away. That is probably the next plan, some tried to make all spares come from the original manufacturer by law, but fortunately it didn’t work!
The other problems with renewables is the massive problem of recycling the solar panels and the turbine blades.
And making them…
Is anybody ahead of me on this, but what happens in the event of a breakdown of an EV? Given they can’t be pushed because of no gearbox, can they be towed or winched onto a truck?
I think they have to use some sort of towing dolley frame, it makes EV breakdowns much more expensive to handle. Everything about EVs is more expensive, our local garage tells me the Health and Safety insist that 2 technicians work on an EV for safety cover in the event of a fire or electrocution.
This’ll make you laugh.. the Rac and some private rescue providers send a diesel rescue van with a diesel generator in the back to charge up your toy ev car at the side of the road!!! Oh and imagine the cost for that!…..Fossil fuel ban?
Bo££o&ks!
The reason: There is no other way!
The Battery Electric Vehicle will be made to succeed until everything has collapsed around it and other people’s money has run dry. Then, and only then, will it fail.
I avoid every part of the Green Blob if I can help it. Despite being harassed every 2 weeks by my energy company insisting I should make an appointment to have a smart meter fitted, I ignore them. I could get on my high horse by calling them up and giving them a piece of mind for this harassment but my tactics are that maybe it is best not to draw attention to myself and get them on my case more than they already are. I also will never have an electric car but that is more likely because I might not be around in 20 years time anyway, rather than for all the reasons that appear in this article.—– Near where I live there is a hydrogen experiment going on (the first in the world apparently) where the road around a housing scheme in a place called Buckhaven in Fife is being dug up to enable hydrogen into those houses. Apparently, these folk have volunteered to get this hydrogen into their houses to replace their current gas central heating, with the extra incentive of a free new boiler. I read in the Herald about a month ago that the company refuses to reveal testing data as they think it may harm the viability of the project. So what do they have to hide? ——-Many readers on this site are aware of what is going on here and they are also aware it has little to do with saving planets. If anything it is the green blob people that need saved rather than the planet. But it is all well and good the like minded people on here who have read things other than IPCC reports and have long since stopped tuning into BBC Climate Advocacy on their 6 o’clock News. —The task is to expose the Green (Red) blob to the general public. This is for sure a very difficult if not virtually impossible task as the green blobs propaganda machine is a well oiled misinformation machine that has 95% of the media and 98% of UN lackey politicians on its side. They all waved Net Zero through parliament with no questions asked, despite not one of them knowing how this absurdity could ever be paid for and even if the technologies could even ever be invented. —Who in their right mind indulges in behaviour like this worse than the dumbest Lemming? —-Our squirming parasite politicians, who suck up to the UN and WEF pretend to save the planet people rather to their own citizens.
I prefer cars with internal combustion engines rather than spontaneous combustion engines.
I heard tell of someone with a top end EV in which the battery failed, despite the car being just over 2 years old. However, mileage had exceeded the warranty on the battery and the replacement cost over £15K. There’s a lesson in there somewhere…
https://electriccarguide.co.uk/the-best-electric-car-battery-warranty/
I agree with the whole article but for the record: the Fiat 500 is not the cheapest electric car.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/electric/cheapest-electric-car/
I do not agree with the ban of ICE cars or the rest of the Net Zero panic.
However, I have been driving an EV as my main form of transport since 2019 and it works very well for me. We are fortunate to have the space and funds to install solar PV, home battery, and EV charger. The car is quick, reliable, fun to drive, and servicing and maintenance to date has been £0. I have experienced no range anxiety, fires, or collapsing car parks. The battery has shown no noticeable degradation and has an 8 year warranty.
My concern is that eco zealots will make it harder and less convenient for the average person to own and operate a car by introducing lower speed limits, increased insurance costs, road pricing, restricted town centres, and anything else they can think of.