Kemi Badenoch has pledged that the Conservatives will repeal the Climate Change Act. Ahead of the Party’s conference, which opens this weekend, Badenoch is attempting to boost her ailing leadership and reverse her tanking polling figures by drawing from the broader Tory fold’s commentary on deindustrialisation, economic growth, Blair’s toxic legacy, immigration and so on, to establish a new policy platform. If she follows through on this, it will represent not just a break from the very longstanding cross-party Westminster consensus on climate change, but also a divorce from the blobs that have for just as long stood between the public and MPs of all parties. But will this almost revolutionary turn work, or is it too late?
I have been hard on the Tories, and I will continue to be so. But there is no understating either the significance of this development or the scale of the task Badenoch has taken on. And for that, the news must be welcomed. The most toxic item of the climate change agenda, in my view, was neither the scientific flaws of its premises, nor the technical shortcomings of its policy solutions. Such things can be revealed, if people are free to speak truth to power. No, the problem with the agenda was its requirement that normal democratic politics be suspended, the public’s interests be discounted in policy and critics of the entire enterprise be smeared and excluded from public life.
Two decades ago, this post- or even anti-democratic characteristic of
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Badenough can pledge what she likes, the Limp Dim wets in the party won’t allow it. Badenough for all in for net zero as a minister and I don’t believe she’s sincere in her recent pronouncements. She can see the end is nigh for net zero and is jumping onboard, but would she deliver in government? I don’t believe so.
As has been previously observed on the Daily Sceptic, the wheels really are coming off the net zero bandwagon.
There is a big problem with Kemi’s announcement. Does she actually believe what she is saying, or is she merely responding to a change in public opinion and the threat from Reform?
Do her policies start with asking what is right, or do they start with asking focus groups to tell her what the public want and will vote for?
The Conservatives do not have a good record of having convictions about anything at all. That is why the voting public have concluded, like Danny Kruger, that the party is over.
Sadly common across the uniparty – no conviction on anything or first principle thinking on what is actually needed / best for the UK long term
I might start to believe Badenough means it if she removes the Tory Whip from:
Cameron (Vote Blue, Go Green)
Gummer (making a fortune from the scam)
Treason May
The Fat Oaf
I’m not holding my breath.
“ Boris Johnson’s promise to make Britain the “Saudi Arabia of wind”.”
Yes, well, he could do that by just opening his mouth.
Perfectly put!
The Climate Change Act gave a scientific theory the full backing of legislation and the judicial process to impose it on society.
Imagine: the Flat Earth Act; the Geocentric Model Act (the theory that Earth was at centre of universe with all celestial bodies including the Sun orbiting it); the Phlogiston Act (the theory that a substance called phlogiston was released during combustion explaining why things burned or rusted.)
How absurd! Yes because there is no settled science or facts just temporary theories which can be and often are replaced in the light of new discoveries and experimentation.
Enshrining a scientific theory in secular law, particularly on the basis of “consensus”, is the equivalent of Canon Law determined by consensus in ecclesiastical councils to become a doctrine of Faith which must be observed and obeyed.
Many point out that “Climate Change” is a religion – this demonstrates it, but we are secular not a theocracy.
I liked the law once passed in a town in the USA that pi should henceforth be exactly three.
Well at least one Tory supported CAN, who knows how many would have done if the issue had been forced. Nearly every MP, Tory, Labour, LibDem in the last Parliament was sucking on the teat of the green lobby by taking their money through grants of various kinds, so whatever she says, I don’t believe her. Going back to Cameron and before that Lord Deben, both in hoc to the windmill industry, through May, Gove, Johnson, Goldsmith, and so many other cabinet ministers all preaching climate change, I don’t trust the lying bastards one little bit and this latest one is just saying what she desperately hopes will stop the haemorrhaging of votes.
Trust the Nigerian? I don’t think so. You will get short odds on Olukemi Adegoke being gone come election time as in May there is a whole new round of humiliation coming as I think even we get to vote them out in Surrey.
Oh but she will cling on like a limpet to a rock, believing in her Nigerian Royal Caste of Adegoke’s “right to rule”, demonstrated by her scornful dismissal of all attempts to remove her as “REGICIDE”. Her bloated ego is off the scale.
Pledges are just something politicians say to get power and are soon forgotten when they gain it.
Exactly. Who recently said that they would not raise taxes on working people? And some Labour hopeful in the past when asked about promises replied ‘oh, that was just the manifesto’.
Someone in The Spectator calls this an attempt to “race to the bottom” against Reform. Apparently Reform voters don’t care about Net Zero, only immigration. With friends like The Spectator, who needs enemies?
The Spectator is now run by the Gove Creature, so are we surprised?
Very true – despicable man.
A Scotch Egg is a substantial meal.
Boris was editor of The Spectrator for quite a few years as well. The Tories are all behind net zero, even if they are not saying so today.
Errrrrr, just the thought of Gove and that other slimmy pile Mandelson is enough to make you bring your breakfast up!
Which is why I refuse to re-subscribe.
The Spectator is already at the bottom with Labour, LD, Greens and Tories due to current and previous policies.
She “might” be genuine, but I have serious doubts, earlier article this week on DS said she still believed Climate is an existential crisis, she still believes the BS, but realises it is making the Tories unelectable, that is not a change in thinking, that is just trying to appear different to the rest of the Uniparty.
The only existential crisis is the one facing the Tories. Their only hope lies in a minority alliance with Reform, but they are too far Left/Socialist to even realise that! Unless they are prepared to remove all the Green Blob elements from the parliamentary party and remove MPs, they are doomed.
“they are too far Left/Socialist to even realise that” or snobs or delusional – like Desmond Swayne, for whom Reform Won’t Do because Farage is a nasty chap who likes Putin and Trump.
Bye Kemi the end is Nigh (el)
Unfortunately if she ever did get near the corridors of power she wouldn’t be allowed to do any of what she blithers on about!
Slightly o/t listening to the interesting Kathrin Porter interview on triggernometry the other day and particularly where she was talking about the lack of inertial mass in converting “renewable ” DC power to AC, it occurred to me this problem could be easily solved by adopting large electric boilers to produce steam and then drive turbines in the usual manner. At high temperature thermal efficiency would be quite good.
Big advantage they would maintain inertia, and also not contain chicom kill switches unlike inverters.
Big disadvantage – vastly more expensive than just using coal.
Of course
Where do you think the electricity would come from? Electricity is not a primary energy source.
Obviously I am talk8 g about mitigation of one of the many problems of so called renewables, which would have been clear if you had read the comment.
Of course I know they’re shit, but that would make them slightly less shit. Maybe.
Is that one not already in Mad Ed’s plan. A few months back he stated there would be funding for flywheels to achieve the same result.
A link https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/02/giant-flywheels-to-be-installed-in-britains-grid-blackouts/
Pretty close co-location would be required – going to be a bit difficult locating a 100 ton flywheel in the North Sea… unless they bring dc power to shore (fairly sure they don’t due to losses/size of cables needed)
It’s less efficient however you have to convert, however DC > AC or AC > DC conversion via flywheels / linked motor/generators used to be a common way to get smoothed power for data centres etc before online UPS systems became so reliable. Reintroducing some mass / inertia back into the link is the key as I think you were referring to… it’s all extra costs though to ‘fix’ the underlying root cause (renewables are crap for grid level use)
Your suggestion is already in use in the United States.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/solar-thermal-power-plants.php
In fact, I remember an episode of Thunderbirds when I was a kid in the 1970s centering around a similar idea.
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Solar_Station_(Monte_Bianco)
Surely no one will take the Tories seriously on this. Their sponsorship of so many damaging policies when in official opposition to Blair-Brown and the 14 years in office themselves cannot be undone and forgiven by a snap decision of their current leader whjo was herself complicit.
Reform is the only solution.
Kemi pledges to repeal the Climate Change Act. Her backbench MPs will not let her. They are the ones who passed it.
From the news:
Theresa May is defending her ‘legacy’. Without Net Zero and with a failed Brexit In Name Only she has nothing. How many others in the Party are in the same boat?
May is more than just a series of disastrous policies – weren’t there some expensive leather trousers too?
A waste of money, even less exciting than the running through the wheat field.
It would be a small start. I posted this video earlier but it’s really worth taking a look. There is a monumental task ahead and we need to get as many politicians on board as we can. This trumps party politics and without a fundamental change nothing will change. The vid summarises the problem in stark detail, in some ways it very, very worrying.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UG1hQsKaqxc&pp=ygUXd2hvIHJlYWxseSBydW5zIGJyaXRhaW4%3D