A problem for a writer on the climate and energy agenda is that the Green Blob is, by its nature, extremely repetitive. The climate wars are, after all, wars of attrition – of governments starving their own populations into compliance. And their salvos are, accordingly the banal repetition of slogans, fibs and false utopian promises in the face of economic stagnation and deindustrialisation, rising prices and lower living standards. So what is there to say about the thing that gets repeated without simply repeating the points that were made last time? In this case, the repeater is Tony Blair, whose institute has produced yet another report – a sixth in little more than a year – which seemingly dismantles Ed Miliband’s agenda.
It is less than a month ago that Blair’s Institute for Global Change (IGC) published his previous intervention, which I covered here. The report, I argued, let slip Blair’s real agenda, including (among other things) using digital ID to manage the crises caused by green energy policy. The problem of climate change is just too convenient for Establishment figures to let go of it.
Accordingly, in the foreword to the sixth report, Blair states that “decarbonisation remains essential”, and that the report is “not an argument for weakening climate ambition”. So while it claims to be “an argument for embedding [decarbonisation/climate ambition] within a more effective strategy”, which purports to move “cost, capacity and security” from secondary to “central design principles”, it is an analysis born of a conflict that
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Excellent distillation: “…the expression of that ideology should have been understood as functionally equivalent to a civil war: governments becoming hostile to the public, which have been displaced from politics by ersatz civil society Blobs whose designs for society reflect their grantors’ interests. Blairism.”
.. .”governments becoming hostile to the public” – which sums up everything that’s gone wrong.
Hi CRS, agreed. Classic anarcho-tyranny. And Starmer’s ‘yookay’ is blighted with very worst version, viz:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-uks-regime-is-not-anarcho-tyranny-its-worse-than-that/
It’s a viral disease being spread (deliberately, imo) right across the English speaking, Western nations.
“Modernise markets to reflect physics: Reform bidding zones, strengthen flexibility and long-term markets, and introduce pricing that rewards location, timing and system value.”
As David McGrogan pointed out very nicely, “flexibility” has a very specific meaning in this context. Who’s going to be “flexible”? Guess? Yes, that’s right: YOU.
And if you’ve ever heard a manager or HR-wonk start talking about “flexibility”, you know precisely what that means.
See this sick near death animated corpse, we tried leeches, we tried more leeches, but what we really really need are wayyyyy more leeches, I should know I own at least three leech farms…..
The usual utopian nonsense/word salad which all serves to try to hide their real end game – all our lives will be mandated nasty brutish and short.
When the creature finally slithers back to the underworld I will find his grave and I will dance upon it.
it’ll be a bit muddy from all the people who will have pissed on it beforehand.
Top of my bucket list is to live long enough to join you in the celebrations.
I see Blair is still angling to become President of the EU.
Every day that he is disappointed is a good day.
It’s all about building a Corporatist (ie Fascist) United States of Europe – and CONTROL of the population.
There is nothing remotely democratic about it and never has been.
Blair Institute for Global Communism
where does the Blair foundation get its money? who finances it?
How did Blair become the multi millionaire he is,from being a Prime minister on circa 100k, who funds him?
Those are the questions that need answering, the answers will show who Blair really works for.
Having made it difficult for others to work as commercial agents (driving yet more jobs, businesses overseas) through whole tranches of ‘Blair’s Britain’ eu/oecd aligned legislation (to which few in the EU adhere), Blair now works as part agent part retained consultant himself, relevant offices (and earnings) conveniently offshore.
‘Ellison gave the TBI $33.8m through his philanthropic foundation in 2021 and promised another $49.4m in 2022. That was also the year Oracle bought the healthcare IT company Cerner for $28bn.
Macon-Cooney insists the institute’s policy positions are not shaped by its donors’ corporate interests. “There is no conflict of interest, and donations are ringfenced,” he said.
He did say, however, that the TBI helped to put public officials in touch with companies it believed could help them deliver the changes for which it advocated. “Sometimes the state is the best way to do things, but if we are look around and see private providers which would be better at helping with reforms, then we will say so,” he said.”
As ever, the venal and mendacious socialist way: Do as I say, not as I do!’
Democracy: the least worst form of government.
Took some strategic tips from John Major perhaps?
It is very sad and perhaps indicative of our descent into decadence, that this man still has a platform which some take note of ie Covid Clown World, vacccines, lockdowns, net zero, Ukraine , Middle East etc.
In any just world Blair et al should have been charged with war crimes many years ago and still be in jail. Sadly the ICC seems fit for dealing only with none Western countries.
It’s as simple as that.
“primacy of physical laws such as V=I/R“
Call me nitpicking but I think that should be R = V/I
Yes, but since he’s quoting the value of V: V=IR.
Although, given the cackhandedness of modern politicians and what their ideologies mean for the rest of us, perhaps the error is deliberate?
Ah, Ohm’s Law… it’s been a while!