Has Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch folded on Net Zero? That’s what the Guardian would have us believe. The newspaper reports that Kemi did a “U-turn” during the recent hustings in Parliament and backed the green target.
Kemi Badenoch has backed the Government’s target of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2050 and vowed not to unpick current climate commitments in an apparent U-turn at the Tory leadership environment hustings.
The MP for Saffron Walden had previously likened the target to “unilateral economic disarmament” but under questioning from Alok Sharma, the COP26 President, at the hustings in Parliament on Monday she said she backed it.
All five remaining leadership candidates have now backed Net Zero.
The way this is reported sounds like a forced confession for the benefit of the alarmist faithful. You can hear some of what she said in the recent TV debate here (though not the interrogation in the Parliament hustings by the Grand Climate Inquisitor).
Kemi Badenoch was BY FAR the best on Net Zero.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) July 17, 2022
"If there are things in the plan that will make life difficult for ordinary people, I will change them"
"We have to do it in a way that is sustainable"#itvdebate pic.twitter.com/5xzazYAEvN
In case there was room for doubt, Mrs Badenoch subsequently clarified in an interview on TalkTV with Tom Newton Dunn that she would be prepared to delay the target.
Conservative Party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said she would be prepared to delay the U.K.’s target to hit Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, as the U.K. experiences one of the hottest days on record. Speaking to TalkTV’s the News Desk, Badenoch said if she became Prime Minister, she would tackle climate change in a way “that doesn’t bankrupt our economy”.
The former Equalities Minister also told TalkTV that she did not believe that the Tory leadership contest had become nasty and said many of the candidates were friends but it was right that they were having disagreements in public. In the wide-ranging interview with Tom Newton Dunn, Badenoch also addressed the attention surrounding her views on the transgender debate; set out her stall for why she thinks she has proved so popular with Conservative members and shared her experience of being the only woman working on a building site with 300 men.
Kemi as the straight-talking, anti-woke, Net-Zero sceptical candidate (who also, I understand, opposed vaccine passports from within Government, though behind closed doors) is a breath of fresh air and clearly what the party needs to move forward on issues where the ‘orthodox’ position is increasingly at odds with public opinion and the needs of the country.
Among Tory members at least, Kemi is in tune with their priorities, with the Times reporting that Net Zero has dropped to the bottom of members’ priority list.
Conservative Party members care very little about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, polling shows.
Only 4% of those surveyed said that hitting the target of Net-Zero emissions by 2050 was one of their three priorities for the next Tory leader.
Members said the most pressing concern was winning the next election, followed by controlling immigration and helping families with the cost of living, a YouGov survey for the Times showed.
In April a poll for the think tank Onward found that 64% of all voters supported the Government’s plans to hit Net Zero. 9% were opposed.
In the YouGov poll, 56% of the Tory party members surveyed said that winning the next election was the most important issue. Hitting Net Zero came bottom of a list of ten policy areas, behind cutting personal taxes, increasing defence spending and strengthening Britain’s global standing.
Other polls show that Kemi would likely win among party members if she were to reach the final two – which, sadly, may just make MPs more determined to deny members the candidate they want and keep her out. If they do achieve that goal (as seems likely) then more fool them. And if it ends up being super-woke Penny Mordaunt instead, who plainly could never lead the Conservatives to election victory, then they have only themselves to blame.
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Morning Judy, another fine day here in sunny Yorkshire..it’s about four sunny days on the trot…I suppose we will have to call it summer…LOL!
Nah, four days of sunshine in Yorkshire, it’s global warming. Come on ebygum – get with the programme
….yes, I’m in the garden now planting Cactus!! Hahaha…..
Good morning Judy.
Thank you but I see the downtickers are still here.
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A nightmare of a crossroads junction with limited visibility, not sure the wisest place to do these kinds of protests especially with all the Ascot traffic this week
I’m not saying this is anything but in light of stories we’ve read recently about pilots and heart problems it’s interesting..they don’t give any reasons for the ‘recent crashes’…..??
Navy aviation units hold safety pauseBy Commander, Naval Air Forces Public Affairs11 June 2022
SAN DIEGO — As a result of recent crashes involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, Commander, Naval Air Forces has directed all non-deployed Navy aviation units to conduct a safety pause on June 13 in order to review risk-management practices and conduct training on threat and error-management processes.
ATL story about inflation rates soaring……more self-inflicted misery, it will get here shortly, no doubt….
https://powerthefuture.com/two-thirds-of-the-country-face-the-prospect-of-blackouts-this-summer/
The tough news keeps coming for Americans struggling with high energy prices. Not only have gas prices broken records for the past several weeks, now a good portion of the country is being told they should expect rolling blackouts, as we enter the hot summer months. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) officially released its summer report last week and almost two-thirds of the country should prepare for a possible blackout.
The report from NERC includes a harrowing map that shows most of the nation should stand ready for possible blackouts this summer.
The reason for these coming blackouts is clear: a mandated transition to clean energy. The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes:
And re the other hemisphere, the beeb world service broadcast a similar item about Australia this winter (i.e. now). Apparently, a fair bit of electricity is generated by coal and gas down under. Not clear if it’s a shortage of coal, or just out of date and poorly maintained systems.
Good morning all from sunny Northamptonshire!
Nowt to do with ATL but important none the less.
The brilliant Anna de Buisseret shared this link to n international group of Truth Warriors I’m privileged to belong to, of John O’Looney speaking in Leicester.
https://www.facebook.com/100078231423435/posts/pfbid0c6Js7Qk3EWwA14eyHKencbSVzXGPAJFcjPT4vkFzp4t93N79D2xf62mrG1crcJgYl/?d=n
Stunning response from John o. Looney. So very true.
I hope he continues with speaking out.
He is doing. He has integrity & his moral compass is true.
He’s bloody brave. They tried to kill him when he was hospitalised.
I know. He spoke to our group about two weeks after Dr Peter Chan rescued him from hospital. What he didn’t say in the video was that there were 3 other men admitted who were put onto the protocol of remdesivir. He didn’t sleep that night as he was terrified that they would inject him against his will with the drugs & listened to them desperately struggling for breath. One was wheeled off when the porters came in the morning, curtains closed so that nobody saw & the other two just disappeared.
It is beyond belief. I have huge respect for him.
God evening BB.
Latest ONS weekly death publication just out
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 3 June 2022
However it’s affected by the bank holidays on 2nd and 3rd June so no real insights from registration date death data
The weekly deaths by occurrence date shouldn’t have been massively affected, however ONS seem to have made an error in their estimates (see attached chart where you can see the completely implausible drop in the last week) so we will have to wait at least a week to see if all cause deaths are now falling below normal levels after the elevated period of all cause mortality coinciding with the Spring boosters.
We’ll see in the next week or two. It could be that many certificates have been ‘carried forward’ due to the short working week, which could result in a spike later on.
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And Pfizer enters the running for best made up last minute document for VRBPAC race!
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Guess who’s talking:
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The further erosion of sovereignty in the EU
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220603IPR32122/parliament-activates-process-to-change-eu-treaties