When the Daily Telegraph’s Review section previewed Wednesday’s edition of Channel 4’s Dispatches – Britain’s Forgotten Pensioners it expressed scepticism at some of the statistics in the forthcoming programme:
Some of the figures quoted (such as that 45 people died every day last winter – more than 4,000 deaths – as a result of being unable to heat their homes) seemed inconceivable enough to invite referral to Radio 4’s More or Less for further analysis.
This extraordinary and troubling figure of 4,000 deaths comes from a study by National Energy Action. Three days before the above quote hit readers’ doormats, Bob Ward, Chair of London Climate Change Partnership, told Dr. David Bull on his TalkTV show that the temperature “astonishingly went above 40 degrees last summer and it killed 2,000 people”.
There is no readily available statistical basis for them but if one were to take these two figures at face value, then an admittedly over-simplistic conclusion might be that winter cold kills twice as many people as summer heat. While it appears that Western civilisation is being put into reverse gear to prevent global temperature rises, what is being done about the former?
The Telegraph’s incredulity at the concept of people dying of cold is comparatively recent. In February 2015, it reported: ‘Winter death toll “to exceed 40,000”‘. Dame Sally Davies, then the Government’s Chief Medical Officer, wrote in the Cold Weather Plan for England 2014-15:
Excess deaths are not just deaths of those who would have died anyway in the next few weeks or months due to illness or old age. There is strong evidence some of these deaths are indeed ‘extra’ and are related to cold temperatures, living in cold homes as well as infectious diseases such as influenza.
If one looks for this year’s Cold Weather Plan, it turns out than in a suitably Orwellian touch it is now called the Adverse Weather Plan. There is as now as much content devoted to “extreme heat and heatwaves” as to cold.
Deaths from cold among the elderly used to grab people’s attention. The late MP David Amess was so appalled to hear of the death in a cold house of one of his Southend constituents that he campaigned for and secured the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act in 2000. Fuel poverty declined from 5.1 million households to 1.2 million households between 1996 and 2004, partly as a consequence. As to where it is in 2023, the estimate from National Energy Action is 7.5 million households.
The fact is that Government and media have succumbed to a bad case of climate emergency tunnel vision, which means their limited attention is focused on ‘soaring’ temperatures, heatwaves and the weather map being coloured red after the news. Of course, there is an impact from the war in Ukraine but elderly people will die again this coming winter not just because of the chronic failure to secure the U.K.’s energy supply by successive Governments. It is also caused by the vast transfer of wealth from struggling pensioners to asset owners in the renewable sector. Energy bills are unnecessarily high in no small part due to the innumerable subsidies that go to, among others, wind turbine providers being awarded constraint payments for switching them off in high winds.
The Dispatches documentary makes for hard viewing and I defy anyone not to be touched by the despair of those featured. A few days before watching it, I was at a dinner where I saw a former colleague. Heir to a considerable fortune, he cheerfully told me that he’d received a five-figure grant towards the cost of installing a heat pump in the pond beside his equally considerable North London home.
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Did we know that there’s a ‘million man’ pro-Palestine march organized to take place on Armistice Day? They’re going to have to get it moved to another day. You can imagine the scenes at the Cenotaph if it’s allowed to go ahead can’t you? Police busying themselves telling people to put their England flags away because they’re racist, poppies too because they’re deemed offensive, people arrested if they show even the slightest whiff of patriotism. Meanwhile, the Muslims in the background can sing about eradicating Jews and Israel. Let’s await Khant’s comment on that shall we? Here’s what Nigel Farage thinks;
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1720169228735574042
“plod” will get “their marching orders” as government ministers would say. Disrupting the activities of the intelligence services or their own undercover operatives won’t be one of them unless it’s accidental.
Meanwhile at the Covid inquiry we can see some real extremists and zealots in action. No amount of death and destruction will make them seek the truth.
There’s a war coming to the streets of Britain! REMEMBERANCE DAY!
NEVER in me 60 years of experience would I ever be feeling this unprotected by my own country!
Speaking of poppies being offensive, here’s Starmer;
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1720042811427303714
Wow – embarrassed to wear a poppy when speaking to a British audience. That’s quite revealing…
The interesting item here is that GBN reported that he was selective about when to wear it.They showed a clip of him speaking at Chatham House, where he did wear a poppy, then a cut to one with him not wearing it (and evidently with the same suit, tie etc) on his other output aimed at another group.
NOT British Michael – Muslim.
Starmer is just another puppet following orders to ensure that the fear, hatred & division is sufficiently stoked for civil war to break out in this country. It’s about bringing about the NWO. Problem, reaction & then the parasite class can roll out the pre-planned solution to the masses who are crying out for a solution to a problem which didn’t exist until it was manufactured.
To everyone here – stop falling for the psych ops. Division, fear & hatred based on religion, class, culture is being purposely stoked to destroy the UK, to destroy our culture & bring about a one world totalitarian government.
Joining in that fear mongering, divisive behaviour is helping to usher in this tyranny.
Absolutely spot on BB. Unfortunately I think civil unrest is inevitable and it is a raging certainty on 11/11.
Yes..cue..lockdown (for your safety of course)….banning more protests, banning more speech, and more draconian measures….
Widespread deployment of facial recognition “to keep us safe”, more censorship, more stay at home orders, 24/7 state surveillance of everyone, everywhere- isn’t that always ‘the answer’? And any day now, up will pop Blair with his Hague poodle, extolling the virtues, convenience and safety of digital identity implants with real time location tracking (though he is exempt ‘for security reasons’). We are being played, again.
As Christine Andersen MEP has said numerous times – you cannot comply your way out of tyranny. Resistance, pushback, peaceful civil disobedience is our best weapon. It has to be peaceful as violent unrest is what the parasites want to bring in their tyranny.
Starmer’s hypocrisy is exposed. He would argue that they are British Muslims, yet he removes a hugely important token of British gratitude and pride and history when addressing a “British” audience.
Shape-shifter Starmer can’t stop himself
“The idea that no matter how bad things are, children should always go to school, seems irrevocably compromised by lockdown”
I guess it all really depends upon what happens in the schools – BS lockdowns or no BS lockdowns.
But as far as my primary, secondary and tertiary sources tell me, what really happens in those buildings is an awful lot of “schooling” and very little education.
So glad we took our two out of the mainstream system. We should never have put them there in the first place. Many parents we know have since done the same.
And without wishing to play the victim, I think I’d also be a lot better off if I had never been sent there when I was a child.
Bit of a wake-up moment, this “pandemic”…
Dr Anna Loutfi, UK Barrister spoke to us at MD4CE on Tuesday evening. She’s building a case against the Dept of Education about the lack of access for parents to the content of sex & relationship education syllabus. She confirms that having seen the curriculum courtesy of some whistle-blowers, that what is being taught is child abuse & grooming. She also said that the percentage of children being removed from state schools to be home schooled is the highest in Europe & the highest that it has ever been as more 7 more parents are sick of the emotional, sexual abuse & brainwashing that their children are subjected to by the school system.
Thanks for your update.
“The EU walks back its ruinous proposal to mandate minimum energy efficiency standards for buildings” – ‘Climatism’ is slowly dying,”
That is all very well but in the UK we have the stultifying Climate Change act. We can tinker around a bit but unless that Act is repealed or significantly amended then we seem destined for net-zero immiseration. It is hard to foresee how this will play out in the UK? If few people buy EV’s will they carry on and banish ICE cars and condemn the majority to a future of limited transport? If people do not buy heat pumps will they ban gas and oil; boilers and restrict the sale of gas and oil and just let people freeze in their homes?
It seems to me that it all has to get worse and more messy before there is any chance of it getting better. Meanwhile China, India etc. will smile serenely and carry on to become the dominant players in the world. Do any of our politicians have any vision and understanding as to where this is all heading?
Israel vs Palestine. What an absolute blinder the elites have played. They’ve even managed to get the right of centre sceptics standing shoulder to shoulder with the BBC and the Left. Impressive.
Knowing the evil stunt was probably US coordinated, and understanding the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the region, should be distinct from uncritically opposing Israel and the West. To do that you are opposing Western values and a way of life most Muslims in this region find repulsive. You are emboldening Muslims who long for Jihad everywhere – including the streets of the UK. We’ll see the outcome of that support in London and other major cities over the next couple of weeks I suspect.
In the name of safety….
I went to the O2 on Wednesday. To listen to Peterson, Murray, Lomborg and Shapiro. Quite interesting.
So you are not allowed to bring in drinks or food and have to buy everything at the venue.
I thought I would buy a bottle of water (I know..I know how to live..).
£3.90 for a bottle and then he proceeded to say he could not give me the cap of the bottle…
Why?
Policy…
As I did not fancy carrying an open water bottle around for hours I decided to go thirsty.
I went to the customer service desk and asked them about this policy. The young woman proceeded to tell me this was health and safety. If the cap was on, someone could trip over a fallen full bottle of water.
I asked her if she could hear herself talking. She smiled sheepishly.
Anyway, I guess it is the world we live in.
I was all ready to go to that event. After choosing a seat I got to the checkout only to discover that it was a digital ticket system only i.e. they refused point blank to send paper tickets and you could only attend if you carried a phone into the venue to prove your purchase. I canceled at the checkout. We’ve got to draw a line somewhere haven’t we?
We went to a rugby world cup match. You could take your own bottle in if it was less than 500ml, but it had to have the cap off.
I was told it was to reduce its danger as a projectile if thrown.
Of course, not a single bottle has ever been thrown at a rugby international.
Again, it’s all about treating ordinary people as potentially dangerous, we all start believing it. The reality was that both sets of fans were getting on brilliantly well.
My OH was also going to buy a bottle of water at that event and had the same response as you … I’m thinking maybe spilt water might be a bigger hazard … maybe they just shouldn’t supply drinks, it’s just too dangerous. No chance of that though, it’s just too much of a money spinner.
I think what you describe Myra is simply theft..
Worth clicking on the Vienna waterfountain article – even in these dark times, we need a chuckle (although I did think, I wonder what this rough representation of what look like a bunch of sick and broken people is really saying?)
Here’s a system coming online today in ireland,..I’d describe it as the ‘government point to system’ when needing an excuse to introduce ulez in ireland!
Dublin ,you have been warned!
Ireland’s new national air quality forecast goes live today
https://jrnl.ie/6213252
I’ll wager air quality will be bad to worse for the next few months then ulez will soon follow!
Vienna’s new fountain…
Vienna, you are the world’s laughing stock!
I know, I saw that the other day on Jessica Rose’s Twitter and I thought it looked like a local primary school had done it as an art project! LOL Standards have slipped somewhat over there when it comes to beautiful sculptures in public places.
I thought the vid clip above about signing the ‘Free Palestine’ petition was worth a watch. It’s very well done because it perfectly illustrates that once the useful idiots are faced with some facts and become enlightened as to what they’re actually turning out in their thousands to support on a weekend, they then think twice as realization dawns. I guess ignorance is bliss when you’re in the throws of mass psychosis, supporting the latest thing like some propagandized muppet and maxing out your self-righteousness… until you no longer have ignorance to hide behind.
….all part of the plan to take us back into some kind of mediaeval dark age societally…where nothing real exists, where people don’t make or produce or appreciate anything real or truly beautiful anymore….
….while, at the same time, addling peoples brains with more unreality in the form of attention-span diluting multi-media, ‘games’ and A.I….
Agreed – truth and beauty, two essential elements of “a good life”, are massively under attack.
5g towers digital watchtowers
latest leaflet to print at home or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
There have been many rumblings BTL that the DS has become a limited hangout & that what was a sceptical site on covid is now just yet another voice pushing the official narrative of division, fear & hatred. This post from Telegram makes thought provoking reading:
So let’s see who the people are who are now defending the endless war that both Orwell and Assange warned was always against us, as well as asking for MORE restrictions on our freedoms when we don’t agree with them:
“Allison Pearson wants the army on our streets” – by Niall McCrae
“The British establishment, including its media whores, rushed to license Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to take whatever action it wants against Gaza. Despite his recent exposure as a sex predator, Nick Cohen was rehabilitated by the Spectator to spout his bile. Douglas Murray, a gay advocate of Judaeo-Christian values, and asset of the security services, has jumped at the opportunity to attack Muslims. Laura Dodsworth and Allison Pearson reacted with mesmerised veneration of the Zionist regime.
Dodsworth made her name in the freedom movement, writing State of Fear on the government’s sinister surveillance and psychologically abusive practices during the Covid-19 pseudopandemic. The book drew deserved plaudits, although I found the last chapter revealing: Dodsworth praised the vaccines before they had been properly tested. Not such a critical thinker after all…
Dodsworth, in collaboration with Toby Young, produced the ‘October Declaration’, a petition of support for British Jews in their hour of need. Remember the Islamist terror attacks earlier this century, when the focus immediately shifted to a potential ‘far-right’ backlash? This is not quite the same, as Israeli people were killed and taken hostage by Hamas militia, but there was no doubt by the time this declaration was launched that the Israeli armed forces were doing most of the murders. Yet the main problem is anti-Semitism, and Palestinian victims were not directly mentioned in Dodsworth’s appeal: –
Oh, how badly the supposedly enlightened critics of Covid-19 lockdown have failed this moral test. Thankfully, they are not the majority. Dodsworth’s declaration has amassed about 65 thousand signatures, a quarter of the number signing a petition on the government website for a ceasefire and removal of Israeli occupiers from the West Bank and Gaza. And it pales into insignificance compared with the huge rallies in London and other cities across the UK.
Pearson is enraged by these mass protests. She demands government action to curtail this expression of Palestinian support. Home secretary Suella Braverman wants police to arrest those attending, merely for waving a flag. ‘Hate marches’, according to Braverman. Yet as I have witnessed, the tens of thousands who come to London to demonstrate are mostly ordinary people who are horrified about the massacre in Gaza, and justifiably angry that their taxes are being used to send armaments to Israel. Inevitably a few hotheads get the newspaper headlines, but the marches have shown humanity at its best: Muslims, Christians, atheists and Jews uniting against barbarism.
So, after three years of complaining about Covid-19 authoritarianism, Pearson wants the army on our streets. She wants people calling for an end to violence to be violated by soldiers. Pearson talks up Western values, but these have degraded into tacky, distasteful memes. Apparently Western values put the sensibilities of Jewish people in London above the very survival of inhabitants of Gaza, and allow a genocidal ethno-state to kill kids at will.
Pearson should read the lead opinion piece in the New York Times yesterday, by Megan Stack, who asked about the bombardment of civilians: –
‘What outcome does this strategy avert that would be worse than the outcome it has already created?’”
https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/allison-pearson-wants-the-army-on-our-streets/
Right with you, BB.
Seconded.
100%….
I thought the propaganda was pretty bad during Covid…and then through the Ukraine Russia conflict…but I’ve been horrified by people’s comments in regards to the barbaric actions on civilians, women and children..as though their thousands of deaths can be somehow explained by such idiotic things as..well they voted for them..or well they could move? It’s unbelievable to me…
I have no allegiance to either, but the horror that Israel has unleashed on Palestine is, without doubt wrong, and really harming their standing in the world…the Jeffrey Sachs interview I’ve posted is worth a listen, and speaks to this..
ClareDalyMEP
“There will be no hiding behind “we did not know,” when the time comes for European and American leaders to answer for their active role in the atrocities Israel is carrying out.
They know. It is a choice, not a blunder. The whole world can see. We will not forget.”
David Kurten has made a video in which he talks a lot of sense…they are setting the stage..Don’t take the bait….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fc9_SbUkv0
I’ve been stunned by those who I thought knew better yet seem to be defending Israeli action whatever the cost. I’m all for defending Jewish people against attacks, especially in our own country, but not to be aware of the wider geopolitical consequences of taking sides is madness. I think for some people it’s a case of virtue signalling in ignorance from the safety of their settee. There’s a refreshing discussion on the latest Tom Woods show about the US situation and how many commentators including RFKjr have got caught out expressing 20th century views on the topic. Also noting the importance of Christian Zionists in shaping US policy.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2411-ron-paul-institute-director-on-best-and-worst-middle-east-scenarios/
RFK Jr has pledged allegiance to Israel, like so many other politicians in the US. Doesn’t matter how good he is on other issues, he’s been as bought & paid for as the other candidates. Trump is no better as he too pledged his allegiance to Israel.
The parasite class is well & truly in control though more visible than it has been in the past.
Most likely it’s the easiest line to take for the time being. Shows how hopeless our democratic politics has become – no debate about the reality of what support for Israel means.
A large number of US politicians have made this pledge of allegiance to Israel. They are not neutral & not working for the US citizens who elected them.
No different to the MPs here who are members of WEF – loyalty lies elsewhere & are working to usurp the national state. We no longer have a sovereign state courtesy of being signed up to join the EEC & then the Nice Treaty by the one individual who should have defended that sovereignty as per the Coronation Oath.
QEII was called Head of State as that is all she was, that is all the current incumbent is as when she signed us over to a supranational power, she committed treason & abdicated the throne.
No Monarch, no Regal Parliament, no valid in law Acts or Statutes since 1973 but as the 25 Barons wrote to QEII invoking Article 61 of Magna Carta when she gave assent to the Nice Treaty, we have the hard evidence that we have no Monarch.
TPTB in this country do not want us to know that what passes for government, legal acts, parliament is just a sham to cover up the abuse of power.
Nothing agreed, voted on or passed in parliament, by the executive or signed into law by the fake king has any standing in a court of law.
12 presumptions of law need to be repealed & a stand made with those 25 Barons. The more of us who do this, the greater our power & knowledge is power.
I agree Rachel..but we are being prodded all the time to take side..
News (and horrendous scenes) just happening… Israel had bombed
the main gate of al-Shifa medical compound where over 30,000 refugees are sheltering as well as bombing the immediate vicinity of the al-Quds hospital where over 14,000 people are sheltering…
Reports are saying that several ambulances were damaged as they attempted to transport the critically wounded to the Rafah crossing into Egypt..
It’s just for to stop….
I think I’m missing keys because I’m so wound up….this indefensible shit has just got to stop….
Dr Pierre Kory doing some sterling work on jab shedding over on substack. First of a (currently) 7 part series:
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/shedding-of-covid-mrna-vaccine-components
“South Park has burst the woke Hollywood bubble”
Some cracking vids on YT covering this – try Critical Drinker for balance, Nerdrotic for the biting humour. Gina Carano totally rocks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nygfvI5cZ9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCcf7IYXaE
Very good paper on this important matter
https://iea.org.uk/publications/dictating-words-the-culture-control-left-and-the-war-against-free-speech/#Summary
Download, print and read. The very concept of a “hate” crime, or any crime that relies on subjective emotion is beyond degraded, and signifies the end of a core pillar of our law – that we are all equal in the eyes of the law (the secular derivative, natch, of all equal in the eyes of God – we all know where our law comes from, don’t we?
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Which is a disaster. As we are witnessing.
Another day, another Israeli politician spewing genocidal bile….
….this time it’s Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu:
“North Gaza, more beautiful than ever.
Blow up and flatten everything, delightful.
After we are done, we allocate the lands of Gaza to the soldiers fighting and the settlers who lived in Gush Katif.”
Of course the ‘settlers’ of Gush Karis forcibly removed the Palestinians who originally lived there and razed their houses to the ground before illegally occupying the land.
But remember these are the democratic civilised one and aren’t to be confused with the terrorists….and calling for everyone to be killed and removed from Gaza is definitely not genocide…
Interesting interview on the ongoing Israeli conflict with Geoffrey Sachs and Judge Neapolitano…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brT0RZRpBEg
Thanks. Will check this out. In return I suggest Tom Woods podcast linked in my response to BB above
…the second part of Richard Medurst’s pieces on Israel and oil….
The Ben Gurion Canal
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pcJpndaY2no4/
..if you missed the first part…
Gaza and Gas
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pcJpndaY2no4/
Cui Bono??
This is why they won’t win the propaganda war…
When all the cynical MSM (and DS) stories are done..the conflating of Palestinians
and Hammas..the twisting of words..just like the Facts for Peace (surely an ironic name!!?)!..video above, asking people a loaded question .….acting like know-all arseholes with no care or compassion…
..the vast majority of the world thinks like ONS Jabeur…
..this isn’t a question of sides..it’s a question of humanity….and your side don’t have it…
https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3763716/emotional-jabeur-donates-wta-finals-prize-money-to-palestinian-aid
Heart breaking
Any one else having trouble with Guido website?
Working OK for me though I don’t visit very often these days.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch on the conflict. Notes that this is not about land, but religion, and Islam is hell bent on genocide. Decide for yourself, but read and watch the video. I’d say he’s right.