Earlier this month, I published an article exploring how Equality, Equity Diversity and Inclusion took over the British workplace, focusing on the response to the George Floyd killing and how this, with lockdown, created a huge demand for EDI, lowering the quality and elevating EDI from a minor sub department in HR to a core function of organisations. Now, in Part Two, we explore how Corporate Environment, Social Responsibility and Governance (ESG) policies are driving EDI and political ideologies into smaller businesses.
Why is EDI an issue? Surely it is a good idea? Well, since the Cass Report earlier this year, the publication of the Department of Business and Trade’s report into EDI (March 2024), the Free Speech Union’s Dynata report (April 2024) and the Policy Exchange report (May 2024) suggest there are concerns that the road to hell appears to be paved with good intentions. All these reports highlight significant issues with EDI as it has been implemented and indicate that it is having the opposite effect of that intended; driving division, exclusion, isolation, stress, fear and ultimately job loses with hundreds of thousands having left their employment due to their reaction to EDI training or having been fired, possibly unlawfully, for having opinions that clash with those being taught through EDI. You can read about this here.
Encouragingly, there is now an open discussion amongst a small number of influential HR people on LinkedIn since March this year. This has simply not happened before, with any dissenters being silenced through personal attacks. The topic of this discussion is the negative impact poor EDI is having on productivity, staff turnover, and therefore revenue, and how this can no longer be ignored.
The Free Speech Union’s report, quoted above, makes for some very concerning reading. There is often a misconception that most people in Britain work in large organisations. It is depressing that every time a politician comes up with another ‘business initiative’ they secure the backing of large corporates, completely ignoring that most people in the U.K. (61%) work in small to medium sized businesses – i.e. under 250 employees. SMEs account for 99.9% of all U.K. businesses. Yet the report indicates that 65% of U.K. employees have experienced some form of EDI training either at their workplace or their most recent workplace. So why are so many SMEs putting their staff through EDI?
I run an SME, and having run several and worked for many over the years. I can tell you now that SMEs rarely, if ever, provide superfluous training to their employees, preferring to only train when there is a contractual or statutory requirement to do so. With tight resources, there is simply not enough time to spend investing in training that is not directly related to the role. So if that is the case: why are SMEs training EDI? Answer: their clients demand that they do before they are considered fit to supply. Much of this is sadly news for the general public and it shows the mendacity around using procurement to drive political ideologies. Such demands are made under the curtain of ‘commercial confidentiality’ and can therefore be hidden from public access requests. We’ve seen a similar tactic in education where activists hide content from parents behind ‘commercial confidentiality’ contracts.
About 30 years ago, we started to see the idea of ‘Sustainable Procurement’ entering the procurement profession. This was sensible; it was part of what used to be called ‘Corporate Responsibility’. Sustainable Procurement meant that you worked with companies which had firm policies around things like Health and Safety, ethical waste disposal policies, ethical sourcing, etc. As time went by, we saw environmental issues being added. Suppliers had to demonstrate that they were actively reducing carbon emissions. We also began to see the ‘S’ – Social Responsibility – becoming part of this. Customers wanted reassurance that suppliers took issues like discrimination seriously. By 2004, the UN had formally identified ESG as an idea in their report ‘Who Cares Wins’. ESG was here to stay.
And, who could possibly argue that it was a bad idea? Well, as I have already said once in this article, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We were told that people were increasingly concerned about social justice and environmental justice, although we were never told who was concerned or how much they were concerned. Controversial policies like Net Zero were added into the ESG mix, controversial because they had rarely been debated. People were unilaterally informed that they had no choice but to comply with these new policies, no matter how much they cost. ‘Diversity’ was narrowly defined as diversity of appearance, sexuality, gender, sex, ability, rather than diversity of experience, thought and opinion. ‘Inclusion’ was corrupted through intersectional identity politics, and ‘affirmative action’ was now based on immutable characteristics of identity groups, based on assumed privilege rather than on individual socioeconomic circumstances. By the 2010s, private equity firms were putting ESG front and centre, making it a condition of procurement. The World Economic Forum developed a points system so companies could assess their ESG ‘rating’. Suddenly, it mattered whether or not your company ‘celebrated Pride’, and scores were allocated for increasingly radical support for increasingly radical ideas. This was ‘Corporate Wokery’ – the deliberate politicisation of the corporate world so companies could now be used to drive recalcitrant populations into accepting increasingly Left-wing policies.
As society took a large leap to the Left in the 2010s, the population was told that it was unacceptable to question the new givens. So, question Net Zero, whether trans women are women or ask why affirmative action resulted in lots of public school-educated black people working at the BBC and no working class Glaswegians, and you were not only told to shut up, but you were smeared as being intolerant, deplorable, a racist, homophobe, transphobe, etc. As the new orthodoxies were adopted wholesale by the establishment, they were added to ESG and therefore procurement requirements. It was no longer sufficient to demonstrate that your business had an Anti-Slavery Policy and an Asbestos Policy. You had to demonstrate that you were ideologically aligned. So, procurement started to demand evidence that Equality, Equity Diversity and Inclusion was being taken seriously by suppliers, and provide evidence not just of policies but also evidence of training.
So, if you were selling paperclips to your local NHS Trust, suddenly you had to demonstrate that you had an EDI policy and that you trained your staff in EDI. Small businesses would frequently turn to the internet and, in a box-ticking exercise, purchase the cheapest online EDI training available. Unfortunately, as we have learned from the reports quoted above, EDI needs to be very carefully and sensitively deployed, and even more carefully trained if you do not wish to piss off a significant proportion of your workforce (63% in the FSU report). Poor quality EDI is likely to create significant issues for SMEs, and any issue that impacts the happiness and wellbeing of staff is far more of a problem for smaller employers who cannot afford staff turnover issues or disengaged, disinterested staff.
A constant refrain of ‘woke’ policies is that in their rush to force them onto people, those advocating them forget two major points. Firstly, they lied about the positions taken by ESG and EDI as being ‘settled’ and beyond debate to the point that if you dared question them, you were morally reprehensible. Secondly, that social engineering – which is what this is – is both extremely complex and difficult to do successfully. Crude attempts to force radical ideologies onto a population are always doomed to fail when the population starts to question why even asking a question is unacceptable. All it takes is for someone to point out that the Emperor is wearing no clothes, and the whole edifice comes crashing down.
And that is what we are seeing now. People are no longer afraid of being smeared as something they are not for simply questioning the adoption of a radical policy that was fringe until a few days ago. They tend to react badly when ‘Unconscious Bias’ trainers call them all incorrigible bigots who need to be ‘fixed’ by their employers. Corporate activism is collapsing all over the world because, like its partner in politics, it has over reached itself. It is one thing to ensure that a supplier disposes of its waste water properly; it is quite another to demand that the same supplier sends its management team on your EDI training courses, as happened to one of our clients recently at an NHS Trust.
‘Get woke, go broke’ is being proven from Hollywood to Hull. People are weary, fed up and bored of the constant demands of activists. They have woken up to the cynicism of corporate wokery and they are voting with their feet and their wallets. Last week, Kemi Badenoch, the U.K.’s Business and Trade Secretary, urged businesses to focus on their customers and to avoid politics and activism. So ingrained is the issue that in her own department, the Royal Academy of Engineers is recruiting another EDI specialist to join its team of 15 EDI specialists. With Pride 2024 on the horizon, we can fully expect the volume around this debate to increase.
However, the pressure on SMEs is relentless, and it is our opinion that unless specific legislation is written, protecting employees from political or ideological training in the workplace, this issue will not be solved any time soon. Of course, an entire industry has built up to supply training in: ‘diversity’; ‘inclusivity’; ‘allyship’. A quick glance at LinkedIn will indicate how absurd this has become with one ‘consultant’ urging men to get their nails decorated for ‘inclusion’. More serious is this blog article from lawyers Shoosmiths advising corporate clients how to drive (read ‘bully’) EDI down their supply chains.
So, what about SMEs who are being forced to implement EDI by corporate or public sector procurement departments? How do you tick the boxes without damaging your business? If you refuse, you will simply be dropped as a supplier. Well, we’ve set up www.fairjob.co.uk to help you navigate this and to repair any damage caused by poor EDI to date. Get in touch if you need some help for your organisation.
We are seeing that the worm may have turned against the politicisation of the workplace, but there is a long way to go. If Labour wins next month, it could get a lot worse before it gets any better.
Dig in, folks.
C.J. Strachan is the pseudonym of a concerned Scot who worked for 30 years as a Human Resources executive in some of the U.K.’s leading organisations. Subscribe to his Substack. He is a founder of Fair Job, an accreditation and support service for small businesses to help them navigate the minefields of EDI and HR.
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One way or another Net Zero must fall. Net Zero is lurking about like food poisoning. We all know that feeling when you realise you have eaten something nasty and you can tell as you sit there hoping the sick feeling will just go away that it isn’t, and eventually maybe after 3 or 4 hours that you are going to vomit. When that unpleasant episode is over and you have been violently sick and had a glass of water you feel so much better and are relieved it is all over and you are well again. ——-We can only be well again when we have vomited Net Zero OUT.——-Then we can all feel so much better and not be so bloody silly in future.
Maybe so but I have been surprised at how many people now seem to be as scared about climate change as they were about covid. To row back on Net-Zero in the UK requires the repeal or at least a radical alteration of the climate change act. Any attempt to repeal or change the Climate Change Act will be met with howls of rage and horror from many people in the UK, there will be legal action and demonstrations. I am rather afraid that any official action to row back on the climate change Act will not happen until people have begun to experience the immiseration and deprivation that Net-Zero will bring to ordinary folk.
Very much agree with you Steve.
I am not at all surprised by how people are so scared in large numbers, because most people get their News from mainstream channels, and since those channels are spouting evidence free agenda driven tales of a climate apocalypse then most people will be taking that onboard as ultimate truth. ———–When I say Net Zero is like food poisoning though what I mean is that once the people start to feel sick with high energy bills, a lower standard of living, are priced out of gong abroad on holiday, are coerced into having expensive heat pumps and their smart meter is using “dynamic pricing” based on demand and availability of wind, then they may start to feel the sickness that Net Zero is causing them and vote accordingly or kick up an almighty stink about it. I believe the tide will turn as this simply cannot go on. Even Tony Blair whose government (although Brown was leader by then) has said Net Zero will have no effect on global climate so the excuse for this absurdity isn’t even plausible.
sad isn’t it so many easily scared people frightened of their own shadows
Yes. The sooner the better so that a minimum of long term damage is done.
Energy bills are high but will have to go far higher before enough people notice and begin to question why. We’ve already seen ‘smart’ meters used to charge more to manage demand down. The sooner we see blackouts the better – preferably before our gas-powered generators are destroyed.
It won’t be quite so easy or simple as voting the greenery out.
People will have to realise there is problem before they can vote them out and while mainstream media led from the front by BBC keep preaching about a non existent climate crisis people might not realise it. And maybe they are not realising it in sufficient numbers at the moment. But that is changing and people like you and Steve and myself have to just keep presenting facts and reason rather than faith and emotion to help turn the tide.
PS —-Nothing worth doing is ever easy. I have been fighting this climate dogma for nearly 20 years. ——I do not give up.
At least platforms like X & Jo Rogan can turn the tide, Rogan has tens of millions of followers. And some of the dumbest of people smell a Rat when told May was the hottest on record while, at same time, they were turning their heating on and getting out the warm coat.
The BS that May was the hottest “evah” must have been an outstanding recruitment call for us the Climate Realists. I don’t know anyone who buys that headline.
It gave me an opportunity to tell several people at work that the Met Office had “cooked the figures” to reach their conclusion. They were surprised …. but didn’t dispute it.
Every conversation helps
With you V.
I can remember in 2020 confidently saying to Denise “People will kick off over this and ignore it”. I doubt I have ever been so spectacularly wrong other than two previous marriages.
I’ve concluded that over 90% of people are incredibly stupid and believe any headline they see. I thought about it and realised it was the same syndrome that drove the Jews to pack and board trains without protesting. The same acceptance that slaves have that dying slowly is better than at least fighting back and dying.
I honestly believe most people would jump off a cliff if the BBC told them to do so: many of them seem prepared to vote Labour and how high and dangerous is that unknown leap?
That 90% of the public are not all stupid. (some for sure are, but they probably don’t even watch the News). I give them the benefit of the doubt by saying that they are all too busy with work and family life to investigate thoroughly every issue. We cannot expect people who work all day then travel home in a big queue of traffic or holding onto a chord in packed tube train, then feed the kids, make sure they did all their homework, a quick mow of the lawn and then get out their laptop to check the latest reports of climate fraud on the Daily Sceptic by Chris Morrison.
It is not these people we need to attack, it is the mainstream media for not doing Investigative journalism on behalf of the people and who brainwash them with the phony climate crisis agenda.
From the Telegraph article:
“Bas Eickhout, the lead candidate for the Greens, said: “The far-Right has been feeding farmers with the lie that Europe, and the Green Deal, are to blame for their hardship.” “
All these green idiots think other people are just like them in that they cannot think for themselves and need to believe politicians and “experts”.
Well, Mr Eickhout, the farmers know very well that the Green Deal is most certainly to blame for most of their hardship. The farmers know this, because THEY can count, think and reason for themselves. If they couldn’t, they wouldn’t be farmers.
The Greens know this themselves. But their PR-strategy is to claim that the ‘Green deal’ will solve all of mankind’s problems and won’t have any drawbacks. They’re simply lying about everything to delay the eventual reckoning for as long as possible.
Unfortunately not such good news from Poland as Tusk’s party only just secured first place;
”Following the vote tally by Poland’s State Electoral Commission, former conservative speaker of the Parliament, Marek Jurek, has labeled the election results as “very bad” for the country. With all votes counted, the difference between the Civic Coalition (KO), which secured first place, and the second-ranked Law and Justice (PiS) party, was notably slim.
The Civic Coalition (KO) garnered 37.06 percent of the votes, winning 21 seats, while Law and Justice (PiS) received 36.16 percent and 20 seats. The right-wing Confederation party gained 12.08 percent (6 seats), the Third Way alliance (PSL and Poland 2050) scored 6.91 percent (3 seats), and the Left got 6.3 percent (3 seats).
Jurek expressed concern over what he perceives as a national crisis, stating, “A large part of society effectively agrees to an unprotected Poland, submissive to the desires of the European Union and careless about the family crisis.”
https://rmx.news/article/polish-liberals-eu-election-victory-was-very-bad-for-the-country-says-former-speaker/
Ofcoures the right of centre parties might not win at this point, but as happened with UKIP they maybe be able for force changes in policy by securing more votes and forcing rethinks from the political class taking people for granted. Just as Cameron ended up allowing a vote on EY membership. When these globalists see the populists coming up in their rear view mirror it scares them out of their slumber and complacency. —-Personally I will never be happy till we get rid of the eco socialists and the mass immigration people that are destroying the fabric of society and European and British Culture. But as Europe creeps to the right, we typically in the UK are moving in the opposite direction and are about to vote into power the Progressive Left which will mean even more pretending to save the planet and more millions of migrants. I will vote Reform in the hope that at least if they don’t win then we can force reversal of the Liberal Progressive virus.
Correction —Cameron ended up giving a vote on EU membership not EY….but I think you all got that .
Only the second “cast iron guarantee”…..Thanks again to Farage for forcing the Globalist lackey to honour it.
That’s 0.9% ahead of the PiS, not exactly a stellar win.
European parliament is constructed such that the executive isn’t changed. Plus the parliament has no say on anything substantial. The us deep state deliberately designed it this way such that their pet project could be easily controlled at arms length. Always amused me greatly that anyone ever thought the EU was anything other than a way for the continent of Europe to be managed from Washington. Net zero will be jettisoned for something else with better pr that can be used to control ppl, or is the infrastructure already sufficiently in place for their mass surveillance society anyway. Net zero main purpose imo was for uncle Sam to utterly undermine Europe economically having promised Germany economic dominion over Europe through the EU.
European parliament is constructed such that the executive isn’t changed. Plus the parliament has no say on anything substantial.
This is wrong. The so-called EU executive is composed of people suggested by the members of the European Council. These suggestions are voted on by the EU parliament. Further, it also votes on all proposals for EU legislation and can veto or amend these.
The European council is selected by the big states, these are then merely confirmed by the parliament. In no way do parliament select the executive so what I write is entirely correct. We aren’t about to see the deep stares face Ursula deposed, chosen for total compliance.
Having watched the Americans for rather a long time I get the strong impression that they consider themselves the natural leaders of the world. They are not anywhere near subtle enough to set up the EU on the lines you suggest. They are the largest boy in the room and think that makes them the leader. Their sublety and critical thinking skills are a joke. Bullshit and bluster, nothing more.
You think Ursula came to be president for her capability and because ppl in Europe wanted this fool? She was a useful tool who would do the deep states bidding over Ukraine. If they are independent of the deep state how come no one mentioned when Biden destroyed nordstream?
Great news for Austria also. AfD in Germany also doing extremely well;
”The right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) also made history, scoring its first national election victory ever, with exit polls predicting the right-wing populists have stormed to first place in Sunday’s European elections, scoring over 26 percent of the vote.
The leader of the party, Herbert Kickl, speaking at a victory party following the celebration, said: “We are humbled and grateful for the great trust that was placed in us freedom people during the EU elections today, Sunday. This election result means nothing less than that the Austrians have made history today. Because this strong vote for us freedom people with Harald Vilimsky and his team was only possible in solidarity with the population,”
While Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a weaker result than the FPÖ, the AfD still managed to become the second-largest party in Germany with at least 16 percent of the vote.
The party outperformed in the east of Germany, where it is now the most popular party. It also made significant in-roads with the youth vote, where it is now tied for first place among those 24 and under with the Christian Democrats (CDU), with both parties claiming 17 percent each of this youth voting bloc.
The lead candidate, MEP Maximilian Krah, took to X to celebrate the AfD’s election result, writing: I am deeply grateful to all voters and supporters. Second-strongest force in Germany, the strongest force in the East, and the best AfD result ever – wonderful! But I am most pleased with the result among young voters: plus 12 percent overall strongest force among the under-24s – that’s where I wanted to be; and it’s only the beginning. Despite all the smear campaigns, we have opened up completely new possibilities for patriotic politics.”
https://rmx.news/article/right-wing-populists-in-france-and-austria-storm-to-victory-in-eu-elections-macron-dissolves-parliament-and-afd-surges-to-second-in-germany/
Just heard, all cats must be microchipped in England. How long before it’s people.
My daughter’s family share a cat with many on the street. It wanders in and out and gets fed by many households. I’m sure somebody actually ‘owns’ it – though it may not own (admit) that – but who gets the fine if the cat isn’t chipped?
I’m in Wales and have a friend like that who has many strays coming in and out of the house.
Any cats as well?
The regulation is that ‘owned’ cats must be micro-chipped, presumably that means non-owned cats have to take their chances. And no, do not ask me how you can tell an owned cat from a non-owned cat? I have no idea!
Surveillance? Local government to set up a Feline Undercover Chip Knowledge System?
I thought that as well. When will microchipping kids become mandatory? They do get lost sometimes.
Don’t like to speak ill of the dead, especially when it is within a week, but Bev Turner mentioned that the late Dr Mosley took part in the “anyone unvaccinated are not welcome in my home”…..He didn’t seem the sort pf person to do that being such a seemly down to earth guy. I expected it from the Ice Queen Dr Saria Jarvis.
I remember watching all of his shows on diet, health and medicine and was always a fan of his. I’ve even got his ‘Fast Diet’ book somewhere. But when the scamdemic hit he showed his true colours, then when the death jabs rolled out he went full-on Covidiot Zealot. So yet another person that I used to have great respect for who outed themselves as being, ironically in Moseley’s case, an anti-science dicksplash cultist. “Trust Me, I’m A Doctor”, eh? That didn’t age well did it?
Not a pleasant thought. People are quick to slate mobile phones but they’ve obviously got an upside. Another one being young women kidnapped by Uber drivers who refused to let them out the car, but they were able to Face Time their parents or alert the police, so the drivers let them go and they escaped whatever fate was in store if they were unable to call for help. Double-edged sword, smart phones.
I was, however, sad to hear about his death, and I’m not entirely certain what the cause could be. But either way, it was really bad luck that he apparently forgot to take his mobile out on his walk, so he may have been able to call for help when he’d got into difficulty, or at the very least the police would have been able to track his phone and find him a lot sooner. Instead he was left to bake in the heat for days.
I must admit that (whilst I had no idea who he was) I wondered whether he knew that the wheels were coming off the Covid/Jab bandwagon and the truth about the jab-damage was coming out ….. and he decided to exit stage left because he had loudly supported the tyranny.
I understand that he was best buddies with Jeremy Vine….
I had no idea who he was, since I don’t watch MSM. I can’t understand why they’re obsessing about a man who didn’t take even basic care of his own safety before going for a strenuous walk, on his own, on unfamiliar terrain in 37 deg C.
Not to ppop on anyone’s party, but parliaments and elections don’t decide policy.
Nothing will change. The ‘populists” will either become demoralised or more angry depending on how things go in day to day life.
The idea that the EU parliament is going to now start shaping policy is shall we say a little naive
The oligarchy and their bureaucracy which are the ones that actually make policy will now be deciding what is going to happen. They may throw a bone and give the appearance of relaxing green policies. They may plot something nefarious to discredit the “populists”.
What is definitely not going to happen is them giving up on anything they’ve achieved so far. Any retreat will be tactical and mostly cosmetic a d for the purpose of appearances. And their media will go into overdrive selling whatever they want to sell us. As always.
It will change France, Macron had to call an election. Germany looks like it will also have to call an election. if anybody thinks the Greens are going to continue to destroy Germany they are in loopy land. I think it’s a fair bet Le Penn will win France this time.
Certainly agree with your French assessment.
Yes Germany has had a taste of what the Greens have in store for them with their high energy prices.
A taste or a stomach full? They have gone from the best performing economy to a basket case economy in just a few years. They’ve destroyed most of their industry and energy infrastructure and all for what? Lies. Canute showed many centuries ago that even a King cannot control the Climate (tide in his case of course but the principle is identical).
I long thought Canute was a fool but then I read what really happened and he merely showed that the Climate is far more powerful than any King could ever be and that it is not possible to control the Climate or even change it mildly. Yet Germany voted for the impossible.
I don’t believe that’s going to happen. And even if it would, it won’t change much. Combined, the members of the ruling coalition got two seats more than the CDU. If a German federal election would proceed along similar lines, the most likely outcome would be another CDU – SPD coalition, possibly with the FDP and even possibly including the Greens — anything to keep the AfD out. Plus ça change.
People misunderstand what political leaders are for. They aren’t there to represent the population. They are there to sell predetermined policies to the population.
People have been fooled into thinking elections are their chance to determine policy. They’re not. It’s their chance to chose the person who is going to sell them the predetermined policies..
If Macron and Scholz go it’s simply because they are no longer useful – to the real policy makers. They are failing in their sales job and someone else will be brought in to do it.
If the public chose a rebel, they’ll just have more elections until the right person is picked.
That’s how it works.
According to German sources, “young people” voted mostly for CDU and AfD. This will certainly cause a renewed push for outlawing the AfD among the aging supporters of the Greens.
The tide of sewage is turning. Some big waves are incoming.
Just heard on the radio the Globalist Lib Dems want to increase taxes on people the more they fly abroad. It will just be the rich in the end, lords & serf class that the latter owns nothing.
Fortunately the Lib Dims are just a pimple on the arse of the Uniparty. Cleggy did us all a favour with the tuition fees fiasco. The Dims will not have any significance ever again.
why are they called populists? surely that is a good thing they are popular and liked by the voters. Does that mean that the mainstream parties are by default unpopulists? disliked by the voters, and why is that considered a good thing?
I just call the main parties, BBC etc Globalists. Two can play the pejorative game.
“Populist” is the polite term used by the phantom PTB to denigrate, demean and insult those they would rather call ‘knuckle dragging, far right, football hooligan Neanderthals.” However, in order to provide cover for their faux politeness the masses are written off as Populists.
It suggests that the politicians are offering candy and presents to the electorate, and those who are weak willed and stupid, but who like candy and presents will give them our vote. By extension, Populists are not therefore playing ‘fair’, by telling us the hard decisions that will have to be made by the expert classes on our behalf, just winning our votes with fripperies and easy solutions. Its a confusing terms when every politician is making wild and poorly thought out offers to garner votes. But then, my favorite description of a politician, is someone who sits on the edge of their lovers bed all night explaining how good the sex is going to be.
That’s the official definition. I suggest an alternate one: They’re called populists because they promise to do something to solve real problems the people are facing. With regards to elections, that’s the easy road to take. The establishment parties basically don’t promise that, rather, the exact opposite: Their policies will either create new problems or make existing problems worse. It’s claimed that this is necessary to “save the planet” and/ or achieve all kinds of other lofty goals in future. But that’s still a much harder sell because why would people vote for getting themselves into trouble?
Wow! What a day this is turning into. France, snap election which Le Penn will surely win and Scholtz looks like he will have to call an election as well in Germany. Reform is poised to be at least the 3rd party in England.
The Net zero lie has had it and Europe might even be a better place to live.
Maybe Macron wants to catch Le Pen on the hop with not much time to prepare, a bit like Sunak here. Many think the Reclaim party goaded Farage to lead Reform with Laurance Fox, Tommy Robinson etc at the Unite The Right party. Reclaim would’ve squeezed from the right, Tories squeezed from the left and pushed Farage to act.
Good riddance to leftist rubbish in Belgium
Belgium, France, probably Germany, which one next? AfD in Germany and Le Penn in France has to be worth a tenner bet. Belgium I have no idea about. These won’t be the only ones to fall. It gives me even more hope as a Reform member.
“… plan “to kill” environmentally-beneficial policies.”
Environmentally beneficial policies kill Human Beings and immiserate and impoverish them.
It would be wonderful if the Net Zero Tyranny was overturned via the ballot box. But I can’t see it happening: the EU doesn’t “do” democracy.
Like the proposed EU Constitution, the unelected Kommissars and their bureaucrats will regroup and continue enforcing their project.
I would commend all, if you haven’t already done so, to make the effort and sit through the approximately one hour presentation by Dr John Clauser (Nobel Laureate) which is referenced and commented on in a Daily Sceptic article on 8th June by Dr Rudolph Kalveks. It is well worth your time.