Former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has given his nod of approval to Labour’s green energy agenda, warning that achieving Net Zero should be tackled with the same urgency and speed as the race for a Covid vaccine. The Times has the story.
In a politically sensitive intervention for a former senior Government official Vallance, who stepped down as Chief Scientific Adviser last year, backed Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to decarbonise Britain’s electricity supplies by 2030.
This is five years earlier than the present Government’s target, and the Conservatives have attacked the promise as “mad, bad and dangerous”.
Writing in the Times, Vallance, who became a household name during the pandemic and was a key figure in the vaccine rollout programme, said the pledge was achievable and could be “done fast”.
He also appeared to criticise Conservative plans to delay the implementation of some Net Zero policies. He warned: “If we choose to go slowly others will provide the answers and we will ultimately end up buying the solutions.”
Last year, 33% of the U.K.’s total electricity was generated from fossil fuels, and under present plans this will be replaced entirely, or offset, by renewable energy by 2035.
Labour has pledged to bring that target forward by five years arguing that doing so will reduce bills, create new jobs and boost economic growth.
The Conservatives and some energy experts have questioned the viability of this plan, arguing that at a time when electricity consumption is rising, moving too fast would increase the costs to consumers and rely on buying up infrastructure from countries such as China.
Vallance said that he did not underestimate the technological and logistical challenges behind the pledge, but insisted that it could be done and would be in the national interest.
“I am often asked which of Britain’s many pressing public policy challenges need a vaccine-style approach,” he said.
“I believe that one such priority is the urgent need to end the era of excessive carbon emissions, high energy bills and energy insecurity by accelerating the Net Zero transition to clean, homegrown energy.
“With a determined effort using currently available technologies and those that are close to being deployable, a clean power system by 2030 is achievable.”
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They mentioned this as ’embarrassing’ on France24 of all places. They have been pro Covid Theatre from the start.
Just the thought of China going into a zero covid lockdown brings home how utterly ridiculous the hysterical response to the fake virus scam has been, seeing it from the outside looking in. Courtesy of the scamming treasonous scumbags who work in the British Government – who ponce a living off the taxpayer and via corruption, we have been living in the fantasy and paranoia driven convid world the terrorists in HMG have invented for two years. Chunks of life have been flushed down the toilet and freedom has taken a beating to pave the way to the updated version of hell the corporate bankster vermin and their associates have got teed up. Everywhere almost without exception you go in the UK is fitted out with military surveillance and weaponised communication and lighting systems that no-one in their right mind would ever inflict on people they cared about. They decide that you will live in that shithole – not an environment that is conducive to good health and nature and the beauty of the world – the opposite. Then they run fake scamdemic terror operations telling everyone how theycare so much that they are prepared to sacrifice everything to “save lives”, especially the lives of the elderly and vulnerable. Please, pass me the sick bag, who is still giving these liars credibility aftyer everything they have done since they blasted Kennedys brains all over the back seat of a car. Theyve done nothing but lie for decades and longer but people still swallow all their bull like its fresh fruit. I cant believe how brainwashed and foolish people are, they really are just so disappointing, and their tribalist cultist moron engineered mindset means that adult discussions are out of the question. I have not overheard one single conversation about the truth of what these injections are or that the whole things is a blatant scam during the whole affair, in public. Not one.
Excellent vid here from Brendon O Connell who has been knocking it out of the park in recent broadcasts. His work sheds light on what is happening in Ukraine in terms of the big picture, are the “elites” transferring power to the East from the West, and this Ukraine special broadcast has the complete Henry Kissinger segment where he is addressing a banking conference in China in 2017 and saying how the world centre of gravity is being shifted to China from the USA and that the USA will have to suck it up.
117. Russia Invades Ukraine – The Grand Chess Board Unfolds…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NogC0IdVPE
Come the revolution. I wish you lived nearby. I would love to meet you and just spend an hour or more discussing the past few years. I am in complete agreement with every word. You are a breathe of fresh air, thank yo7.
Perhaps we should send them back whatever PPE we bought from China, rather than burning it in the UK.
I doubt they would want it back as like everything made it China, it’s garbage.
Literally garbage, and most of it ending up inside a dolphin.
Aren’t we burning 15,000 pallets a day….
WHAT?
For sure. It seems that one of the most durable of Chinese products, both there and exported worldwide, is their Covid creation.
The cheap prices of commodities acting as the heavy artillery that batters down all Chinese walls, first in one direction, then the other?
As with lots of things, you get what you pay for. China can produce top-quality products, but you aren’t going to get that if going for the lowest possible cost!
Freedom isn’t just nicer, it’s also more effective.
But that said, I’d like to know how many of these “cases” are actually unwell.
Everyone in China is dead! Well, apart from those two, obviously.
They’ve moved ‘the body’ to make it look like a pandemic.
I wonder if he has an IMBD profile?
And the photographer
Meanwhile in America, charlatan Rochelle Walensky smirks, blames the American public for getting the wrong end of the stick about “the Science” and implies she got her understanding of 95% vaccine effectiveness from watching CNN. She’s the effing head of the CDC.
https://brownstone.org/articles/drs-walensky-and-offit-its-all-in-good-fun/
Great article. Thanks for the link.
My inquisitive teenage son often asks questions like ( to paraphrase ) “why do hopeless people get into powerful leadership positions dad?”
Clever son!
Because they “hope” to be in positions of power and prestige. They hope to be among the group that gets to tell others how to live their lives.
Under the Biden Gang the idea is to give the most unsuitable and under-qualified people all the top jobs.. a joke …to make him look good while totally screwing the country the Democrats hate so much..
US in total incompetence Death Wish melt down!
We all know Rochelle is a
. Right up there with another 
called Kamala.
So is it.. here we go again then.. strike when old covid is cold and the war is hot.. have another go at the plebs..
Strike when the truth comes out that we have just poisoned millions of people with experimental biologicals. Distraction needed asap. Bring in the Russia ukraine conflict stat!
If China continues to pursue “zero-Covid” lunacy there will be further dire consequences for the world economy and their own.
Part of the plan? Or just a natural disastrous consequence of totalitarian policies that aren’t allowed to be opposed?
Why was Dan Hannan so complimentary about an e-currency like China’s … was he got at by Sunak, who’s almost certainly madly keen on it because the Treasury can boss us all around more effectively if it controls our spending?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/08/digital-currency-future-quicker-develop-e-pound-better/
In 2020 Hannan rightly said that the loss of our liberties was dreadful. He must know that a ‘voluntary’ CBDC is a foot in the door and that it’ll become compulsory … although f*** knows what happens to people with no smartphone … do they get a government-owned credit or debit card?
I should have kept more up to date. It seems that the difference between this ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘truth’ was one year, not two years.
This is my first take-away as well – this will produce even more shortages of goods and increase prices, which are already rising at rates higher than any other in my lifetime. One should not forget that government statisticians have changed the way inflation was calculated many times. The 7 percent inflation reported today would be 15 percent annual inflation if calculated the same way it was several decades ago.
“Shortages of goods”
One of my friends owns a supermarket here in northern Italy, she mentioned that this weekend it has been ‘stripped’ by Swiss crossing the border, buying sugar, pasta, oil, flour, in massive quantities (Helvetia doesn’t do ‘nuclear-war’ shopping on Sundays)
We’re not sure if the supermarkets will be resupplied on Monday, as there’s potentially a transport/truckers strike in all of Italy – it’s already been ruled an “illegal” strike – but the truckers claim they can’t afford the gasolio/diesel.
it’s affecting other regions too https://www.ilcorrieredellacitta.com/news/scaffali-vuoti-nei-supermercati-arriva-il-razionamento-ecco-dove-e-perche.html
The price increases and shortages are coming anyway — this is merely among the excuses they’ll use to explain it.
All Russia’s fault ( Two Minute Hate to follow)
That’s what I think. But sometimes I falter and doubt. I wonder whether perhaps if enough humans agree to live like robot slaves this can actually work and they can continue to have a functioning economy together with extreme totalitarian control of the population.
If enough people go for it…
If China continues to pursue zero COVID, it’ll simply end up as global laughing stock whose superpower pretensions nobody (who isn’t paid for that) will take seriously anymore for a long time. That said, as someone who has live in the non-fashionable parts of Shen Zhen in the past, I’m a bit wary wrt this story.
Totalitarianism has a serious effectiveness problem (even by its own terms): probably a function of absolute power tending to corrupt absolutely, combined with the annoying fact that a plurality of heads can often be better than one.
Totalitarians can be brilliantly successful in achieving certain goals, but they’re not so good at governing in the longer term. Problems grow, because nobody’s allowed to mention them.
Great point: “Problems grow, because nobody’s allowed to mention them.”
We will have MORE problems in the future because it’s politically incorrect to identify the causes of existing problems.
Totalitarianism takes political correctness and cancel culture to their logical conclusions,
The political correctness I thought was funny in the last years of the 20th century was part of the creation of sheeple (I hate that expression, but I can’t deny that it makes an important point).
I am more and more convinced that nothing is more important at the moment than the fight for free speech. No other battles can be won without it.
Whoever coined the term “sheeple” was brilliant IMO.
The CCP seem to have solved that problem. Whenever something goes wrong, they blame regional and local leaders who in their malice and incompetence have let down the Chinese people and the CCP.
The CCP is never wrong because they produce the ideas and the ideas are always right. If anything goes wrong, it is a failure of the implementation which is in the hands of regional and local leaders.
This has been working very well so far.
Straight out of a very old playbook. The king is good, anointed of God; but those who execute his will are fallible men.
Part? This was always the plan.
Will those locked down actually notice much difference though? It is probably no different than running out of points on your social credit score.
Welcome to a glimpse of your future sheepies.
“but authorities are enforcing a ‘zero-Covid’ policy which aims to find and quarantine every infected person in China.”
Aha! A new strategy! Something original at last!
Let’s have a poll – is the above photo staged or not?
I’d be close to 100% certain that the Ministry of Truth photographer isn’t wearing a Noddy suit.
It’s not even China – the picture in the header is from Korea (Daegu I think, maybe 2020).
Well spotted, ‘coffee’ and ‘chicken’ are give aways.
Should someone tell them that if they do catch this dreadful disease it results in a mild sniffle or runny nose? It could be rather embarrassing for the twats in full hazmat theatre garb.
E.M. Forster wrote a short story over a hundred years ago called The Machine Stops in which exactly that happens. Everyone lives underground terrified by the toxic outside air. One of the characters go outside and it turns out the air isn’t toxic at all. Needless to say, no one believes him.
I thought that was about a cave and a shadow
What goes around, comes around eventually, sooner or later. Zero COVID is a pipe dream.
“[China has operated] a strict ‘zero-Covid’ policy enforced by swift lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing when clusters have emerged.”
There has also been mass “vaccination” in China, in some cased forced, literally physically forced – holding people down against their will and injecting them – not merely coerced by the use of “mandates” to exclude the “unvaccinated” from this or that.
Granted, it was not these novel mRNA or DNA/AAV gene therapies, but rather their own homemade traditional-style inactivated whole virus vaccines, kinda like flu shots. But that’s a pitifully low bar to clear. It’s still wrong to force it on anyone against their will thoug.
Thanks for this correction. So in China it is real vaccination.
Indeed, their two vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm, are real ones. They are used in China (including Hong Kong, plus in a few other countries such as Chile and Brazil too. India also has a similar one of their own, called Covaxin, but alas that never became the dominant one there, as Covishield (aka homemade AstraZeneca/Oxford jab) was more widely used.
Effectiveness of these real vaccines is apparently not stellar, as we see in Hong Kong now and Chile last year, just like flu shots’ effectiveness is famously not stellar either. They are both quite leaky indeed. But compared to the novel experimental gene therapies with very questionable safety and temporary efficiency that crashes through zero all the way to negative (first for infections, then eventually even hospitalizations and deaths–see the latest Scottish data especially), they ain’t so bad in comparison. And the fact that they contain the N protein and not just spike will likely provide somewhat broader and more durable immunity.
That’s certainly permissible in Australia: even down to the specific authorisation of “reasonable force” and the removal of underwear – provided it’s done with “decency and sensitivity” (Western Australia Public Health Act 2016).
looks a pound shop ghostbusters above in that image
The letters on the shop front are Korean.
What words are used in China for “Covid” and “SARSCoV2”, and how do they translate to English “literally”?
China is in no way outside the globally centralised governance that has been evident in “Covid” matters for two years now. Thus for example a jump was made from mu to omicron not only because “nu” sounds the same as the English word “new” but also because in English and at least some other languages the name of the Greek letter xi is written the same as the family name of the Chinese president.
I don’t think China has ever offered any usable information re Covid.
Precisely.
Mission accomplished though.
Can’t wait for the next one.
Sadly it seems they know our sheep/MSM too well.
What is unarguable is the fact that it is hard stroke impossible to argue against that.
Could someone help me. I went to the Fail’s piece, saw some claims, some relevant pictures, and that’s about it. Now I’m not saying this story is untrue, but can anyone explain why I ought to believe it?
I beg your pardon, but I’m fresh off the back of over two years of SARS-2 propaganda and lies, and I’m currently in the thick of Ukraine propaganda (I’ll withhold, at least for now, the more absolute charge of ‘lies’). I’m game for believing. I’m on the firm. But can someone give me some more conclusive evidence?
Concerned from Camberwell.
… “suggesting its zero-Covid policy is a disaster.”
No shit Sherlock
Mass compliance (again) of the population. Why now?
I’m surprised they haven’t taken advantage of the Russia/Ukraine conflict to move on Taiwan. Could this be anything to do with that?
All f….ing theatre and lies, don’t waste your time on it.
O/T – almost no masks at all at Evensong, but intercessions for Ukraine which bordered on manic. How long til they start handing out white feathers….
Message to YouTube advertisers.
Increasing your adverts VOLUME does not attract my attention in a good way.
It pisses me off about YOU and the product or service that you are trying to promote.
Thank you.
“No we do not increase the volume of adverts on our channels”
from a “Highly paid TV Exec ic selling advertising space”
This doesn’t fit any narrative….any explanation? Social unrest?
There is a photo of a young man doing what is called “nucleic acid testing”. What is this testing? Is this just another name for a lateral flow test? Doesn’t look like it. I’ve never heard of this kind of testing for Covid-19.
Given that when taken at face value, this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read, I’m interpreting this as China gearing up for major economic shock and wanting (like all other countries) to know that it’s possible to exert strict controls on movement in the impending crisis / economic war. It’s easy to forget here in ‘free Britain’ that most of the rest of the world is still enforcing covid measures and in many cases prohibiting entry to foreigners, as this map shows. I was this week considering a family move to Brunei, until I read they still had curfews and were still masking children as young as 2. Plus you had to be jabbed up to the eyeballs. No thanks.
The covid-19 exercise is still live; why it’s been abandoned here is anyone’s guess, but to me, it points to imminent crisis.
As you sow, so shall you reap?!!
If China continues to pursue “zero-Covid” lunacy there will be further dire consequences for the world economy and their own..
I really hope it rips through China and gives them a good taste of their own medicine