The European election results are in. Last night saw the EU Parliament continue its slow Rightward and populist trajectory. But despite some drama, this was largely confined to a few countries’ ballots, not the continent-wide rejection of the ‘globalist’ mainstream that some had predicted. The clues from this election about the future direction of European climate politics are similarly mixed, with the hard green vote falling sharply but centrist parties committed to the green agenda gaining ground.
The big dramas of the night were caused at the national, not European, level. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo resigned following the country’s coincident federal election which saw large gains for conservative and anti-immigration parties. Similarly, following a huge gain by the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, which, according to provisional results, increased its seats from 18 to 30, President Macron called a snap general (parliamentary) election in an attempt to restore his weakening authority. In Germany, the ascendent Alternative für Deutschland saw a modest gain from nine to 15 seats. The much-feared rise of the radical Right, in the form of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, was somewhat muted. The group gained nine seats, increasing its total to 58. The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group gained four seats.
Both of these continent-wide political groups are circumspect about green policies, arguing for ‘affordable’ solutions to environmental problems rather than the radical targets-based ideological policies that seek bans before economic alternatives can be found. “Ambition has turned into wishful thinking and pragmatism has been replaced by an ideology that has produced unattainable rules and goals,” explains the ID group’s website.
Without doubt, however, the election has been terrible for the parties of the Greens and European Free Alliance (EFA) group in the European Parliament. According to preliminary results, it was the worst election for the EFA group since 1994, with the group’s vote share halving in some member states. Overall, the greens won 18 fewer seats than in the 2019 election.
The EFA fared worst in the countries that had seen the biggest boost for the radical greens in the 2019 election. Whereas in the 2019 election the German Greens had gained nine seats, six of these were lost in this year’s vote, leaving them with 16, signalling trouble for the German governing coalition, of which the Greens are a minority member. In France, the EFA doubled its seats in 2019, but of those 12, seven were lost this year, leaving it with just five.
These losses were slightly ameliorated by modest gains in Italy (three seats), Slovenia (one), Croatia (one) and Czechia (one), in each case up from zero in the last Parliamentary term. Single seats were also gained in Spain (bringing the total to four), the Netherlands (four), Denmark (three) and Sweden (three).
The 2019 elections were (falsely) hailed by many as a ‘green wave’. But as I pointed out at the time, these gains were confined to Europe’s wealthiest parts – the north and northwest – not signifying a continent-wide appetite for radical environmentalism. It seems that the last five years, which have seen lockdowns, the consequences of war in Europe and economic hardship, have shown that deep green politics is a luxury belief predicated on a surfeit of First World levels of abundance. Overall, the EFA’s results this year show a more diffuse and weaker level of support across the EU members.
Despite green parties now having been around for half a century, the group’s vote has historically only hovered around the level required to keep deposits, with the occasional instances of support above or below this level being akin to statistical noise. This speaks to one of the most enduring mysteries of European politics: with so little evidence of public support for radical environmentalism, why does the climate agenda dominate political decision-making both at the EU and national level? Now, with the EFA polling so poorly, will the political centre of gravity shift in Brussels, or will EU elites cling on to the Green Deal championed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over the last few years?
The European People’s Party (EPP) is the centre-Right group which has long dominated in the European Parliament. In this election, the EPP increased its seats from 176 to 186. This is not a majority of the 705 seats, so in previous sessions the EPP has formed a Grand Coalition with the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group. After the 2019 election, the EPP joined instead with broadly liberal and centrist Renew Europe to give EPP’s nominee von der Leyen the majority she required to become President. However, Renew has lost 22 of its 80 seats.
According to the Telegraph in an article published before the election results, the EPP has already been attempting to soften its environmentalism to face off the emerging threat from the growing nationalist and more conservative parties. This includes vowing to “reverse the EU ban on combustion-engine cars as soon as possible”. But this politicking should not be seen as signifying intent. Much like Rishi Sunak’s minimal adjustment to U.K. Net Zero policies – the delay on the ban on gas boilers and combustion-engine car sales – the softening of policies doesn’t amount to a U-turn and is better seen as an attempt to save Net Zero. We’ve a long way to go before these managerialist technocrats realise the green policy agenda is ill-conceived and doomed.
But how the new presidency – which von der Leyen is hoping to retain – will build a majority coalition remains to be seen. It may be that Net Zero and the bloc’s Green Deal can be saved by von der Leyen seeking a broad or grand coalition, the members of which require a continuation of Europe’s green suicide pact. This may be a better option for the green champion, who would have to perform something of a U-turn if she is to rely on those to her and the EPP’s Right.
The former option would of course risk supplying more grist to the Right’s mill. Will the centrists risk keeping the Right on the margins, with the danger of greater blowback as public anger about mass immigration and the cost of aggressive environmental policies boils over? Or will they try to neutralise Right-wing parties by acceding to the minimum of their demands and bringing them in closer?
Whichever way von der Leyen and her cronies (or her successor and theirs) jumps, one thing is certain. This election was not exactly the earthquake some had predicted, but it does signal that there is nothing ahead but crises for the EPP and wider European political class. Either the corrupt, anti-democratic EU political elites continue to ignore the material interests of half a billion people, or they take steps towards shattering the consensus that has brought them to this point. With public discontent growing, threatening their cosy politics, neither option will be comfortable. Don’t expect an end to Net Zero just yet.
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Cracks are appearing in the climate change concrete! Even NASA seams to be explaining things a little better!
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-nasa-fierce-surface-temperatures-phoenix.html
Good stuff, Dings. The more cracks the better! We have to ditch the entire Agenda 21 though. This is the vehicle for our enslavement above all else and the one they are not going to let go without an almighty fight. Been watching Rosa Koire, author of Behind the Green Mask, speaking 1o years ago and all she said is now happening. Quite scary really in some ways but resolve is strong and I’m off to my local council full meeting next week to give them a broadside because A21 will be happening everywhere and they wiull be part of it, unwittingly or not.
The “Guwardian” calls anyone who disagrees with A21 a conspiracy theorist ,ergo, it is definitely sinister!
They are part of it and to think that I used to respect George Monbiot but at heart he’s just another closet Marxist parading as a greenie. In the Beatles film Yellow Submarine, the Blue Meanies were the evil ones and I think the title ‘Green Meanies’ today is a more accurate depiction of these useful eejjits!
NASA still need to explain why they ‘invented’ 12 new cloud types though.. after 10 had been sufficient for millennia. Mmmn.. I wonder what could be up therenow that’s causing these changes in clouds.
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-there-are-now-12-new-types-of-cloud
Same way the Met Office keep claiming unnaturally high temperatures at usually chilly Heathrow.
Heathrow. Acres of concrete. Acres of tarmac. Constant jet breath.
How very odd it is a heat trap.
Met should also publish temperatures in nearby villages. Where we live, there can be a 6 degree temperature between the car park at our out of town supermarket, and where we live, less than ten minutes away in a leafy village.
That we fund the Met Office makes this mendacity even worse. UHI is WAY underestimated in the models, as has been shown again and again.
https://t.co/EVsHs9HdGS
Great video by doctors in Trinidad and Tobago, calling on their government to stay clear of WHO’s pandemic treaty and IHR amendments.
John Campbell’s latest…in the same vein..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ZGbqXrfD8
Global WHO digital health certification
Lots of things strike me here..but I have been thinking for a while now that the massive influx of migrants might be a ‘cover’ to get us all to agree to a ‘passport’ because they’ll pretend it’s to keep track of migrants…(the usual safety-ism)….and people will think that’s a good idea?
Makes sense.. any excuse.. they’re desperate to get those passports up and running..
…and James Roguski made their open letter to the PM of T&T available on his substack:
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/trinidad-and-tobago?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Don’t know about you , but whenever I try to edit one of my posts I keep getting a red banner stating “you’re posting to quickly,slow down!”
VERY infuriating!
Its happening to everybody I think.. a glitch..
This may not turn out to be what I would hope..but surely this is a crack in the wall…..? As we have been talking about stuff lately..what if the vaccines contained contaminated DNA..or Genetically Modified Ingredients???…as has been alleged..wouldn’t that also fall into the ‘a drug that has substantially deviated from FDA approval’….one can only hope!!?
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-man-suing-covid-drug-manufacturer-after-suffering-two-massive-strokes/
A Lenawee County man is suing a COVID drug manufacturer and a Washtenaw County hospital after suffering two massive strokes.
Attorneys at Ven Johnson Law are suing the maker of Remdesivir over claims that the drug had glass particles when staff at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Chelsea gave it to Dan Nowacki in November 2021.
“Their argument, ladies and gentlemen, has been, ‘Yeah, we know we voluntarily recalled. Yeah, we know there’s glass particulate in it, and we know that two doses were given to Dan, and we know we had a stroke. But since we followed the FDA guidelines and were approved, we have drug immunity. You can’t sue us because it was approved by the FDA.'”
But a Michigan judge ruled for the first time that the “Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness” (PREP) Act does not shield a drugmaker from liability when its medication is contaminated with glass particles.
The judge ruled that Congress did not plan to extend the PREP Act immunity to a drug that substantially deviated from FDA approval and included glass particles.
(The PREP Act was declared by the U.S. Department of health and Human Services for emergency use, and shields manufacturers, administrators and distributors of vaccines from liability claims of loss caused by a drug.)
I don’t want to hope too much, because we have had too many set-backs..but there does seem to be a groundswell of opposite opinions now..doesn’t there?? Surely they can’t keep ignoring all the evidence??
Speech in Parliament from the brilliant Australian Senator Gerard Rennick…
Yesterday I spoke in favour of removing indemnity for pharmaceutical companies.
The moment you remove risk you can guarantee shortcuts will be taken. And that’s exactly what happened with Pfizer.
Pfizer took shortcuts in both testing for safety and efficacy.
They also lied to cover up injuries and the efficacy of the jab in stopping transmission and infection.
Governments are meant to protect people not corporations. They need to be held to account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Aw5BKpKKNs
And here’s Dr Ashley Croft, over at the Scottish Covid Inquiry, admitting that the jabs cannot be said to have saved lives. Mini clip;
https://twitter.com/smartfarts1/status/1689348556480520192
Speaking of Scotland, 3000 excess deaths so far this year and ‘crickets’ in response;
https://twitter.com/TheRustler83/status/1689604103662436352/photo/1
They didn’t take any shortcuts at all.. there was no testing.. period. None! The US dept of defence was/is running things. All explained by.. Sasha Latypova in depth..
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-role-of-the-us-dod-and-their
But the jabs do contain contamination with plasmid DNA, so this is not just ”alleged”. Kevin McKernon dropped this bombshell ages ago and it has since been replicated by several other scientists. The products also meet the legal definition of ‘Genetically Modified Organisms’, which I previously shared on here. So these are both now established facts. They were also shown to contain various metals, as demonstrated in a research paper from a German group of scientists. Zero adherence to good manufacturing practice and zero regulation results in contamination and huge variability between batches.
…the ‘alleged’ was being a bit sarcastic…the contamination of the quacksines hasn’t yet been universally accepted or reported on in any ’Official’ way as far as I know…. is what I meant…not that I don’t believe it to be true, because I do……
…the difference, particularly in this instance, is that it has been accepted by all concerned that there was contamination…..which is a good start!
It’s a shame they didn’t put that to the Pfizer/Moderna goons in the Aussie hearing. I would like to hear from the horses mouth what they had to say about that particular point. Especially as it’s not just one person who found contamination but multiple scientists’ findings confirming McKernon’s original discovery, which is harder to discount.
Tories are beginning to make small squeaks about all this, which they have supported, initiated or facilitated since before 2010. Most of their MPs and peers continue to want more and faster but voters are waking up to woke.
Tory organs like Speccie and DT which failed to criticise it at the time these policies began and defenestration PMs (and consequently also Ministers like JRM who have since told us they were against it all), these now attack the consequences as click bait.
Those of us who have queries these policies along the way have been treated with disdain, contempt or worse by the political class and MSM. We were right wing, extreme, stupid but now it seems we were reflecting public views and correctly called out the practical consequences.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.”
“It’s a manufactured consensus,” climate scientist Judith Curry tells me.
She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.”
She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change.
The media loved her when she published a study that seemed to show a dramatic increase in hurricane intensity.
But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research — years with low levels of hurricanes.
“Like a good scientist, I investigated,” says Curry.
She realized that the critics were right.
“Part of it was bad data. Part of it is natural climate variability.”
……
“The origins go back to the . . . UN environmental program,” says Curry.
Some United Nations officials were motivated by “anti-capitalism. They hated the oil companies and seized on the climate change issue to move their policies along.”
The UN created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“The IPCC wasn’t supposed to focus on any benefits of warming. The IPCC’s mandate was to look for dangerous human-caused climate change.”
“Then the national funding agencies directed all the funding . . . assuming there are dangerous impacts.”
The researchers quickly figured out that the way to get funded was to make alarmist claims about “man-made climate change.”
This is how “manufactured consensus” happens.
Judith Curry a hero.
Here’s her blog
https://judithcurry.com/
She backed out of formal climate science sick of being slandered by the likes of Mann the Blob, but is still very active and works with good people (e.g. Nic Lewis on the contested matter of ECS)
Michael Mann is both a creep and a ‘paid liar.. end of!
https://www.hartgroup.org/mhra-twitter-blocking-spree/
The Perseus Report was written to raise awareness about the failure of MHRA to apply proper due diligence to the approval of covid vaccines, the significant harm caused and the risk that permanent changes to approval processes could cause further injuries and deaths from other medicines. The Perseus Group sent our report to MPs and MHRA themselves, so far we have had no response from MHRA or the Government.
We have tried to engage with MHRA on Twitter for the past 4 months, we have been ignored but not blocked, but suddenly we were blocked in July (along with our corresponding author Nick Hunt).
Around a month later, MHRA started systematically blocking vaccine injury victims and bereaved families, and in a further twist, they even blocked other medicine harm victim support groups.
A non-vaccine group reached out to us to see what we could do, given that @PerseusGroup_ was blocked, I tweeted from my personal account to ask why. My personal account was immediately blocked, more and more people messaged me throughout the day to say they had just been blocked.
We banded together and spent much of the day tweeting about the situation, several people wrote to MHRA too.
In a surprising u-turn, we were all unblocked by the end of the day.
A short focused campaign resulted in an immediate change of MHRA’s social media approach (maybe even policy?), it shows what we can do when we band together.
Imagine what could happen if all medicine victim groups and other campaigners worked together, to get an investigation into the failure of MHRA to ensure safety of medicines and devices?
Could we achieve the reform that is desperately needed to save lives?
Eugyppius always a cracking lead. This story is on the level of “Oh my God, IF we all get terminal cancer, we’ll die”. That Covid is not nor ever was as deady as MERS tells us all we need to know about the airhead Ms. Bershteyn, and even more about the wretched state of Academia. Why not just call Universities “Nut houses”, for that is what they are now, with one aim – to wreck every student they get their hands on.
Doing pretty well it seems.
This sums it up:
A set o’ dull, conceited hashes
Confuse their brains in college classes!
They gang in stirks, and come out asses,
Plain truth to speak;
An’ syne they think to climb Parnassus
By dint o’ Greek!
Robert Burns, 1785.
Everybody should watch that video listed above of 6 or 7 police officers arresting and dragging away a highly distressed autistic teenager just for making a comment one of the officers appeared to take exception to. It’s literally proof that the police are breaking the law. Good on the mother for filming and uploading it to social media because her intention was clearly to spread the evidence far and wide that the police are a law unto themselves and the public are to be held in complete contempt, well, unless you’re a JSO d*ckhead blocking the roads. Then they don’t lift a bloody finger! This vid has gone viral since yesterday, even Martina Navratilova sharing and commenting on it. 100% of comments I’ve seen are saying how sick this is. Police brutality at it’s ‘best’. 🙁
Meanwhile, what’s happening with the latest crime figures in England and Wales. Says it all;
https://twitter.com/ThinkingSlow1/status/1689844806111965184/photo/1
The Mail doesn’t appear to show the full vid so here it is;
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1689758097114324992
“More than a quarter of secondary pupils ‘persistently absent’”
There’s an anarchic bit of me which thinks that at least they’re not being subject to wall-to-wall wokerati indoctrination for 6 hours a day…
A good point – unvaccinated and uneduated. If they survive abuse at home they’ll maybe form the backbone of the nation’s recovery!
A New Moniker for me to learn this morning ! “B corp” WTF is it 🥴🤯
This is disgusting ( understatement ) on multiple levels, so I’ll just leave it there or I’m liable to go off on one. What I will say though is that I get the distinct impression that the UK police force ( see recent example of the autistic girl vs 7 officers ) and criminal justice system appears to be on a par with the MHRA. Completely ineffectual/sham outfit, utterly pointless and whose loyalties lie with the perpetrators and not the public. The word ‘enabler’ certainly springs to mind also..
”A ‘monster’ father who beat his teenage daughter with a metal bar and left her unconscious in a horrific attack outside her school has avoided jail.
Delivery driver Hussein Alinzi, 59, battered the 15-year old on the morning of her English GCSE exam outside the south Manchester school. He accused her of turning up early to school to secretly meet a boy and berated her for wearing make-up.
The daughter had in fact been advised by teachers to arrive at the school early ahead of her exam – and the only reason she had make-up on was to cover up bruises Alinzi had inflicted on her in earlier beatings, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Following the attack outside the school gates, the youngster was found to have suffered 14 different types of injury – including facial bruising – and was also treated for a bite mark to her left temple. She briefly lost consciousness but came around and subsequently tried to sit the test. However she complained of feeling dizzy and nauseous and was taken out of the exam hall before being admitted to A&E.”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/monster-dad-left-daughter-15-27470047
Call me cynical ( or Islamophobic. Zero f*cks are given! ) but I’m wondering if a white guy did this would he be sent down? It’s gotten to the point where absolutely nothing would surprise me any more. Domestic violence is hard enough to report then get a conviction but I’d imagine in the Muslim community it’s even harder because women will be too afraid to speak out. Dreadful example of blatant injustice.
This is interesting from Clayton morris from Redacted ….. there is to be a ‘million man’ March in Canada in September..organised by the Muslims community….but coordinating other faiths (and none, I would think) against the LGBTQ propaganda in schools. Apparently when kids go back to school in autumn, they won’t be called he or she ‘until they decide what they are’….!!
would be brilliant if this got a ‘world-wide’ event going…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPPeMwPUzr8
Me starting school in Autumn..
Teacher : what are you?
Me : a c*nt
Teacher : I’m not calling you that!
Me : see you in court.. 😉
Lol! 😂
You couldn’t make it up! Bugs on the barge at Portland. According to GBN, the Home Office have had to remove the immigrants from it on account of legionella in the water supply. Safe and effective, etc.
It’s probably heated by heat pumps.
Bud-lite moment coming for Kellogg´s . . .
Excellent edition of ukcolumnnews today with, among other goodies, Melissa Fleming of the UN stating “We own the science”.
Suck it up, Galileo . . .