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What Would Orwell Have Excoriated Starmer for Most: His Naked Contempt for the Proles or His Torturing of the English Language?

by Laurie Wastell
11 September 2024 7:00 AM

George Orwell may be known as a man of the Left, but he would have had a field day with Keir Starmer. As David McGrogan noted here recently, he would have undoubtedly identified sniffy Starmer as a “prig”. And he would have excoriated the man from the pebble-dash semi for his naked contempt for the proles. Not only his attempts to lock as many of them up as possible, but also his joyless crusade against fags and booze – their habitual consolations.

Perhaps most of all, though, he would have skewered our great leader for his political rhetoric. Many look at today’s society of surveillance and censorship and find Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four disturbingly prescient. But Orwell’s great essay, Politics and the English Language, is no less relevant. Some of the fashionable idioms may have changed, but the “gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else” that he identified as one of the worst features of modern political prose remains quite the same. As do politicians’ unfailing attempts to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”.


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PRSY
PRSY
6 months ago

A high-resolution copy of the above graphic would be nice, please.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  PRSY

It may be that to do so would breach copyright. You can download the report that it comes from here and you’ll find the graphic on page 7 of the pdf. It’s worth a read. Particularly as it’s apparently not arguing against Net Zero.

https://ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/

By 2050 it calls for:

1) Road use at 60% of 2020 levels – through reducing distance travelled or reducing vehicle weight.

2) Electric trains the preferred mode of travel for people and freight over all significant distances,

3) Zero flying

4) Zero shipping

5) Heating powered on for 60% of today’s use.

6) All appliances meet stringent efficiency standards, to use 60% of today’s energy.

7) Total energy required to cook or transport food reduced to 60%

8) Demand for scrap steel and ores for electrification much higher, no iron ore or limestone.

9) All materials production electric with total 60% power availability compared to 2020

10) Any cement must be produced in closed-loop, new builds highly optimised for material saving.

11) Manufacturing inputs reduced by 50% compensated by new designs and manufacturing practices. No necessary reduction output.

12) All energy supply is now non-emitting electricity.

13) Zero fossil fuels.

Last edited 6 months ago by soundofreason
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JASA
JASA
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

And beef and lamb phased out. These people are complete nutters.
Sheep can graze pretty much anywhere in the UK and it benefits the land. Trying growing crops in some parts of the Scottish Highlands and Wales, for example – impossible. Eating meet is good for you. How you cook it may be detrimental, but the meet itself isn’t.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  JASA

Ah, yes. That has to have been started by 2030 and completed by 2050.

Better get eating, I suppose.

Last edited 6 months ago by soundofreason
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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
6 months ago
Reply to  JASA

There’s a connection between sheep and lambs?

Someone should tell them.

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

3) Zero flying

4) Zero shipping

Living on an island will become very, very interesting.

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RW
RW
6 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

Especially on an island relying on 100% imported food as farming has been abolished because it’s too polluting and not needed. OTOH, the justification for abolishing shipping is that it’s claimed to be impossibe to drive vehicles on water without burning fossil fuel, completely ignoring the fact that world-wide trade existed long before the invention of the steam engine, let alone steam-engine driven ships becoming first technically feasible and then dominant, something which only started to happen around the middle of the 19th century and took until will into the first third of the 20th (merchant sailing fleets were still common until after the first world war).

One could almost believe these people are as clueless as they’re stupid and that they don’ usually coordinate their respective pet projects with each other. Hence, there’s a department for abolishing farming to save the climate and a department for abolishing international trade to save the climate and both pursue their mutually conflicting goals without even knowing about the other department.

Which gets me back to an idea I had a while ago: The whole climate scam is really just a scheme for fleecing the tax paying population without any intention to accomplish what the supposed goals are. By strange coincidence, no amount of emission avoidance exertions in the UK can accomplish a meaningful reduction of global emissions.

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mrbu
mrbu
6 months ago
Reply to  RW

I suspect these net-zero nutters are aware of the option of wind-powered sea transport, but refuse to promote it. Why? Because their plan really is for the general population to be restricted to small free movement areas (the 15-minute city), so encouraging travel from our island is a definite no-no. The Channel Tunnel will be so booked up with freight traffic that there won’t be space in the timetables for passenger trains (except maybe for “VIP” transport). And those same VIPs will be the only ones able to own a private yacht and escape.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
6 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

What will the Maldives do with all their airports?

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
6 months ago

Of necessity the State became heavily involved in agricultural production during World War 2 and as ever with state intervention is was reluctant to back off. It was state funded agricultural advice and support that heavily pushed the use of chemical fertilisers to boost food production and so it is ironic that it is now the state that is going to increase the price of fertiliser with these eco taxes.
Also ironic is the fact that it is mixed family farmers that are often best able to maintain soil fertility in a sustainable manner and need less chemical fertiliser input but it is these sort of farms that are being pushed out of existence.
Ah well let’s hope we soon sort out this Ukraine war as we may soon need to buy grain from Russia to prevent starvation.

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JXB
JXB
6 months ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

“… maintain soil fertility in a sustainable manner…”

All fertilisers are “chemical” – cow-shit and urine are made up of chemicals. The whole of life is “chemicals” – we Humans are just big bags of water and chemicals. I blame the schools.

Clearly fertilisers maintain soil fertility in a sustainable manner otherwise there would be no crops.

As a matter of fact, “traditional” methods are not sustainable, which is why, soil fertility could only be maintained prior to modern fertilisers by crop rotation and leaving fields to lie fallow. This greatly reduces the amount of food produced, is inefficient = raised costs = raised prices.

There is always a good reason why we moved from doing A to doing B.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
6 months ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

I do have a problem when bureaucrats in suits are telling farmers what is ‘sustainable’. We’ve been farming since the stone age. Do they imagine our farmers are clueless.? Like those TV adverts of charity to donkeys, to ‘teach their owners how to look after them properly’, like they haven’t kept and worked donkeys for 5,000 years. Really..?

The comment about Ukraine. The US has loaned a vast sum to Ukraine, which Ukraine will pay back in land to Blackrock, so in fact we will be buying grain from Blackrock, which I think was the idea all along.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

“…in fact we will be buying grain from Blackrock, which I think was the idea all along.”

Yes, indeed. This is what the attack on farmers is all about. They are to be priced (taxed) off the land and the likes of Blackrock will buy it up.

Whoever controls the food supply controls the people. Depopulation in other words.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago

The world is rapidly moving towards some restoration of sanity and a realisation that it is impossible to live in any degree of comfort and security without hydrocarbons. Unfortunately, Britain finds itself under the control of one of the most extreme gangs of Net Zero fanatics on the planet.

No, Britain doesn’t find itself there. It put itself there by not caring enough to inform itself about the consequences of Net Zero.

I blame (many of) the voters.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Not a fair comment, only recently has there been a party to vote for that doesn’t support this stupidity.

Being informed about it now, perhaps we will choose a more sensible path. But expect the green blob to fight back.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

I take your point that my criticism of many voters may be not fair. Maybe. We still put ourselves here – we didn’t just find ourselves here.

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JXB
JXB
6 months ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Entirely fair. It isn’t just about voting – it’s about teaching yourself, informing yourself, intelligent thought, being active. There was no Party to vote for to get us out of the EU, but sufficient people created a momentum to drive the issue.

As with Covid, masks, lockdowns, mRNA jungle-juice we have a largely compliant, uninformed population of people who don’t have the sense they were born with.

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JXB
JXB
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Yes – as Adam Smith said: there’s a great deal of ruin in a Nation.

It goes back further to 1945 when the “great” British public signed a pact with the Devil – Socialism. In return for worldly goods – welfare state, State-run everything, lots of free stuff – it signed away its soul… independence, sovereignty, dignity, self-reliance and freedom. The ultimate result is to end up in Hell, where we now are.

Don’t mind the allegory.

The most damaging was giving the State exclusive control over the minds of children – mandatory attendance in indoctrination farms from age 5 to 16 (now 18), next control over our medical care to the point where now we must alter our lives to serve the interests of the State via the NHS.

Now we serve pagan gods too – Earth and elements.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
6 months ago

How many demonstrations of insanity are required before these people are sectioned?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

But there’s this policy of ‘care in the community’…

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JohnK
JohnK
6 months ago

Some might be interested in this: https://www.soilassociation.org/farmers-growers/low-input-farming-advice/ I’m a member of that organisation, but not a commercial farmer. Another site of interest might be “Harry’s Farm”, which is a YT one. His business is in Oxfordshire, and he often churns out information about Defra and others.

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Sontol
Sontol
6 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

This seems like a strange platform to promote the Soil Association on – this is an extreme environmentalist organisation which wishes to see an end to not just nitrogen fertiliser use, but all other manufactured chemicals in farming.

In other words it wishes to take us back to preindustrial agricultural practices and the endemic famines that entailed.

The Soil Association, and Green movement in general are a central part of the ideological and practical delusions that have led us to a government making efficient and reliable farming increasingly difficult in this country.

Last edited 6 months ago by Sontol
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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
6 months ago

Just parking the starvation of their population for a moment, because while aware of the fertiliser tax, I noticed for the first time that this import tax will also hit cement. Well excuse me, but having prevented the domestic production, because it won’t be possible under net zero rules, where will the scumbag socialists get the materials from to replace the windmills that will have exceeded their operating life after 15-20 years. How are they going to manufacture these things without plastic and metal and what will they mount them on?

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
6 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

And where will the money come from to pay for them once the UK finishes up with a worse credit rating than north Korea?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

According to page 13 of the UK FIRES pdf (page 23, as printed)

Finally, there are many possible options for structural

elements not using concrete and steel, including rammed

earth, straw-bale (ModCell), hemp-lime, engineered

bamboo and timber (natural or engineered)

There you go. Mud huts. At least it’s not caves.

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Looking forward to see how successful those options will be supporting windmills in the North Sea 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Bamboo eh?

I didn’t know we grew bamboo in the UK.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Loads of it is grown in Lincolnshire for making fabric. I haven’t seen any grown to construction sizes though.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Thanks. I never knew.

I suppose it’s useful for a growing panda population.

Last edited 6 months ago by huxleypiggles
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RW
RW
6 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

In Hong Kong, bamboo and ropes are used to construct scaffolding for high-rise buildings (more then then floors). OTOH, the people living there are a lot¹ smaller and lighter than we are, so, it’s unclear how transferable this technology is.

¹ With my 5’6″ and just under 11 stone, I’m slightly undersize for a European man but positively among the giants in Hong Kong.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

What sort of properties will we build without cement? Mud huts? Oh, err…

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varmint
varmint
6 months ago

The eco socialist buffoon Starmer just told us at COP29 that he doesn’t want to tell us all what to do? What was that? Some kind of Freudian slip? —–Telling people what to do is what the entire absurd GREEN movement is about.—-You cannot eat meat, you cannot eat Dary, you cannot drive a Petrol Car, you cannot fly in Planes, you cannot cannot cannot cannot cannot……………Is there anything that we can do? –YES SHUT UP, and if you don’t shut up we will trawl the internet, find you, and then we will force you to shut up.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago

It is very pleasing, albeit the topic is not, that Chris Morrison has arrived at the position I have been espousing for at least two years, probably more.

“One of the original founders of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore is in little doubt about what will happen if hydrocarbons are removed from food production. He recently told Fox News: “If we ban fossil fuels, agricultural production would collapse. People will begin to starve, and half the population will die in a very short period of time.”

My usual shorthand is depopulation.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago

Oh look, some interesting job ads.

I see T. Bliar wants another grifting traitor.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
6 months ago

Professor Tim Wilson thinks Agenda 2030 is reasonable and all the arguments against it are conspiracy theories!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLinJHRUpI&t=1s

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klf
klf
6 months ago

I can’t believe that this catastrophe will come to pass. Surely once international travel is restricted, and food is in short supply, people will rise up and take care of these fanatics, by looking for the nearest lamp post. If the indigenous population won’t rise up, I’m pretty sure the new Britons will.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  klf

Oh wouldn’t it be lovely to see the likes of Kneel and Thieves being dealt with by rampant ROPers?

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klf
klf
6 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed! I wonder if Starmer has made a rod for his own back.

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Arum
Arum
6 months ago
Reply to  klf

You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But the government are always trying new approaches, trying to push right up to the boundaries, how much will these idiots take? Like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

I too would imagine that more recent arrivals would be the least likely to abide by the rules being imposed from above. I don’t think it’s racist to suggest that, there are a host of reasons why it might be the case.

However, perhaps there will be some sort of ‘two-tier’ system brought in to prevent disorder. Maybe those who are members of ‘historically marginalised’ communities who have not experienced the opportunity to rack up much of a carbon footprint in the past, would get an extra allowance – they can set their heating at 18 degrees C.

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klf
klf
6 months ago
Reply to  Arum

However, perhaps there will be some sort of ‘two-tier’ system brought in to prevent disorder. Maybe those who are members of ‘historically marginalised’ communities who have not experienced the opportunity to rack up much of a carbon footprint in the past, would get an extra allowance – they can set their heating at 18 degrees C.

Wouldn’t surprise me.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago

https://youtu.be/-k_ZvwxU0bg?si=7BDHp-sG5QnXaiCO

The bowler hat farmer warning us to stock up.

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beaniebean
beaniebean
6 months ago

“Death cultist”! An excellent catch all phrase for the current government. We can all go to hell in a handcart and when it all becomes too much the euthanasia bill is getting its second reading on 29th November! May God help us all!
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

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marebobowl
marebobowl
6 months ago

Sounds like it is time for the British voter to say no, that have had enough. What kind of gov’t would pursue starvation of their people? Has GB gone completely mad?

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
6 months ago

We need this front and centre on the DT as a minimum. I’d be interested to know what if any relationship Toby & Co. have with them. Hopefully a good one. Decibels are needed at this stage and the DT seems like a good place to start.

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