The problem with the green U.K. economy, and its associated destruction of the hydrocarbon environment, is that there are very few jobs being created. The few remaining ‘workers’ in the ruling Labour party are starting to rumble all the luxury boondoggles that are set to further decimate well-paid jobs in their communities. The figures compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), trying to estimate the actual number of green jobs, are always a highly creative hoot, and the latest batch are no exception. Many jobs identified are simply displacement activity, with one repair or maintenance occupation taking over from another. Around 6% of the total are to be found in ‘environmental charities’, an interesting way to describe elite billionaire political funding to push the Net Zero fantasy. Such is the seeming desperation to rustle up a green job, the ONS even includes repairing home appliances, controlling forest fires and separating hydrogen by carbon dioxide-producing electrolysis.
The latest ‘estimates’ from the ONS cover 2021 and 2022, and they are said to show an increase in both years. But as the graph below reveals, the rises are pitiful over a decade, and the 2022 estimate of 639,000 is less than 2% of jobs in the economy as a whole.
As can be seen, environmental charities employ 40,000 people, almost as many as the 47,000 that work in renewable energy. But the charities figure does not include all those make-work jobs in environmental consultancy and education or what is described as in-house environmental activities. If all the displacement, invented or re-badged jobs in repair, electric vehicles, waste disposal, water treatment, energy efficiency, Net Zero promotion, teaching and the ubiquitous bureaucracy are rightly ignored, it is unlikely that more than 150,000 new jobs have been created. Fairly small pickings, it might be thought, from all the cash sprayed at subsidy-hunting chancers over at least two decades. Even worse, any new jobs are easily offset by the occupations being destroyed in steel making, refining hydrocarbons, coal mining and oil and gas exploration. Fracking for gas would transform a number of deprived areas in the U.K. at little environmental cost, as it has done in the U.S. Energy security would likely be achieved, and the tax take would be considerable. But fracking is anathema to the major political parties in the U.K., except the emerging Reform party.
Last week saw some real push back on the madness of Net Zero and the so-called green economy. The boss of GMB, the third largest trade union in the country, told the annual Labour party conference that its plans to decarbonise the energy network by 2030 will cost up to one million jobs, decimate working communities and push up bills for the poorest. According to Smith, Government’s plans for Net Zero were “bonkers” and “fundamentally dishonest”. In a week when it was revealed that British consumers, both industrial and private, had some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world, he charged that current energy policy amounted to virtue signalling by politicians. He accused them of exporting jobs and importing virtue because the jobs were being created abroad rather than in the U.K.
Meanwhile, a recent paper published in Science came to a damning conclusion that will not surprise sceptics, namely that 96% of climate policies over the last 25 years, ultimately designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, have been a waste of money. “That’s where green spin has got us,” writes George Monbiot, although these days the Guardian’s extremist-in-chief seems to have given up on all life enhancing processes that run the risk of disturbing anything on the planet. “Finally, 15 years and a trillion dollars too late, George Monbiot says what sceptics have been saying all along,” observes the sceptical journalist Jo Nova. “Nearly every single carbon reduction scheme is a useless make-work machination that creates the illusion that the government is doing something,” she says.
As we can see, the ONS survey is full of these make-work schemes providing jobs that can only exist by rigging free markets and providing eye-watering subsidies from consumers and taxpayers. As the more concerned trade unionists can see, much of the cost of these fantasy ventures falls on the poorest members of society forced to pay higher prices for many of the basic essentials of life. In addition, as we have observed, most green schemes make mugs of the wider investing public, with the RENIXX, a stock capitalisation global index of the 30 largest renewable industrial companies, showing near zero growth since it was started in 2006. None of this matters, of course, to the Mad Miliband and his weird wonks at the U.K. Department of Energy, who are ramping up ideological plans to hose cash at daft ideas like carbon capture, battery energy storage and hydrogen production.
But all is not lost on the jobs front – opportunities must be taken when they occur. Earlier this year, Gary Smith was able to point to some new employment clearing away the animal casualties of wind farm blades. “It’s usually a man in a rowing boat, sweeping up the dead birds,” he observed.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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Gee I wonder if it has to do with the curious correlation to the rolling gout of a novel medical product with a host of known side effect profiles? I also have no doubt that closing hospitals down on and off for a year and limiting healthcare for two years will have detrimental effects. Mindless idolatry and financial incentives kept any dissenting thoughts from healthcare workers away from top of mind, free to work on their social media dance routines
https://odysee.com/@AnotherFrog:7/TIKTOKNURSES:c
I don’t disagree with anything in your post…but a relative is currently on a waiting list of a waiting list for cancer treatment…..so I’m seeing the ineptitude and feeling the unconscionable delay very personally….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/09/cancer-centres-could-treat-3500-patients-month-gather-dust/
The oncologist Karol Sikora has been talking about the closed cancer centres for months…it’s a National Scandal….
Get them opened….
The UK committed £2.3 billion to Ukraine last year……it’s estimated that £3 billion was spent in 2022 on ‘hosting’ refugees (I’d argue most were illegal immigrants)…and I suspect the estimate is way under the true cost….
In October ministers agreed a £930 million advertising budget for the Government…..
thatwould open these hospitals wouldn’t it?
I could go on and on…..
“Musk to take on PayPal as Twitter prepares to launch online payments”
Musk is a controversial character and did say he wanted to build a Chinese WeChat style mega App for everything, including payments, that can obviously eventually be co-opted, incorporate all the social credit scoring nasties you can think of and turned against its users, but right now the awake not woke are aided by his financial and vocal support for his occasionally traditional Western cultural beliefs.
No one is perfect, we’re all allowed a diversity of opinions, for now.
It will be interesting to see whether a Twitter on-line payments service is used to promote cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology. I’ll keep using cash where I can.
Increasingly Twitter is ground zero for free debate, and here are some short yet interesting twitter threads on Ukraine’s biolabs, touching the history of the Russian conflict and potential R&D of Covid.
Sadly one must labour doing their own research in this time, checking the source of claims, their provenance and their evidence, and the quality, strength and provenance of that evidence. This is the reason why most people believe the television, because few have the time, resources or perhaps inclination to bother, that was the remit of journalists. Unfortunately legacy media auto cue readers aren’t your parents journalists.
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1619886319181905922
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1620156400893829120
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1619955400316690433
A video from JudicialWatch on the US funding of the labs through FOIAs
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1619980637766815744
And a deeper look at the latest fraudsters that were moonlighting as establishment dis- and mis-informationistas, providing cover while doing the establishments bidding
https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1620226975465107457
Eventually there will be wholesale rejection of the West’s woeful current cultural and social trajectory but who knows how long it will take.
Perhaps before our share of global GDP shrinks to inconsequential levels or perhaps after.
Maybe it will start politically or maybe through violence, and maybe initiated internally or perhaps externally. Though for external confrontation we have to have something desirable, and in a future world where London’s financial and professionals clout is hijacked by regulation, why bother when there’s bigger populations in more tempting parts of the world?
When the West is not rotting from within it has shown its people physically strong, innovative and well organised, capable of excellent administration. A good work ethic has even been known. These traits are king. The Jordan Peterson article about a counter-WEF highlighting Western and corporate successes is a great antidote to the perma-crisis charlatans and gangsters that seem to occupy most of our rotten institutions.
My favourite investigative journalist, the walking encyclopedia that is Whitney Webb, talking here ( 24mins duration ) about the new chief scientist for the WHO, Jeremy Farrar and the plans of this organization, with some very disturbing revelations. It seems there is no getting away from these control freaks and their obsession with transhumanism.
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/Whitney-Webb-Exposes-Scary-Truths-About-WHO–New-Chief-Scientist-Farrar:4
… Whitney, along with people like Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Rogan and Brand, and many other ‘citizen journalists’….are giving the public much more investigative and better information that the MSM…who I don’t think will ever recover…
James O’Keefe from Project Veritas hit the nail on the head…
“For those who don’t like the video having 30 million views
Ask yourself: Why does Project Veritas even have a mission?
If YouTube weren’t taking down our video, and large multinational corps weren’t telling journalists not to cover stories, there wouldn’t be a need for people like me…”
Thanks Mogs. An informative although disturbing vid.
I have been reading up on Farrar these last few months and he is seriously evil. Very much a Billy buddy. He has been involved in the Eugenecist movement pretty much all his adult life and is a very, very evil piece of a crap. For the last forty years his MO mirrors that of Carnage Carney I.e. in the shadows and below the radar. I suspect however as his hubris and self-aggrandisement gets the better of him this next couple of years his notoriety will become more widely known.
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And yet again, one more article by Heneghen and Jefferson looking at causes of excess death that are not “vaccine” related. And there’s that title ‘Professor’ once more..How disillusioned I’ve become with that once highly respected title. I’m glad it’s not just me but somebody in the comments has said how disappointed she is that they aren’t tackling the glaringly obvious.
Edit; Actually Tom Jefferson replies in the comments as to the reason they won’t be addressing the jabs as a possible cause. I had no idea, interesting….
I found his reply somewhat illogical and evasive, my comments in italics.
“….It is a good thing to propose an investigation such as you are doing (she suggested investigating vaxx as possible cause). However, I am not quite sure the logistical implications of such an undertaking are clear (but he goes on to sort of outline them below). Both Carl and I are signees of the motion that led to the release of the Pfizer Biological Licensing Application to the FDA papers. See here for a list of names:
https://phmpt.org
and here:
https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/
for an idea of the size of task for one initially configured vaccine (it’s a big task – maybe, but so what?). To this sizeable documentation add all possible variation in content (vaccines are biologics, they do not have a chemical formula), across the scores of marketed vaccines plus post marketing data. To undertake an impartial review you would need a group of reviewers at arm’s length from anyone involved in the decisions and or course a truly independent funder. It is impossible to estimate the time that this would take and the potential benefits as well as the potential risks would have to be taken into account to provide balance”
So the “vaccine” industry has made trillions, it’s our money, but proper safety and efficacy analysis would be too tricky, cost too much? Is he saying that finding out if vaccines are killing people en masse isn’t good use of public money? It just doesn’t stack up. Any thorough investigation into excess deaths is going to be complex and challenging, yet there they are speculating away about everything except the vaccines. It just looks like they are rationalising their position which is most likely driven by wanting to keep their funding so they can carry on doing valuable work – a defensible position, IMO, though in an ideal world not one they would feel they needed to take.
I find it quite telling that a lot of the medical people who have spoken out about covid are either most likely economically secure (Malhotra?) or retired. That in itself tells a story.
Yes I agree. I’m wondering just how conflicted they are. The authors are another pair of experts I’d like to get viewpoints from off the record as I’d imagine what they have to say in private on the matter of excess deaths and the jabs is very different to what they’re at great pains to avoid saying in public. It’s just beyond ridiculous now, given the amount of subjects they’ve covered regarding causation for the excess deaths. They’re obviously content remaining in their comfort zone and avoiding controversy or inviting unwanted attention. And isn’t Prof Heneghen employed by the NHS? But it does make a mockery of his full job title though.
I can’t view comments, only replies, so it doesn’t have much context….
One thing I would say is that they don’t mention the withdrawal of antibiotics for ‘Covid’ patients…..as Jikky has mentioned…3 tablets of Azithromycin could treat bacterial pneumonia…so people might have survived had it been used?
So, while a co-infection might be a reason for a ‘Covid death’…surely the withdrawal of an effective treatment might have an huge effect?
..bit gobbledygook… what I’m trying to say..did the co-infection cause the death…or the lack of treatment of the co-infection? Which, if it had been treated, would not have resulted in a ‘Covid death’?
If you need a reminder that there are good people in this world who will never give up and are prepared to show some leadership you only have to look to Vera Sherav. Watch her interview on last week’s Highwire. She’s produced a documentary series called “Never Again is now Global” see website
http://www.neveragainisnowglobal.com.
Thanks rachel. Watched and signed up.
To Kevin Bass
Well said, hear hear!
Real humanity and intelligence begins by admitting your mistakes and then learning from them.
There’s a lot of that to be done from many different high profile people
O.K…I’m JK Rowling…I have written a set of classical children’s books that will be read, enjoyed and loved by millions, for many years to come…and the people reading them won’t care about my political attitude, either way.…
I have taken a stance against extreme transgender indoctrination, and the vast vast majority of people agree with me….
My personal fortune is somewhere north of £800 million pounds…..
Now, am I worried that woke gamers are distancing themselves from me?
Let me think….?
LOL!
Got round to watching this JC entry today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzar6T3zJw&list=WL&index=5 “Pfizer Issue a Press Statement”. A few minutes for those with a certain sense of humour.
JC plays this very well.
Re the Sam Smith video: just what constitutes pornography these days?
I heard a snippet on the radio this morning about how the online safety bill will protect children against pornography. After watching the Sam Smith video at the weekend (which I do not advise) I felt like Mary Whitehouse with the language I used. I have never before wanted to unsee something so badly. Just because there was no genitalia on display that is acceptable viewing for children?
I didn’t think there was a downside to switching off live television three years ago, but I obviously haven’t realised how bad the world has got.
….and all the while BigPharma does what it does….what it’s always done….
(N.B J+J have a net worth of $400+ billion)…..
A federal court said Monday Johnson & Johnson can’t rely on a bankruptcy filing to resolve multibillion-dollar litigation related to its baby powder. In response, JNJ stock tumbled.
The decision upends Johnson & Johnson’s efforts to shift some 38,000 legal claims to the subsidiary it now calls LTL Management.
J&J created the division and filed for bankruptcy in 2021, saying that would offer an easier route to resolution for thousands of people who claim the company’s baby and talcum powders led them to develop cancer.
(J+J have a net worth of $400+ billion)…..!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/djokovic-prince-of-dissidents-thrashes-gates-the-glum/
A bit of a limp wristed piece but worth reading for the pictures of Billy Boy who is looking decidedly pfissed off as Djokovic does the job.
Bill Gates video clip re Epstein relationship
If you haven’t seen this, it is definitely worth a watch – his body language throughout the last few years has been highly revealing, but this clip even more so, IMHO.
https://rumble.com/v27r5vc-things-get-awkward-when-bill-gates-is-confronted-about-jeffrey-epstein-conn.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab
I got the distinct impression that Billy was suffering from ‘twitchy bottom syndrome’ in this vid. Quite enjoyable
Totally agree, HP – he is not a good liar…
Can’t add much to this!!
Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger
Just in: Biden to end the national COVID-19 emergency on May 11.
Some “emergency” that it can simply be ended on an arbitrary date several months down the road. The only purpose of such a years-long “emergency” is to bypass the legislature. An Orwellian farce.
Cochrane Review of masks & other interventions re disease control in the last few years.
Sceptics 1 Interventionists 0
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
You have to ask how much actual evidence will put a stop to the mask nutters, but with a ‘religion’..it’s very difficult….
It really only confirms what many of us knew before the ‘great mask reset’ of 2021…’
The data speaks for itself: there is no significant advantage to wearing masks, be it surgical or N95. People have been lied to and thoroughly mis-lead….
Anyone asked Trish Greenhalgh to comment…? LOL!
It’s making waves on Twitter&co.
One of Germany’s top mask proponents, Dr. Scheuch, on whose studies a lot of the German mask fetishism was and is based, has thrown in the towel on the back of that report.
Hand washing and disinfection is equally useless as of that review.
So, I am a bit more optimistic that this could be the nail in their coffin.
Bring the popcorn.
One of his tweets today.
He is a physicist and aerosol scientist and businessman, see his Wikipedia page for more info.
A Cochrane Review is the highest level of evidence in scientific research, so no wonder he threw in his towel. Any shred of credibility he had left would have been in tatters.
“Biden to end Covid emergencies on May 11th” – The emergencies have been repeatedly extended by Biden since he took office in January 2021, but are finally set to expire in the coming months, according to the Mail. But will it mean the end of the ban on the unvaccinated entering the country?
He is ending it on May 11, 2023, exactly three years to the day after South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem lifted all statewide Covid restrictions (which were barely any to begin with) on May 11, 2020. And in terms of cumulative all-cause excess deaths, South Dakota ended up an average state by now. They had their worst wave BEFORE the jabs, not after, so even Delta had no teeth over there.
“Biden to end Covid emergencies on May 11th”
What exactly is Sleepy Joe expecting to happen between now and May 11th?
Another wave of the C1984? Alphabet variety ‘zx 4468 X 797?’
If you want to sit down with a cuppa and watch a truly evil psychopath, spouting non-science hypocrisy you will ‘enjoy’ this two-part story about Dr Peter Hotez…who I’m sure many of you are familiar with…
..the fact that these creatures have so much power is insane….
”Who is Peter Hotez? This doctor is on the shortlist to replace Dr. Fauci but is he any better? Or could he possibly be worse? We look at his track record from Ebola to Covid to Bill Gates. Yep, it’s all in there.…”
If you are not familiar with ‘Redacted with Clayton Morris’ on YouTube, he’s well worth a follow….
(Part1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lVbMCVlpkY
(Part2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Td291R0YM
Another philanthropath. Or is that villainthropist?
This….
Andrew Bridgen@ABridgen
I was suspended from the Conservative Party for having serious concerns about the harm that ‘vaccines’ cause.
Nadhim Zahawi has been fined for tax avoidance and breaking the ministerial code and he’s still a Conservative MP.
Funny old world, isn’t it?
Well, if I was Andrew Bridgen I would be very, very angry and as a consequence looking for every opportunity to undermine and besmirch the leadership. Nothing to lose.
Stick the boot in Mr Bridgen.
And if he has problems with his local Party, he could try standing as an independent and win quite well in the next GE. There have been occasions like that for other reasons.
Absolutely John.
https://thecountersignal.com/covid-deaths-in-canada-almost-doubled-in-2022-with-a-85-vaccinated-population/
With 85% of the population injected with poisons Canada is suffering.
“Health Canada no longer provides data on death by vaccination status. As such, there’s no way to decipher which deaths in 2022 were among vaccinated populations and which were among unvaccinated.”
No surprises there then.
ONS weekly deaths publication out today
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 20 January 2023
Excess deaths (the red bars in my chart) in all the older age groups in the first 3 weeks even when you control for population and ageing of the population. And this is despite improvements in mortality up to about 2019
And excess mortality in every age group in the second half of 2022 even when you control for population and ageing (all the blue bars are above the zero excess line).
In the first half of 2022 the excess doesn’t extend into the older age groups once you control for population and ageing hence some negative yellow bars. Probably due to the lack of ‘dry tinder’ effect in those older age groups. But that lack of ‘dry tinder’ effect seems to have run its course and since mid 2022 mortality back to being high in the older age groups
And this is the excess chart for the whole of 2022 controlling for ageing and population.
You can see the excess mortality in all the younger age groups, something missed by some of the more superficial articles on the daily sceptic that just look at age standardised mortality.
And the illusion that mortality isn’t running high in the older age groups that this chart (or looking at the crude measure of age standardised mortality gives) hides the current trend since mid-2022 of high mortality in those older age groups. See the half year splits.
I also don’t agree with the view that there hasn’t been significant mortality effects in the older age groups in 2022 because of the vaccines and/or disastrous pandemic response based on the fact that age standardised mortality has been undeniably low in 2022.
I would argue that there has been a clear mortality effect (see the top of the two charts attached below for England) because the solid blue line is above the dotted blue line, based on the trend of improving mortality in the older age groups up to 2019 and because 2022 follows two harsh years of mortality in 2020 and 2021 (lack of ‘dry timber’ affect). Older people have died in 2022 because of the vaccines and lockdown harms.
Judging it based on the bottom graph doesn’t seem to reflect the trend of what was happening up to 2019.
That said judging it based on total deaths being higher than some sort of say 5 year average of some non-pandemic years without adjusting for population or population ageing, i.e. the red line being above some version of the dotted red line (depending on which average is used), which is what many headline claims of excess deaths in the elderly are based, is somewhat broad brush, albeit it gets the general point across
Latest JC story about the 77th brigade, published in the last 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6THYNgk8Ew&list=WL&index=2