Britain’s Net Zero policies, such as the incremental ban on non-electric cars, are a fiasco, now costing serious jobs and threatening entire regional economies, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
The decision to close [the Luton van-making factory] was taken by Stellantis – the world’s fourth-largest auto-making conglomerate, comprising European and U.S. brands including Chrysler, Fiat and Peugeot, as well as Vauxhall.
Carlos Tavares, Stellantis Chief Executive, said earlier this year that the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate was making car-making in the U.K. economically unviable – which is obvious, to anyone who has been paying attention.
Much of our political and media class, protecting their eco-credentials and averse to awkward details, have waved away the warnings. But Britain’s Net Zero policies, not least ZEV, are now imposing existential damage on parts of the country least able to withstand major economic shocks.
From 2035, the sale of new petrol and diesel cars is to be banned, with second-hand sales remaining legal. That’s the law in the U.K. and across the European Union.
Labour’s manifesto pledged to bring that ban forward to 2030, which is where it was under the Tories until Rishi Sunak moved the target back to 2035, in line with the EU. But Sunak only moved the headline date back five years, with the underlying “transition” period remaining the same.
The result is that, since January, U.K.-based carmakers have faced extremely stiff fines if 22% of the cars they sell in Britain aren’t fully electric – having to shell out an astonishing £15,000 for every vehicle by which they fall short.
The target ratchets up to 28% next year, incrementally rising to 80% by 2030 (or 70% for vans) – even if the complete ban remains at 2035.
But consumers aren’t buying it. Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) remain low for all kinds of reasons, including a still-poor charging network, concerns about battery performance and related ‘range anxiety’. New EV sales are far lower than official forecasts, having stalled at less than a fifth since 2022 despite carmakers offering deep discounts and ongoing tax breaks for company-bought EVs. …
What with the closure of Port Talbot steelworks and the Labour’s ban on new drilling in the North Sea, Net Zero policies are now seriously riling the U.K.’s trade unions.
Gary Brown, head of the GMB, the UK’s third-largest union, says Labour’s green policies are “hollowing out working-class communities”. No wonder Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is now “listening” and has pledged to “consult” on these ZEV rules. …
But powerful vested interests and party donors – including the EV charging industry and its financial backers, along with power companies producing the most expensive electricity in the developed world – are pushing Labour to hold its nerve.
Britain’s Net Zero policies – particularly those relating to EVs – are a fiasco, now costing serious jobs and threatening entire regional economies. This is what happens when politicians think they know best – putting vanity and ideology above economic and commercial logic.
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“Closing schools seemed sensible in the earliest days of 2020″
Yeah right for a disease that we knew affected badly almost exclusively the very old/ill.
The problem is there seems to be no requirement to demonstrate the link. It seems very much like making the claim is enough.
But it’s consistent with the zeitgeist. There are certain types of accusation that don’t need any proof. The accusation is enough.
Racism, misogyny, transphobia, anti-vax, homophobia, extreme right. These all come to mind as things you can casually accuse someone of without any need to prove any harm caused. You just have to say you’ve been offended or “harmed” and that’s good enough.
Let’s see who is to blame?
Big Pharma working with Big Media and Big government to force, coerce, lie and bribe billions of people into taking an experimental gene therapy.
Yes and it’s not over, These toxins have been approved for babies now. And all the old supposedly “good” vaccines are being replaced bit by bit by the same gene therapy mRNA tech dubious crud, encapsulated by the same highly suspicious NanoLipid Particles that freely move through the blood brain barrier and other organs of the body to do unknown long term damage to humanity, throw in the adjutant PEGs and it all looks like a catastrophic human population level Frankenstein experiment.
So yes now I am ABSOLUTELY antivaxx until the day I die.
Seconded!
Amen
I have to thank them for opening my eyes and make me go investigate vaccines, which I had never previously thought of doing.
The result of my investigation: no thanks and I wish I’d known sooner.
I feel exactly the same. Took two AZs and a Pfizer booster before I finally realised what was going on. Yeah, bit slow on the uptake, guilty as charged, but at least I made it to the other side. Now no jabs ever again. Vitamin D @ 5,000 IUs + K2 and that’s it. “A pill for every ill” is for the birds.
Well a decrease in people bringing their kids forward to be vaxxed is entirely predictable. I wonder how Big Pharma incorporated that into their business model going forward..
And on the topic of misinformation, Dr Byram Bridle and co, who make up the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, provide one hell of a rebuttal letter to the Council of Canadian Academies which can be downloaded from Dr Bridle’s substack or the CCCA website;
”The inability of the COVID-19 vaccines to maintain immunity against SARS-CoV-2 even after four inoculations within an 18-month period demonstrates their clear failure. Fortunately, the reduced virulence of the recent Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and the acquisition of natural immunity by greater than 85% of the population following their viral infection has brought the threat level of this pandemic markedly down, contrary to the pronouncements of our health authorities. This clearly obliviates the need to vaccinate the vast majority of our healthy population, including infants and children, using obsolete, unnecessary, unsafe and ultimately negatively-efficacious genetic mRNA inoculants falsely marketed as effective vaccines where one is never fully immunized. The only way to determine whether or not the current government is being candid with the Canadian people is to have open public dialogues to discuss the science behind the federal and provincial governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While various forms of misinformation abound in social media with regards to COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments, there is also much confusion and downright misinformation emanating from public health authorities and self-proclaimed “trusted” media. Only by active promotion of discourse on controversial public health policies can the general public be properly served and make informed decisions about the best course of actions in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and future health emergencies. No individual or organization can claim to “own the science.” The condescending approach of ‘health experts’ to assume the public cannot make informed decisions based on reliable information following a personal evaluation of the purported benefits and risks of a medical intervention is a complete reversal of the principles of evidence-based medicine and biomedical ethics.”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/
People are waking up that all the quacksines are poisons.
No one needs them.
They protect you from nothing. They cause massive injury and even death.
Autism is an obvious example, as is the Rona mRNA.
They are products to make a profit for a criminal industry and its criminal regulators and trough feeders.
Period.
I presume then that if bitten by a rabid animal you would refuse the rabies vaccine?
That’s not a vaccine, that’s a therapeutic.
The trust in medical systems in the west has been destroyed, I personally do not trust doctors any more as they pushed this poison! The damage they have done is hard to downplay
Perhaps in time they may regret calling the genetically engineered mRNA jabs “vaccines”.
For obvious reasons they did not want people to think they may be taking something that was genetically engineered in order to reprogram the cells in their body (which of course they do…).
Still, if it makes everyone question and decline “traditional vaccines” then that can only be a good thing.:-
http://vaccinepapers.org/
But not to worry, soon all jabs will be mRNA based.
What could possibly be wrong with that :-
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/when-is-mrna-not-really-mrna
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Back in the day one of my earliest blighted jobs was milking cows. I soon got these itchy spots between my fingers which turned out to be cow pox, which i believe has something to do with giving me immunity against smallpox. Pretty happy to have had this early vaccine and i caution against throwing the baby out with the bathwater now. The current crop of c-jabs obviously are having issues with the words safe and effective. The bullying, coercion and censorship surrounding them has now caused vaccine hesitancy for other proven jabs and this is a tragedy. Lets hope the rot stops with mums and dads in rich societies with decent healthcare, and doesnt spread to countries where the cheap vaccine option is the real only practical defence against the worst diseases known.
Having a childhood in Africa I had to have regular vaccinations against yellow fever & diphtheria & others.
although I dreaded having them, & used to feel ‘ropey’ for a few days, I don’t believe they did me any significant damage – & probably saved me from harm or death.
I think it is HIGHLY regrettable that mRNA inoculations are even allowed to be called vaccines.
I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole …& they shouldn’t be allowed to appropriate the name.
if they become mandatory at all, humanity will ruin itself.
The term should have been reserved for products that do a conventional job, such as preventing infection by xyz, with a new one being created for a novel product, as it generally is with anything novel.
That won’t help…
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-paper-an-estimated-13-million
Marc Girardot’s take is also noteworthy.