Over in the Telegraph on Sunday, an article by Chief Political Correspondent Nick Gutteridge worries that ‘Miliband’s “Net Zero zealotry leaves Britain vulnerable to Russia and China”‘. The piece echoes Conservative MP Nick Timothy’s letter to the Government’s National Security Advisor, Jonathan Powell, in which the former Number 10 insider warns about the possibility of attacks against Britain’s sea floor energy infrastructure – offshore wind farms and interconnectors. This hardware, lying unprotected on the sea floor, makes us vulnerable to sabotage from Russia and China, argues Timothy. But these arguments miss the point that Net Zero is already an act of self-sabotage and are somewhat silly.
As the saying attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte goes, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. Britain once had a cheap, abundant and reliable source of energy, and had 24-7 supply of power. Shortly after the turn of the century, energy prices were a third of what they are now. But then Britain was quickly gripped by green ideology. Faster than the dash for gas, U.K. politicians set about dismantling what generations of Britain’s technicians, scientists and engineers had pioneered. They fancied themselves planet-savers, not industrial revolutionaries.
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Net Zero Assisted Death of Britain
Ah, yes, but with dignity… er.
Yes, but how would you make the plebs feel Better about Being British without a good, wholesome foreign tyrant to distract them from problems at home?
I do hope Milibrain, Starmer et al don’t Get all Galtieri on us and invade a part of China to keep us all safe.
Stay Cold
Protect the Grid
Save Net Zero
Step outside and clap. It’ll keep your circulation going. Bang some pans together; you won’t be using them to cook.
Just keep up with excellent articles like the above – guaranteed to make your blood boil.
Dead right, and guaranteed to induce a deep depression.
I tramped through the snow on Sunday morning to a semi-local cafe to get breakfast. The owner said she only opens Friday to Sunday since Covid because of the energy costs.
As was pointed out the other day, the windmills are not important because they often don’t produce much of significance.
Apart from the primary subsidy income for their owners of course!
I’m quoting Taylor Caldwell from her book The Pillar of Iron:
““A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
She has described the Establishment Eco Nutters: traitors to the Nation.
Led by Clegg, Cameron, May, and BoJo’s wife until Miliband picked up the mantle. Rayner, Lammy and Rachel from Accounts probably think that Net Zero is a new brand of lager…
Red Ed, the Enemy Within.
Not for nothing did the future Sir Bliar abolish the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime of treason. When the lights go out, the lamp posts will still have their uses.
The idea that China or Russia would need to expend any effort whatsoever in sabotaging our energy infrastructure is laughable. As the author eloquently illustrates, we have already done this to ourselves by no small measure.
As yet, for most people I know net-zero is still more or less academic, round here people are mostly driving perfectly serviceable petrol/diesel cars, their houses are nice and warm, heated by oil and wood, the butchers is full of good cuts of meat, the shop is full of milk, cream, butter and cheese and the only power cuts we have had are due to storm damage etc.
If you just live for the day and do not think about the future, then everything is currently OK. For many people, the horrors of net-zero are in the future but they are coming and the people will not be happy. It is almost as if the treatment of the rioters and the associated social media writers was a test run as TPTB know that when net-zero hits home there will be civil unrest and they need to be ready to react.
Around here, people seem to have embraced electric vehicles as a fashion statement-cum-virtue signal. Either that or they’ve swallowed the constant diet of environmental disaster stories from the MSM without any thought. I suspect they have a lot more disposable income than brainpower, so they probably haven’t really noticed what’s happening to their energy bills, nor all the forms of green taxation with which we’re now burdened, to fund the destruction of our own economy. China and Russia don’t need to hunt us down. All they need to do is wait like vultures and then move in to fight over the choicest parts of the carcass.
In a small town I frequent weekly, where the locals have to manage finances carefully, you’ll see plenty of 60s-reg cars and very few EVs on the supermarket car park.
Conversely 20 miles away, in one of the most affluent villages on the country, Teslas, electric Porsches and luxury beliefs abound.
Class and income divide in a nutshell. ‘Twas ever thus.
They don’t read any alternative sources of news and believe that anyone who does must be a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
What can we do about the conspiracy to claim people with alternative ideas are conspiracy theorists.
After all, just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
And that meat and dairy produce will soon be augmented by an additive of unknown consequences…which most people will lap up without question.
You have to ask yourself who these Green supporters in the Conservative Party, and Labour actually work for, because it seems to me they have actively worked against the interests of Britain and the British people and aided the strength and growth of those they claim are a danger to us.
I always look at what people do rather than what they say and from Cameron through to Milliband it appears our Governors have not worked in the best interests of this country but have really helped China and Russia.
Follow the money.
If China thinks it is in their long term interests I believe they would damage under-sea infrastructure and lay the blame on Russia or any other country. We should expect that behaviour if we successfully inhibit China’s dominance in trade.
We are more likely to sabotage those undersea cables ourselves, to blame on the current enemy de jour.
Can’t see any advantage for Russia or China sabotaging those cables, what could they possibly gain from doing that?
It is not the Chinese and Russian governments deciding to close down Port Talbot, Coal powered power stations and decide to not invest in Nuclear power. Nor have they decided to cover the land and onshore coast with useless and inefficient solar and wind virtue projects.
Get more countries to boycott Russian gas if China successfully shifts the blame. Buy the gas from Russia to power their industry and sell us more solar panels? Use the money to buy up property in London?
Long term interests.
You’ve hit on the major difference for me there – China actually thinks about its long term interests logically, plans and executes those plans effectively. Whereas we tend to focus a month or 3 ahead, and focus on short term profit vs long term value
I suppose China must feel safe in its ability to do what it wants without public consensus whereas our politicians are constantly thinking towards the next election and whether they’ll still have a job or not. Not that this lot seems to be letting it stop them from doing what they want while they can.
Plus ca change The eco-lobby damages the self-confidence and economies of the West to the benefit of the major totalitarian powers around. When did it ever happen?
Well, if you look back almost exactly 50 years, who was it who persuaded pre-Ayatollah Iran to lead the oil-producing countries to suddenly treble the price of oil, turning a routine economic slowdown at the time into the worst depression since the 1930s?
Who was it who got in the ears of OPEC with the poison that greedy Western consumption was fast depleting and would soon exhaust their only resource?
Why it was the Club of Romers, the human-hating grub-loving green loonies of their day.
Who benefitted from the 1973 oil price hike? Not the West. Not the OPEC countries, who immediately saw their imports treble in price. Not the third world, totally dependent on imported oil for fuel, where people went back to burning wood and dung.
Why, the beneficiaries were the totalitarians in the Kremlin. No one else.
Greeism is rooted in misanthropy. Nothing placates people who hate themselves, except the infliction of suffering on other people.
Greenism is rooted in the Eugenics movement. Check out James Corbett’s excellent documentaries How Big Oil Changed the World and Why Big Oil Changed the World.
http://www.corbettreport.com
Thanks for the article Ben but please explain the jargon or use other terms instead.
What is a “solar PV”? It seems that is a reference to photovoltaic cells or panels so why not just say ‘solar panels’ instead of ‘solar PV’ for those of us not immersed in the jargonese of the loony green nutter zealots who promote nut zero etc dogmatically without a thought to the harm they are promoting.
Why not hold a referendum on Net Zero? It is certainly the largest and most radical government policy that will significantly change everybody’s life. Why is nobody or group demanding this? The radical environmentalists driving this are a minority. The science behind this is based on highly contested theories. Why is everybody so complacent?
Because no one can be confident of the outcome. If the net zero fanatics won we can look forward to a return to the stone age.
Great article. Should be all over the MSM.
But, of course, won’t be.
Millidiot is about as good at playing that guitar as he is at his job. What a tool.