On Wednesday, the Reform Party held a press conference where it unveiled its policies on Net Zero. “Reform UK puts the renewables industry on notice,” explained its tweet. Central to this intervention is a “windfall tax on renewable generated power”, to “claw back” the vast subsidies that the sector has received – now amounting to roughly £10 billion per year. But despite this being the first policy statement from a Westminster political party to depart from the climate consensus this century, not all Net Zero sceptics are happy with it.
They may have cause to complain. Windfall taxes are far from the letting-the-market-decide policies that one might expect Reform leader Nigel Farage and deputy leader Richard Tice to offer. Tice’s introduction, for example, highlighted his impressive business experience. And it has long been a major criticism of the green agenda that subsidy regimes seemingly ‘picked winners’. Surely the free-market centre Right stalwarts couldn’t be proposing punitive taxes? Along these lines, the Telegraph’s Andrew Lilico tweeted, “This is very silly” and that “If you don’t want to subsidise something, remove the subsidy; don’t tax the subsidy”. The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Harry Wilkinson was concerned with the chaos that the tax could create, telling Talk TV’s Ian Collins that it could increase bills.
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When I was in Ottawa, Wuebec City and Montreal last year and Van outer few years ago, they all seemed remarkably white save for a few of Asian appearance.
if you want to see what is referred to as diversity go to LB Newham.
It was hardly shambolic. In lockstep with the rest of the so-called rich liberal democracies.
Quite the epic dirt-dishing thread on Turdeau here. I always thought this Castro business was all tongue in cheek but it’s looking like another conspiracy theory turned fact going by this detective work;
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1685098191023173632
Simon Goddeck does do epic threads too. Here he is demonstrating the outright lunacy that suckered so many people in, nailing it with number 1. People should be ashamed for falling for any of this Monty Pythonesque nonsense;
”#1. Remember when being symptomless was considered one of the symptoms? The lie that one could be asymptotically ill, along with fraudulent PCR tests, only made this plandemic possible. Either you are sick, or you aren’t; being healthy was not a symptom of illness until 2020.”
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1686146653818949633
This gets another in a long line of eye-rolls from me.
Articles like this cement the idea that there was a health emergency and that nations could have a good or a bad ‘response’ to it. Can we please get real?!
Spot on
Playing into the hands of the enemy
Do some research on Dr. Robert Kadlec of the US Biosecurity Organization. Any article about the origins and management of the covid response is either ignorant or whitewashing. This was a well planned operation. The amazing result that was found is how extensive and easy it was to control the masses.
Here is the film of Matt Hancock running from questions put by Heiko Khoo: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97_YfgJvJw
Is it too much to ask for The Daily Sceptic to provide updates from Canada’s ‘National Citizen’s Inquiry’? On the evidence so far, that will be much more informative and interesting than updates from the ‘Hallett Inquiry’.
Well it started way before the Covid response. Turdeau really knows how to hold a grudge doesn’t he? What a massive sh*thead Nazi he is!! It would appear that kindness is now illegal in Canada. Was it not Martin Luther King who said something about it being our moral duty to disobey unjust laws? Well this guy has a lot of ‘form’ and is an actual saint. I sincerely hope for his sake there is still some justice to be found in that country because if what he did, the compassionate treatment he consistently demonstrated over the years, now constitutes as crime then where does that leave real life criminals such as dictator Turdeau? No wonder he always looks so bloody smug, he gets to mistreat the citizens and commit crimes with impunity!
”In 2005, he began serving and ministering to downtown Calgary—Alberta’s poor and downtrodden. “In other words, feeding the homeless and praying for them, which is now illegal,” he described to The Epoch Times in a telephone interview while under house arrest in Calgary following his court conviction in May for inciting mischief and violating his release conditions.
The police eventually showed up at Mr. Pawlowski’s church, telling him he couldn’t feed the homeless by law. Neither was he allowed to assemble or preach in public.
Such actions are also illegal and punishable with tickets, fines, and even jail time.
“They even have laws on the books that distributing printed materials—Bibles and Gospel tracts—is illegal. So I got tickets for that,” Mr. Pawlowski said.
He added that tensions with the authorities had reached the point where police showed up at his church weekly.
During the pandemic, he received 40 tickets for COVID-19 violations, including one for a Christmas celebration he said drew a response from over 100 police officers, 52 police vehicles, as well as anti-terrorism units.
On Aug. 9, Mr. Pawlowski, a native of Poland and an acolyte of the “Solidarity Movement,” could receive up to 10 years in prison for the charge of “inciting mischief” during Canada’s nationwide trucker protests last year.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-pastor-convicted-inciting-mischief-trucker-protests-facing-10-years-prison
Back in the day, preachers were also harassed, persecuted and imprisoned. I’m talking about the years after Jesus Christ.
“criticising Canada’s response to the Covid pandemic”
There was no pandemic
They say that you get the politicians you deserve and I think it fair to say that the Canadians deserve Trudeau.
No mention of the preacher that ******* **** Trudeau imprisoned for opening his church and holding services during lockdown. Now looking to do him for TEN years.
Sadly, Trudeau is NOT Saul of Tarsus. But there’s a few blokes from the last century he’s closely allied to.
A Savage Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.