"households switching to heat pumps are currently paying on average £408 more in energy bills compared to running a gas boiler."

--QUICK! OUR PLANS DIDN'T WORK! DO SOMETHIGN STUPID TO THE ENERGY MARKET TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE STUPID! --

telegraph.co.uk/environment/20…
"Options to recover the costs include transferring the levies directly to gas bills, or adding them to general taxation".

It's not going to get any more rational, you know?
"Moving the costs directly from electricity to gas will make the average fuel bill for a home using a gas boiler around £70 more expensive, according to analysis by consultancy Public First, but would make running a heat pump £200 cheaper than a boiler."

🤔
Well, I'd stick with gas, then. It's still cheaper. Even if the arithmetic stinks like a rotting pile of fish heads.
I love the idea of a Conservative party thinktank calling itself "Public First" @PublicFirst_PF and yet finding ways to f*ck the public, rather than advising the government to drop #NetZero until the *PUBLIC* has given it a mandate.

You're ijuts, Tories. Where Labour leads...
... You follow.
They really are so f***king stupid.

They're trying to work out why heat made from electricity made from heat made from gas is more expensive than heat made from gas.

@PublicFirst_PF
That level of stupidity, is why I am not taking for granted that the catastrophe they are setting course for will be averted by the expression of popular will.

The zombies that populate SW1 are immune to reason.

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More from @clim8resistance

10 May
Who appointed David Attenborough to the role of "People's Advocate for climate change" at #COP26?

Not the people.

Not the people of the UK.

Not the people of the world.
"His comments come six months ahead of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, where he'll be addressing global leaders and key decision-makers, after being appointed People's Advocate for climate change."

He's not my "People's Advocate".
This is the "People's Advocate" is it?

I'd hate to see the Prosecution... Image
Read 4 tweets
8 May
Seriously, only "Public Policy and Research Specialists" are capable of being this stupid.

Check them out.
"We help organisations understand and influence public opinion through research and targeted communications campaigns. And we help businesses craft policy ideas that Governments can realistically apply to difficult issues."

publicfirst.co.uk
Instead of each party asking the public to lend their support for each of the parties' policies, the legacy parties have adopted a model in which they all agree on the policies, and then hire stupid PR firms to generate support for them, no matter what level of support exists.
Read 6 tweets
7 May
My favourite quote from a green 'think tank' report.

They can't say they didn't know.

And the Tories shouldn't fool themselves that this will not happen to them.

Oh, it will.

#Hartlepool. Image
That report is what led to the Climate Assembly.

But what's more interesting is why the last-remaining object of the Blair-era consensus is still intact.
While Blair and then Brown, and then Cameron were trying to build their projects on the Westminster consensus, to make climate change the dominant issue, the loudest voice from the public was the demand for the referendum.
Read 8 tweets
26 Apr
I've said it before...

There is no precedent for the deliberate immiseration of a population, such as that which is implied by #NetZero, without tanks and guns on streets, pointed at citizens.

Talk of using military 'intelligence' & force is about controlling domestic politics.
That is to say that...

1. The use of the British armed forces to 'protect' (i.e. confiscate) other sovereign territories is implausible.

2. #NetZero is going to create massive social and political chaos.

3. The UK's police and armed forces will be very busy right here at home.
That sounds over the top?

Consider that the official estimates of #NetZero are costed at around £20K per household.

We know that officials are not very good at estimating the cost of Grand Projets. Consider HS2, which has been inflating.

>>
Read 8 tweets
25 Apr
The Police asked for and deserved what they got.

End of.
They went in heavy handed to a bunch of people singing, unprovoked, for no reason.

They swung fists and batons against unarmed, settled, and mostly sedentary people.

The response they received was restrained, and they are lucky they didn't come out worse for it.
Once again, the @metpoliceuk have shown themselves to be 1st class dickheads.
Read 4 tweets
25 Apr
Green serfdom -- it's a thing. We weren't joking.

Not looking good for Jeremy Leggett @solarcentury

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Who knew green forced labour was a thing, right?

Climate policy was going to bring about world peace, abolish inequality and protect us from tyranny, right?

All the nice people like green stuff, right?

Solar power is nicer to people than oil companies, right?

WRONG!
Now you can ask your neighbours,

"Were those solar panels on your roof built by slaves?"

Because they probably were.

Still smug?
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