Cowardly Jenny Jones does not care for debate about the origins and philosophy and MO of her political tendency.
Greens don't do debate. There is no culture of debate in environmentalism. It expects only obedience.
Bizarre Jennie Jones doesn't mind her coreligionists depriving you of your freedom of movement, and the means by which millions make a living, but she is bothered by robust, free, open, democratic debate.
In the green view, debate is 'abuse' and having a different opinion is 'lies'.
Greens are people who didn't hear the word 'no' until it was far, far, far too late for them to understand what it means.
It is a developmental disorder.
I am serious.
Leaving aside the democratic problems of the HoL, she is not equipped to be in a position of responsibility.
She has no answer to challenges to her position. She doesn't think it needs to be debated. She doesn't think there can be a valid criticism of her ideas.
Jones thinks that blocking traffic is a 'democratic right to protest'.
The right to protest may well include routes that require closure to traffic in order to accommodate a march.
But it doesn't include blocking traffic as "protest".
The right to travel is democracy, too.
Simply not equipped for debate...
The fact and the problem for Jenny Jones and XR is that *vastly* more people want to use the roads than adhere to their extreme ideology.
If anyone disagrees, or dares to point out the fact, Jones' only answer is to screech "BIGOT!" at them.
For example, this is her answer to the point that blocking the roads obstructs access to one of London's most important hospitals.
It doesn't matter what the protesters let through, it's the traffic jam that obstructs.
Jones believes it is her 'democratic right' to kill people.
XR and the Green Party have made their case. Nobody in the country has not heard it. But after hearing it, very few people are moved by it sufficiently to vote for her party or to abandon the things that are necessary for their day-to-day lives.
Let's have a vote on it.
Greens are manifestly insane, unhinged, not capable of reason.
People have absolutely no idea how much green energy is in the pipeline. They will all be getting subsidies -- fixed prices.
SMRs aren't going to make a blind bit of difference.
Yes -- that says 600 GW of capacity by 2040.
Yes, that is how mad the government is.
And much of that was in the pipeline before the election. The Tories are only recent acquaintances of sanity -- it's not clear that they're friends yet.
Green blob-funded lobbying organisation, Ember has produced a widely circulated report. It says that thanks to wind and solar, Britain saved around £7 million per day through March because we didn't need to burn gas.
This is a thread about why that claim is totally false.
Ember's misinformation starts as very good quality information. Ember reports gas market price data, and how this turns into a higher price for electricity from gas. It also correctly shows the effect of the Carbon Price - a policy cost, effectively tax - applied to the price.
But then it starts to get fuzzy. The report shows how rapidly green energy has been deployed over the last decade and a half.
I'm still waiting for an explanation of the Tories' part in all of this. I'm still waiting for the whip to be removed from those who were central to it.
It's no use saying "oh, we made a mistake, here are the right policies". There is nothing said in this piece that was not said 25 years ago. And it was as obvious then as it is now.
How and why was the party captured by green ideology? What agreements were made with whom? Why did the party agree to a consensus with the opposition parties? Why did the party decided to put the agenda before the public and country's needs? Why didn't it challenge a manifestly crazy ideological movement, and instead open all of its doors to it?
If you randomly threw a tennis ball in in SW1A between 2000 and 2023, the chances are it would have hit someone who would meet Claire Coutinho's description of a "dangerous fantasist". Ed Miliband is just continuity Boris Johnson.
So we need a deeper analysis.
Not so long ago... Milibandism was still the party's core offering in 2022.
"40% lower than new gas" is the new "wind power is nine times cheaper than gas".
It's DESNEZ's "on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet...".
It is government policy that makes "new gas" expensive.
Currently, gas is trading for 2.5p/kWh.
This new wind is 9.1p/kWh.
And that doesn't count the system costs of adding unreliables to the grid: the new wires to remote locations, the constraint payments, and the backup -- yep, gas.
These people are pathological liars and ideologues.
Gas-fired generators are extremely efficient and cheap.
The government makes them expensive by adding carbon tax to the gas, and then making the grid prefer power produced from wind than generated from gas.
The government is now leaning on green blob lobbying outfits fibs to do its dirty work.
Here's the source of one of DESNZ's dodgy claims -- that "renewables can drive down electricity prices, already having reduced wholesale electricity prices by up to a quarter".
Here is Chair of the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk, Emma Pinchbeck, lying about why bills have gone up.
The CCC is supposed to inform Parliament. But it's literally a committee of liars.
Here's the price of gas over the last ten years. There was a spike after lockdowns, often falsely attributed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There is no way that gas prices can account for energy bills going up as much as they have.
Here is the House of Commons Library's analysis of energy prices, and again from DESNZ.
You can see that the prices of electricity and gas diverge.
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