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Feb 6 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Aside Beijing Barry's questionable statistical claims, the claim that abolishing VAT on domestic energy would "benefit" wealthier people more defeats itself.

Gardiner has been at the centre of domestic, EU and global green policymaking, and bears responsibility for the crisis.
If the amount poorer households pay for energy is "more" (as a proportion of their income) than what wealthier households pay, then the 5% VAT is of greater significance to them than to their richer counterparts.

But of course, green zealots are no friends of arithmetic & logic.
If you want to know more about the strange relationships between the CCP and the UK's carbon technocrats -- many of which were appointed under the post-97 Labour governments -- read @DavidRoseUK's recent Unherd piece... unherd.com/2021/12/does-t…
@DavidRoseUK I really wish @GBNEWS was able to do a proper grilling of green MPs and other zealots, but they seem unable or unwilling.
@DavidRoseUK @GBNEWS The cost of living crisis is owed to the green agenda. It was so foreseeable that the states intransigence can be seen as nothing other than deliberate indifference.

MPs that contributed to this crisis must be held to account for it, not allowed to play games with BS stats.
@DavidRoseUK @GBNEWS Gardiner was VP of The Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) for nine years between 2005 & 2013.

globelegislators.org/about-globe
@DavidRoseUK @GBNEWS "Between 2011 and 2013, Gardiner served as Ed Miliband's Special Envoy for Environment and Climate Change. In June 2013, Gardiner and Conservative MP Tim Yeo jointly tabled an amendment to the Energy Bill which proposed establishing by 2014 a decarbonisation target..."
@DavidRoseUK @GBNEWS "... for the UK's electricity generating sector, to be achieved by 2030."

"Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary from June to July 2016. He subsequently served as [...] Shadow Minister for International Climate Change"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gar…
Gardiner has never put the interests of poorer people before the green agenda. He has worked to put the control of policy above domestic democratic control, for questionable interests. He has used fearmongering and smears to protect that agenda from criticism.
It's quite plain -- Gardiner did not ask his constituents for their views on this manifestly ideological agenda.

globelegislators.org/1st-natural-ca…
Some old Gardiner tweets follow...

Barry Gardiner on China...

Barry Gardiner fakes images of climate change...

climate-resistance.org/2015/03/barry-…
Barry Gardiner *knew all along* that green policies make energy more expensive.

Barry Gardiner knew that green energy policy was not going to close the energy gap...

climate-resistance.org/2012/07/hoist-…
But despite all that Barry Gardiner knew about the hardship green policy was going to cause, Barry Gardiner do not call for the suspension of green policy.

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"Only people who agree with me may disagree with me".

Episode 8,934.
OK, Jimmy, they'll do for starters. But I have plenty more suggestions...

4. Withdraw from the Paris "Agreement".

5. Stop participating in the UNFCCC & IPCC.

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7. Suspend the assets of philanthropists found to be using charities as lobbying vehicles.

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Glad to see some criticism of technical policy here, but @PaulEmbery is wrong when he says that windfall tax and nationalisation are the answer.

The market did not cause the problems of the Climate Change Act & EU Directives & similar. Policy distorted the market.
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"Mrs Dorries said: ‘This government said it would legislate to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while enshrining free speech, and that’s exactly what we are going to do'."

Idiots such as @NadineDorries make such laws to protect themselves from criticism.
@NadineDorries You cannot "enshrine free speech" while restricting speech.

Making threats of violence is already illegal.

Unfortunately, being such a monumentally fucking stupid minister that you don't notice yourself turning into a fascist is not.
Safetyism is precisely the pretext fascists and other totalitarians used to close down speech.

Unstable, reckless, illegitimate governments seek power to protect themselves.

The government is a greater danger than 'misinformation'.
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Why?

It's not going to cost you any less.

It's the STATE that created the mess.
It was the state that created the opportunities for cold callers and doorstop sellers.

It was the state that closed coal fired power stations.

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Moreover, we can see over the GW era a big reduction in deaths from infectious diseases.
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But in contrast to any point in human history,

* there is no health crisis,

* there is no ecological crisis,

* there is no climate crisis.
Society should be challenging the weirdo mystical holism, not force feeding it to children. And institutional science should be at the front of that challenge.

Her understand is absolutely out of kilter with reality.
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