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Feb 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Rationing. Told ya.
#BuildBackBetter
#LevellingUp
#NorthernPowerHouse
#CoalCarsCashTrees

Rationing.
Bankruptcy.
Poverty.
Hunger.
Boris Johnson: "As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the UK is to wind..."

"In the trial running from Friday, 1.4m customers of Octopus Energy ..."

Why wasn't Britain fracking in 2014?

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Feb 10
Shame on any infant, jingoistic journalist who takes *any* government's statements at face value. Especially a government whose FS doesn't know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Perhaps he is too young to remember Iraq, Afghanistan, Syrial, Libya... 45 minutes. Dodgy dossiers. Mysterious deaths. Tanks at Heathrow. The rollback of civil freedoms and legal rights. And much more.

But then again, if he can't remember, why is he a political correspondent?
The ignorant brat hack is not in a position to call shame on any other *actual* journalist.
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Feb 8
Energy UK is a lobbying organisation. It doesn't represent the consumer's interest. Its current CEO was a WWF staffer.

Knight is misleading. Economy7 was offered to consumers because of a predictable SURPLUS of power at night. Time-of-Day pricing is proposed to manage shortage.
The failure to make clear that fundamental difference is exactly the kind of disingenuous doublespeak that has got us to this point.
Oh, ya think?!!

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Feb 8
The North Sea comes to the rescue of Britain's ailing economy, once again...

Which is a massive disappointment to all those who prefer the politics of the 1970s -- the blackouts, the industrial disputes, the battles, the malthusian and anti-human philosophy, poverty...
It will be interesting to see how the cash will be raised for this massive green U-turn and what kind of lawfare will be involved.

Rishi Sunak's office has ultimately been behind the turn against fossil fuels more than any other agency.
And also Rish Sunak's, and his predecessors' associates...

They will be leading the charge against these developments.

What kind of signal is it going to send to ESG investors?

What does it say about Sunak's and Carney's interventions at COP26?
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Feb 6
"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.

6. Investigate civil society organisations sources of funding.

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

...
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Feb 6
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.
@PaulEmbery A *far from exhaustive* list of the state's energy policy failures since 1997 is here.

@PaulEmbery There was not much wrong with the energy market before the European and cross-party consensus on climate & energy policy emerged to ruin it. NB: '95/'96 methodology change.
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Feb 6
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…
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