Policy failure after policy failure, and zero reflection on the failure.
These are just patches to fix the problems created by the last energy policy. The price cap was necessary because the promises of cheaper energy were just lies. And they don't protect the consumer.
And people don't want 'heat networks'. They want to keep their gas boiler.
These are just the same people and organisations that caused the problems, which they now claim to be solving with the magic policy.
They need to be booted out, not indulged.
At this point, how does waffle about carbon capture and storage help anyone in Britain apart from the wonks who have been unable to deliver it for two decades now?
This does not serve the public.
The green agenda needs to be ended, full stop, and all those wonks removed.
The #EnergySecurityBill will fail because it is nothing more than a bullshit reformulation of the last 20 years of failed energy policy -- policy which caused the current crisis.
All that that policy has achieved is less security, higher prices, deindustrialisation and poverty, the export of industries and jobs, despite promising green growth, green jobs, cheaper energy and more 'resilience'.
Only the emissions-reduction targets were legally enforceable. None of the promises were. And so they failed to materialise.
Don't let the dying embers of the Johnson government start another fire.
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It is young people's privilege to be naive idealists.
But she should soon learn that 'sustainability' is not sustainable.
The EU faces crises of its own making, which will likely prove terminal to the EU, and has fractured the Union and members' domestic politics.
Germany, arguably the most powerful EU member and the champion of the EU's green agenda has shown that not even the richest first world countries can follow the agenda without causing immense domestic political problems.
The Graun's sense of proportion is so far out of whack. The reality might be that a few thousand had invested their hope in the US government agency exceeding its authority as given by the Constitution indefinitely. But most didn't.
"Joe Biden’s election triggered a global surge in optimism that the climate crisis would, finally, be decisively confronted."
Again. Global?
They fool themselves that they speak for the world. But who even reads the Graun?
'The “incredibly undemocratic Scotus ruling” indicates that “backsliding is now the dominant trend in the climate space,” said Yamide Dagnet, director of climate justice at Open Society Foundations and former climate negotiator for the UK and European Union.'
@ThinkingSlow1 I also referred to the report in which MPs reveal their knowledge that the public does not share their preoccupation with climate change here.
The Climate Resilience Programme uses a scene of Kings Staith from the Ouse Bridge in York to depict climate change. But King's Staith has *always* flooded for the many hundreds of years of York's existence. Yet York thrived without green technocrats' help.
The Kings Arms pub next to the bridge has stood there since the early 1700s, and is 'climate resilient' by virtue of everything inside it being made of stone, because it always has flooded. It used to stay open, even during floods.
The Ouse floods at York because it is one of the main drains for a vast land area, including all those big hills and moors at the top of the image.
Climate change has F-all to do with it. It's a land and water management issue, and always has been.
It was lockdowns plus printing money, plus an extensive campaign that has been running for many years to restrict finance to energy companies, advanced by green blob organisations, advanced by billionaire philanthropists & corporations and central banks and treasuries.