Ben 🇬🇧

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates that meeting net zero in the UK will require about £1.4 trillion in total economy-wide investment over 30 years, with a net public cost estimated around £344 billion.

£344 billion. Just the sort of sum a country already drowning in debt can casually toss at a target that will not move the global temperature needle by a measurable fraction of a degree.

Britain produces about 1% of the world’s emissions. China, India and the rest of the developing world are not pausing their coal programmes so that we can feel morally superior while retrofitting Victorian houses with heat pumps that struggle in a British winter and plastering solar panels across thousands of acres of land that should be used to grow food.

What net zero does produce, with impressive reliability (unlike wind turbines), is a guaranteed pipeline of contracts, subsidies, consulting fees and inflated asset values for a tightly ring-fenced group of developers, manufacturers and financiers who have mastered the art of converting net zero virtue into shareholder returns. The rest of us get the bills,higher standing charges and sanctimonious lecturing to ‘save the planet’.

We get hosepipe bans and told to switch the kettle off while massive data centres ruin scenic countryside and guzzle up our water and energy supply. The Labour government bans new oil and gas licences in the North Sea while importing £billions of oil and gas from Norway…extracted from the North Sea. A net zero box of virtue is disingenuously ticked. But thousands of jobs in the North Easy of Scotland are lost.

£344 billion is not an investment in the climate. It is a transfer payment dressed up as virtue. The planet will barely notice. The companies on the receiving end certainly will.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We are being fleeced on something that won’t make blind bit of difference except lining the pockets of a ringfenced group of corporations. Net zero is a gigantic virtue-scam at our expense.

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@TheGamesDeadM8 Blatant piss take

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@stephenhdg @marc_laz Nah, Best job in the world!!!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@Davidgooch10 @TheLTDA They are good for cancelling PCNs tho eh?

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@coltscabs İm paying £330 for a 70 plate the geezer im renting from is a lovely fella n0t a greedy bastard like some !!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@abumurtador Robbie Fowler

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@walshie64 Slave probably gets £10 out if that!!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@overlook61 Good! it make the rest of us look bad when we dont use it!!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@King61B No sympathy…..

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@scampo999 Great idea hope it works 👍🏼

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@VaganWayne Another normal day in Catford

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@FutyArena Wayne Rooney

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@silvercab49 I only turn on the A/C if the customer asks for it. If they do, then the windows stay closed. They can’t have both—sorry.

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@spursfan190676 @limebike Yh good luck with that

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@LewisofLondon My roader 😂😂

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

About time, real embarrassment!

[The LTDA @TheLTDA]

WARNING SELFRIDGES....lots of reports going to TFL about over ranking. Compliance WILL be turning up.

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@FutyArena John Terry

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@richiechapman8 Brain dead

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@donaldpena34391 Oh fuck off you cheat!!

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BensonhedgesM8]

@Grinchy1981 Westminister bridge all day long m8