If you were one of those doubtless well meaning middle class white people wearing a keffiyeh and chanting "Globalise the intifada" you really should know what happened in Manchester today is what you were calling for. That's EXACTLY what it involves.
It is one of the great scandals of our time.
Drax, which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North America, is more expensive than gas, more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil.
Yet it is, incredibly, designated as ‘sustainable biomass’, pocketed £870m in subsidies last year and will likely trouser another 2 billion subsidies over the next four years – all to allow Ed ‘The Zealot’ Miliband to include Drax in his net zero calculations.
Not just a scandal but an expensive scandal for the taxpayer.
I’ve now researched Labour’s pledge to cut household electricity bills by £300 by 2030. It isn’t worth the paper it isn’t written on!Intriguingly Labour’s 2024 manifesto did not mention £300. It merely talked vaguely about more renewables cutting household energy bills.
But Labour leaders (including Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband) did make many references to £300 as an estimated average annual saving per household by 2030.
This was based on sketchy modelling by energy think tank Ember, which projected that a clean power system (with 98% renewable electricity by 2030) could reduce average household electricity bills by around £300 compared to levels in mid-2023. Ember claimed, with scant regard to the facts, that lower wholesale costs from renewables would outweigh costly network upgrades. The £300 figure was quickly out of date because it was referenced against the 2023 price cap high, which had already fallen from this peak by the time Labour was making the promise.
Even so, post-election government ministers have stood by the commitment to lower bills via clean energy by £300 by 2030.
It is meaningless, irrelevant, undeliverable, uncheckable. But it will be ‘achieved’ by inventing a figure for what energy bills would have been without Labour policy and claiming actual bills are £300 less.
@foreigncorr1 So you think Normal folks showing frustration of being ignored about how Mass immigration is affecting their lives & more importantly the concern for our children, is just a put down from you, just proves the disconnect in our society,
🔥Oh this is outstanding!
Jim Jordan US Congressman, absolutely destroys the UK’s online harms bill, saying the US is concerned about free speech in the UK.
Free expression is the Hallmark of western civilisation and the most important right of all …. is our right to talk 🔥
“The biggest lie in the world right now is that cows are killing the planet. At the core of that lie is how methane is calculated.”
He’s right. After 10-12 years, methane is broken down into CO2, entering a natural carbon capture cycle absorbed by plants via photosynthesis, converted into cellulose and eaten by livestock and the cycle repeats itself over and over again. The very essence of environmental sustainability.
“He lied, he lied and he lied again. The he lied about the lies, both to the public and then to parliament. He has broken the ministerial code and no longer has the moral authority to govern.”
Oh dear, Rachel Reeves own words coming back to haunt her. Delicious.
🚨Today's Must Watch🚨
This is Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly's opinion piece on @SpectatorOz on the Southport murders.
She lays into @Keir_Starmer for "lying right from the start." He showed no empathy to the British people & smeared decent people as far-right, conspiracy theorists & ushered in the law became political.
It also ushered in censorship.
Excellent opinion piece.