David Craig, on April 22nd, 2024Monday-Tuesday blog
Sometimes on Sundays I watch the Laura Kuensberg programme on the BBC while working out in my gym. Last Sunday the whole programme as about how Britain was ‘fighting’ climate change’. Almost all the participants, especially Kuensberg, bleated and moaned and complained that Britain risked losing its position as the world leader in reducing CO2 emissions. The one voice of sanity was businessman, Luke Johnson, who pointed out that due to Net Zero the UK’s energy prices were five times those in China and twice those in the US and that this risked leading to deindustrialisation and national bankruptcy. Of course, he was ignored by all the other participants.
So let’s briefly remind ourselves of the facts:
Fact 1: The UK has halved its CO2 emissions since the 1980s :
Fact 2: This has been achieved by destroying much of British manufacturing:
Fact 3: This has, of course, resulted in a massive loss of manufacturing jobs:
The most recent examples of this economic seppuku were at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland where 400 of the 500 workers will be fired as the refinery is closed due to the UK’s high energy costs (thanks to Net Zero) and converted into an oil-importing terminal and at Port Talbot in Wales where around 2,000 workers will lose their jobs as the blast furnaces are shut and replaced by inferior electric-arc furnaces in order to reduce CO2 emissions to save the planet from what UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, calls “global boiling”.
The mind-boggling stupidity behind the UK’s economic hari-kari (so beloved by our idiotic politicians and the BBC) is the ludicrous way the UK’s CO2 emissions are measured. If a ton of steel is produced in the UK, it counts towards the UK’s CO2 emissions. But if that ton of steel is produced in China from steelworks powered by coal-fired power stations and then expensively shipped around the world to Britain, it’s not included in the UK’s CO2 emissions.
Sorry, but sometimes I despair at the imbecility of our politicians and mainstream media.
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I despair too at the imbecility of many of the younger generation, several of my own close family members included. I refuse to discuss “global boiling” and its associated idiocy with youngsters whose science education appears largely to have been a process of systematic indoctrination into “woke” rather than training in impartial scientific investigation. Same goes for the covid jab, subject of your previous blog. My own offspring and their spouses, hovering in age from early 50s to early 60s, are totally divided on the benefits or – as I maintain – evils of the mRNA faux vax so again, I refuse to discuss it in the interests of family cohesion. After all, I love them all dearly and to see them as I believe being so mis-lead is distressing. I just say to them – and tell myself – that it will all be their problem, not mine. I shall be gone when the worst happens – the already well under way final collapse of our once proud nation, its now inevitable eventual take-over by an invading population of alien beliefs, the imprisonment of the general population in 15 minute cities, road and air travel verboten to all but the super-rich, whose luxurious life-styles will be serviced by the slave underclass. As for our so-called Democratically Elected Representatives, I think I have never been aware of such a deplorable event in the hallowed halls of Westminster as that of Andrew Bridgen articulating his well-prepared, knowledgeable speech, detailing the damage done by the jab, to an almost empty House of Commons, followed by the Deputy Speaker threatening to empty the Public Gallery if members of the public, who had made the effort to attend to show their support, did not desist from applauding.
I have just read an article by Gwythian Prins and others – “The Music Stops, Net Zero and National Security” discussing the same issues and the relevance to national security. Worth reading.