Green Party Manifesto To Return Britain To The Middle Ages
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
https://greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/green-party-environment-manifesto.pdf
Election time!
From the hints we’ve seen, all parties’ manifestos are pretty depressing when it comes to climate change, with the honourable exception of UKIP.
But I doubt whether any will be as depressingly moronic as the Green Party’s.
1) Ending the monopoly of the big six.
What monopoly?
At the last count, according to OFGEM, there were over 140 suppliers of electricity.
With price comparison sites, such as Uswitch, the UK’s energy market is probably the most competitive in the world.
2) We will stand alongside those countries across the world fighting for climate justice….
Well, we know all about that, don’t we!
3) Meeting our domestic and international obligations.
Has nobody told the dopes at Green Party HQ that the UK has just signed up to the Paris Agreement and is the only country in the world to legislate for suicidal decarbonisation targets?
Heaven help us all if these aren’t enough.
4) Keep fossil fuels in the ground:
Hard to know where to start with this drivel.
a) Last year, fossil fuels supplied 82% of the UK’s energy consumption, according to DECC.
In addition, nuclear, which they also want to drop, added an extra 8%.
How do they intend to replace these?
b) £6bn subsidies?
As has been well established, there are no such subsidies. On the contrary, prior to the collapse in oil prices, taxes on North Sea oil brought in billions every year. According to the BBC, , the Treasury raised £11bn four years ago.
Even now, the OBR is forecasting tax receipts of £7bn in the next five years.
c) Divest public funds.
If this was followed through on any large scale, it would force a drop in the share price of oil companies, and thus lose money for public funds.
d) A just transition for communities dependent on fossil fuel jobs.
Try telling that to North Sea oil workers in Aberdeen, oil refinery workers up and down the country, or owners of petrol stations.
5) End the effective ban on onshore wind.
What ban? The Government has simply withdrawn subsidies.
The manifesto gives the game away when it calls for “new support for onshore wind and solar”, in other words more subsidies.
So much for the households and businesses they claim to care about.
As for the significant investment in offshore wind and electric vehicles, read another huge bill for taxpayers.
6) Create a new Green Investment Centre
Ditto.
More billions of borrowing that will eventually have to be paid back by future taxpayers
7) Nuclear Power
There is zero evidence that a flexible grid can offer any energy security whatsoever. The only reckless gamble would be to scrap nuclear power and fossil fuels.
Given that nuclear power provides 77% of French electricity, the Green Party’s enthusiasm for interconnection to Europe seems a tad hypocritical to say the least!
8) Progressive energy tariffs
They want to charge small consumers less per unit.
Perhaps they might like to tell which of us will, by necessity be forced to pay more?
9) A national programme of insulation
Insulating the nine million homes, which they call for, would cost £9bn, even at a conservative grand each.
Interestingly they claim that this will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. If we then assume the mid point of 500,000, and a salary of £30000, the annual cost would be £15bn. Materials of course would be on top.
It all sounds like Diane Abbott economics to me!
10) Democratise energy ownership
I assume this means giving windmills the vote!
In 1992, the Sun famously asked the last person to leave Britain to turn out the lights, if Neil Kinnock won the election.
If the Green Party were to win, the last person would have to blow out the candle!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Rather, the over-generous subsidy pot was drained much more rapidly by the subsidy harvesters than even the government(s) expected.
In fact the building of onshore wind turbines has been democratised. Local communities can have wind turbines if they specify suitable places to build them in their Neighborhood Plan or their Local Plan. All that local communities need is to raise a lot of money to subsidise the building, operation and maintenance of an unreliable wind turbine or two.
The Greens are obviously competing with Labour as to who can be the most unelectable. I suppose after the election both of their MP’s can form a coalition.
“Insulating the nine million homes, which they call for, would cost £9bn, even at a conservative grand each”.
Many of the home insulation projects carried out have been a disaster. Modern building methods use breeze blocks on the inside walls with a covering of plasterboard on wooden battens, there is gap between the plasterboard and the breeze blocks and then another gap between the breeze blocks and the brick and mortar outside wall. The outside wall is porous and wind driven rain or snow will pass to the inside surface of the bricks. Galvanised ties allow this water to drip down harmlessly. Insulation of existing building is by blowing in the material (usually fibreglass) through holes drilled through the brickwork. The problem is that the gap between the bricks and breeze blocks is no longer present so the water instead of dripping down is drawn by capillary action to the breeze block which are also porous as are the softwood battens. The result is wet rot, damp and health issues caused by the growth of fungus, eradicating it is more expensive than installing the “insulation” in the first place.
As usual lack of scientific knowledge invokes the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Brilliant explanation, thank you.
Cavity wall insulation problems are set to become the next PPI scandal, according to Jeff Howell in the Daily Telegraph, 21st March 2015
He writes: ‘Thermal-imaging company IRT Surveys Ltd has compiled data from 250,000 UK homes, and has found that about half of the cavity-walled homes it investigated have damp, slumping or missing insulation. Should this figure hold true across the total housing stock, it will mean that out of CIGA’s six million guaranteed properties, some three million could have problems.’
Good point.
Can’t the people who advocate insulation read thermal conductivity tables ?
Air, at 0.24 conductivity is almost twice as effective an insulator as fibreglass at 0.4 anyway.
Installing this stuff will increase thermal conduction not reduce it.
Double glazing is the prime example of the thermal properties of ordinary air.
A better solution would be to build external walls that exclude moisture and prevent wind generated circulation in the already effective air pockets.
What did South Australians have before candles? Answer, Electricity.
The greens are anti-human, totalitarian garbage.
I keep my fingers crossed for the Greens – and Labour. The UK will become a cheap place to spend a vacation. Bring your own tent, a bike, and a plenty of canned food.
Knowing the Greens, they will probably ban the importation of can openers.
Grow your own can opener, a rock.
I agree we should scrap Hinkley C ….it would be a bad deal even if the technology was proved.
We need good reliable designs & lots of installations of Nuclear generation ASAP
In terms of intellect, imagine the greens that wrote this material are all above average within the population of greens.
Now imagine those in the lower half of green-intellect. If they could learn how to write, they could write more stupendously stupid stuff.
Is that scary, or what?
Caroline Lucas is a clue, watch her wax lyrical about the wonders of a Socialist/Hard left authoritarian paradise builded on earth – she beams all bonhomie but ask her a question about energy supply and the reality of blackouts and permanent rationing of energy, hospitals not being able to afford to keep the lights on etc and old Cazbo Lucas is rendered as like a child’s stuffed toy – dumb.
Yea, but she looks like a green tart, so all the green luvvies are lusting after her.
Oh help! wait a moment,…….”You wont like me when I’m angry.”………..Arrrrghhhhh, I’m a Lucas luster!
My shirt’s ripped and I’m wearing shredded shorts again. And my ‘William’ is Lucas sized!
“Yea, but she looks like a green tart”
I found a green tart in the back of my fridge a week ago.
Decided the best place for it was in the garbage bin.
That’s an image I don’t wish to tarry on.
;-))
Does anyone know if she cleans toilets ??
Are you insinuating she’s a bog trotter?
Vote for the Green Party!
Where…
Swine! You caused me to spray coffee all over the monitor !
oops, sorry ;(
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With China, India, Germany and many other countries, pumping out CO2.
That is absolutely certainly TRUE 🙂
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Imagine my delight upon discovering my uni-educated masters degree qualified niece is a Green party candidate for the upcoming general election!
Let us guess what the subject of her degree was.
Globalisation! Tbf she got a Masters which is a LOT more than I ever did, though I grew up in an age where attending ‘uni’ was, frankly, not normal. She’s definitely been had my the green blob though. 😦
Hells teeth, have you had a word with her?
Lord in heaven, the Green party, I really don’t know what to counsel and likely it. would do no good anyhow. How do they become so lost?
I tagged her on a FB post showing obvious climate data manipulation….and got a right earful back. Green fury and no mistake. As we’ve all seen so often Greens just will not engage in any debate on this subject at all and she was no different. In fact it’s now a taboo subject for discussion. Sad really because understanding other opinions is supposed to be one of the great achievements of higher education and both she and me like a good debate. I can’t help but conclude they’re fearful of being exposed to alternate views and facts and most of all, of the chance of losing. Hey ho.
Extending Theresa May’s joke; “Labour wants to take us back 40 years, or 400 years according to Diane Abbott [and the Greens].”
It’s not keep it I the ground, it’s keep the moronic Greens out of office – pesky councillors locally are tremendous spendthrifts of the public purse.
Do these people not understand how “jobs” work or do they simply hope the general public does not? It is easy to “create” jobs by making things less efficient but that us the literal reverse if economic growth and progress. We could for example “create” thousands of jobs by replacing ambulances with stretcher bearers, but do even Greens think that is sensible?
Having people work less productively makes everyone poorer.
May 12, 2017 – President Donald J. Trump’s Weekly Address. At about 2.30 mins in Trump mentions unleashing of US energy development. Not uncommon…but?
Good to see him speak regularly without the presence of a journo twerp…BBC yuk!
odd..
With the islamist and green scam invasion… (same basic totalitarian ideology)…
… thought many parts of the UK were already back in the dark ages. !!
The invitation from the Greens is a sign of lonelyness; they are living in the middle ages and would like some company?
Dellers has a good article, quoting Matt Ridley, which puts into perspective how the Greens could not build their precious windmills if they left the coal in the ground:
And then, the gigantic ‘carbon footprint’ involving the mining, transport, manufacturing processing of those poisonous PV cells, it’s enough to make you weep.
Any sort of rational human being could only arrive at the conclusion, that, the Green party policies would will it, to visit death on us all………..
Think I exaggerate? Where is the end to it all [the green agenda] – if not mass genocide?
Cold kills, even if………..[and by some stretch of a fervid imagination]……..where, the UK by somehow, managed to mirror an annual mean temp – say of southern Spain, even there you can die of cold……………… Good grief; .the green party, the lib bums, the lavs – where misanthropy and white Apartheid are key political planks.
I don’t know, who, which is worse, either, these eejits who advocate the green filth or, the gullible dorks who vote for ’em?
Finally, here’s a kicker when you’re down, always the boot goes in. Way ahead, In the lead in the polls are, the tories [vote blue get RED] under mother theresa – who are nigh as hell bent on ruinables and the corporate/NWO/Berlin plan to make us all
eat shit‘swallow our greens’ as are Caroline Lucas’s sandal wearing death cult…………is there no end to it?Good argument Harry. I would also like to add the specially strengthened roads built to remote places that are used solely for construction and maintenance of these horrors plus the miles of cable and pylons needed to distribute the energy. In addition their longevity appears to be a lot less than the manufacturers claim.
I remember a friend describing the green/man made global theory and movement as a communist conspiracy about ten years ago and thinking it was a bit over the top. Reading the sinister comments of people like Dr Ottmar Endenhofer, I realise how right he was.
I read, enjoyed & thoroughly recommend Dr. Tim Ball’s book, The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science. An excellent climatologist, he is also a more than fair historian. His website is a treasure trove.
I equally recommend geology Prof. Ian Plimer’s book, Heaven and Earth global warming: the missing science
The good Aussie Prof does not faff about with diplomacy. A sentence from his introduction: “The slogan “stop climate change” is a very public advertisement of absolute total ignorance as it is not cognisant of history, archaeology, geology, astronomy, ocean sciences, atmospheric sciences & the life sciences.”
This terrific book is an education, with over 2000 refs to peer-reviewed articles etc.
The endgame of the 1%s pushing the warming/climate scam is a vast depopulation, the destruction of ALL nations, & a world totalitarian govt over a slave population remnant.
http://www.c3headlines.com
Click on Quotes.
Many good articles & graphs also.
Cold houses are damp houses in winter and warm houses are dry in winter .The idiots who are making money building houses today do not understand this .the council houses and flats which have replaced the slums which were condemned as unfit for human habitation when i was a child are no better than what they replaced and often contain asbestos and are just as cold and damp. We need to do something about this.
Buy stock in companies that make diesel generators. The political thrust will end central electricity generation. So you better be able to make your own.
Albert Einstein must have had the greens in mind when he said “Two things are infinite ,the universe and human stupidity ,but I am not sure about the universe’
I suppose that returning Britain to the Middle Ages also addresses the wine industry which was well established then because it was, gasp, WARMER.