The Energy Bill is an attack on freedom and home ownership
September 6, 2023
By Paul Homewood
h/t Robert Christopher
David Kurten is leader of the Heritage Party
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Well , he got it just about spot on .
But it will never get much mention in the media , and most politicians and the public have been so brainwashed that they will all think it it just a conspiracy theory .
Laws were meant to protect the people from crimes against their person and their property. Never before have so many bills, mandates, executive orders been turned into laws that aim to harm us, deprive us, endanger us and steal our property. We are being governed by low class thugs, on every level. They don’t even try to assure us any modicum of safety from wars, starvation, and death. The government of the US is now the enemy of its people!
Not only the USA. The Obama and Biden administrations were/are copying European politicians who also actively hate their own populations. Just look at all the invented and increased taxes, regulations and bans.
The EU countries blame the EU Commission, but still don’t fight back.
The UK cannot even blame the EU Commission any more. The madness is self-inflicted.
>>enemy of the people
True!
Yes but al least in the USA there is an almost equal divide between those who support AGW theory and those who do not, – and large along party lines. Over here the Tories are just as ignorant about the science as Labour.
And unlike most of the rest of the world, ordinary people in the USA can defend themselves given “right to bear arms” in the Constitution.
>>but at least in the USA
Good but
(1) too long
(2) lacks soundbites
(3) use totalitarianism rather than communism
The Wannsee Economic Forum has allowance for privately owned businesses. Their principals, the ones who fly to Davos, can keep their corporate empires.
Hence, WEF form of totalitarian government will be fascist, not communist.
The only difference in my mind between the two main forms of Totalitarianism are that in communism the state owns the means of production whereas in fascism the means of production are privately owned but the state is effectively the only client.
And yes, we appear to be hurtling toward the fascist version of totalitarianism – irrespective of whether Labour or the Conservatives win the next election. Not a cigarette paper between them as far as I can see.
When they knock down the Houses Of Parliament*, and numerous similar buildings – due to their inability to meet stringent new standards – THEN I might accept their insane ideas…
* ONLY if all the MP’s who voted for Ed Milipede’s 2008 Climate Change Act are inside it at the time.
I second that.
It has been said that Guy Fawkes was the last person to enter parliament with honest intentions….
Kurten’s depiction of the UK’s future is accurate. There is no political will in UK to stop it.
Correct – Even the media aren’t reporting the passage through the commons or the vote
For those who prefer to read a summary, David Turver has covered the matter here:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/criminalising-net-zero-disobedience?
Re David Turver’s summary. It’s difficult to believe that such measures are being considered and generally voted through in the House of Commons.
It’s Orwellian, but then most things are these days. I am writing to my PM about this right now..
You have your own PM?
In most cases the MP is assigned to your area since voting makes zero difference – in fact on GB News a comment was made that there was zero difference between Red Labour and Blue Labour so that reduces the importance of the vote even further. We are saddled with Sushi’s Bimbo Coutinho.
Haha, oops, not sure if that would be a good thing or even worse..
Well it’s not an Energy Bill …its a Net-Zero Bill with bells on
I have just read the Parliamentary Defence Committee’s report on decarbonising the military. Ill-focused, ignorant about climate, innumerate, wildly organised, full of wishful thinking and unrealistic and irrelevant nonsense. But as our CO2 comes mainly from our funnels, tail pipes and vehicle exhausts, there’s a real risk these idiots will affect our fighting capabilities. We must fight back. Btw what does Net Zero look like?
Don’t worry. You’ll soon not be able to afford a military.
Even if the received opinions were justified, the Bill, probably one of Miliband’s’ Russian mode creations would be completely unjustified.
Go to live in a more Marxist country, Ed.Miliband and stay there.
O/T. I’m glad to see that Mr Heller’s excellent blog is back online.
https://realclimatescience.com/back-online/#comments
I’m not sure where to post this (and it was in French), but there is a carbon tax on imports taking effect from October 01, certainly for EU countries but I don’t know whether that is also happening for the UK
A carbon duty is really insane. You make your energy expensive, manufacturing shuts down and relocates abroad where energy is cheaper, you then hit the goods now made abroad with an import duty with the idea of subsidising the industries that you made uncompetitive but find they have all gone and won’t return to countries run by morons, so the net result is your population gets poorer as costs rise thus perpetuating the decline in the standard of living of Net Zero countries.
But Gezza, isn’t that the idea, that the population gets poorer?
Civilian nuclear plants and LSD have the same number of fatalaties, but different crowds of frightened fools fear and loathe each non-hazard.
Personally, I think ‘they’ are overplaying their hands dreadfully. And ‘they’ do not realize it yet. Just look at ‘their’ surprise at the kickback and fuss about ULEZ – an almost trivial detail in the green blob policy, affecting virtually nobody. And the ridiculous sentimentality of the public over every little bleat from every little ‘victim’ – such as the ‘risk’ to children from a bit of crumbling concrete in a few dreary old schools and the ‘cruelty’ of sending a handful of illegal immigrants to a hotel in Rwanda.
The fact is, that none of ‘their’ wishful thinking is going to come to pass.*
So, what actually HAPPENS in a few years’ time, when 95% of our transport and energy-use is exactly the same as now? The Government of the day says, “Stop the country! 95% of people have to disembark!”? It is not going to happen like that.
* Wind and solar are contributing 1% of our total energy-use at the moment.
Dave,
wind and solar are contributing 1% of our total energy use at the moment again!
The last time we got over 10GW out of our 40GW of wind for any appreciable time was August 19th.
Breaking…..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/06/global-warming-climate-change-scientist-unrealistic-nature/
He’s not the first and won’t be the last !
That’s a jaw-dropping article, but it isn’t as if we hadn’t known for years that the pseudo-science activists of the Mann-Jones tendency have been cheating and lying in their teeth to keep the gravy flowing.
Also ‘jaw-dropping’ that it’s a top headline article in the MSM
(for now). I expect phone calls are being made as I type.
Suffered the BBC Climate porn this morning over the issue
of ‘climate change induced fires’.
Seems lies by omission are allowed on the BBC – who’da’guessed….
EVERYONE living in the East Surrey constituency should write at once to their MP and newly appointed ‘Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero’, Claire Coutinho, to condemn this utter Tory madness. ‘Energy Security’ and ‘Net Zero’ are totally opposing concepts, the phrase is pure Marxist messaging garbage. Email: claire.coutinho.mp@parliament.uk
One place you can find e-mail addresses of MPs is to sign a petition at
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions
I forget whether you get the link before or after confirming the e-mail address, but that website actually provides one for contacting MPs to let them knowyou have signed the petition.
Take a look at all the “open” petitions there and sign every one that wants an end to the “climate”, “green” and “netzero” madness. Also look for “repeal the climate change act” petitions.
All signed up to “Referendum on Net Zero” and “Repeal Climate Change Act”. Not going as well as we would like – so get going !!!
note: you can’t sign up twice !
Thanks for that Realist, its quite shocking.
I see that the ‘Repeal the Climate Change Act 2008’ is about the 2,000th in the petition list of 48,000 – it appears on page 33.
The 2,235 signatues is nowhere when so many petitions attract more than half a million signatures.
Does this lack of ‘voter concern’ encourage indifference amongst our MPs to their destructive net-zero policies?
I’m not sure whether it is a lack of voter concern, people don’t know that petitions website exists or petitions get “moderated” i.e. rejected.
There are a lot of ridiculous “ban it” petitions for almost everything you can think of in normal life there though.
Petitions there also “expire” instead of remaining open so that they can actually be signed.
Maybe the way to do it is find the sensible petitions and flood the mailboxes of every MP with the links to those petitions.
“Marxist messaging” in the comment above is simply daft. Science has no left or right and atmospheric physics won’t negotiate with any voters about their views on climate or energy policy.
Congratulations Paul Homewood you get a special mention for misleading blogs about climate in today’s Guardian. See link in para 6 of the article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/why-climate-deniers-are-wrong-validity-heat-measurements
I note at the bottom in their plea to fund their propaganda there is the humourous ‘… there is a good reason why not to support the Guardian.’ There certainly is – it is cover to cover bullshit.
There used to be a time that the Grauniad allowed comments. But they probably got fed up with the majority of the comments pointing out the fraud and the lies in their “climate” hysterics.
I am not sure which is worse: not allowing comments at all (Grauniad) or having to take out paid subscriptions (Telegraph) and even then the risk that they still disable comments on some articles.
“I note at the bottom …….” they forgot to sign off “Heil Hitler”!
The response that the Guardian is BS is so crude as to be worth ignoring. The Guardian does allow comments on many articles but not usually on simple news reports. The article on the temperatures during the heatwave was a matter of factual reporting and correcting disinformation by people like Paul Homewood, a former accountant, blogger and not a member of any scientific or meteorological research instituion or organisation.
And what is your expertise on the matter?
What is amusing about that article is the unadulterated Authority Fallacy that they use to “answer” every doubt. Deniers said it was overgrown but the Authority says it isn’t. Deniers said it was different colours but the Authority said they aren’t.
The Authority tells us its hot, so we asked the Authority, is it hot? The Authority said it is. So there you go, Deniers are wrong
So Phoenix44 you find it amusing? What troubles me rather than amuses me in connection with this very serious subject is the ignorance of PEOPLE THAT KNOW NOT A LOT. They like to bandy about words they don’t understand and heaven knows what else they don’t understand. Let me try to help you. Reference to legitimate authorities i.e. people who know what they are talking about is not a logical fallacy. An appeal to Freeman Dysson on climate for example would be a worthless appeal to unwarranted authority because he had no expertise in climate science. Neither is pointing out that people have no relevant expertise an ‘ad hominem’ attack. Saying they are wrong about science because they are mean to their Mum or have smelly feet would be an ad hominem attack. Hope that helps.
Those wanting to know more about climate change could begin by looking at the websites of NASA, NOAA, WMO, UK Met Office, Royal Societ, Institute of Physics or really any independent professional scientific organisation. They will all have overviews of AGW and the NASA website is particularly nice to look at.
This is bad law in the making; all bad laws should be rejected out of hand. Parliament is now full of groupthink, authoritarian lunatics intent on controlling every aspect of our lives.
Power corrupts, absolute powers corrupts absolutely?
There was an article by William Hague the other day saying that soon EVERY decision would have to be taken with climate paramount. He really believes in the Doom-mongering and cannot see how this leads inevitably to Totalitarianism.
Within the Act there are a lot of ‘the Secretary of State MAY make regulations.’ What this means is that the Act does not actually provide anything concrete on that particular area as it is left for future action which MAY or indeed in many cases DOES NOT ever happen. However, since regulations are Statutory Instruments these are not presented to Parliament for approval in the manner of an Act, and so could be considered a back door route for what is contentious legislation. It is how EU Directives were enacted in the UK but that just highlighted how the government had ceded power to the EU and that there was to be no debate on this legislation as approval had come from EU membership.
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down some agency actions as not authorized by Congress. Congress, and Parliament, are intent on giving their power off to agencies. It’s not legal, but it is so pervasive, it is impossible to stop.
In other depressing news, GB News was lauding the waste of money at the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall plant to make battery vehicles people don’t want. And there was also the UK signing up to waste more money we don’t have by rejoining the EU Horizon ‘science’ programme. The Mail commented that it funds things like ‘climate science’, which is odd when alleged ‘scientists’ tell us ‘the science is settled’.
Our ejection from Horizon was an example of the total pettiness and willingness to self-harm of the EU. Other non-EU countries have always been in it, but after Brexit we had to go. That it could only harm Horizon and thus the EU didn’t matter. There had to ge a high profile expulsion Remainers could whine about.
” GB News was lauding … ”
With a broad brush: unfortunately, MSM organisations cannot currently take an entirely non-believer’s stance, otherwise there is a risk of “cancelling” .
My view is that an independent medjia organisation should take a logical, non-believer’s stance and broadcast a range of defendable items.
They could least have a counterpoint to discuss the huge problem of charging point throughput for example. That’s an easy one.
On a bad day you can often rely on Blackout-news.de to cheer you up as you can see how much worse things are in Germany.
A recent post shows that Germany’s electricity import has hit a new high for August as they have shut their nuclear plants. This does have some impact for the UK given that our failed energy policy relies on imports to prop up the grid and with more demand within the EU grid it will push up prices for the UK as well. Their energy minister has been caught out lying that solar panels are filling the nuclear gap when he used ‘capacity’ not ‘output’.
That is actually encouraging that there are websites not in English highlighting the fraud and lies. I need to do some digging as I understand both German and French. Dutch is definitely not the same, but it is similar to German. It might be worth looking at whatever links the Dutch Farmers party can provide.
>> Blackout-news.de
It is a good site and used to do an English translation but I use a translator which is pretty good.
Germans are going to wake up one day and find that the Germany they thought they lived in – prosperous, law-abiding, wealthy, full employment, lots of luxury jobs for lazy elites – no longer exists. They will find themselves moved to a worse version of East Germany in the 1980s. If young people think life is unfair now, wait until they experience that.
And that day may be a lot closer than they might like…unless AfD can take power.
The Bill shouldn’t even have been debated before this reality check had been formally presented:
https://news.sky.com/story/offshore-wind-power-warning-as-government-auction-flops-12956522
Somewhere between zero and two bids for offshore wind they say, with a greater chance of zero. DESNZ has known this for months – ever since the number of pre-qualification submissions dropped through the floor, and they have been procrastinating instead of taking proactive action. Now they are headless chickens, not knowing what to do. Macavity Shapps is no longer there (and did not even vote for the Energy Bill he supervised, and neither did fellow DESNZ minister Graham Stuart). Coutinho will need to get a grip fast. Big test for her: she should read the riot act to DESNZ for being EMUs.
This presumably explains why the Government has eased the ban on onshore wind farms which are much cheaper to build and maintain? I see the Sky article is still saying that offshore wind is 9 times cheaper than gas.
Understanding the dynamics of climate academia and the science scam is laid out in this article…. https://jessicaweinkle.substack.com/p/the-great-climate-change-science
Wow! Lots of high paid people pretending they can model distant weather.
“My model is better than your model!”
No. They are ALL BAD. They all fail. The entire concept is bogus.
Simon Webb has a new video on this topic