‘Anti-motorist!’ | Sunak BETRAYED 2035 petrol-diesel car ban? | Jacob Rees Mogg
November 30, 2023
By Paul Homewood
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Lucid but will the popular media take it up. Poison for the BBC no doubt for their prophets. Seems strange that the government do not recognise that their green policies especially as regards the treatment of the private motorist will more or less guarantee the Conservative ejection next year . Conversely if Labour are silent or support the anti motorist policies in their manifesto the Conservatives might just scrape back. The motorists’ influence needs every encouragement and not just from the Daily Mail.
Did he vote against the ZEV mandate? As I said yesterday, coercing motorists to buy BEVs is not going to work, the way to do it is to market them, with emphasis on the plus points, the difficulty is they do not have any, other than acceleration, but that is at the expense of tyre life.
On a another thing, COP28 I watched the first video event Friends of the Earth press conference, it was an anti Jewish rant with support to Gaza and Palestine I gave up on it. I then watched the start of the next event.
“Session 2: High-level session on systems change and innovation for climate and sustainability action – Part 1” but I lost the will to live, Both events were poorly organised and attendance was sparse. I guess they are all on the beach
Boring meetings with poor attendance is a classic tactic of the extreme Left. When I was in my late teens, my Shop-Steward brother took me (as an RAF erk) to one of his Branch union meetings in a room above a pub in Coventry. It was very boring with many ‘points of order’ and much deliberation on procedure from the Chairman. Many attendees – rank-and-file members – left before the end. But then, just before the end the Chairman allowed ‘brothers’ to propose and move various motions – and they went through on a virtual nod. Later, after we left, my brother explained what had happened: the Chairman and some of the committee wanted to get some difficult motions passed so they would leave them to the very end when most members, bored to tears, had left. The tactic is alive and well at COP.
PS: Standard Triumph, where my brother worked went bust about ten years later….
I wonder if Sunak understands what this secondary legislation means. Or is it all the work of those green civil servants?
I’m sure he does. He thinks we are stupid, as do civil servants. He announces something that sounds good and expects us all to thank him for his generosity in allowing us s tiny bit of freedom. Sunak is making May look good. Both are utterly wrong on absolutely everything but at least May had some vague principles. Sunak is simply pointless, a puppet PM.
Imagine our Government led by an amalgam of Jacob and Nigel! Either would make a brilliant Prime Minister, preferably incorporating, at very senior level, the splendid Penny Mordaunt in some way. Between them they’d put the GREAT back into Britain.
As I’ve said many times before the “Great” in Great Britain refers to size to distinguish it from Brittany, (Bretagne, Breizh and Bertaèyn) also Land Of The Britons.
So it has always been Great in the sense it always has been
The EU mob have banned our GB plates and now require us to have ‘UK ‘plates or a fat fine!. Must be to simply eliminate the ‘GREAT’ part. Our US pals often ask, ‘Say, buddy, you from Great Britain? That’ll do for me, thanks.
Well Edward I could never get my head round why we left Northern Ireland off our national ID plates.
We are, at least for the time being, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
So I am happier with UK rather than GB.
Please yourself, glen
Don’t confuse with UA for Ukraine. Or perhaps that’s the intention?
Both Farage and Rees-Mogg are better than the current dross but then the bar is set so low that it needs excavating. However, they are both culpable for the mess of Brexit. Farage had a party totally focussed on one aim – leaving the EU – and yet where was the exit plan? How would we exit in the easiest and most advantageous way? How would we refine our exit over the successive years? Nothing!! And Rees-Mogg was one of the ignorant – or was he just lying? – group known as the ERG who claimed that we could leave the EU and trade on WTO terms as many other countries did. Except that there are virtually NO countries that trade solely on WTO terms – there are many countries without an over-arching trade deal but they use a whole host of small agreements that the EU helpfully list. So as to them being some sort of panacea for what ails us – think again.
As for Mordaunt – she supports the alphabetti-spaghetti gender lunacy. Nuff said.
She seems like a damn good candidate. She’s ‘served’ which adds kudos, and if she IS a gender-bender freak, she won’t progress far, – maybe she’d do better in the rat’s-butt labour shower in that case!?
He makes one mistake, Shale Gas won’t make any difference unless we Build More Gas fired generation.
On the other hand it will alleviate the lack of storage in the UK.
Shale gas always makes sense because it is wealth creation, regardless of who uses it.
AND there’s an awfully VAST amount of it!
But it will. Transport of gas is expensive. It would be much cheaper to use gas piped from relatively close sources than LNG.
CNG is a low particulate, low NOX fuel that would not need ULEZ. From our own deposits it would eliminate the need to import the stuff as LNG, thus lowering the UK’s carbon footprint.
Cheap, too.
Too simple?
JF
The UK motorist has generally been stitched up by various HMGs since the 1970s. There was a time during the 1950s and into the 1960s when HMG spent taxpayers’ money on the road network with the intention of generally improving travel by road, those days are long gone 😦
Yes and no. Since the 1970s, we are all motorists in terms of households, so we can either be taxed on cars and petrol or incomes and spending. What is detestable about it is that it hides how much tax we handover. That’s why it is done, because if we put all the tax on on our incomes, there would be a huge revolt on the last day of the first month it went through our pay packets. Total tax take is £788 billion or £19,700 per adult. In 2003/04 it was £600 billion in today’s money. In other words, taxes have increased by over 30%. Does anybody think government services are 30% better? Would anybody pay £20,000/year for what we get?
The grid cannot supply current electricity needs, so we must reduce electricity use, repeat, increase our electricity use.
I’m confused.
A ludicrous concept no doubt thought up by the blob. It just shows the meekness of the PM and his unsuitability for a post that requires determination and guts.
So either Sushi is ignorant of what is going on in the Snivel Service – matching the level of knowledge of the Home Office morons in committee yesterday – or he has lied to the electorate over delaying the Net Zero lunacy. More so as JRM showed in replaying his speech where Sushi claimed it was not government that would make the decision to change but the people. what bollocks that turns out to be.
He lied. The changes were so small that they made no difference anyway. Sunak doesn’t care, he is an empty paper bag, a puppet who has no interest in anything other than being a pretend PM. He makes John Major look like a Tory, Cameron look like a serious politician and Johnson look like an honest man.
What is the point of all this? It won’t have the slightest effect on anything except increased environmental destruction. It’s simply not going to work. People won’t buy EVs after the next multi story car park fire. And as I always ask ad nauseam what about the ginormous Danish lorry full of bacon that has just trundled past?
People will because people have to have a car, or change their lives dramatically. But the extra cost will mean jobs lost elsewhere because they have less to spend on other things. And many will not buy an EV so jobs will be lost in car manufacturing, the components manufacturers and all the associated infrastructure providers like mechanics and tyre fitters. We will see unemployment rise to 10% I suspect, at which point government finances will fail as tax revenues fall and benefits rise.
Or a Cross-chanel Car Ferry fire.
JRM said, near the end of his very good piece, ‘we need a pragmatic route to NZC’ (paraphrase). No, we don’t. We do not want anything to do with NZC.
If he hasn’t figured out the carbon dioxide thing is just a red herring he’s not really much use in a net zero debate.