Hasn’t Gummer Done Enough Damage Already?
By Paul Homewood
h/t Hugh Sharman
So this deceitful hypocrite finally shows who his real friends are:
Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee submits witness statement in support of legal action accusing government of breaching Climate Change Act
Lord Deben has today made a dramatic intervention in the on-going High Court hearing on a series of legal challenges alleging the government’s decarbonisation plans are inadequate and in breach of the UK’s Climate Change Act.
The Conservative peer, former Environment Secretary, and former chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) submitted a witness statement in support of the legal challenge from campaign group Friends of the Earth, which is one of three separate but related challenges being considered by the High Court this week in a ‘rolled up’ hearing.
The challenges from Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and The Good Law Project all allege the government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP), which was released last March, is insufficiently detailed and risks the UK missing its legally binding emissions targets.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Lord Deben should be in the Tower given the damage he has caused this Country rather than in the House of Lords where he continues to cause mischief.
Indeed —and this from NetZeroWatch yesterday:
“The Government is facing demands to launch an urgent inquiry into the conduct of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), as evidence accumulates that the cost of Net Zero will be trillions of pounds more costly than the Committee has claimed….”
Not so long ago, a £million was a lot of money. Then it morphed into £billions. Now it’s £trillions. The cost of cloud-cuckoo land…
He is just awful-and look at the foul bunch who are bankrolling this action.
Can’t he at least have the whip removed?
Or on second thoughts….I may have a better use for the whip.
Careful with that axe Eugene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummagumma
That came up on my car USB both live and studio yesterday. It will be several months before I get back to the Cs.
How can HE be allowed to do anything. He is a paid klymutt activist
I don’t suppose that the Government’s defence will be that Net Zero is a mistaken impossibility and should be dropped? Cats fighting in a bag.
“Cats fighting in a bag.”
Rats, RATS, fighting in a bag.
As I have said before this clown was a self-satisfied egotistical pain in the backside when I first encountered him, surrounded by his adoring acolytes, at a Conservative Student conference in 1961.
He has not improved with age.
Deben, damn his title, is an expert in putting inexcusable costs on the people of this country without any sense of guilt.
Deben always reminds of Richard Rich in A Man for all Seasons when he says to More: ‘Every man has his price…’
And Deben has far exceeded – if not his price – certainly his value.
Who was it hwo ended that quote with “and its surprising how low it can be”? You can’t get much lower than the slimey deceit that spews from Gummer, but he still has a high price.
Perhaps this court case is a good thing. The judgement should go against the Govt because they havent a cat in hell’s chance of achieving their ridiculous Climate Change Act objectives. Thus it should make clear to everyone the CC Act is preposterous nonsense, and the only solution to the inability to meet the fantasy targets and stop being sued is to scrap the Act.
Hear Hear
Hear hear. Cats fighting in a bag
Next time it could be Miliband, Starmer et al in the dock 🙂
Yes, but good luck with trying to get the Act repealed! Remember, it was passed virtually nem con and even given that the composition of the HoC is quite different no politician will willingly admit that his fellow-politicians (a fair number of who are still around!) could have got it quite so wrong.
Keep the pressure on and sense will prevail eventually but this has to play out, I fear.
If you’ve got religion you don’t need science
“He converted to the Catholic Church in 1992, having previously been a practising Anglican and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England. He has supported the creation of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham for former Anglicans who have, like him, joined the Catholic Church, including serving as an Honorary Vice-President of the Friends of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.[29][30] In July 2018 he was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc) from the University of East Anglia.[31]“ Wikipedia
BTW, ClientEarth is partly funded by the Government (UK taxpayer).
Can we file an amicus brief that says that Deben is correct the the government plans do not go anywhere near far enough to achieve net zero, but that is simply because it is an impossibility, and attempts to acheive it will result in societal and economic collapse? Moreover, it is Deben and his chums who have lied to Parliament and the nation by pretending otherwise.
Legally, net zero is automatically repealed by being frustrated.
Lord Radcliffe in Davis Contractors Ltd v Fareham Urban District Council [1956] AC 696.
Like it! Play the buggers at their own game.
Contract law is not the same as legislation like the Climate Change Act. There are not two parties boyhbwith obligations. Moreiver, the government can repeal or modify the Act anytime it can muster the votes.
Unfortunately, “frustration” is a feature only of the law of Contracts. And an Act of Parliament is definitely not a bargain between the people and its rulers, despite what “they” tell us!
Neither Deben, Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth nor The Good Law Project have a clue about the science of climate change or the technolgy needed to deliver net zero. They are a bunch of ignorant idiots who should be sent to the Antarctica to enjoy the nice warm climate down there.
But, but…all the hot air they produce will melt the ice and threaten the penguins. We need penguins, they don’t want to change the environment nor do they advocate vast wastage of government money.
Nor the cost. And the courts certainly do not. But I suspect the case is more legalistic therefore. They claim “insufficient detail” for example.
But in essence it’s anti-Tory grandstanding by mainly Left-wing activists such as the Good Law Project.
Oh, go on – give him a burger.
Prat!
Ner Zero is a pretence, an illusion, and ultimately a falsehood. All it does is export CO2 abroad.
The Climate Change Act is therefore null and void.
Case closed m’lud.
I’m reminded an old Giant Tortoise when I see a picture ofLord Deben…….
Must be the neck.
Let’s not forget his feeding a burger to his daughter during BSE. At some point he obviously spotted that teaming up with hysterics was the path to riches.
Coincidentally …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661513/Climate-Change-chief-John-Gummer-faces-calls-quit-payments-green-businesses.html
Lord Deden is proof positive, if one were needed, that the HofL should GO. It is obvious that the beefburger he ate all those years ago with his daughter has in fact affected him to the extent that his brain has stopped functioning.
I’d love to see this “witness statement”. Since the claim is they know the future, I’m unclear what Gummer thinks he has witnessed!
The easiest way to convince people they don’t want Nut Zero … is to give them Nut Zero … but they will also want the weapons they need to take their revenge on the people who lied and pushed through Nut Zero.
“Nut Zero” … obviously not being actual net zero … just the nutty extras which is all we’ll ever get.
legally binding emissions targets
That’s a joke, right? . . . right?
Well the good news is that the court case should fail as Judicial Review is about PROCEDURE and not SUBSTANCE. So rather than discussing the detail of what the government plans in the latest CBDP where for example the car ban by 2030 was an ‘ambition’ and not a ban at all, it is about whether the government had the power to do what it did, which is yes. The link below has all the detail.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/09/on-the-legal-challenge-to-the-rollback-of-net-zero-targets/?highlight=climate%20change%20act