Public Must Accept Energy and Food Will Be Much More Expensive From Now On, Says (Well-Paid) Senior EU Official
A senior official at the European Commission – the equivalent of the EU’s Government – says the continent must accept that the two necessities of life – food and fuel – have been far too cheap for a generation and to save the planet we must all pay more. Diederik Samsom, Chief of Staff for Frans Timmermans, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President responsible for energy policy, made the comments at a recent meeting of Brussels policymakers. The Times has more.
This spring’s inflation figures for the eurozone are bleak: annual inflation is at more than 7%, and a 44% increase in energy costs is also driving up food prices. A double whammy of the invasion of Ukraine, leading to the phasing out of Russian fossil fuel imports, and Europe’s transition to carbon-free energy have hastened the huge price increases.
Higher energy costs, including a sixfold increase in the cost of gas as an agricultural input, have driven food prices even higher. And the war in Ukraine has disrupted markets in key agricultural commodities, such as wheat and cooking oil, causing knock-on effects all the way along supply chains.
In EU countries the cost of soft wheat has increased 64.6% since March last year and the price of rapeseed, a key oil seed, has risen 77.8%. There are now shortages of sunflower oil, of which 73% of global exports originate in Russia and Ukraine.
The European Commission, which sets key energy policies across the European Union, sees the higher bills as a long overdue and unavoidable reckoning with reality.
Diederik Samsom, Chief of Staff for Frans Timmermans, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President responsible for energy policy, warned that the previous low cost of living came at the expense of the environment and depended on imports of Russia’s fossil fuels.
Samsom admitted that “no one dares to say out loud” to voters that past living standards were unsustainable and that higher prices will be permanent.
“Yes, energy will be much more expensive as of now. Energy was way too cheap for the last 40 years,” he told a recent meeting of Brussels policymakers at the Bruegel think tank, urging governments to confront “taboos”.
“We have profited from it and created enormous wealth at the expense of planet Earth and, as we realise right now, at the expense of geopolitical imbalances [with dependency on Russia]. Both need to be repaired. In order to repair them we need to pay more for energy – and also for food. The two basic needs of life – food and energy – we have paid way too little for in the past 40 years.”
Mr. Samsom appears to earn upwards of £150,000 a year; his boss earns over £200,000 a year. They also have no electorate to face.
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Loks like it’s cake eating time boys and girls !
Didn’t go so well for the “Elites” in the past.
So, this has nothing to do with it?
ECB balance sheet going exponential – up sevenfold in 10 years..
https://twitter.com/ThorstenPolleit/status/1519435979983097862?cxt=HHwWjMC43aa-j5YqAAAA
Graph at link.
MMT delusionists will think they’ve enabled all that saving…
Nah printing money like it’s going out of style and having a fight with your main energy supplier and a war in one of the world’s biggest producers of wheat has nothing to do with it.
It’s because we are all a bunch of spoilt people that have been having it all too cheap for too long and it’s time to save the planet.
The only thing these.people may be right about is in their assumption that enough of the population is stupid enough to accept that story.
Cartoon says it all.
How can “paying more for” fuel and food “fix” Planet Earth? Especially if the uber wealthy can afford to turn on their heating and open their windows at the same time and the bills for that are, to them, nothing more than small change?
I’m thinking of someone who is building an indoor swimming pool at his constituency home which will cost something like £13000 to heat – more than some hard up people in this country will earn over the course of a year – someone who has apparently not broken the ministerial code over his US green card and the failure to declare his wife’s non-dom status.
Who lives in a house like this?
The jug-eared p*** c***?
Yep!
It is all really about cancelling the last 600 years and returning the ‘plebs’ to serfdom for the benefit of self-styled Celebrities and the Filthy Rich – nothing less.
“Libertarian” Johnson want the return of the “droit de seigneur” privilege ,for himself alone of course.
I think we are headed for a type of civilisation described by Robert Harris in his book entitled “The Second Sleep” – worth a read.
You mean the uber wealthy who would like us to fly less, you know, to save the planet, while they fly as much and often as they like in private jets? Those uber wealthy?
well, yes Stewart, although I had someone very specific in mind…I think Backlash got it.
“UK’s most vulnerable face crunch as Rishi Sunak helps better-off”
Well you saw all those guys in their private jets descend first on Rome, then on Glasgow last autumn – some might have thought it was saving the planet and others that it was repulsive swank. They have projects, we will pay.
Can you buy surplus Stinger missiles on Ebay?
Ukraine probably has a large supply for sale
The (well paid) EU official must accept the public don’t give a damn what the (well paid) EU official thinks … it’s not going to happen because the public don’t want it to happen.
Tell that to “Citizen of the World” Von der Leyen! The Europeans are in deep trouble with her in charge.
Whatever happens to Germany -it looks like the self-destruct button has been pushed and ‘Weimar’ is returning!
I think this kind of thing is excellent. Not even hiding it now. Hopefully some journalists and politicians will pick up on this and make hay from it.
The only journalists who will pay attention to this are those NOT working in MSM.
They are the only journalists left – forget the stooges and hacks.
A mass boycott of Mass Media is long overdue.
I already stay clear of the MSM tv news.
UK heads for cashless society – 17 hotspots where there’s no cash – do you live in one?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1601044/cashless-society-warning-news-high-street-atm-machines-disappearing
A CASHLESS SOCIETY warning has been issued as the number of ATMs on the high street plummets.
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‘Daily Express’ – Globalist Propaganda sheet – the cat tray calls!
I posted this the other day, but I’m doing it again because it’s so relevant. George Carlin on ‘saving the planet’! (Strong language warning.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWlh41VBCM
This is one of the reasons I voted Leave. I can survive without soft cheese and salami and once our current leader has either recovered his senses or been deposed, we will fully reopen our power stations. Your main export of overpriced electric cars won’t be needed just yet but don’t let that stop you manufacturing and storing them, actually the batteries might all be flat by the time we’ve upgraded our electricity supplies so let’s take a rain check on that, as they say in the U.S.
You have been able to buy soft cheeses made in the UK for the last 40 years.
It was intended as a slur
Alas! the dreaded Lymeswold bit the dust some years ago. I knew a young lady whose father worked at Milk Marketing Board HQ, Thames Ditton, and the soft cheese saga wasn’t a matter of merry milkmaids; more like a lot of hard cheese for many.
A terrible name, Lymeswold, subliminally suggesting ‘slime’ and ‘old’!
Isn’t it about time “the public” had a cull of “Senior Officials” experts and self appointed scientists whose dark pleasure is ruining all our lives in pursuit of Fake Science and discredited Malthusian pseudo economics. ?
Yes.
Shouldn’t the cull be of those MSM hacks who report them. If they didn’t make news, they wouldn’t be produced, or at least they’d remain in some obscure journal that nobody reads.
That sinecurist earns?I think not.
How about we burn coal, get fracking and tell all the virtue-signalling bores to stick their Net Zero up their arses?
Hang Net Zero round their necks and set fire to it.
Let’s face it, the WEF/Reset agenda has been outed.
It will fail due to mass public rejection.
They tried too much, too soon and their policy of rules for thee but not for me has been exposed. Eventually, just as with Brexit, the great British public will shout ‘enough’.
Johnson and his eco gang will be history.
Sadly most if the public are too “busy” on their Facebook and Twitter and have still not heard of the “Great Reset” on the BBC – that is the problem we are facing .
Sadly, the “public” are ripe for WEF conquest as the Fake Brexiteer Johnson has demonstrated.
I thought that most of the wokesters, eco-warriors, inverted racists, vaxxfans, lockdowners and the rest of that ilk were in such a state over Twitter-Musk that they’re abandoning it in flocks.
“Eventually, just as with Brexit, the great British public will shout ‘enough’.”
How precisely do you think the great British public are going to do that?
Do you think TPTB are going to give them a referendum on the Great Reset or something? Do you think they even realise that a GR is underway?
They are all so busy waving their Ukrainian flags (‘we are all Ukrainians now’) and so distracted by looking over there that they don’t even have a clue what is being done to them and what they are being set up for.
I agree with you.
First it was covid, then, when Johnson needed a distraction, lo and behold, Ukraine came along. Superb timing, eh?
People seem totally disconnected from what is happening and its effects.
Example: not enough ambulances, long waiting times to get one, being told to get yourself to A&E if you think you are dying. At the same time, we are told that “spare” ambulances are being donated to Ukraine. If they are “spare” why aren’t they being brought into use to help alleviate ambulance issues here?
Example: people collecting goods to donate to Ukrainians, including food boxes. What about people here who are short of food, old people on fixed incomes who have to choose between food and heating? Don’t they matter?
But while people are waving their blue and yellow flags, and emoting about Ukraine, they don’t seem to notice, let alone care, about the problems in their own country.
Apparently the ambulances are “spare” because the policy is to replace them every few years (seven or so?), and they are mothballed; to be given away as gestures, intended to put a gloss on politicians and NHS bureaucrats. To hear the explanations, you might think that these vehicles had been expressly purchased by individuals of these types, with their own money, rather than that filched from the pockets of the general public.
As you point out, we used to hold on to elderly or outdated, yet still usable, equipment, against a possible future need or emergency. The “Green Goddess” fire engines were a prime example, although New Labour flogged them off some time ago.
No doubt, in future they will be supplied like toys at Christmas, with “batteries not included” written on the gift wrapping.
Virtue-signalling is a magnificent and enjoyable hobby, especially when one is able to do so with the property or assets of someone else. If it’s rainbows and pan-banging at home, or flag-waving for a “far away country” (pace N. Chamberlain), so much the better.
A woman in Newry died on the street when she collapsed and her friends phoned for an ambulance and there weren’t any to send out. Whoever is the MP for that constituency should be raising the sending of so called “spare” ambulances with the PM.
Last time I checked, no one in this country was given a chance to vote on being taken to war for a war that isn’t this country’s to fight.
“Charity begins at home”.
Isn’t ‘Diversity’ great? “No Ukrainians refugees in MY home!” says Pakistani Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Without a couple of trained up paramedics and all the kit they need, an ambulance is just a minibus. From what I’ve been told though, there are enough ambulances, the pinch point is getting their cargo into the emergency ward, which in turn has been compromised by CQC insisting that staff patient ratios are improved… if they’re in the ambulance they’re not in Casualty, so not in their numbers and the problem is solved!
I would imagine I could walk down my high street, do a straw poll asking people what they thought of the Great Reset, and the majority of them would think it was a new TV subscription service that you can access through your Sky box.
People in this country at least won’t cop on that they are being screwed until their budget no longer enables them to pay their Netflix subscription and they cannot afford their Deliveroos.
Just one pedantic, semantic point:
Can we drop “Great Reset” and simply refer to what it is – reset.
The use of the word ‘Great’ rather implies something to be celebrated rather than abhored.
Doesn’t it mean “big”, as in Great Britain?
Not necessarily – those who think it is a brilliant idea, because it suits their purposes (but is directly against the interests of the little people) like us most likely think it is Great as in “brilliant, spiffing” etc etc – but it could mean either wonderful or big – or both at the same time!
Not really. Even “big” has positive connotations.
Not pedantic or semantic at all HP – I’m all for dropping the “Great” bit of it – I think it should be called the Horrific or Hateful Reset.
The only thing is, is that if some newbie comes on here, sees ‘Great Reset’ and decides to google it – then they will get an education on the total nightmare that is coming down the tracks. If, however, they google “Reset” what will they get?
Fair comment. I will not use “Great Reset” but I fully understand your position.
Is this the great British public that rejected Orwellian surveillance cameras, undercover cops shagging trusting girls, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 which abolished double jeopardy protection, covid lockdowns and mask mandates, and the current Online Harms Bill?
Do me a bloody favour!!!
Casting stones, then throw one in my direction. In the past I’ve was too busy running a business, paying bills and raising a family, the luxury of free time to engage in politics is laughable, however I’m here now and I’m angry, not for myself but for my children and grand children.
Until March 2020 I couldn’t have given a toss about politics – and I come from one of the most highly politicised (for all the wrong reasons) regions of the UK. I’m really not built for it.
However, in March 2020 it became VERY personal, and now I have no choice but to spend time I could probably better spend doing other far more enjoyable things informing and educating myself regarding what is REALLY going on, because the MSM and our parliament sure aren’t going to tell people the truth
“Are most of the British public idiots?”
“When you work in a supermarket you quickly realise how dim some people truly are.”
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1244562
You know what the real kicker is about these two modern-day, uglier versions of Marie Antoinette?
They were both prominent members of the Dutch Labour Party – showing just how much these people believe in helping the workers, the vulnerable in society – straight into an early grave it would appear.
How can any person still believe the unelected Eurocracy is worth having? They have been happy to breach any number of human rights treaties by going along with the forced/coerced injection of chemical garbage, they stood by and tacitly supported the likes of Macron (and others) using the type of ‘othering’ rhetoric more appropriate to the 1930s, they are trying their damnedest to get involved in what could turn into WWIII and now outright state they are intentionally setting out to significantly lower our living standards.
If the 1% gave up their gross and excessive lifestyle, the planet would benefit. Millions of us could never wrack up the carbon in a lifetime the way they do daily. Absolute hypocrites etc…..
Nailed it Dan!
Come on now, we all know that some pigs are more equal than others.
Once again politicians are picking up an Orwell novel and treating it like an instruction manual.
My wife’s come to the Caribbean.
Jamaica?
No, she came of her own accord!
The first thing we need to do to get the ‘oh so dangerous CO2’ under control is to ban business jets entirely. Then we need to ensure all airliners are economy only. Both measures obviously saving CO2 per capita. Maybe private yachts too.
Then, and only then, will I start to believe there is real fear of the ‘climate emergency’ talked about so much by the people who use these soon to be banned forms of transpirt.
And maybe if “climate change” is such an issue, ex-Presidents of the USA shouldn’t be living in multi million dollar mansions on the coast? Surely they should protect themselves by moving a bit inland?
If things turn nasty, they can always retreat to their underground bunkers; although that didn’t work out too well for some people in 1945.
Bingo!
Perhaps (climate especially) conferences should be virtual only
They are. Virtual nonsense.
It’s almost as though the rules they impose on the rest of us don’t apply to them…
If you’ve got enough, you’re rich.
Depends on what you class as enough, I suppose!
I’d rather eat bureaucrats than bugs.
I am thinking that one of the reasons politicians may be in favour of the WHO global pandemic treaty is that they just don’t want to take any responsibility for their decisions.
Once the treaty goes through, if they impose further lockdowns and mandates following another scamdemic they will be able to say ‘the WHO did it, don’t blame us’.
It is already difficult to bring anyone to justice for the failures and deliberate harms of the past two years, it will get worse when decisions are made at a global level.
We have to find another way.
The EU has no government because it’s a confederation of states and not a federal state. The closest thing to one it has is not the EU commission but the European Council. The commision is just to technical head of the EU administration. This guy is the leader of the people working in the office of the vice president of the EU commission, IOW, politically, he’s an absolute nobody articulating is perfectly private opinions.
This has arguably an air of Let them eat cake! to it, but it means nothing except that he’s an unpleasant and superficial character.
I know someone who works in the European Commission ( coincidentally or not fully vaxxed and still wearing face masks on trains, etc ) and it sounds to me like it is the EU’s equivalent of our (UK) “civil service”, with very similar power, ie quite considerable, over EU policy and decision making.
Put into English terms, the European Council (of the heads of government of the member states) is Downing Street 10 and the commission is Whitehall.
Erm RW, it is actually a bit closer to home than that. Did you not hear the PM of the UK on the BBC news not so long ago, when the cost of living crisis was raised, (they should really call it by its proper name, financial armagedon) and he said people would have to “wear old clothes and eat cheaper food.” That is a verbatim quote by the way.
Wonder if he and his wife and kids will be doing that? I’ll be watching for pics of his kids in charity shop clothes.
‘Worth reading in full.
No it isn’t – it isn’t worth the time I’d spend in coronary care.
There is only one way these people can be stopped.
All EU officials must accept that their salaries are cut by 30% for destroying the European economy and that they will pay proper levels of taxation and have their gold plated pensions cancelled.
You don’t get off scot free causing trillions of dollars of economic carnage.
Oh well, actually they DO!
https://odysee.com/@JamesDelingpoleChannel:0/yeadon2:9?r=AEK2WK3tQn7Q3J5CQkWR6XBBFgJmC8E8
Great interview with Yeadon on the dellingpod.
He reveals his reasons for leaving Britain, how he got into the US and discusses DeSantis.
I think I am correct in saying they don’t pay tax and ni either plus the same applies to their stonking pensions. All paid for by the people who cannot get rid of them
China ignores climate pledges, tops list in building new coal plants
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What is wrong with these kind of people? If they are not killing us they harming us; if they are not starving us they are poisoning us; if they are not exploiting us they are experimenting on us; if they are not torturing us they are abusing us; if they are not humiliating us they are mocking us…
For how much longer is mankind going to put up with this?
From my experience of encounters with unpleasant people, they enjoy it.
They make money as well, so why should they stop?
Energy is interesting. The economic cut-off point is where the energy expended is equal to energy obtained, it really should make no difference that some energy is fraudulently undervalued in order that it is permitted to be pissed away in the production of less output for more input….. this is why there won’t be a fracking bonanza unless fracking equipment becomes the new perpetual motion machine.
In what way have food and fuel been “far too cheap” – has some philanthropist been subsidising them?
About half of the cost of a litre of petrol is taxes. Think about that next time they tell you “Putin’s price hike”.
from what I understand Putin hasn’t raised the prices in Russia. LOL
I’m still waiting for Peter Doocy to ask Jen Psaki “How did the Biden admin fail so badly at keeping our country safe that Putin can just dictate our prices like that?”
25% of the cost of home heating – gas or electricity – is the daft environmental taxes the government imposes.
The price cap which might go as high as £5000 if things go very badly due to Ukraine – over £1000 of that is environmental taxes. Why can’t the government cancel those to alleviate the fuel poverty?
Because if they do, several things happen: Everyone realises that they could have done this at any point in time, but they didn’t. Everyone realises that the cost of fuel has been artificially inflated, and this has had an impact on every single aspect of life, and it’s been responsible for pushing millions under the poverty line, but they didn’t do anything about it. When fuel and energy prices fall, every other price will also fall, and there is a good chance the average income rises. There is NO WAY that the government will ever be able to fool the people into returning the old taxes. (And by “everyone” in the above I mean people who have no idea how taxation works.) Look, what they’re doing is boiling a frog alive. We’re the frog. They spent decades slowly raising the water temperature. We’re close to the boil now. If they throw us into a pot of cold water now, there is no chance that they’ll be able to throw us back on the boil and go on from there. They will need to start it all over again. And they can’t. They won’t live long enough for it. The next… Read more »
“Energy was way too cheap”??!! What utter b******t. Energy, like everything in a free market, determines it’s own price via supply and demand. What he’s really saying, is that he wants full state control over our lives, so we can only buy and use what he dictates. He wants a dictatorship, and he wants to be dictator. What he fails to see is history, and how badly dictatorships, aka: communist regimes, have worked out for people – which is very badly indeed.