Rishi Sunak to Ditch 2030 Ban on Petrol and Diesel Cars and Slow Phase-Out of Gas Boilers in Latest Net Zero Back-Down
Rishi Sunak is poised to ditch the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars as he scales back costly green pledges. The Mail has more.
In a dramatic policy shift, he is set to delay the switch to electric vehicles and slow the phasing-out of gas boilers.
Pushing back the petrol and diesel ban from 2030 to 2035 would be a victory for the Mail’s campaign to rethink the deadline.
The Prime Minister will set out the changes in a speech in which he will recommit to hitting ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions by 2050, a target enshrined in law.
But he will argue that the goal can be met with a more “pragmatic” approach that does not force onerous changes on the public.
Ministers believe the plan could help transform Tory fortunes and assist households struggling with the high cost of living.
Last night Mr. Sunak said “Governments of all stripes have not been honest about costs and trade-offs”, adding: “Instead they have taken the easy way out, saying we can have it all.
“This realism doesn’t mean losing our ambition or abandoning our commitments. Far from it. I am proud that Britain is leading the world on climate change. We are committed to Net Zero by 2050 and the agreements we have made internationally – but doing so in a better, more proportionate way.
“Our politics must again put the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment.”
The Prime Minister confirmed that he had planned a speech in which he is expected to point out the U.K. is already a world leader in cutting emissions and argue that further changes must be “realistic and pragmatic”.
A step in the right direction. But when will the Government follow the EU in watering down the internal combustion engine ban by allowing cars which can take synthetic fuels? That’s got to be next. It is clearly untenable for affordable internal combustion vehicles to be available on the continent but not in the U.K.
What we really need of course is for the Government to abandon the whole shebang, as the prospect of any future ban is affecting production and prices already. But more realistic is an erosion of the commitments as the true costs become clearer to the public.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ross Clark has more details on the expected changes in the Spectator:
The proposed ban on new petrol and diesel cars will be put back by five years to 2035, which would bring Britain in line with the EU. The ban on new oil-fired boilers will be put back from 2026 to 2035, thus relieving the Conservatives of the prospect of mass grumbling in one of their natural constituencies, rural areas. Even in 2035, it seems, the target will be to reduce installations only by 80%, in recognition that many homes are difficult to bring up to the insulation standards required for heat pumps to work effectively. The same principle will apparently be applied to gas boilers, new installations of which were previously on line to be banned entirely from 2035.
In addition, the Prime Minister is expected to announce that there will be no new taxes to discourage flying, and that recycling schemes involving multiple bins and other receptacles will fall out of favour. Requirements for rented houses to achieve standards on Energy Performance Certificate Ratings will also be relaxed – landlords had been threatened with large fines if they failed to comply.
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Well the first conclusion from this story – what is Fishy up to now? As always with these lying Next Tuesday’s there is another story behind this. My first thoughts are that there is possibly some connection to a similar German decision for their motor industry. Quite possibly the loss of jobs will come too quickly and given the rising anger in London and Wales the Davos Deviants have concluded that now might be a good time to throw the plebs some table scraps. No question that running alongside this titbit will be something nasty and insidious which will be revealed in the coming weeks.
As ever this only confirms the trajectory we are on – a return to the Middle Ages and with a population to match.
Mentally, I would say the population is already back in the middle ages.
Witch-hunts and mob hysteria seem to be the norm again.
And feudalism seems to be back too. Our overlords in the medical, banking, tech and a growing list of other industries seem to be able to impose.on us whatever they want with little recourse possible by us the peasants.
Parliament in effect represents those overlords, not us.
We’re pretty much there, I would say.
A good point Stewart. I have to agree.
Ugh
The Middle Ages were vibrant, full of invention and people had a purpose in life, a belief, a real faith. They lived in the world of the 5 senses, not a virtual reality.
Today’s faith is secular scientism – an antihumanism born from the ‘enlightenment’ (more bullshit propaganda).
Witch hunts reached an apogee during the 17th c – not the middle ages. Feudalism was the only possible reaction to the Musulman, Avar, Viking invasions – much of those premised on white slavery.
Your modern world is a dark age. When a penis is a vagina I know it is a dark age.
“Some table scraps” ?? Yes. But these are little table scraps of good news within a terrible policy called Net Zero. It appears Rishi will kick the can a bit down the road and people over 60 can breathe a bit easier that they probably won’t end up having to rip out their fantastic gas central heating just when they enter the time of their life when they need to stay warm. But if you are 25 it won’t make a whole lot of difference as you are still going to end up impoverished and enslaved. But those younger people who mostly seem to be of the opinion that there is indeed a climate emergency, and who seem to be clamouring for draconian climate and energy policies that they think will indeed “save the planet” will get what they have coming to them. The UK who only emits 1% of the worlds CO2 cannot unilaterally save the planet, and we should not be trying to and pretending we are world leaders, because all we will be world leaders in is the lowering of living standards. And that is exactly what climate policies are for. It is an anti capitalist agenda… Read more »
Isn’t it the case that it is the technocrats, fund seeking science organisations and the useful idiot green activist ideologues that are doing the bidding of powerful rich people and corporations in order for them to get wealthier and more powerful. Yes, an anti-capitalist agenda for sure.
Looks like corporatism on steroids to me.
wink
As the committments are enshrined in our own laws, we can repeal them, can’t we.?
We can do anything we want. That is the nature of our parliamentary constitution. Parliament can literally enact anything.
What is not so clear is who decides what Parliament enacts. Not nominally, we know that nominally it’s MPs. But actually. As far as I can tell, it’s bureaucrats, British ones together with those fron other countries and international institutions like the WHO, or the UN, or the G20, who seem to set the agenda for everyone.
And WEF!
An excellent question to ask folk & politicians about where the directives re policy are coming from is ‘Who elected these folk who are giving the directives?’
Billy Gates being but one case in point. Who the heck elected him? Yet he’s directing policy, albeit under instruction from others in the parasite class.
As the law was given Royal Assent after 25 Barons invoked Article 61 of the Magna Carta despite which QE2 gave assent to the Lisbon Treaty – which basically means she abdicated as by signing away sovereignty to the EU she was committing treason – no law passed since 2001 has Royal Assent as we have neither a Monarch nor a Regal Parliament. A Monarch cannot inherit an abdicated throne & this fact is not going to be made public, despite there being a record in Hansard of the actions of those Barons.
Basically the law has no standing. We have no King, just a man calling himself such who is technically the Head of State.
This message needs to be spread far & wide.
BB – could you clarify the opening sentence in the comment above. I am confused.
Of course Hux.
Basically any law, which includes any Net Zero nonsense law, which has been passed since 2001 is not valid. All laws in the UK need Royal Assent to give them standing.
Before QE2 gave Royal Assent to the Lisbon Treaty she was warned by the 25 Barons that by doing so she would be signing away sovereignty & would break her Coronation Oath thereby abdicating.
When Magna Carta 1215 was granted it gave the Barons the right to challenge the Monarch to protect & uphold the law, this is the process used in 2001. It should have been invoked in 1972 when she gave assent to joining the EEC but wasn’t.
Does that help?
BB
Many thanks BB.
So, do we have a cohort of “25 Barons,” a sort of club within a club? I thought I was reasonably educated on British history but this stumped me.
This was written into Magna Carta 1215. Any 25 of the Barons in the UK can come together to petition the Monarch if they believe that the Monarch is in danger of breaking their Coronation Oath. I only learned about this recently. So much of what we’re taught is not what we need to know!
Ok. I have been busily ‘googling’ for today’s 25 Barons but I got a history lesson instead.
Effectively all governments since 2001 have been illegitimate. Now who was PM in 2001 I wonder🤔
Hmmmm….
Every day’s a school day Hux!
Dead interesting isn’t it?
Thanks again. Much appreciated. 👍
Satans love child has caused so much harm and is still pulling Starmers strings
No Parliament can bind its successor.
Sunak is “proud” that Britain is leading the world on climate change? No, he should be thoroughly ashamed of raising inflation as a direct result of Net Zero policies. He is, of course, locked into the groupthink gripping the whole of Parliament and outside pressure from corporations and pressure groups. He is also blinded by the “scientific consensus” on climate change which is supported by the mainstream media without question. The crux of the matter is that that science is wrong and denigrates all science.
The Net zero law must be repealed for us to return to any sense of normality and sanity.
This whole business goes much deeper than your analysis. Fishy has not made this decision, he is simply an order taker.
And Sir Starmer will be following the very same orders.
Even is Rishi was serious about this policy he does not have the means to bring it in against the blob, who are now in complete control.
Apparently the striking docs are ‘kindly’ implementing their Xmas holiday cover today to handle emergencies. I feel so sad for the thousands undergoing vital treatments & diagnoses who have appointments cancelled again.
He has the power. It’s called parliament. He just doesn’t want to use the power. It would be disastrous for his personal career aspirations.
In the last month he has given away at least £2 Billion of our tax money for Green policies. This is enough to stop the Doctors pay problem in one hit. He doesn’t care about the Taxpayer!
Delaying from 2030 to 2035 is not “ditching”.
It certainly isn’t. It is just a few gulps of air before we eventually drown in the end anyway.
Cancel Net Zero
Or I have an even better slogan ——–“JUST START OIL”
He’s still breaking into your homes to install Smart Meters. Please keep getting the message out
Funny how my smart meter (I don’t actually have one) sort of imploded/fell off the wall/was stolen/got fried/burned/smashed to smithereens by an angry elf…
Is this promise from the same guy who said he would stop the boats, grow the economy, reduce nhs waiting lists etc etc?
Ill believe it when it actually happens, thanks.
“Our politics must again put the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment.”
Isn’t it funny how even sensible moves are enshrined in deception nowadays. If they really believe in net zero, it’s all about the political needs of the moment (winning the next election) at the cost of, in their stated belief, the end of the world.
Or it maybe be about reality starting to bite your arse
“I am proud that Britain is leading the World on climate change.” Sunak. Deluded moron where science is concerned. Should never have left Goldman Sachs.
I don’t think anyone ever leaves Goldman Sachs, the brain implant ensures that.
Pity we cannot “lead the world” in stopping everyone and their dog just turning up when they feel like it in small boats etc and heading down to Specsavers with their free vouchers and hopping into taxi’s paid for by you and I to take them to doctor appointments that that we have great difficulty getting. ————-Just ask a taxi driver how many migrants he has whisked off down to the dentist this morning
Any day now the media will print screaming headlines warning us of an imminent pandemic sweeping the nation. “Deadly Common Sense Virus Infecting Politicians. Public at Risk”.
Ooo..just to get my hands on the final editing keys. Surely some hacker could do something worthwhile like hacking the headlines?
Who wants to sub to the Mail? He made it on the Beeb world propaganda service in the small hours today. It sounds like a typical “all moving to the right” term, which is often used by project managers (based on the structure of the Gantt chart which is often used).
What is pragmatic is campaigning for the General Election, which this is probably part of.
Campaigning for the next election yes but also feeling the bite of reality on your ankles. Nothing changes minds faster than the real world and pretty soon the green fantasy world has to be ditched
No doubt this is the first of his backtracks he has planned all the way up to the election next year! He’s held on as long as he can getting evermore unpopular for as long as is bearable , now he’s going to look the perfect diplomat for the people by slowly backtracking on all the net zeros policies only to put them all back again after landsliding the next election
He might even get tough on migration for a short while just before that election!
Net zero is a deranged impossible pipe dream or a giant wealth transfer scam depending on which way you look at it, so pushing this back to 2035 is still a victory for no-one. This is like Josef Fritzl giving his captor an egg sandwich after 5 days. Are we supposed to be grateful..?
Until the climate change act, all net zero targets and the CCC are scrapped, I’ll believe nothing that comes out of this ‘Young Global Leader’s’ mouth.
And this emerges on same day as UN’s Climate Ambition Summit takes place in NY, attended by Cleverly, Dowden, Khan, Yousaf, William (Prince), William (Gates) etc, etc. Guterres looking for commitments by major players to accelerate net zero timescales (along with increased funding, naturally). Predict ‘our representatives’ (hahahahaha) will nod away enthusiastically, find a few billion to bung at some non-existent “climate justice scheme” and return with news that, alas, Rishi’s suggestions are not acceptable to the international rules-based world order, so sadly…
Any “scaling back” such as this is purely for short term electoral advantage.
I think you’re right, Lymes. This is posturing politics at its posturing best.
At the moment, I’m taking any crumbs that will keep Starmer out.
It’s called the Net Zero two-step, like a sort of waltz or a rumba, two steps forward, one step back, counted 1-2-3, 1-2-3. The main thing is that the overall movement is forward regardless of the illusion of retreat thereby allowing your part-time Net Zero sceptic to get their breath and focus on something else. We have to remember there is an agenda…oh that rhymes…take it away, Stan! One, two three…
“Our politics must again put the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment.”
Really PM? Honestly? In that case change or get rid of virtually every policy you currently have. Start by closing the border to anymore immigration; scrap Net Zero, withdraw all military assistance to Ukraine and be in the vanguard of negotiating a peaceful solution, withdraw from the ECHR, withdraw from the WHO and implement a proper full Brexit including bringing NI back in line with the rest of the UK, stop pandering to the tiny minority of Trans activists, support traditional family values and look after the people of this country, including our own homeless.
There’s plenty more, but that will keep you busy for a while, but you don’t mean it do you? You couldn’t care less about this country or the indigenous population, in the long term or short term.
Seconded 👍
Thank you.
Fantastic post
Thank you. I’m getting more and more disillusioned and angry as each day passes.
A welcome small step in the right direction. But it’s all just window dressing while the Climate Change Act remains in force. The Carbon Budgets out to 2037 are legally binding. We need to repeal the CCA. Good to see the green blob in complete meltdown though.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/green-blob-meltdown-net-zero-targets-relaxed
It’s a start….
Kicking the can down the road for five years (aka one term of office in Parliament) makes no difference. It means a stupid ban that is causing tremendous stress to people is now a little over 11 years away, rather than six. Let’s say we get to 2029 and it’s kicked another five years down the line. It still causes insecurity among the people of the country. Your boiler breaks down in 2028 and needs replacing. What do you do? Buy a gas boiler and risk your gas supply being cut off and spare parts vanishing within the decade or buy a heat pump that barely works and your radiators all have to be replaced and then discover you could have bought a gas boiler after all as the decommissioning has been put back yet another five years? Our homes are about our sense of security. They’re the place where we can shut out the world. Yet politicians are pushing into our homes, wanting to interfere in every domestic decision, thanks to forcing the ‘internet of things’ on us. If Net Zero was a target for the end of the century, with small nuclear fission stations starting to be built… Read more »
So. Mr Sunak agrees: There is no climate emergency. Another 5 years won’t matter.
If 5 years is OK then how about delaying for 10, 20, 100 years? Or even (dare I?) waiting to see some proper science?
I’ve no objections to stopping burning fossil fuels; they are likely to run out at some point and we can probably find better things to do with them than just burn them for energy. Better, cleaner sources of energy exist (nuclear fission and maybe one day, fusion). However, I do strongly object to pushing people into poverty (especially my children and grandchildren) in order to meet some arbitrary deadline dreamed up by alarmists in a supra-national quango.
Theory colliding with reality once again.
I am surprised there is not a lot more protest from industry. The constant changing and increasing regulations and goals must be a nightmare to navigate if you are running a business.
The motor industry is one example.
Interesting this but I think I have sussed out the agenda. The “Energy” bill is extremely flawed, and this idea from Rishi aims to derail it in the commons, as it cannot be allowed to pass. His announcement will give MPs something to think about and make them vote against. It is simply a cunning distraction.
Why is it that Prime Ministers and their Cabinets seem incapable of assessing the available evidence (or seeing the lack of it)? They seem to select experts that support the policies they want to implement and the result is the chaos we saw with covid and now have with climate alarmism. The government is implementing net zero and other green policies on the quite ridiculous belief that humans can control the climate. They ignore the many experienced physicists in favour of corrupt climate activists and their newly created physics. They believe that trapped heat in carbon dioxide can cause warming of the earth. Trapped heat cannot cause any warming. Try taking a thermos flask to bed to see the evidence. In the natural world heat cannot be trapped because heat is thermal energy moving from one location to another due to temperature differences. It heat is trapped (meaning not moving) then there are no temperature differences anywhere in the universe and we would all be dead. They don’t even have the common sense to work this out. Farage and Rees-Mogg are no better on GB News. They claim to present all sides of an argument but both of them have… Read more »
He is on the Untrustworthy List of politicians which currently include ALL on the right & all on the left. PS. Did you hear the conspiracy confirmation in his speak?? He said : And we don’t want to impose a TAX on Meat. which means they will. Oh but to save the planet we HAVE TO!! Total GUFF