Can the Tories’ Junking of Net Zero Be Trusted?
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is this week going to pledge “to abolish all green restrictions on [the] fossil fuel industry”. It is, says the paper, the “Tory leader’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ moment”. And it is another welcome step away from the cross-party consensus on climate change and energy that has dominated Westminster since the 1990s. But is this policy U-turn enough of a transition to both counter and explain Britain’s catastrophic plunge into the green abyss? Will the party accept it, and what will the Green Blob do in response?
Aside the more-joy-in-heaven stuff, this welcome development needs careful reading as it currently stands. It is one thing to say “drill, baby, drill”, it is quite another to actually drill. The Telegraph’s emphasis is on the “environmental restrictions on fossil fuel extraction” insofar as they are the remit of the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA). Says the Telegraph: “The party would delete the entirety of its current 12-page mandate and replace it with a single instruction to ‘maximise the extraction of our oil and gas’.” The agency will also be renamed to the North Sea Authority – the “transition” now being itself ‘transitioned’.
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Badenough hasn’t rejected Net Zero. She’s just announced that any Government led by her would allow our oil and gas reserves in the North Sea to be exploited.
Since she’s never going to be PM, it’s a “promise” that isn’t bankable (along with any others she makes).
The whole panolpy of the Net Zero SCAM is required by the UN’s Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. We are signed up to the EU’s Environmental Regulations and Two-Tier is implementing the EU’s Carbon Trading Nonsense so unless and until we LEAVE the EU and resile from the UN’s policies the economy-wrecking destruction will continue regardless of which branch of the Uni-Party is in power.
Ivor Cummins has a film explaining the UN’s intentions from the turn of the century, which explains their objectives very well. It has all been very carefully planned and implementation is well underway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVrpRGwKZY0&t=28s
Well, officially, the UK has already left the EU, so it can’t leave again, officially.
Well worthy of a watch, your link to the Ivor Cummins vid’ ran me through the whole spectrum of of my reactions. Interest–incredulity–shock–disbelief–astonishment–disgust–despair. The fact that this stuff has been going on for 70+ years, twice as long as I was aware is particularly disturbing.
Yes—-Net Zero is the law. We are bound to reduce emissions in law. So it is the law that needs changed before we bankrupt ourselves and force all but the wealthy few into energy poverty, and annihilate our Industrial Base. Some fiddling about here and there will make no difference overall to the ideological compliance we have forced upon ourselves.
Clueless Badenough is just the right person to finally finish the Tories off. Long may she continue.
I vomit when I look at her. This is the face of ‘Conservatism’ in England? What. A. Joke. From Churchill to the Nigerian. A case example of an obvious and massive decline.
When “Climate Change” appeared the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union collapsed, it seemed obvious to me that it was just communism rebranded.
Martin Durkin picks up on this in “Climate the Movie” and includes a scene of the Berlin Wall in ’89. “Climate change” is a way for the Left to carry on hating capitalism.
His first film was in 2007 though. That other one was just a follow up repeating some of the same stuff.
Did that occur to you back in 1989? Well done to you if that is the case. I really had no idea about “climate change” (global warming back then), but I do now for sure, and it was only in 2007 that my attention was drawn to this eco socialist scam when I saw the Martin Durkin Film on Channel 4 called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Since then I have never shut up about it as many here on the Daily Sceptic can testify to. ——-Sorry folks but I won’t be shutting up about it till this pseudo scientific fraud is exposed for what it is.
The issue is not making statements promising to abandon Nut Zero as Reform and now Baddenough are doing, what is required is a statement that affirms that the whole climate change industry is a scam. Once that commitment is made dumping Nut Zero is a given and the debate is over.
Baddenough 🤣
Stating that the whole Climate Change Agenda is a scam might not be politically wise, (even if it is true). You have to be more subtle when you are facing the entire Political Class all over the western world, and the might of the UN, WEF and the Technocrats seeking to use climate politics to control the entire global economy.
No.
Agreed, nobody will ever trust the Tories again, but it does move the overton window towards rejecting nut zero, and in that way I think actually helps Reform.
It’s a mess isn’t it?
Parliament is only bound in so far as it chooses to be. Any parliament can repeal any legislation – they just need enough MPs to agree to it.
The question is largely academic as the Tories are finished as a party of government for the foreseeable future, unless perhaps as a minority partner in a coalition. But no, I do not trust them and never will. I am still waiting for them all to apologise for their misdeeds during “covid”.
Not interested in apologies tof it’s court time, prison time and the rest that I want to see.
Yes with you there. A sincere apology – meaning it was combined with an admission of guilt and action towards making amends, as we saw with Bridgen and De Santis – would be a start though.
No need to apologise. We’ve served our time here and respect each other’s opinions. 👍
100%
Reform could have a 300 seat majority in the HoC but if they do not deal with the HoL they will get no legislation throughj that the self regarding elites don’t want. Subject to that caveat yes of course Parliament can and should take back control. There should be no body with the ability or right to limit or over ride the decisions of Parliament, and that includes the MPs expenses system.
If Parliament fails or individual MPs fail to do their duty we should be able to recall them (actually recall without giving a reason) and certainly we should be less party loyal where dopy or malign MPs are concerned.
Good point about the Lords. The lefties will be chuffed when that happens, having moaned about the Lords since forever.
Further underlines the need to reverse all bliar’s constitutional reforms on day 1 of the next government.
Biodiversity rules add tens of thousands of pounds and years of delay to housebuilding.
Requiring Environmental Impact Assessments affects everything. Here is a good one for you. The Woodland Trust bought a farm near Epsom Downs racecourse to plant more trees to add to the existing woodland and to create England’s WW1 Centenary Wood. They were then caught up with TWO years of time and money wasted on the EIA and a ruling that only 40% of the site could be planted. And this was for planting trees not concreting over the countryside. That the idiot local councillors – they had 3 councils to deal with – added a requirement for battery car charging points in a place with no power connection is another story.
Our country club car park has a small number of working EV charge points, usually there are large ICE SUVs and vans parked in the spaces. For a long time now there have been a couple of dozen more spaces with dummy charging stations and “coming soon” written on them. Presumably all requirements of some local planning regs, which don’t take into account the fact that the club membership are mainly tradespeople and not virtue signalling middle class tossers.
For clarity, biodiversity rules are different from Environment Impact Assessments. The Biodiversity ones require builders to provide onsite or elsewhere and fully funded large areas of land with trees and unkempt vegitation and this is expensive. In Cambridgeshire I know of a site where over 50 per cent would have had to be biodiverse leaving less than half for houses, gardens and roads.
It’s not the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning.
Is this policy change enough? No, there will be no radical progress until the Conservative party get rid of the Liberals in their midst. Their MPs will go down in numbers but they will be free to cooperate eventually with Reform and not present the Right to the electorate divided at the next election.
This move will be a chance for the leadership to challenge the Liberals in the party.
As a Conservative party member who votes Reform this is vital to me and many others.
In short – NO! Why would you?
Nope. What would Trump do? He would disband the Green Blob mechanisms in place so that a “drill, baby, drill” soundbite would not be blocked and progress frittered away by legal challenges.
So rather “cut, baby, cut” to clear the way – much tougher to achieve.
Trust people who ask for power over you?
Pull the other one!
No.
What needs to be junked is the obsession with the climate change hoax*.
Until there is a clear statement from any political Party they accept there is no evidence that CO2 drives global warming, that current warming is just part of a 12 000 year period of slow, incremental warming since the last Ice Age, that it is not “unprecedented”, and that changes in climate are very slow process over thousands of years and not unidirectional – then their stance on Net Zero is irrelevant as they will just find other measures to force us to “stop climate change”.
*Hoax. Some think,thus means a joke or prank, but it actually means deliberate attempt to deceive or deliberate attempt to defraud.
The climatism = deliberate deceit and fraud.
“… Climate Change Bill, the legislation would “bind every future government”.
This is not true. No future parliament can be bound by a previous one. Repealing the Climate Change Act would free future Governments.
Government != Parliament.
And that’s the problem, Constitutionally it shouldn’t be.
Government (King/Executive), Parliament (power of veto), People. The USA system was based on this separation of powers.
The primary function of Parliament was to ensure any proposed legislation did not remove citizens’ Rights and to protect the citizenry from the State, to ensure no taxes were raised without consent of the citizenry.
Parliament has become gamekeeper and poacher and now protects the State from the citizenry, and is the tax-raiser. There is nothing protecting the people.
So it was a Tory (Teresa May) that gave us the Net Zero Amendment in 2019. Not a single politician asked any questions about cost/benefit, there was no debate and no vote and yet now that the Tories are out of power they suddenly want to condemn the phony planet saving as ridiculous and they now think it is not a good idea. Or at least that is what Badenoch, who seems more like a sixth former in the high school debating society than a party leader is saying.
Wrote to my Conservative MP recently to say, ‘I can’t believe that you have an IQ greater than 85 and still belong to the Conservative Environment Network.’
https://www.cen.uk.com/ – do (or don’t) read the conformist ‘Climate Change’ related bs.
He replied with duplicitous/platitudinous bs e.g. ‘I believe that we should all do everything we can to protect our environment, etc., etc.’
I cancelled my Party membership the same day. (I know, I know but, we were all young and naive once.)
Don’t be daft.
NOTHING the Not-a-Conservative-Party says can be trusted. They spent 14 years proving that beyond any doubt.
No mention of fracking, then?
Let us be clear, the Tories backed Net Zero to the hilt with the idiotic May making it happen in law by 2050. I was a 40 year member of the Conservative Party and an elected Councillor but I will never support them again.
No matter how many weasel words by Badenoch on her support of the oil and gas industry will make me trust the Tories again. The whole Net Zero debacle will ruin this country and for what?
The current slight rise in CO2 is greening the world and enabling the growing world population to be fed beyond the numbers that were thought to be a maximum a few years back. What is not to like?
The man in the street has no understanding of the figures and what is fact and fiction and I despair at the reaction to my questions about Net Zero and its consequences. I realise that the media is also ignorant and parrots the nonsense from the Met Office and Miliband’s nut-case Ministry but one might have thought common sense could prevail.