Starmer to Push Britain into Stricter Net Zero Targets Under EU Deal
Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to tie Britain to the EU’s Net Zero plans in a move that would impose radically stricter ‘green’ energy targets on homes and businesses, leading to further deindustrialisation and impoverishment. The Telegraph has the story.
The Prime Minister and Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, are negotiating for Britain to rejoin the EU’s internal electricity market, which treats the 27 countries of the EU and Norway as a single borderless power grid.
The EU will only let Britain back into the system if Sir Keir agrees to the bloc’s ambitious targets for renewable energy, which would require the UK to decarbonise not just electricity but also heating and transport rapidly.
In practice, it would mean Net Zero targets would need to be doubled.
Claire Coutinho, the Shadow Energy Secretary, accused the Prime Minister of “surrendering control of our energy system to bureaucrats in Brussels”.
She said: “UK ministers will be forced to reduce emissions regardless of what it will do to people’s energy bills or the competitiveness of our businesses.”
It comes as Labour seeks to forge closer ties with the EU, with MPs debating in recent weeks whether Britain should return to the customs union.
The plans would also aid Mr Miliband’s ambitions to decarbonise the power grid, allowing the UK to import foreign electricity when low wind or sunshine cuts output from wind and solar farms.
The EU’s demands emerged in a document placed without fanfare on the Cabinet Office website. The plan is both technically challenging and politically sensitive because it would make UK energy policy subject to EU jurisdiction.
It stated: “The Electricity Agreement should… set an indicative global target for the share of renewable energy in the gross final consumption of energy in the United Kingdom. To ensure a level playing field, the global target should be comparable to that of the European Union.”
The EU’s target is that 42.5% of all its energy should come from renewables by 2030, with an aspiration to reach 45%.
This is roughly double the UK’s current level of 22%.
Mr Miliband has set a target to decarbonise Britain’s power generation by 95% by 2030, but electricity accounts for only 20% of UK total energy consumption, so this will never be enough to meet EU demands. Transport, heating and industrial energy account for 75% of the UK’s total energy consumption.
At the moment, the UK gets about 75% of its total energy from oil and gas, a level that has hardly changed in decades.
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This is not democracy, it is tyranny. And the only way to defeat a tyrant is to treat it as the vermin it is – hunt it down and destroy it. It must be killed before it kills us and all we love.
“This is not democracy, it is tyranny.” = EU.
Which is why all those who want power and control over us want us back in the EU… Fourth Reich.
When tyranny becomes law……
How will the London rail commuter services cope with a major power outage during the evening rush hour?
Easy. Since soon there will be no jobs, there will be no commuters.
Ah yes, carbon. The basis of the biochemistry of all life on Earth? Yes that carbon. Best get rid of it then.
While the opposition to Net Zero fights a political battle, the proponents of Net Zero fight the bureaucratic battle.
That is why we are always behind trying to claw back ground. Because the battleground that counts is the bureaucratic one.
The immigration issue demonstrates this.
It doesn’t matter how badly politicians want to stop immigration, the bureaucracy actually ends up dictating what happens.
Same with Net Zero. The day anyone actually wants to get serious about getting rid of Net Zero policies they’re going to encounter a bureaucratic minefield that will be almost impossible to get through.
Modern sate bureaucracy is basically tyranny by stealth.
The only way I see of it being peeled back significantly is if the country becomes an utter basket case – serious shortages, massive unemployment, bank runs, hyperinflation, a run on the currency, regular power cuts – the early 70s on steroids. That period paved the way for Thatcher to chip away at things a bit. I can’t see things getting bad enough in my lifetime, though they may do eventually.
‘Hold my beer…”
-Starmer
Hold it while you have some.
So next year then.
Starmer’s doing all he can to bring it on ASAP.
Indeed, but our country and our economy are very resilient, despite everything. So the decline is slow and therefore fewer people notice and many that do notice have a lower sense of urgency.
Slowly and then suddenly.
There’s lots of shit coming down the pike next year.
We shall see. I don’t think it will be suddenly. I’m no student of history but this kind of collapse is usually the aftermath of costly, destructive wars. I think we’re just too good at keeping going.
That wont dtop those unintelligent aka thick zealots.
You might be lucky: it could happen sooner than you think, there’s so much on a knife edge.
And don’t rule out seeing at least the Green Shoots of a revival.
Yes, well. It won’t happen over-night and in any case, Labour thy days are numbered.
Plus “plans” fall apart the moment they are in contact with reality.
And all this can be reversed when Reform UK are voted in.
With Council elections further postponed (lest Reform be given quarter), who can be sure that the next General Election will not also delayed?
I posted before the 2024 election that I very much expected it to be our last and I have seen no need whatsoever to revise that view.
Actually, it seems not only will we have our council elections but also one for a mayor next May. Surrey is being used as a trial county so the vote will be for the new 2 council county and a county mayor.
The current lot don’t have plans, but do Reform have any plans?
I mean detailed plans, something the civil service and House of Lords will need to follow. not headline announcements.
At the moment of writing, we are importing 8gw of electricity from Europe and generating 32gw of our own, without signing up to this. If we were to, and please say we won’t, why would we have to accelerate Milibrain’s madness as a result. Germany, the heart and soul of this corrupt, failed experiment and the home of the leader, is still going to be relying on brown coal fired power stations until 2038 and has just considered extending that deadline. Why are they still using coal and Starmer is planning to punish us more. He is burning and salting this country so when Reform take power there will only be a wasteland for them to try and repair. These men are evil personified.
Hubris, sheer f***ing hubris.
It’s hard to get your head round just how these Marxist, globalist politicians have managed to subvert our democracy and impose so many policies that none us want or ever voted for. It’s been nearly 30 years since Blair came to power and it’s been an unbroken stream of enshitification ever since. Please give us a chance to bury the lot of them at the next election.
“Please give us a chance to bury the lot of them
at the next election.”That’s better.
👍👍👍
“Please give us a chance to bury the lot of them before the next election.
Even better.
Germany is still using coal because their retards have closed 3 perfectly good nuclear powerstations and ignored that they have 6 others that could be brought back into use. They already have coal powerstations and need them to go with the much greater import of electricty because they are not able to build the gas plants. Nobody will fund the gas plants because the operating regime makes them uneconomic and the state is being blocked by the EU on the grounds of state aid. You have to laugh at Germany these days.
The have an even more stupid energy policy than we do.
The difference is that the inevitable (now) destruction of their economy will have incalculable baleful consequences for the whole continent including us regardless of f@cking starmer’s brainless manoeuvrings.
Merry Christmas chaps.
And Mogs.
I’m a bitch. Merry Christmas allerseits.
The EU grew out of construct invented by the francophile (aka traitor) Adenauer whose purpose was to make future wars of Germany against France impossible by ensuring that the French had ‘joint’ control of the German industries essential for modern warfare (at that time, steel and coal). Its quick eastward expansion after 1990 was a goal of the British government. Germany was forced to abolish its own currency in favour of the Euro as condition for allowing its so-called reunification. And the government which wanted this most was one lead by a woman you may have heard of. Her name sounded somewhat like Targaret Matcher, IIRC.
That you’ve watched way too many WWII war movies doesn’t mean Germany controls Europe¹.
¹ And Ursula v. d. Layen is not “the leader of the EU” but someone dumped into a pretty powerless office in Brussels to remove her from German politics after too many embarrasing political failures.
I just hate these chuts. It’s not much of an argument, just a visceral feeling.
You’re not alone, pal.
Not surprising that they are also trying to remove shotguns …….
Is that a general thing then? Not just Prince Andrew…
Labour are changing the legislation to bring shotguns under the Firearms Act, which is expected to result in bureaucratic procedures and delay which will effectively make it difficult to retain a shotgun. This is evidence-free policy, but we all know why Labour do it (ditto the trail hunting ban).
Thank to Ukraine the continent is awash with firearms-you can only achieve so much with shotguns anyway, home defence is about it.
Handguns and and semi auto rifles are where it’s at, and organised crime has the supply chain already set up. As do our friends in mosques (I use the term advisedly).
And then of course you need oodles and oodles of bullets to have a real battle but it won’t come to that.
If we’re headed for an Ulster future it would make sense to study the modus operandi of the protagonists.
Also to understand what a hideously ugly scenario risks heading our way.
Comment of the day….ghastly though the implications may be….
A sell-out predicted in plain sight in January 2023…
Interviewer: You have to choose now between Davos or Westminster?
Starmer: Davos… Westminster is too constrained… Once you get out of Westminster whether it’s Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future.
Welcome back to Festung Europe.
At a certain point, and as he starts to force the necessary measures, this country will implode and that will be with or without the coming financial crash.
Once the country goes up there is no way of knowing how things will pan out and no matter how many scenarios Bliar and co have gamed they won’t have a counter measure.
I find it strange that “Tyrant” and “Tyranny” appear frequently in the comments as the current political system in the UK.
This cannot be the case, even as a figure of speech, because the UK is both a constitutional monarchy (King CharlesIII Head of State) and a parliamentary democracy – a government elected by the people.
A system where the monarch reigns but does not rule, with the PM and parliament, elected by citizens, governing on behalf of the nation.
Ultimate power therefore rests with the democratically elected 650 MPs, the majority of whom support Starmer’s policies (I heard Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg repeatedly saying that at GBNews)
The democratically elected 650 MPs, whose scientifically-illiterate predecessors voted near-unanimously for the 2008 Climate Claptrap Act, thereby committing Britain to the tyranny of a Convenient Untruth.
Tyranny of the minority who voted Labour. There are no limits on the power of the government in this country, other than what they think they can get away with, what the civil servants deign to implement properly and what Parliament allows them to do – but a simple majority is sufficient to do absolutely anything, including changing laws they don’t like or that get in the way of what they want to do. That is first past the post democracy. Even in a system that is more “representative”, there is still the potential for tyranny. It’s inevitable. That’s why they have the structure of government they do in the USA – to limit what one branch of government is able to do, and to limit what all the branches are able to do.
That’s correct.
But it overlooks the sneaky blair reforms to the constitution which deranged parliament and handed power to more easily controlled left wing globalist cabals called committees and
quangoes. Starmer god rot his guts is looking to double down on that by building as complicated as possible a set of links t the eu bureaucracy.
That is the only way to understand what he is doing, it is to foul the well for whoever comes after him, meaning that whoever it is will face deeply hostile civil service and judiciary
Gordian knot – meet Alexander.
Day 1 sack all if the civil service above a certain middle level.
Reorganise the whole structure into new departments with completely new management.
The disruption will be considerable but we take confort in the fact that they achieve precious little of any use anyway so no great loss.
Those “reforms” seem to suit the Uniparty. It can all be undone along the lines you suggest but it would take courage, judgement, planning and time, and require MPs to hold firm in the face of a huge outcry from the media and the establishment in general. Look at how Trump 1.0 fared. Trump 2.0 is doing better – he learned from 1.0. Also helped by the USA tradition of bringing in your own senior team – though even there the courts are delaying his attempts to sack civil servants for not doing his bidding. Congress could help him but the Republican majority is thin and there are still some RINOs kicking around.
Also against us is time – there’s at least three quarters of a century worth of stuff to unwind, some of which can’t simply be got rid of wholesale without allowing replacements to emerge – the NHS, state education being two obvious areas. I don’t think the British people are ready – too conditioned to the Nanny State – even those nominally on the “right”.
All true ToF, bt we can’t wait to win a war of attrition with these people for the reasons you allude to.
For me, Surprise Aggression Speed is the way to go.
The opposition will be expecting a measured considered gradual approach.
I say sack the lot. Above a certain level.
The day to day delivery can continue.
It’s the expensive top levels that do the damage and will be most resistant to the necessary dramatic reform.
And anyway the numbers need to be cut by 50% whatever happens.
Yes – Reform will need to hit the ground running and be bold. We can but hope, and meantime chip away in whatever way we can.
In theory only. In practice power is weilded by a self selecting class of mandarins.
Forget the Tories faux objections.
They had 14 years in office before which they had over a decade on opposition with additional Parliamentary funding during which all they did was support the daftness that has brought us to where we are.
Just consider this.
If the UK is dependant on EU energy to see us through there will be no need for the EU as we will be a helpless colony.
The objectives of Hague, Cameron-Clegg, May and Johnson achieved.
MODERATOR HERE: In your first sentence did you mean to say ‘…no need for Westminster as we will be …’.
This Labour Party will be out of power for 20 years. They are a pathetic shower of EU/UN/WEF/WHO Technocratic ARSE LICKERS. ——-But by the time we get rid of them we will have continued down the Green Brick Road to Deindustrialisation, the highest electricity prices in the world and the poorest will be so unable to afford their energy bills that a tax will need to be placed on those who can just about afford them to pay the bills of the poor. —–ECO SOCIALISM——–Which is what the climate change agenda was all about in the first place —–Energy is a kind of currency. —-The latter day Robin Hoods are stealing energy from the rich and giving it to the poor.
Joint bray.
Thanks sceptic for an article about Starmers continuing idiocy and on christmas day of all days.
Is he doing this because he knows, not christian I know but, that everyone detests him.
Just do it. Add another nail in the coffin. Anything they do can be undone.
More WEF rubbish being forced on us.