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JMButler's avatar

Comprehensive and very well written.

I want to cut and paste this and send it with a note to my newly-minted Labour MP, who'd rather fight over the pre-destined closure of a local post office than raise his head above the parapet to criticise all the benefits cuts and the idiocy that is Net Zero.

Even the IPCC is now saying that global climate change cannot reasonably be blamed on human activity, but electic cars, heatpumps and solar panels are still being heavily pushed and installers punished by fines for inadequate take-up.

David Turver and others on Substack make the case eloquently but the government continues to double down.

I'd love to know what we can do to make them change tack. Reality tends to hit eventually but it's going to be too slow.

And if you have a maniac Energy Minister, you really are in trouble.

Just why are 60m of us in total thrall to 22 human beings in Downing Street, who apparently know nothing and care less?

I'm coming to the conclusion that we'd do better with Monty Python's 'strange women lying in ponds distributing swords' as the basis for our system of government. We've had enough of the 'supreme executive power derived from a [20%] mandate from the masses', let's give the farcical aquatic ceremony a try. Couldn't be any worse, could it?

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Niall Warry's avatar

Excellent summary - thank you.

Whatever the short to medium term consequences of destroying these world 'Ivory Towers' the long term future will be better for it.

I'd even go further than Nationalism over Globalism by advocating that within the nation state we need far more Localism.

 https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/

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