It is sure getting interesting watching the United Kingdom politicians in power and out, with the shuckin’, chuckin’, and jibing going on. The subject of immigration is fraught with heated emotions on both sides of the aisle there as it is here.
But the big head-butts are happening in the climate cult realm, which, not too long ago, seemed as if it had every Brit firmly on the bandwagon. Rah-rah, renewables will save us and Gaia!
Until they didn’t, and they don’t remotely look at if they’re going to, and the bill for the attempt is beyond payable.
Now, the people who have been imposing these Green schemes (as they call them) on their citizens are doing some furious tap-dancing, position shifting, and plain duckin’ outta sight in the run-up to voters casting angry, retaliatory ballots.
For the Tories, who still control the government, it’s been one rollback of draconian climate cult requirement after another. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had another change of heart this past weekend.
Manufacturers would have been fined if they missed heat pump targets — passing the costs on to consumers
Consumers in Britain are awfully tired of costs being “passed on” to them. Bad enough what they were going to be required to purchase to begin with by the lefty loons, but then to have manufacturers pile the economic pain on?
The energy secretary is planning to scrap the so-called boiler tax in a move that will be welcomed by homeowners facing the prospect of having to spend money to replace an old appliance.
Under the government’s “clean heat” strategy, targets had been drawn up to help phase out gas boilers and deliver 600,000 eco-friendly heat pump installations a year by 2028.
This fall, Sunak had already started to signal that he was backing away from the harshest deadlines that were previously mandated for imposition in the UK, and doing so out of concern for the cost burden on everyday Britons. No doubt he was also concerned for the political cost of the ever more unpopular, often ludicrously outrageous and expensive measures that had little proven impact on anything other than household budgets and human misery quotients.
Rishi Sunak pledged that he would not impose “unacceptable costs” on households to hit the government’s net zero target as he scaled back green policies.
The prime minister said that in the past politicians had not been “honest” with the public about the cost of net zero and warned that they were in danger of losing the “consent” of voters and provoking an anti-green backlash.
However, Sunak was criticised by Boris Johnson, some Tory MPs, the government’s climate watchdog and industry leaders, who said Britain risked losing its lead on green technology.
Sunak used a Downing Street news conference to announce that the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars would be pushed back from 2030 to 2035.
He also exempted a fifth of households from the plan to phase out the sale of new gas boilers from 2035. Sunak said that five million homes, in which moving to heat pumps would be “disproportionately expensive”, would not “ever” have to switch from gas. Subsidies for people replacing gas boilers with heat pumps would be increased from £5,000 to £7,500.
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, hardcore Labourite and climate cult adherent, had instituted something around London called Ulez (ultra-low-emission zone). He’d set up surveillance cameras to enforce the fines that came along with driving an older vehicle into what he envisioned as his NetZero-compliant urban center. An underground subversive network of clever pole climbers nicknamed “Blade Runners” began taking down and sabotaging the cameras even as Khan attempted to expand the much despised Ulez circle further outside London proper.
Khan’s also just blown £150 million more on something locals already hate, and that’s shown no appreciable benefit to anyone yet, the Earth included.
Sadiq Khan has spent £150million on technology that allegedly will enable the introduction of pay-per-mile road charging on motorists.
Transport for London has created “Project Detroit” has a total of 157 staff are now working exclusively on the scheme.
A Freedom of Information request showed some engineers were paid more than £100,000 a year.
The scheme aims to have a single “road user charging” platform for the congestion charge, Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) and Low Emission Zone.
Khan must have also heard the rumblings from the Peanut Gallery, because he can’t be found to answer any questions for the public.
one disaster after another, county lines machete fights, ulez, its beyond a joke
— RawEdgeWord (@FlexingWords) February 5, 2024
And if someone is fortunate enough catch the mayor at an event, perhaps have the temerity to heckle or use a stern voice?
They’re considered to be “threatening.”
Sadiq Khan has been accused of “going into hiding” over his “disastrous” Ulez scheme by the Conservative London Mayoral candidate.
Susan Hall has slammed the mayor for moving a public question time event online, in a bid to avoid protest and disruption.
The upcoming People’s Question Time (PQT) – an event which takes place twice a year – will not have an in-person audience.
…At the November PQT, Khan was heckled by audience members opposed to the Ulez expansion, behaviour City Hall deemed as “threatening”.
In March 2023, at the event held in Ealing, sections of the audience shouted angrily at the mayor over Ulez at several points.
Woof. Does that sound familiar? It’s basically the progressive projection playbook. If you make people angry and they express it, they’re the threat. Then you go to ground, hiding in whatever snek hole you have to tuck yourself into.
If you look, really look, at London, I’m not sure that worrying about a 2-decade-old Opel Corsa in the city center should be his biggest priority.
Even the hard-core believers in Labour are swinging away after reading the room.
Labour’s slow-motion U-turn on its £28 billion Net Zero pledge was already decided and leaked to the press last summer. https://t.co/vC0gXFxtSF
— Net Zero Watch (@NetZeroWatch) February 4, 2024
And as more voters in the UK hear more about their entire lives being upended based on one year of data and the fairy tales being spun to control and impoverish them…
‘This is the road to ruin for the UK. We’re not being told the truth, that the cost of net zero is making us poorer. It’s making us colder, and all it’s going to do is send our jobs and money overseas!’@TiceRichard calls out the ‘lies’ of the green energy transition. pic.twitter.com/Ao9sUSFy1u
— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 28, 2024
…there are sure to be more policy adjustments and more people hiding under rocks.