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UK opposition leader dumps "impossible" climate plan: Net Zero fantasy will bankrupt us!
• https://joannenova.com.au, By Jo NovaFinally, 8 weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in, the UK conservative party says what skeptics and many conservatives have been saying for ten or twenty years. Perhaps they were jolted into action by the shocking polls that showed — from out of nowhere, the Reform Party was polling just as well, or even better than the 200 year old Conservative party.
Conservatives supporting global weather witchcraft and UN fantasies are facing an existential threat.
The GWPF is delighted, of course, having warned about the dire Net Zero outcomes for 15 years. And Kemi Badenoch blasts the old policies, calling them "fantasy politics" that cost the Earth, drive up the cost of electricity, while "not really" protecting the environment. She's realized no one had a detailed plan, and if they did, sensationally, she says they wouldn't talk about it because it would reveal "just how catastrophic the actual costs will be for families, for businesses, and for our economy." In a blockbuster moment, she even admits the futility of it all saying that the UK has done more on carbon emissions that anyone in the developed world, but they were only responsible for 1% of the worlds emissions, and the world isn't following them.
Her three big reasons are that the plans have no details, the targets are unrealistic, and they're far too dependent on China for everything, which is 60% powered by coal. Finally, a Western Leader admitting that "leading the way" on climate change is pointless if no one else is following you.
This marks a major change in the Tory party plan — and even though the UK election is not for another four years, it will finally allow the conservatives to point out all the silly flaws in the government climate plan, instead of just promising to be a different shade of crazy themselves.
Net zero by 2050 "is fantasy politics. Built on nothing. Promising the earth. And costing it too."
Today, I'm talking about one of the biggest ways we are destroying our children's inheritance.
Let's start by telling the truth on energy and net zero. Every single thing we do in our daily lives is dependent on cheap, abundant energy.
When energy became cheap and abundant, living standards began to rise, health and life expectancy grew. Cheap, abundant energy is the foundation of civilisation as we know it today. We mess with it at our peril. And that's exactly what we've been doing for twenty years. And it's now starting to cause real pain for everyday people and businesses. The cost of electricity – far too high – much higher than nearby and comparative countries with the real possibility of it going even higher with environmental levies.
It's fantasy politics. Built on nothing. Promising the earth. And costing it too.
She lays out the pointless hypocrisy of it all — though doesn't twist the knife — did Nick Clegg care at all about CO2?
I remember Nick Clegg dismissing the idea of building new nuclear because it would not come online until 2022. That decision has cost us billions.




