Do as I say, not as I do

It appears that there are some in the government, or rather MP's in favour of the green lunacy that is climate change and CO2 emission control, we know this, we also know that there is very much a do as I say, not as I do culture at large in Westminster.
Telegraph.

Energy Secretary Ed Davey is dodging his own green taxes – by switching his gas and electricity supplier to a company exempt from the charges slapped on domestic bills.
The Cabinet Minister is now spared from paying the average £112-a-year ‘green duty’ added to most domestic bills after he moved his account to a firm that does not have to pay it.
Mr Davey recently changed from Sainsbury’s Energy to Green Star Energy to supply gas and electricity to his Kingston constituency home.
Green Star – which, despite its name, is not an eco-certified company – does not have to pay green taxes because it is a new firm with fewer than 250,000 customers. Its average household bill is just over £1,009 a year, compared with Sainsbury’s average of £1,264 – meaning Mr Davey could potentially save about £255 annually.

It was and is rather noticeable the number of companies who stuck 'green' somewhere in their advertising without actually being green or environmentally friendly at all, it was simply the done thing. Still you have to wonder at the hypocrisy of the Lib Dem member for Kingston in deliberately choosing a company that avoids the green levy his party is so in love with. The evidence is growing daily that climate change is a natural thing and man's effects upon it are minimal to say the least. The biggest contributing factor to worldwide climate change is and remains the sun, closely followed by oceanic currents, not CO2 emissions.
So as it's basically a tax raising scam, we should not be too surprised that MP's will look for a way to get around it, whilst naturally making sure that the rest of us pick up their tab.
This is yet another reason to never vote mainstream politics, they really do think they can take us for fools.
Sad thing is, with a lot of people they're right.

Fire hazard

Bird mincers (aka wind turbines) are a favourite hobby horse of mine as it's a target rich environment. They're touted by enviroloons and moneygrabbing politicians as the answer to carbon free power generation and will help save the planet from global warming man made climate change. This is despite the fact that they're inneficient, expensive to run and intermittent in their generation as they don't work when there's no wind... or indeed too much.
Telegraph.

Wind turbines may catch on fire ten times more often than is publicly reported, putting nearby properties at risk and casting doubt on their green credentials, researchers have warned.
The renewable energy industry keeps no record of the number of turbine fires, meaning the true extent of the problem is unknown, a study backed by Imperial College London finds on Thursday.
An average of 11.7 such fires are reported globally each year, by media, campaign groups and other publicly-available sources, but this is likely to represent just the “tip of the iceberg”.
There could in fact be 117 turbine fires each year, it argues, based on analysis showing just 10pc of all wind farm accidents are typically reported.
Fires tend to be “catastrophic”, leading to turbines worth more than £2 million each being written off, because the blazes occur so high up that they are almost impossible to put out, it warns.

So not only eyesores and a danger to flying mammals, they're a bit of a liability when it comes to catching fire. That plus the ones at sea are discovering the joys of a salt laden environment and have corrosion/erosion problems. All in all it's pretty much a case of money down the drain along with the fact that it's also taxpayers cash subsidising the damned things.
Any engineer will tell you that objects with moving parts will require maintenance, in a normal power station there are people around to do this, but at least the turbines are at ground level (usually) In the case of a wind turbine, they're unmanned only visited on a regular maintenance schedule and as with regular maintenance, sometimes things go wrong that aren't picked up. Place a unit with plastics, hydraulics and generating heat via its power generation and you have a bit of a fire trap stuck off the ground where the fire brigade can't get at it, nor can be reached to do running repairs.
Still they're going to save the planet, along with the backup diesel generators sneakily brought in to supplement their dormant periods as the government closed down the efficient power stations to build these monstrosities.
If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny.

Promising

Looks like the Tories are going to marginally tackle the green crap that posits itself as necessary to our planets well-being. I do not doubt that it won't be anything like enough and I do expect the usual bollocks from those who either have their fingers in the birdmincer pie and the hard of thinking enviroloonies who believe that taxpayer money should be taken without consent and spent on their ideas of what's happening to the planet, not what's actually happening.
BBC.

The BBC has learned the full details of how the government plans to roll back the largest so-called green levy in an attempt to cut energy bills.
The details come in a letter - seen by the BBC - that was sent to energy firms by the government last night.
It sets out how a scheme that forces energy companies to give free insulation to low income households will be reformed by law next year.
The ECO scheme costs firms £1.3bn a year and adds about £50 to every bill.

As I said, nothing like enough and certainly not putting a dent into the green levy as such which currently stands at £112 per year rising probably to £194 by 2020 on average.
Essentially we're being forced to pay for something which doesn't work too well along with a backup which is cheaper to run, more efficient and actually works when the wind doesn't blow or blows to hard, it also is reliable at night when the sun doesn't shine. In any sane world of course the backup would be the main system, but because of the ludicrous carbon emission scam (carbon isn't warming up the planet) we have to use systems which cost a lot more to generate electricity (birdmincers) aren't built yet (nuclear) or solar power which doesn't work too well and is prone to not working when it's dark.

Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, said: "ECO is the lifeblood of the insulation industry and cuts to it will result in huge job losses and condemn hundreds of thousands of families to unaffordable energy bills, yet government appears to be in the pocket of some of the energy companies when it comes to deciding its fate."

Mr King seems to be ignoring just who is paying for those jobs and that it should not be the job of the state or the taxpayer to support or pay for an industry. Certainly a case can be made for seed money, but wholesale support of industries by the taxpayer is ridiculous and harks back to the days of the inefficient nationalised industries where billions were spent keeping them afloat.
We need to go back to sink or swim time with the green industries, I suspect most if not all would sink if the taxpayer weren't tilting the odds in their favour which is all the more reason to rid ourselves of them.
If or when an efficient eco friendly system is proven to work, I'll support it, in the meantime the enviroloonies and the government should get their hands out of my pockets.
In other good news, Tim Yeo the environment minister and a guy who has lined his pockets from the green scam has been deselected by his local party for being essentially a thief. (expenses scam)
So not a bad start to the day...

Follow the money

Green policies, politicians think we love them, opinion poll's and market research tells them that we don't mind protecting the planet, so long as it doesn't cost us an arm and a leg, sadly there are very few green policies if any, which don't.
So it came as no surprise that a greedy few politicians tried to hold Cameron to ransom over his alleged 'drop the green crap' comment over energy price hikes cause by politicians of all major parties really not getting the underlying anger people are starting to feel over the green crap.
Mail.

David Cameron risks splitting the Conservative party if he abandons the green agenda, senior MPs have warned.
The Prime Minister was confronted by more than 25 Tory ministers and MPs demanding he stick to his promises on the environment.
It follows reports he told aides to ‘get rid of all this green crap’ amid warnings that abandoning the modernisation of the Tory party will cost him the next election.

Why do I have the feeling that those politicians are all raking it in from various energy companies, or are so deluded that they actually believe the planet is warming up due to the influence of man rather than the big ball of energy in the sky AKA the sun?
These politicians are also claiming back their energy bills from the taxpayer on second homes as well as raking it in for other things not exactly pertaining to their jobs. Some of those trying to flex their muscles are standing down at the next election anyway including the MP for Thanet which has a huge offshore wind farm employing locals who naturally will be worried if the government pulls the plug on the green scam.
What these envirotards won't accept is that people are dying from the cold because they can't afford to heat their homes due to the green levy. Any MP who voted for the green levy is tantamount to a murderer at worst or a scammer at best in my eyes and yes that includes Millipede E who brought this disgusting tax upon us as energy minister in the last government.
I rather suspect Cameron will lose the next election if he doesn't drop the green crap, but then again there's an awful lot that he simply doesn't get in the psyche of the average voter on green policies or anything else for that matter which is why he'll lose the next election anyway.

You what?

Apparently if the government goes ahead and reduces (should be removes, but its a tax and they won't) the green levy on power generation then the price of our gas and electricity may rise! In an argument that only an enviroloony could love, never mind comprehend the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee announced this rather startling conclusion yesterday...
Telegraph.

David Cameron’s push to cut “green” levies on gas and electricity bills could end up increasing energy bills, MPs have said.
The Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said that cutting support for renewable energy generation will drive away vital investment in the energy sector, pushing up prices.
The committee’s warning came as officials finalised a list of options for changing levies applied to bills, with a scheme that funds home insulation among those facing cuts.
The Government says the UK energy industry needs £110 billion of new generators and transmission networks to remain functional in 2020.

One can only assume these people are bonkers as they seem to believe that such a move will cut investment, although as far as I can see it would only cut investment in bird mincers and solar panelling. There are much, much cheaper ways of generating electricity than the carbon free methods as required by the EU, you can even get lean burn coal generating plants with very low emissions, but sadly the investors behind the bird mincers have used a non-existent fear of the planet warming to push through damaging and costly legislation to line their own pockets via the hidden taxation of the green levy. This has pushed fuel bills up by at least 10% and led to the closing down of far more efficient power stations leaving the country pushed to the limit to keep the lights on... although the reserve means that brownouts are still unlikely despite some alarmist claims.
In the meantime, companies still build bird mincers that don't work when there's no wind (or too much) and sell us solar panel which don't work in the dark and then charge us via the levy for the expensive electricity they produce at the wrong times.
When a cheap means of generating carbon free electricity comes along, I'll get behind it, however I doubt there's any such beast and I shouldn't be paying the cost of finding it, nor should anyone else. People will die because they can't afford to heat their homes this winter, their blood is on the governments and the enviroloonies hands...

Never seen a tax hike they didn't like.

The Lib Dem leftard wannabees have just announced that they favour tax rises to line their pockets pay for green idiocy that seems to resonate with a certain leftist mentality in our country, after all, greens are not nicknamed watermelons for nothing.
Telegraph.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury confirmed that the government is considering making the warm homes discount, which gives millions of poor households energy discounts, part of the general taxation system.
The move would leave a £1 billion tax black-hole which will need to be funded by raising taxes.
However, he said that the Liberal Democrats will block any attempts to lift green taxes relating to subsidies for renewable energy subsidies.
Green taxes currently add £112 to a typical household bill. However, the Conservatives have warned that the bill could rise to £194 by 2020.
Mr Alexander said: "What we're doing at the moment is looking at every aspect of what contributes to people's energy bills to make sure people aren't paying a penny more than they need to. Our commitment to green energy is vitally important and its not something that we as Liberal Democrats will compromise on.

Green energy being monstrously expensive, highly subsidised and doesn't work when the wind stops blowing or blows too hard and in the case of solar energy doesn't work at night. Not to mention having to shell out for a complete backup system of traditional generators to supply said energy when it's actually needed and the green lunacy doesn't.  Essentially the Lib Dems have a tax cheat (home flipping during the expenses scandal) telling us that we will have to pay more for something that doesn't work too well on a matter of principle despite that principle being utter tosh.
Now whilst I do not doubt that some Tories are just as in love with tax hikes as Labour and the Lib Dems, generally other than their ministers milking the public with their directorships of bird mincing companies the average Tory MP is coming to the conclusion that the vast majority of the general public know that its a scam and that the game is more or less up.
I'm quite looking forward to the Lib Dems getting a massive political kicking in the next general election and I believe articles like this can only help them achieve it.
I just hope not to be disappointed.

Don't panic, don't panic!

The dark side of the political spectrum aka the Lib Dems have told the news media that Cameron is panicking over energy prices. Which might be true, he is a politician after all and power is the drug of choice for him. It does however strike me that he's panicking for the right reasons in that energy prices look like being his downfall and he really needed to realise that green taxation in particular was a millstone around his neck that he didn't really need.
BBC.

The Liberal Democrats have accused David Cameron of making a "panicky U-turn" after he announced a review of green energy taxes.
The prime minister said household bills were at "unacceptable levels" and promised to "roll back" regulations introduced by Labour.
But a senior Lib Dem source said Mr Cameron had got "cold feet" on environmental policy promises.
Labour also criticised the PM, but he promised to help cut people's bills.
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith said Mr Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband were "Muppets" in their attitude to energy policy.
Cameron said, said the government's focus was on dealing with the aspects of energy bills it could control. Green taxes, he said, accounted for £112 of the average annual dual fuel bill and should be reduced.

Oh a dastardly attack by Cameron on something invented for something which doesn't really exist other than in the minds of enviroloonies and greedy on the make politicians. I mean how dare he remove a massive barrier in the path of people who don't wish to freeze to death in their homes because energy companies have to increase their prices within their own and the governments greed?
For a lot of our elderly it's become a choice between heating your home or eating, indeed almost 9,000 winter related deaths in the UK happen because of the fact that our old simply cannot stay warm enough due to government interference in their bills. Sure it's not the only cause, but it is a major factor, something the government and the enviroloonies refuse to even admit is directly due to their meddling.
Green taxes kill our elderly and sick, they've pushed ordinary families into what is described as fuel poverty. Cameron may be panicking, but at least he's panicking in the right direction...

That's not the only reason...

It's one of those articles which makes you shake your head and wonder if the minister involved has a clue about what the public actually think, or rather that he's putting a spin on things to try and explain to himself the whys and wherefores of a situation.
Telegraph.

Energy Minister Greg Barker has said on-shore wind farms have turned public opinion against renewable energy.
The rush to develop on-shore wind farms is “over” and has damaged the renewable energy agenda, the Energy and Climate Change Minister said. Mr Barker promised that future wind farms would be developed off-shore, the Mail on Sunday reported. “We put certain projects in the wrong place,” he said. “Some planners have been too insensitive to the impact on the landscape and it has turned public opinion against the wider renewable agenda. “We are very clear about the need to limit the impact on the countryside and landscape. It is quite clear the expansion of the on-shore wind rush is over.”

Yes they're unsightly, however most people who don't live beside one hate them too and there are many reasons other than their sheer ugliness. There's the cost, something that ministers and politicians of both sides realise is concerning the public. There's the environmental damage that mounting a turbine on a massive concrete plinth causes, not just the size of the thing. There's the fact that even the most 'in use' turbine is only active about 20% of the time and generates electricity at five times the cost of a standard gas powered generator which works all the time. They kill birds, are difficult and expensive to maintain and essentially are a massive drain on the taxpayer by green taxes.
But no, the minister thinks people have turned against them  because they put some in the wrong place. Whilst I'm sure that turned some people who have to live next to them against them, I'm pretty sure that the other reasons I mentioned are the primary source of rejection... that and the fact that most people have come around to the idea that global warming and renewable energy is a scam of the highest order and being used by politicians to enrich themselves and enviroloonies to wreck western civilisation.
Deluding yourself that your beliefs are the correct ones despite mounting public opposition is the remit of the politician, making excuses in the form of a mealy mouthed apology is another.
Telling the truth as ever seems to be beyond them....

Time to drop the subsidies.

Subsidies are a form of bucking the market, as with any measures to buck the market they inevitably fail, though that doesn't stop governments from wasting taxpayers money on them and enriching those receiving the subsidies. That's not to say that there might not be a case for a limited subsidy in developing new technologies, just in order to get them off the ground, however limited ought to mean that by a certain amount of time it's sink or swim time...
Not that governments seem to have grasped this basic point.
Express.

HARD-UP families could see energy bills double to a ­whopping £3,000 a year, experts warned last night.
The forecast came as millions of households face rises of up to £140 in electricity and gas bills within weeks.
The current average dual fuel bill stands at £1,420. But, with the way prices are continuing to soar, this figure is set to double by 2020.
Mark Todd, of energy­-helpline.com, said: “Over the next seven years we could see bills hit £3,000 if current trends continue. This is a very big rise and is going to hit people extremely hard.”
Another round of price hikes is thought to be “imminent”, with firms expected to slap an extra five to 10 per cent on the annual bill.
It means that hard-pressed families will have to find up to £140 more a year as gas and electricity bills soar to £1,560.
Energyhelpline’s Mr Todd said a new wave of price hikes are likely before the beginning of winter.
He blamed investment in green energy and rising wholesale and transport costs for the rocketing bills.
Prof Fells said: “It is inevitable that the price of energy will rise, and I blame this on the huge investment in renewable energy. If the Government pursues this expansion of green energy, it will cost the bill-payer.”

 Yes, the government is wasting our money on renewable energy to face a crisis that doesn't exist save in the minds of bureaucrats, politicians and the hard of thinking leftist watermelons. With the bureaucrats and politicians I suspect it's just a means to pocket public money as part of directorships in renewable energy companies. With the watermelons I suspect that it's all just part of a plan by their leadership to take us all back to the stone-age save for a technical elite living high on the hog, I doubt it has anything to do with the good of the planet, more to do with the good of the enviroloony leadership.
People are going to die because of the government of both stripes lunacy in sticking it to us in the form of green subsidies on fuel. Our old, our sick/disabled and our very young are being sacrificed on the alter of the cruel and unforgiving green religion. That there are alternatives to renewables is known, hence the anti-fracking protests at an oil drilling rig for some reason or another. They'd rather we died in the cold than have cheap energy, their cruel god demands it, destruction of the West as a civilisation has always been at the core of leftist/watermelon policy, hence their lack of protests at what India and China do.
One day we'll kill them all though...

 

The new Luddites

The Luddites were a group of textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from around 1811 to 1817. They were protesting the bringing in of machinery that made products cheaper and as a consequence were losing their skilled jobs to unskilled labour. The movement was ended by mass arrests and deportations, though the name has stuck as an epithet for those who would block progress.
Mail.

Villagers blocking a rural drilling site earmarked for fracking were dragged away by police yesterday as protests turned ugly.
Around a hundred police – including trained riot officers – were brought in to break up the blockade which was in its second day in the West Sussex countryside near Balcombe.
The site, which has been selected for exploratory drilling by fracking company Cuadrilla, has attracted a growing number of protesters all week who until yesterday morning had managed to block all access from the road.

Whilst I have some sympathy for the villagers, I do happen to know that a fracking rig is a lot less obtrusive than a birdmincer and if successful a lot more cheaper to run and maintain. However the arrests weren't mostly villagers as the Mail article would seem to indicate, but professional swampies or enviroloons as I'm want to call them. These are the people who would rather our pensioners and low paid freeze to death in the winter because they can't afford to keep their houses warm. Who believe the planet is warming up and we need to go back to a brutal medieval economy to try and prevent a natural process. Essentially they are Luddites who wish to try and deny progress in any shape or form that doesn't fit into their narrow minded view on how life should be.

Natalie Hynde, 30, said she was delighted to be part of the movement and dubbed yesterday’s police reaction ‘over the top’.
Miss Hynde, who defines herself as a professional activist, has been protesting at the site entrance for four days. 

Says it all really, a professional activist who has nothing better to do.
The enviroloons won't stop progress, doesn't stop them trying of course and their influence unfortunately has the ear of some of our idiot politicians who see bird mincers as a good way to make a profit from the people of this land rather than investing in ways to keep cheap energy flowing.
The enviroloons unknowingly or not have fallen into a devils agreement with those businesses and politicians whose interests is in keeping prices high and people barely managing.
They can't see it though...

The price of envirolunacy

Various blogs and sited have been warning for years that the lights are about to go out due to the governments lunatic energy policy which appears to have been designed by people who haven't a clue about power generation, coupled with inflated design outputs of 'alternative' energy schemes to fill the pockets of those in the political circles by higher tariffs and taxation.
Well now the hour approaches...
Express.

POWER cuts are set to become frequent again as nuclear and coal-fired power stations are closed to meet green targets, energy regulator Ofgem warned yesterday.
By 2015 there will be only two per cent spare electricity capacity and the risk of supplies being interrupted will be 10 times higher.
Millions of homes could be blacked out every four years. At present the risk is only one in 47 years. The last time Britain suffered prolonged power cuts was in the Seventies.
Mark Todd, founder of website energyhelpline.com, said: “We could be looking at a return to the days of regular blackouts. This could be the Government’s green policy spectacularly backfiring. It’s a very worrying situation – time to start stocking up on candles.”
Ian Fells, emeritus professor of energy conversion at Newcastle University, said: “We have been warning of this for four years. It takes just one power station to stop, which happens when things go wrong, and there won’t be enough to replace the lost energy.

There's some curious waffle about increasing storage capacity of bird mincers et al but this just means adding capacitors to smooth the energy flow, not storage capacity which it appears to be what the enviroloons mean.
Successive governments in the UK have betrayed the people of this land by not increasing normal generating capacity in favour of methods that don't work when the wind doesn't blow (or blows too hard) or the sun doesn't shine. All this has done is line the pockets of those funding or managing the useless green energy scam systems.
There's even a bit at the end where the claim is made that foreign gas prices will eventually increase, whilst conveniently forgetting that we are sitting on a bonanza of cheap coal and shale extracted gas. of course the enviroloon lobby doesn't want these used and they are joined by certain politicians and energy companies who want to keep the price of power high, though it looks like the wheels will come off that little scam very soon as the unknowing political morons in Westminster have as ever taken things too far...
There's a saying which goes that we get the government we deserve.
I can't believe we deserve this lot though.

Yes, but no one's listening

Well, no one's listening anywhere where they'll do something about it.
A recent report out shows that when you take subsidies into account every job in the bird mincer industry costs something like £100,000 to maintain. That's just the subsidies mind you, it doesn't take into account the necessity of keeping a a standby system permanently on standby for when the wind doesn't blow or often enough blows too hard. A classic case of the wrong sort of wind surely?
Telegraph.

A new analysis of government and industry figures shows that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form of a consumer subsidy, paid by a supplement on electricity bills last year. They employed 12,000 people, to produce an effective £100,000 subsidy on each job. The disclosure is potentially embarrassing for the wind industry, which claims it is an economically dynamic sector that creates jobs. It was described by critics as proof the sector was not economically viable, with one calling it evidence of “soft jobs” that depended on the taxpayer. The subsidy was disclosed in a new analysis of official figures, which showed that: • The level of support from subsidies in some cases is so high that jobs are effectively supported to the extent of £1.3million each; • In Scotland, which has 203 onshore wind farms — more than anywhere else in the UK — just 2,235 people are directly employed to work on them despite an annual subsidy of £344million. That works out at £154,000 per job;
• Even if the maximum number of jobs that have been forecast are created, by 2020 the effective subsidy on them would be £80,000 a year.

As the 'climate levy' already adds at least £47  to the average households cost of living it does seem that the justifications used that the development of such power sources would eventually create jobs (it doesn't, not so far) and produce more efficient means of generating by wind power (it hasn't) which will bring the cost down (don't make me laugh) isn't worth the paper it was written on.
Those of us who believe that the idea of climate change was taken as a justification to raise taxes to the point where they became punitive and lined the pockets of those promoting the energy sources. Which in essence is why they have tried (and succeeded) in stifling all competition to their expensive bird minces in the form of shale gas extraction, because the main reason as far as I can tell is to fleece the UK taxpayer rather than provide them with a cheap energy supply that's under our control and actually works when the wind doesn't blow.
Even the recent announce of new nuclear plants isn't really a help as they take too long to build, are expensive to maintain even if they are 'carbon friendly' whatever that means.
We are sitting upon an absolute mass of coal and trillions of litres of shale gas enough to keep us happy for over 300 years, yet the environmental lobby is being used to block such schemes to line the pockets of a few.
Yes, we know this, but unfortunately we are not in a position yet, to do anything about it save club them over the head with articles like this.

Promises, promises, always promises...

Here we go again, Theresa May the Home secretary is 'threatening' to take us out of the European Court of Human Rights. Just not right now and with no indication as to whether she can actually do it or find the necessary support in Parliament to actually withdraw.
Mail.

Britain is set to pull out of the discredited European Convention on Human Rights that has allowed dangerous criminals and hate preachers to remain in the UK.
It marks a triumph for The Mail on Sunday’s campaign against the ludicrous abuses of justice carried out in the name of human rights.
The historic move, to be announced soon by Home Secretary Theresa May, would mean foreign courts could no longer meddle in British justice.
The European Convention has led to such hugely controversial decisions as banning the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada and giving British prisoners the right to vote.
Mrs May’s bold proposals to include the move in the next Tory Election manifesto reflect the party’s growing hostility towards Europe. If enacted, her policy would leave British judges free to interpret the law without interference from the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Mrs May wants to withdraw from the convention before the next Election in 2015, but Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a keen pro-European, has made it clear he will veto the initiative.
As a result, it is set to be a manifesto promise to be put into action if David Cameron wins an overall majority. Together with the Prime Minister’s vow to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, it will give the Tory manifesto a strong anti-European theme to combat the increasing appeal of UKIP.

Yes, the boy Clegg and his anti-UK party do not want us to leave the ECHR, nor I suspect do the (We've never met a terrorist we don't like) Labour Party who dropped us in it signed up to the damned thing in the first place. So what we have is a party looking likely to lose the next general election making rash promise to do something they are unlikely to be able to do anyway. Not that the Tories are responsible for the mess we are in, the blame foe that lies squarely at the feet of Labour who put the country in hock for the next few generations because they've never learned how to actually balance a budget and believe in the magic money tree of economics where loans can be taken out and the tax payer can be fleeced to pay for them ad infinitum.
No, what we have are signs of panic in the Tories who have realised just what ordinary people are thinking and that they don't have a set of policies to match. They are not being helped by their idiot leader who believes the centre ground rather than what people want is the place to be. Besides, the man can't be trusted to keep his (cast iron) word, which is why despite an open goal left by the most unpopular labour government in living memory they couldn't actually win the last election and ended up being saddled with Cleggy's pseudo socialist EUphiles.
What people want is that foreign criminals are deported so quick that their feet won't even touch the ground, that they might be killed or tortured when they are deported is not our problem.
We don't want 'the right to a family life' to be an excuse to stay, if their families love them that much they can go with them.
The claim that 'Europe' (actually the EU) is low on most peoples priorities is true, but that doesn't mean the majority don't want out, just that getting screwed over by the government and criminals matters more. It may be a low priority, but it isn't unimportant and most of the Westminster political bubble have failed to notice this.
"We're tired of mass uncontrolled immigration, we're tolerant, but the diabolical solution to rub the rights nose in multiculturalism has done nothing but stir up anger amongst ordinary people who have to live with alien hostile communities in their midst. Again something the Westminster bubble do not have to do.
We want the government and the authorities to stop pandering to islam, shariah law is barbaric and has no place in a moder civilisation, or indeed any civilisation. If muslims want to practice it, fine, they can practice it back in the shitholes that call themselves islamic republics, they shouldn't be allowed to practice it here, nor use it as an excuse for barbarism, grooming or other vile acts.
We're sick of being told about climate change, we're sick of paying through the nose for 'renewable' energy scams schemes that don't work and cost the bloody earth to maintain or supply not anything like enough energy. We're sitting on coal and shale gas, we can keep the lights on for hundreds of years by using those resources, but no, too many politicians are on the take via the 'green' energy supply scam, so we'll freeze and the lights will go out.
The problem Theresa May and politicians really face is politicians, they are the ones who have wrecked this country and allowed an evil festering cancer to grow amongst its people. They are the ones responsible for the lights going out. They must be the ones to pay...
Anyone who votes for the big three is letting this country down, I don't care who you vote for, but if you love this country, do not let it be the Lib/Lab/Con.

And whose fault is that?

Here we go, the UK 'must' be prepared to face a massive hike in energy prices because we're about to run out of power in the next couple of years. I mean you have to aske yourself just why we're running out and why all those nice shiny and expensive toys the government and enviroloons have been conning us into sticking up all over the place aren't going to make up the shortfall. After all, wind and solar are free once you get past the initial setup costs and the environmental disaster that is the huge concrete block a bird mincer stands on. After all weren't we promised by the now sacked and arch criminal Huhne that in the long run power would get cheaper etc...
Telegraph.

Households must prepare for a sharp rise in energy bills within two years as Britain comes “dangerously” close to power shortages, the chief executive of Ofgem has warned.
The country would become more reliant on foreign gas to generate electricity as European Union pollution laws meant the dirtiest coal-fired stations had to shut, said Alistair Buchanan, the regulator’s outgoing head. He pointed out that gas was already 60 per cent more expensive in countries such as Japan that relied on imports. It was impossible to predict how high bills could go for British households, he said. Ministers admitted that Britain faced a “looming energy gap” but blamed the previous government for agreeing to shut coal plants too quickly. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, admitted that consumers could feel a “pinch” starting within two years. The Government was fighting to “keep the lights on”, he insisted. Mr Buchanan warned that the “near-crisis” would occur between 2015 and 2018, pushing up bills. Blackouts were “not likely” but there would be a “double squeeze” on energy prices.

So, the blame game starts, though admittedly in this case pointing the finger at the previous government is quite easy, they did start the green cash cow rollng by insisting on closing down coal fired (cheap reliable) power stations and filling their pockets full of taxpayers cash by building and subsidising useless solar and windpower schemes.
In the end though it always comes down to the taxpayer getting it in the neck as we pay the price for politicians putting greed and dogma ahead of common sense and an incredible lack of foresight. The fact that it's EU laws driving the lunacy is also a factor, though such laws don't apparently seem to be bothering the Germans as they build a massive series of coal fired plants to back up their birdmincers.
Still a solution has been found...

Mr Buchanan warned that it was very important for the Government to persuade people to use less energy.

A masterful solution is it not? Why do I suspect though that when it comes to people, Mr Buchanan means you and I and not the government or the powers that be?
I suspect when we're all sitting in our houses freezing in the dark in a few years time as we don't dare use the heating or electricity too much that our MP's will still be cosy and warm and telling us that 'we're' all in this together...

The legacy of allowing enviroloons to formulate policy

It's not been too cold a winter so far down in Kent where I reside, though I do know it has been colder and wetter elsewhere. Still, the complaints are coming thick and fast about energy prices and the controversial claim that many people are turning off their heating in order to be able to afford food. Using such methods as duvet's and hot water bottles through the day (and night) because the government with its carbon capture tax and green energy supplement to our heating bills has driven many families and people into what's called fuel poverty.
Mail. (usual caveats)

Soaring energy bills are forcing one in four mothers to turn off their heating in the depths of winter in order to afford food for their children.
Fuel poverty is resulting in thousands of families resorting to wearing extra clothes and using blankets in their homes.
More than half of families turn off the heating in their houses when the children are out, while 45 per cent of adults keep warm using blankets or duvets during the day, according to a survey.
Fuel bills have already soared by eight per cent this winter, but costs are expected to rise further in coming months.
Experts have warned that the number of households suffering fuel poverty, whereby heating bills account for more than a tenth of a family's income, will double to nine million by 2016.
A shocking 23 per cent of families are already having to choosing between buying food or using heating, according to a survey by the Energy Bill Revolution campaign.
A fifth of respondents said that their children were ill more regularly as a result of colder homes.

And it hasn't really gotten that cold yet.Yet a lot of his is due to the government pushing useless green policies and subsidies for expensive (not so) green power generation as well as a carbon capture tax and policies that would bankrupt this nation leaving it an unindustrialised wasteland. What we are seeing is the direct result of allowing enviroloonies to set policy whilst various unscrupulous ministers have used these policies to feather their own nests (yes Yeo and Gummer, we're looking at you) Couple this with allowing a Lib Dem in charge of the environment and energy Dept (Ed Davey) and we have the potential for a national disaster on our hands with the very vulnerable in society being at risk, because of the insistence on 'green' solutions despite sitting on a cheap energy source by the way of shale gas extraction which despite some ludicrous claims by certain energy ministers with their fingers in the wind farm pot will as it has in the USA reduce our bills and keep us safe from foreign supply.
No, the reason we have high power bills can be laid directly at the greed of the government and the ignorance of some (if not all) MP's. People are going to die because of this, you mark my words.

Living in la la land

Tim Yeo the Energy secretary loves his wind farms, he's certainly making a lot of money from them, so much that he's broken from cover to tell us all struggling under mountainous energy bills that it is sensible to ask households and businesses to pay £7.6 billion a year towards greener power stations as prices are “going to go up no matter what”.
Telegraph.

Tim Yeo, the chairman of Parliament’s energy committee, said it is sensible to ask households and businesses to pay £7.6 billion a year towards greener power stations as prices are “going to go up no matter what”.
According to Department of Energy figures, bills will be £178 a year higher by 2030 than they are currently with the Government’s planned green energy and fuel poverty policies. The contribution to nuclear and renewables will make up £95 of an average bill by 2020.
Mr Yeo, who is a director of several green technology companies, told the BBC: “I personally think that a couple of pounds a week, maybe rising to almost £3 a week, is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.”
One of his Tory colleagues, Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, disagreed, saying the rise in bills is “a lot of money”.
“The average constituent in Clacton is already paying between £10 and £20 extra for their electricity as a direct consequence of these hidden green surcharges," he said. “If you have lots of non-executive payments from green energy companies, then perhaps another £2 or £3 a week doesn’t sound a large sum of money from your household budget.
“For those in my constituency who do not have green energy directorships, then it is a lot of money.

They do seem to be ignoring the fact that shale gas extraction will drop the price of gas and that the green energy tariffs subsidise an inefficient and costly method of electricity generation that will require massive standard backup of power stations for days when the wind doesn't blow, or in many cases blows too hard. In other words we cannot rely upon it to be there when we need it, it's costly to run and it's not even environmentally friendly (huge concrete blocks anyone?) No, what Mr Yeo wants is for us to keep making him rich and he intends to stretch it out as long as possible along with telling us it's good for us.
We have enough shale deposits under England to keep us powered at current rates for over 300 years. Perhaps by then 'green' energy might just be economic to give a try.
I have my doubts though...

Too good to be true?

One of the many problems this country faces is its energy dependence on foreign suppliers, from Russian gas to Islamic oil, neither having our best interests at heart. Yet essentially we're a technological society that depends on the burning of hydrocarbons to produce the power we need, for transport and power generation. Despite the claims of the greens, a hell of a lot of hydrocarbons go into the making of their bird-mincers and sunshine panels, environmentally friendly they aren't save at the point of use and they aren't even particularly efficient there either. Still when someone comes up with a formula to produce petrol from air you have to wonder just what medication they're on (and could we have some)
Telegraph.

A small company in the north of England has developed the “air capture” technology to create synthetic petrol using only air and electricity.
Experts tonight hailed the astonishing breakthrough as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against climate change and a saviour for the world’s energy crisis.
The technology, presented to a London engineering conference this week, removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The “petrol from air” technology involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before "electrolysing" the sodium carbonate that it produces to form pure carbon dioxide.
Hydrogen is then produced by electrolysing water vapour captured with a dehumidifier.
The company, Air Fuel Syndication, then uses the carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.
Company officials say they had produced five litres of petrol in less than three months from a small refinery in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside.

As an engineer having worked occasionally in the chemicals industry at first I thought this must be complete bollocks (and my engineering hindbrain is still telling me that too) I'm also wondering about the laws of conservation of energy too, it simply doesn't happen that you get more out than you put in, you can release energy, you can't create it so to speak. Yet if the process is economically viable in producing a petrol substitute at less (or equivalent too) the current market cost then these guys are onto a winner. Though again the usual caveats involving cold fusion apply here, if it looks too good to be true then it probably is.
Nor can we expect that the big fuel companies will be interested, not unless of course they can see at least as much profit for themselves in it, still a chemical plant in a nice safe democracy has got to be a better bet than an unstable theocracy...
If we can break the ties to foreign energy supply via shale and now this process we may be able to turn back some of the overt influences those suppliers have forced upon us too (yes we're looking at you Saudi Arabia) so I'm going to watch this one very carefully and hope some middle east cartel doesn't buy it and bury it...

The price of letting environmentalists dictate energy policy

Over the years I've watched with growing horror the influence of enviroloons over this countries energy policy. I've seen massive subsidies given over to inneficient means of energy generation that doesn't work when it's too windy, not windy enough or the sun doesn't shine. I've watched as efficient (and cheap) means of energy generation have been closed down early due to EU policies or simply ahead of schedule to keep moronic/greedy MP's happy. I've seen my energy bills skyrocket over the 'green levy' without a say as to whether I want to pay for the damned bird mincers or not.
Mail.

Britain is likely to run out of energy generating capacity in the winter of 2015, Ofgem warned today.
The energy regulator said spare capacity could fall from current levels of 14 per cent to just four per cent in three years.
This will make the country ever more reliant on imported gas - which will likely lead to huge price increases while also risking Britain's self-sufficiency.
Ofgem said closures of coal-fired power stations before schedule and EU legislation was behind the reduced capacity and urged investment.
David Stokes, director at Energy Consultancy Timera Energy, said: 'What strikes me as alarming is the drop in spare capacity ... It sounds like they (Ofgem) are concerned about the potential for blackouts,'
The owners of four plants, with a combined generation capacity of around 6 GW have already said they will close their plants by March 2013 and Ofgem said in the report that most plants would shut 'well before the 2015 deadline'.
The government has launched a wide-reaching Electricity Market Reform Bill designed to give support to investors in new low-carbon electricity such as nuclear and renewable generation.

People are going to die because the government allowed enviroloons to set policies which neither made sense nor were economically viable. People are going to die because ministers have got their fingers in the 'renewable' energy pies and are making money hand over fist due to the ridiculous subsidies being foisted on these companies to produce electricity usually when it isn't wanted. These people are also the ones attempting to prevent the shale gas revolution which would set us up for internal energy supply needs possibly for the next 300 years. In 3 years time, on one of the coldest days of the year there will be no wind, at around 7am a lot of people will get up and put their kettles on and we'll have a surge cascade down the system and brownouts along with blackouts caused by transformer malfunctions will cripple this country. Our old and sick will die due to the cold and the inability of the power utility companies to repair the damage quickly enough.
It will all be down to the hubris of the greens and the greed of politicians who saw a way to use the greens to line their pockets.
People are going to die, mark my words...

Fox in the henhouse

MP's are supposed to declare an interest if an issue crosses their path in which they have a financial interest or are involved in such a way that their judgement might be called into question. Sadly this doesn't appear to be the case with any green connections that they might have particularly when it comes down to ways of combating the now discredited (by everyone other than greens, the BBC and MP's) climate change and power requirements.
Mail.

Tim Yeo faced growing pressure to quit as chairman of the Commons environment and climate change committee after it emerged the Tory MP reaped nearly £140,000 a year from green companies.
The former environment minister is facing a threat from colleagues to depose him from the chairmanship due to his outside interests.
Activists and MPs have said that he should be forced to choose between his leadership of the powerful select committee and his other jobs.
Mr Yeo sparked controversy over his cheerleading for the renewable energy industry, and has called for communities to be ‘bribed’ to accept windfarms.
He has also attacked the Government for cutting subsidies to the green energy industry. But he also pledged his support to anti-windfarm campaigners in his South Suffolk constituency in 2007.
Angela Kelly, of the anti-windfarm group Country Guardian, said Mr Yeo should ‘do the honourable thing’ and stand aside as there should be no appearance of a conflict of interest.
She said: ‘It is not tenable for the chairman of a select committee to draw income from the very industry he is seeking to hold to account.

Windfarms to put it bluntly simply don't work, yes under certain circumstances they can generate power, but not reliably or consistently. Nor are they cheap to run without massive subsidies and their maintenance cycle (particularly at sea) is diabolical, salt water and spray not being particularly conducive to anything electrical or metal. On land their massive concrete plinths are also not exactly environmentally friendly either, without ever getting to the eyesore factor. Yet some people including government ministers are making a small fortune off 'green' energy and it ill behoves the government ever to have someone who made £140,000 (at least) in charge of putting the damned things up.
Whilst I rather doubt Mr Yeo is breaking any rules, it does rather strike me that he is not the right man to be in charge of the UK's energy needs as his outlook (never mind his judgement) will be clouded by his beliefs that 'green' energy is the only path for the future. Ministers need to be flexible and pragmatic, sadly Mr. Yeo appears to be anything but...

Common sense intruding on the enviroloonies?

Seems the chancellor who is not popular with the Lib Dem part of the coagulation so he must be doing something right (or is simply way annoying over and above normal political levels) He's decided to reduce (though sadly not remove) the subsidy for bird mincers and solar rip off  panels.
Naturally the enviroloons and their political friends are not happy about this...
Mail.

George Osborne infuriated Liberal Democrat colleagues and environmental groups yesterday by refusing to sign up to carbon emissions targets and insisting on a new ‘dash for gas’.
The Chancellor is understood to be determined not to commit Britain to tough climate targets beyond 2020, arguing they will be a disadvantage for businesses.
The Energy Department resisted calls for deep cuts to onshore wind subsidies, announcing yesterday a reduction of 10 per cent in payments for new turbines.
But green groups reacted angrily as the Government’s energy strategy endorsed support for future gas power in a compromise between the Lib Dem-led department and Mr Osborne.
Significantly, sources said the Chancellor and Prime Minister were determined to block ‘decarbonisation’ targets after 2020.
One Whitehall source said: ‘The official line is the Government is reserving its position, but George Osborne and David Cameron have made clear they object to post-2020 targets, which suggests the Government will never agree to any.’

I do wonder if the wheels are about to come off the 'green' bandwagon, though sadly this appears simply to be a case of trying to run the whole scam on the equivalence of running a car with a flat tyre. It's still capable of going and costing us in other words. Nor can I currently see the Lib Dem part of the coagulation or the Labour party giving up on trying to rip off the taxpayer to pay for these useless schemes
Still it's a move towards sanity by the chancellor at least and to give him credit he did appear to want to cut the subsidy a lot more but had to bow towards political reality in the form of appeasing the Lib Dems. It does appear that the government at least are beginning to understand that the proposed 'de-carbonising' proposals would be a death knell for UK industry and would wreck the economy so badly that we'd all be impoverished (something of an enviroloons wet dream I believe) so would not be able to afford to travel or indeed do anything including work.
As there's a review next year perhaps Osborne would get his way and drop the subsidy altogether and opt for a method of power generation that actually works when we need it and is economically sane as well.
Well we can always dream can't we?