Sistah Space: An Interesting Saga.

I did post on my blog about Ngozi Fulani that a chap on Twitter called James had done some digging on her charity and it didn't look good. 

There are now three Twitter mega-threads on the charity Sistah Space Written by James. 

What he's found doesn't look good. The Telegraph has already announced the Charity Commission are looking into the allegations. 

I'd commend everyone to look at James' threads on Twitter. 

His user is @JustPikachoo 

Brilliant stuff. He's quite the online detective. Yesterday a user called Kwaree said they had reported his account for racism and James has done some digging about that user.

Interesting that the user appears to be a scam account linked to Africa according to James. 

I'm loving watching him silence the dissenters with facts and also investigations.

No idea who he is, but his account is a bloody good read at the moment.

Oxford Goes Communist.

It seems that the citizens of Oxford are going to be treated as criminals. Instead of being free, their movements will be restricted upon punishment by a fine.

In essence, Oxford council are setting up arbitrary zones in the city and you won't be allowed to drive a car from one to the other without a licence. Of course you have to pay for this licence (I know, yet another money-making scheme). 

You'll also only be allowed to move from one zone to another 100 times in a year otherwise you will attract a fine.

The idea comes from the "15 Minute City" concept. Basically everything you need will be available within 15 minutes of your door. Your job, your shop, your Doctor, Your Hospital, your health centre. All will be within 15 minutes.

But what is not stated is what choice you will have within those 15 minutes. For instance if the only store within 15 minutes is Tescos, what if you want to shop at Asda? Or they are too expensive and you want to shop at Lidl or Aldi. Is one of every shop going to be provided in that 15 minute zone so you have the same amount of choice?

I think not. So in effect you will have no choice. You will be allowed to shop at one shop that is assigned by planning to that area. If you deign to reject that choice, then comrade, you are not complying and you will be fined for travelling to the next zone. 

It's Communism. It is removal of choice.

How are jobs supposed to be provided in the 15 minute zone? 

As an example, you work for a company that has one outlet on the other side of town, or in the next town over. It is not served by a bus route. 

How on earth do you get there without a car? If the council impose their rules and you are effectively denied access to your job, will the council compensate you? Are they liable to compensate you for the loss of your job? I bet not. You'll just have to comply by taking some low-paid job in the 15-minute zone. If you can't pay your rent because you've had to take a low-paid job, will the council compensate you or re-house you? I expect huge Communist concrete tower blocks will be the architecture of choice in Oxford over the next few decades then. 

Or the city will become a ghost city where no-one wants to live. It will be a student city where students educate themselves and in their spare time do the jobs that the original population once did.

I know for a fact there is a care home in a village on the outskirts of Oxford that is served by a bus only two days a week. The wife was looking for care work in the area when I lived near Oxford. Not being a driver, she needed public transport. So that wasn't an option. 

Basically, to make this work, the council is going to have to provide the jobs, the infrastructure the facilities. Market forces won't. Aldi won't want to have 15 tiny branches dotted around the city. They won't be economical.  Nor will they want several competitors in the same 15 minute area. 

Like I say, it will reduce freedom, it will reduce choice. Oxfordians might as well buy the grey boiler suits now ready for the May day parade of bicycles (no combustion engines allowed).

Net Zero Together, or Not at All.

 It's quite clear that there is now a large proportion of the UK population that cannot afford the "Net Zero" climate policy set out by Government.

Whether it's buying a new car to satisfy new ULEZ zones, or whether it's paying for energy, the cost of the net zero policy has outstripped the ability of the population to pay for it. Now we are getting handouts from the Government to pay for high energy costs as a result of their own policy, which is ludicrous. 

Rather just adjust the policy and make energy cheaper so everyone can afford it. 

That's the route any sane government would take, so that everyone can afford to heat their homes and go about their daily business.

If a Government fails to adjust a policy that adversely affects a large proportion of their citizens and continues to press forward with it even though the adverse effects are obvious, you have to ask the question: why?

Is it because they are stupid? Because borrowing money to give people money so they can afford expensive energy thanks to a policy they are continuing to employ just sounds like insanity.

Is it because they are incompetent? Well, the latest batch of MPs in Parliament look like thet couldn't manage a piss up in a brewery, so that is a distinct possibility.

Is it because they have no other option? Well, no, they have plenty of options. Currently there are plenty of governments around the world that do not hold with the net zero policy and work to reduce emissions in a way that avoids bankrupting the economy or letting granny freeze to death.

If they have other options, why do they press ahead? Is it outside forces that are pushing them to do this? Well, in a nutshell, yes. 

The various vested interests are pushing Western Governments to reduce CO2 emissions at all costs. But it's interesting they are not pushing emerging economies to do the same. India and China for instance, are not complying.

It just so happens that the same outside forces pushing "net zero" including the abandonment of industry in the West also have interests and investments in emerging countries. No conflict of interest then eh?

Tell their chums in western governments to back off on support for industry or even implement policy that will kill off industry, so they can then reap the rewards of cheap labour in India and China. 

It stinks. To high heaven.

Even Clearer: Interconnectors Supplying More Than Renewables.

 

Courtesy of GridWatch: Go look at their website

Well, that's an oops. The European and Norwegian interconnectors were supplying more energy than the vaunted renewable sources. 

Gas supplies the bulk of electricity (as always) and coal and Nuclear are doing their bit. But where is solar? Hardly registering on the chart. But it's winter in the UK; who knew? That solar only provides at most a third of the Summer energy.

Wind is the other star of the green firmament. Guess what? It's almost inconsequential. It's certainly beaten by the pink slice of French energy. 

During the night our European interconnects were supplying around 15% of our electricity whilst wind amounted to just 5%.

This is madness. All the Billions in investment we have put into renewables can't deliver when we need it most. This policy has to stop. 

We need to invest those billions in generating capacity that can deliver electricity whatever the weather, whatever the season. Not on some climate cult solution that doesn't deliver when we need it most and would have us freeze to death in the depths of winter.

As it is, the long-term predictions are for winters to get harsher. But the climate loons don't want you to know that, because it will scupper their lucrative little industry. The money train might stop.

Where is tidal power, I wonder? Where is the storage capacity to hold onto that energy ready for when we need it?

It. Needs. To. Change.

I do not want my kids, grandkids and great-grandkids to suffer the privations that this winter has foretold.

We need cheap energy, cheap enough that poor people can afford it. 

Stop the Net Zero policy unless everyone can afford it including the poorest in society.

We either do net zero together, or not at all.

Here is Clear Proof That Renewables Won't Save Us in Winter.

 

Courtesy of GridWatch: Go look at their website

Just look at this. The coldest day of the winter so far. Look at that huge swath of Orange as Gas supplies the bulk of the load on the electrical grid. 70% of UK grid energy being produced by gas. 

Being a day influenced by low pressure, there is no wind. Also cloud cover has killed solar production. 

The eco-loons always counter this by saying that the wind will be blowing in at least one part of the country. But, wherever that sliver of the UK is, it needs to be plastered in wind turbines to produce anywhere near the capacity for the rest of the nation. The grey nuclear bar is also helping keep up with demand and I see what is left of our coal-fired production capacity is doing its bit too.

The two things that are not are wind and solar.

If any diagram shows the strategic requirement for gas, this is it. We need to be producing a lot more of it within our own borders. And we need to do it quickly. We need to be syphoning those flares off on oil fields, we need to be sucking the methane out of old landfills. We need to be fracking too. We need as much gas as we can get.

It also shows the lunacy behind the closure and destruction of the coal-fired power stations, unable as they are to contribute meaningfully to electricity demand. 

Can we just put to bed the idea that renewables will produce anywhere near the capacity the UK needs? 

It's a fallacy, an illusion, a pipe-dream. 

Can someone with some sense take charge of our energy policy, PLEASE?