Winter Energy Requirements: Fossil Fuels for the Win.

It's been a while since I had a look at UK energy consumption. If you look along the bottom of this page, you'll see the live display.

What caught my eye today is that Gas meter, which was pegged about 50% over full scale. Yes, gas is producing so much of our immediate energy usage, it broke the meter!

Of course, sadly coal-fired energy production is no more. It will remain 0% until government changes policy and energy companies decide to invest in new coal-fired plant. Oh and the rail infrastructure is dragged out of retirement and the pits open back up, or the ports start accepting coal imports.

Yeah, not going to happen in the short term.

Anyway, here's the graph this morning, the orange bar is gas-fired energy production:

Yeah, the others don't come close. No wind, negligible solar. If we didn't have gas, we would be absolutely fucked.

Yesterday wasn't any better either:

Look at that thick wedge of orange compared to the rest. They don't match the gas-fired production even if they were all combined together.

What can I say, our energy policy is insane. We are relying chiefly on a single source of energy. Without gas, we wouldn't be able to supply the country's energy demand.

Our energy policy and energy security are abysmal. If the gas ran out, we have no alternative option that could cope.

Yvette Cooper's Southport Speech: Reading Between the Lines.

 1. Prevent is not working. Up until now it has been a jobs for the boys backwater that has no accountability.

Yvette Cooper is to set up an independent public enquiry. However the government set up the terms of reference, i.e. white wash.

2. Prevent is not working. They will now be the scapegoat for government failure to take the extremist  radicalisation threat seriously. The government will attempt to close down access to extremist information. The online safety act will go further than originally envisioned.

3. Prevent is not Working. The government will write to online companies in the USA to ask them pretty please to stop access to online radicalisation information. The online companies will tell them it's your job to stop radicalisation and not our job to censor free speech. After all the USA have plans for 3D-printed guns, which are legal in the US. Amongst other things.

It's up to the government in the UK to sort out the issues that push kids to radicalisation in the UK. It's not for us companies to sort out the UK government's problems for them.

4. Counter Terrorism Police closed his cases they thought he was just a lone nutter. And until he killed tree kids, that's what the system classed him as. New policies have been put in place at prevent, that are as useless as the original policies, given that the counter-terrorism Police prefer to arrest journalists for their online content, who are a lot easier to scare than some stroppy radicalised teenager.

5. Yvette has created the job of independent Prevent Commissioner to oversee the actions of prevent and stick their oar in, thereby creating another level of incompetence. Another body the government can blame when the next terrorist attack is created by a person already known to prevent. 

6. The knife hat the stabber used was bought on Amazon. Expect even stricter controls online for knife purchase. And they are strict enough. I bought a Pizza Cutter from Amazon last week and I had to go through the extra checks for that. I was not impressed that Amazon pass my information to a third party to do the check. You know digital ID is coming....

In conclusion, it's the usual political platitudes and waffle. Nothing of substance is being down against the actual threat, extremist ideology. As I've said before, there's been no enquiry into what makes these sons and daughters of first generation immigrants turn to extremism. 

Previous generations, those that came here in the Seventies appear to have integrated just fine. Those that came in the Eighties and Nineties have had a harder time integrating. 

This is where I think multiculturalism is failing. Allowing immigrants to stay and then live independently, and not adopt English norms and protocols is a mistake. The kids being born to parents that don't integrate feel isolated. They are not familiar with the culture of their old country and they are not integrating into the culture of their new country. They are living apart, isolated and unsuccessful. It's no wonder they are turning to extremist whisper campaigns.

Starmer's Southport Speech. Reading Between The Lines.

Having heard Starmer's speech today, I can say straight away, he is not in the least bit sorry. In fact I would think he is pretty irritated at having to make such a speech, in order to deflect attention away from his role in the response to the Stabbing attack.

The first part is, he is the Prime Minister. It would not jeopardise any impending court case if he labelled the stabber as a terrorist. It would not have affected his court case if the details of finding Ricin and terror-related documents had been released.

And still the charges against him did not involve terror legislation, but instead involved Biological weapons legislation instead. Despite the clear evidence.

This was a calculated decision in order to try and quell dissatisfaction with government policy and the so-called riots across the country.

So, let's go to the aftermath. Starmer hints that the Stabber could not and still can't be labelled a terrorist because: law. Which is complete bollocks, as other attacks have instantly been labelled terrorist in nature straight after the attack. And, this case could have been labelled a terrorist incident as soon as the Ricing and ISIS manuals had been discovered. 

Starmer says he will look at changing the law so that such incidents can be classed as terrorist in nature. 

Sure, you've heard the phrase "Never let a good crisis go to waste" haven't you? 

I expect Starmer will bring in legislation to widen the definition of terrorist, not to encompass lone-wolf Islamic extremists, but instead to include his current bogeyman: the far-right. 

I predict that laws will be widened to include ordinary people criticising the government, from whatever platform, including mouthing off in the pub. Also criticism of Islam will be included, here come the blasphemy laws. Also pointing out that the majority of terrorists are Muslim will be outlawed. 

Starmer also hinted at the availability of extremist information online. So, I also predict a censorship of the internet. American platforms that advocate free speech, especially Elon Musk's X, will be denied access to the UK unless they heavily censor. Which Elon won't do. 

I predict a move to a government-approved, heavily censored platform a-la the Chinese model. 

Starmer is an authoritarian Marxist, his nature is not to accept criticism, his nature is to crush it. And from his carefully chosen words today, reading between the lines, I do not like what I hear.

Trump Inauguration Today.

Well, so far, the lefties have failed to nobble Trump and he will be inaugurated today. The ceremony has been moved indoors for the first time in history. Not sure why people can't be trusted to wrap up warm, I'm sure the ceremony has been held in sub-zero temperatures before.

But anyhow, the rumours are The Donald will get to work from day one. I do hope so. Those first few wins, before the left can organise a response, would be good. The Jan. 6th people should be pardoned immediately.

Once in office, Trump should start to look around the Western countries and just see who is an ally and who isn't. Those Western Governments that have not kept the traditions of freedom in the West, need to be warned. 

The U.S. has gone to war and affected regime change before. The Western countries would take a lot fewer resources to regime change then say Afghanistan. The classic unfriendly government is this one in the U.K. Several MPs have openly talked about extraditing or arresting American citizens for exercising free speech, something the UK government wants to abolish. MPs have also directly smeared Trump. Not just criticism, but actually smeared him. If I was a UK MP, I'd be wary of entering the U.S. because they might find themselves on the end of a defamation charge.

Not only that, we have put one of the most important US military bases in jeopardy. That is not the action of an ally.

Anyhoo, here's a direct plea to Trump: Can the U.S. effect regime change in the U.K. please? The government is not working in the interests of UK citizens. It is in fact virtue signalling the country into Muslim control. Already we are debating blasphemy laws and it seems that pro-Muslim laws are on the agenda, even though we are a majority Christian country.

If it continues, the move to Islam could be irrevocable. And with it, Islamic possession of Britain's Nuclear deterrent. 

It would be in America's interests to get involved now, so there is minimal bloodshed to reverse the move to Muslim rule.