Tuesday, 16 August 2022

The Power of Recall: Should we Trigger it?

 It's quite clear now that rather than following an affordable road map to zero emissions, ALL the parties in Parliament are set on and unaffordable course, euphemistically termed "Net Zero". 

Just like the innocuous term "Final Solution" has been tarnished historically and has come to signify the murder of millions of Jews, the term "net Zero" may come to signify the ruthless search for zero emissions at all costs, including loss of life.

Now, if you are one of those people struggling to pay your current energy bills and are staring into a black abyss come this Autumn, you might feel you have no recourse politically: all the main parties are net zero zealots and anyway the government are bedded in like Alabama ticks for the next few years until the next election.

However, there is a second option: recall.

We do now have the power to recall any member of Parliament. Unfortunately there has to be some sort of legal action against the MP in question, but I'd argue that if the MPs in Parliament continue down their current path and cause deaths this winter, there could be a case for charging the government with Gross Negligence Manslaughter.

The government must know at this point that energy bills will be too expensive for a percentage of the population. To do nothing in response to the circumstances their policies caused, resulting in these deaths, the government and all MPs supporting net zero must be held accountable for Gross Negligence Manslaughter.

If they are then prosecuted and convicted (tall order I know, but at least it'll be a shot across the bows), then prosecuted MPs can be recalled and a by-election triggered. 

We have to say to MPs that enough is enough and doing nothing is bad enough. But clinging on to policies that also make the situation worse than it would be normally should result in them being sanctioned.

Friday, 12 August 2022

Are We at War?

 It seems to me that it's becoming clearer every day that the elites: the Supranational Organisations, The Big Corporations, The Civil Service and finally the Government, are not working for the good of the people of the UK. To be honest this applies to most Western countries too.

It should be finally dawning on people that those at the top of the pile don't have our best interests at heart.

Is the Net Zero ideology a euphemism for population control? Another war on the lower classes?

It certainly feels like it.

No-one, and I mean no-one, has our back in this. The government act powerless to intervene, they are fully signed up to the net zero depopulation mantra. 

Tough luck, is the best it seems from the government. No lifting of VAT on energy, no abolition of fuel duty on petrol and diesel. Instead pay through the nose suckers!

We're now looking at a £5000 plus annual energy bill come the autumn. Imagine you're on minimum wage and you don't have any kids with which to claim benefits. 

Minimum wage is now £9.50 an hour. Times that by 40 hours a week = £380 a week. Then for the year that'll be £380 x 52 = £19760 before tax. Take a third of for tax and NI and you're left with around £1300 a month in your hand. 

You get no help with rent, so that's around £1000 a month on rent. 

That leaves £300 a month for food and heating. 

If energy goes up to £5000 a year, that's over £400 a month on heating. 

The maths don't add up. No money for food, no money for council tax, no money for transport to work.

Leave a significant minority with nothing to lose then bad things start to happen for those in charge.

Energy Supply & Blackouts: Questions the Media Are Not Asking.

Questions I'd like to ask are:

Why are we pressing ahead with Net Zero, when it's quite clear the policy will price energy out of the reach of the poorest in society?

Is the government going to suspend or ease the Net Zero policy given it is increasing the burden on the poor?

Given the above, if the Government continues to press ahead with Net Zero, is the end game population reduction? Are the government prepared to accept that people will die off over the winter as they cannot afford to heat their homes?

If the government are not willing to sacrifice lives as a direct result of the Net Zero policy, how many lives lost is too many?

If they are not actually prepared for part of the population to die off over winter, what exactly are the government planning to do? Especially given that doing nothing will result in deaths, I assume doing nothing is not an option.

If the government do want to save lives and intervene, what will they do? Will they cut fuel duty and/or VAT? 

Given that this affects everyone and not just those on benefits, are the government considering including the working poor in any additional help, above the removal of VAT and duty?

What provisions do the government have if there are blackouts this winter? Provision for the elderly and infirm? Will the government provide warm facilities where people can stay and not freeze?

Will the government accept that the net zero policy is incompatible with energy affordability for the poor?

Will the government scrap or modify their policy so that the poor are not adversely affected?

Will the government agree that any government policy that doesn't care for the poorest and most vulnerable in society is at best untenable and at worst criminal?

If there are numbers of deaths this winter due to people not being able to heat their homes, would the government resign?