Rishi Sunak eases up on Climate action and suddenly is a lot more popular

By Jo Nova

It’s like a light has switched on in UK politics

Who would have guessed that voters like their gas guzzling cars? Well everyone would, of course. Which is why it defies explanation that both sides of politics ignored this for so long. But a phase change is underway…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives in Downing Street. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing StreetAfter the Uxbridge by-election surprise, Rishi Sunak suddenly talked about being pragmatic on the road to Net Zero and said he would “Max Out” the North Sea Oil reserves. He vowed to review the “low traffic neighborhoods” (the bossy bollard program) and said he was on the side of the motorists. Since then he’s apparently leapt from -2.7 in net satisfaction polls among Tory members to +20.7, a leap of 23%.

Thanks to NetZeroWatch for keeping us informed:

Jack Maidment, The Telegraph

Last month, Mr Sunak’s popularity among the Tory grassroots sunk to its lowest level since he took over at No 10. He received a net satisfaction rating of -2.7 –  …But the premier has bounced back in the latest survey of party members, with a score of 20.7 …

A separate ConservativeHome survey of Tory members published earlier this week showed the political importance of net zero for the Prime Minister.

How strong is that message? Four out of five conservatives like their petrol cars:

It revealed that an overwhelming majority – 83 per cent – believed the Government was wrong to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Mr Sunak has insisted that the policy will go ahead as planned.

The Sun editorial even says: “If Rishi Sunak put brakes on net zero, it could see him back on the road to election victory.

To put that in perspective, in late July polls in the UK put the Conservatives at 28% and Labor at 45% so to even talk of winning shows how the landscape is shifting.

We should be grateful to Uxbridge and South Ruislip for this eco U-turn

By ESTHER MCVEY

I can’t be the only one enjoying the screeching U-turns politicians are making over Net Zero. Many of us have been raising the alarm over its timetable and estimated trillion-pound plus cost for a while, and so we welcome those who are belatedly seeing the light.

It’s happening in many countries:

Germany woke up first, seeing the devastation it would cause to their motor industry, and they are now desperately trying to kill-off the EU ban on conventional cars.

Macron is now asking Brussels for a “pause” in its investment-deterring green regulations and, Sweden – the country that led the way to enshrining net zero into law back in 2017, and gave the world Greta Thunberg – has quietly abandoned its pledge to be 100 percent renewable by 2045.

We hope politicians in Canada, Australia and New Zealand are watching this phase change. This post is for all them.

Photo Prime Minister Rishi Sunak  by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

 

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88 comments to Rishi Sunak eases up on Climate action and suddenly is a lot more popular

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    Kalm Keith

    So, this “rethink” is closely related to an election.

    The logical question is, what happens after the election and were the promises made to keep.

    Of course this is not the U.S. where elections have been modernised.

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      Tides of Mudgee

      Fred Daly, an Australian labor politician, once famously said “I have never met a politician interested in anything other than his own re-election”. ToM

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        wal1957

        Yes.
        Words are cheap. Action is what I want to see.
        When a politicians beliefs can change so easily with an election win on offer – why oh why should we have any trust in them delivering on their change of heart?

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          Just+Thinkin'

          Please remember this bloke is a graduate of Klaus’s
          WEF training.

          And, that’s the words out of the way.

          All we need to see now, in short order, is the
          actions to back them up.

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        Ted1.

        Fred was the last of the good men.

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      Phillip Bratby

      It’s all talk and no action. Who would trust anything said by a politician?

      I remember years ago that the people least trusted by the public were politicians, 2nd- hand car salesmen and double-glazing salesmen (in that order). I doubt if anything has changed.

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        The point is that this is a big shift from two parties competing to rush to NetZero. And Sunak is the PM. If he says he’ll “approve North Sea drilling” that test is live now, not just a distant promise for after he wins the election.

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        Gerry, England

        To that list you can add journalists and the legacy media.

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        Paul Cottingham

        His talk is always Tory, but his actions are always loony left-wing, but hidden by deception, incompetence and corruption. He uses behavioural scientists to try and brainwash Tories into supporting his left-wing globalist policies. But if he fails, then he talks Tory again.

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      DD

      What promises?
      – being pragmatic on the road to Net Zero;
      – “Max Out” the North Sea Oil reserves;
      – review the “low traffic neighborhoods”; and
      – on the side of the motorists!

      Is it any wonder that the Left are laughing in our faces?

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    tonyb

    The results cited came from Tory Party members who are relatively small in numbers.

    The Govt remains extremely unpopular amongst the general electorate and Net zero remains popular. The former is due to ineptitude of the govt over the last 4 years. The latter because who wouldn’t want to save polar bears, enjoy quiet roads, fresh air, windmills spinning peacefully in sunlit uplands instead of nasty fossil fuel power stations belching black dirty smoke over the land and the sight of lovely fluffy bunny rabbits gambolling with Unicorns?

    In other words, the true cost of green policies has not yet become apparent. When people realise that the estimated cost of Net zero per household is some £220000 and for that they will end up with a much worse energy system, electric cars that won’t work and electric heat pumps that won’t keep them warm, then they will switch their vote.

    That may be helped by a cold winter but until the truth of the green revolution becomes apparent the British electorate will vote against ineptitude and in favour of fluffy bunny rabbits.

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      RickWill

      My off-grid battery went flat today – August in Melbourne. First time ever for August after 3 days of next to no sun.

      The solar panels operate at an average CF of 3.8% and I have 48 hours of battery storage – not enough without back-up.

      The only route to NetZero in most regions is nuclear. But Victoria has centuries of untapped lignite reserves. China will hit the coal supply chain issues first. That will be when any place with coal reserves will need their nuclear arsenal.

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        Ronin

        A slow speed watercooled diesel can also provide hot water as well as electricity.

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        Klem

        It is revealing that nuclear power is never included in the strategy to achieve net-zero emissions. That’s because nuclear produces plentiful cheap power, the lifeblood of capitalism. Like Voldemort, nuclear is the energy source that Must-Not-Be-Named.

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        tonyb

        Fortunately Britain is famously sunny, even at night, so the politicians-who are without exception extremely clever-know that we will have no problems with solar power.

        Incidentally Rick, I live in what is said to be one of the sunniest places in the UK at some 1700 hours. Our sunlit hours decrease rapidly through Autumn and over the winter, just when its most needed.

        As a matter of interest how many hours does Melbourne get and how is that distributed over the year?

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        Graeme#4

        That’s interesting – I would have thought 48 hours, although being on the edge, would still be ok in most cases.
        How many more hours of storage would you have required to increase your reliability to say 98%? Another 24 hours?

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      Lawrie

      All it would take is a politician with the numbers to hand. Tell the populace through question time the real cost of renewables and the real cost of shutting down coal. The problem is the peoplt do not know what they are paying for in their bills. I used to pay 1 cent per day access charge in 2006. now I pay $1.60. That means I pay $144 a quarter just to be connected to the grid thanks to Julia Gillards rewiring the nation and the need for new transmission lines.

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    It’s a good start. People like using their cars when and where they want to. EVs just won’t do it.

    Then there are the power bills. The hip pocket nerve works. The worm is gradually turning.

    For Australia, this may take a bit longer unfortunately.

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      Graham Richards

      Albo appears to favour referenda. Let’s have a referendum on the ALP antics on net Zero.

      I don’t think he or the ALP would dare even think about it. They’d get such a thumping that an early election would be their only way to go.

      Let’s call for another referendum for them to lose!!

      It would also serve as a real warning to the Uniparty as well!

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    Bob Close

    You may be surprised JR, but the Australian public like better economic management, so as the current energy bill crisis deepens, the support for “ruinables” will decline. I agree the worm is finally turning, and if the conservative parties grasp the nettle and finally support new investment in fossil fuels their stars will begin to shine again. Political opinion can be fickle, but economic facts rule, we don’t need any more so-called renewables in our energy system. Labor will be a one term government if the Liberals get their act together on climate and energy issues.

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      Skepticynic

      Labor will be a one term government if the Liberals get their act together on climate and energy issues

      I fervently wish you are right however while I don’t know about the UK, certainly here and in the USA, the main conservative party is almost wholly captured by the same globalistcorporatecommunist mind-virus as the mainstream media, the education sector, the unions, the public service, the police, and the Labor/Greens/Teals alliance is. “Getting their act together” is going to require an injection of fresh blood, a rigorous purging of LINOs, and a staunch, zealous, inspiring leader.

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        Ted1.

        I nominate Keith Pitt.

        The first thing that would do is show us what LNP means.

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          Skepticynic

          Keith Pitt is impressive.
          Can he gather support in the LNP and KICK A***!!…?
          Consign the LINOs to the trash can?

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    Saighdear

    Says who! I’m not asking. TAX TAX TAX High costs through taxation of FUEL – no longer rebated diesel for non-roadgoing vehicles and the rest.
    Simply Get rid of the whole load of them – essentially a one party state, and in Scotland …. Look, nay, SMELL them – Fish gone off.

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      ianl

      … no longer rebated diesel for non-roadgoing vehicles

      That’s fine. So the private roads on farms and minesites will then be maintained by taxpayers of course.

      And as for those pesky fishing fleets … How dare they not use public roads to fish from ?

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    MrGrimNasty

    Nothing substantial will change, it’s all locked into law, law largely imposed through underhand evasion of democratic approval/due process. The political classes have deliberately avoided explaining exactly what climate action means in reality, and they have never allowed the public to vote openly on the matter. So all we have is another politician’s weasel words to garner temporary popularity for the next election.

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    David Maddison

    In Australia, the pretend-conservative party is in opposition in all states and federally, except Tasmania. They are likely to lose the Tasmanian election as well.

    They have so few seats now, the Liberals have absolutely nothing to lose by adopting some pro-energy, pro-civilisation policies.

    But they won’t.

    In the last Sicktorian election the Liberals offered even more extreme anti-energy policies than Labor. And in NSW, when the Liberals were last in power before losing to Labor, Matt Kean was the energy minister and an EXTREME anti-energy Green, and far worse than anything Labor had to offer.

    Even if Liberals were serious about winning back power, and I don’t think they are because all Liberals currently with seats have secure jobs and that’s all they want, they have an appalling track record in support of anti-energy policies.

    Don’t forget it was Howard that first established the Renewable Energy Target (RET) and allowed non-dispatchable generators to pollute the grid and he was also behind giving away much of Australia’s gas supply on a bizarre 30 year contract at world’s cheapest prices with no provision for inflation or market price adjustments (Ref *). And think of all the anti-energy policies of the Turnbull and Morrison regimes.

    Rather than waste effort on supporting untrustworthy and leaderless Liberals, conservatives and fellow rational thinkers need to support conservative-oriented pro-energy, pro-civilisation parties like:

    – United Australia Party
    – Liberal Democrats
    – One Nation

    (* Ref: https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html )

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      Glenn

      Totally agree David. The LNP are a disaster and so similar to Labor you have to look hard to see the difference. Someone is going to have to clean up Albanese’s mess come 2025. The only choices at the moment are the three parties you suggest. When I hear Ted O’Brien , the shadow ” Climate Minister ” banging on about ” decarbonisation ” I shake my head in disgust…they have no clue.

      Dutton MUST realise that climate change is a crock, we need more coal fired power stations and gas peaking, and the long term plan should be nuclear…but he does not have the balls to say so and promote this as good policy for fear of losing votes. Unless there is radical change before 2025, he may find himself in opposition for another term, and by then, the lunatic Left will have destroyed this Country.

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        David Maddison

        decarbonisation

        To be honest, Glenn, I don’t even think that O’Brien or almost any other member of parliament could explain exactly what carbon was. I am not joking…

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          Gary S

          The fact that we even have a ministry of ‘Climate Change’ shows how much the public have been duped. They now ask us to accept a minister for ‘Energy and Climate Change’. That is a sign the dumbing down mission has been accomplished. The clowns were sent in long ago.

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        MP

        …they have no clue.

        They know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it.
        We are the fools for believing compulsive lairs.

        The whole article about Sunak, he said, he said, he said. The fact the poll shifted 23% based on “he said” shows how stupid people are.

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      Ronin

      “In Australia, the pretend-conservative party is in opposition in all states and federally, except Tasmania. They are likely to lose the Tasmanian election as well.”

      That’s because there is not a cigarette papers thickness in difference between the two of them, so why vote for a pale imitation when you could vote for the real thing.

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      David,
      Greg Hunt was minister for the Environment in the Abbott Government and Minister for Health in the Scomo government. The worst of the RET and other climate rubbish started under Hunt in the Abbott years and the vaccine mandate debacle happened under Minister for Health, Hunt during the pandemic. He was also a graduate of the WEF. Need I say any more?

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        David Maddison

        Agreed Peter.

        It was also Hunt that put a stop to Tony Abbott’s request for an inquiry into data fraud at the Bureau of Meteorology.

        He was an extreme WEF loyalist and puppet. “Their man” in Canberra.

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          Graham Richards

          How many ALP ministers are WEF acolytes and who are they.???

          Or should I be asking how many ministers are NOT WEF acolytes??

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      michael

      maybe we should be urging one nation to field candidates in all electorates so we have someone to vote for. Seems to me the policies of One Nation are very close to those the liberals espoused 20-30 years ago before they were infected with green madness.

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        Ross

        They don’t need urging Michael. They are already fielding candidates in most electorates both federal and state. I voted federal and state during 2022 and there were ON candidates plus UAP, major parties and then independents as well. Almost too many!!

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    David Maddison

    Another thing to consider, and related to MrGrimNasty’s comment #6, is that members of the Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty will evade action to adopt pro-energy policies because that will claim “international agreements” or “treaty obligations”.

    Well, just as the government signed them, they can unsign them, just as President Trump did.

    Sadly, all factions of the Uniparty believe in globalist government so none of them will do anything.

    Therefore, no Uniparty faction deserves the respect or the vote of any thinking person.

    Vote:

    – United Australia Party
    – Liberal Democrats
    – One Nation

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      Glenn

      100% correct.

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      Dave in the States

      Well, just as the government signed them, they can unsign them, just as President Trump did.

      Just to clarify, President Trump was able to get us out of the Paris mess because it was not a treaty done properly. Kyoto, and later Copenhagen, never had a chance of being approved by the US Senate. So as Paris approached Hollande asked Obama how to get around that problem. Obama called it an agreement instead of a treaty and illegally signed us up. It was never legit and still isn’t.

      It has been said that Trump should have put Paris up to the Senate during his first term and that would have been the end of it. However, so called Republicans like Mitt could have helped pass it. It was too risky.

      Likewise, since Obama could never get his agenda legislation through the proper way, he signed a lot executive orders. Trump unsigned them. Then Bai-den resigned them.

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      Old Goat

      David,
      Voted that way last time . Wish we could vote often like the US. A good old cheating competition . What would happen if you had more votes than voters ?

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    David Maddison

    In Australia, I have been hearing for decades people say “you might not like what the Liberal Party do but you have to support them to influence them to change”.

    That’s obviously not going to happen. As Glenn said, you have to look hard to see any difference.

    The party (both figuratively and literally) is over and it’s time to support someone else.

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      Ross

      Only this morning the West Australian LNP are quoted as saying they signed up to the WA Aboriginal Cultural legislation, but they had no idea what it meant (bit of a paraphrase there). Hence, you cant even trust their intelligence as well. Which is the same deal with the Victorian LNP. They helped institute the gas exploration ban years ago, supported probably everything Andrews did during COVID and went the last election with higher emissions reduction targets than the ALP.

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        Len

        The Opposition in WA, four Nationals and two Liberals, voted for the Act.
        However, the damage was contained in the subsequent regulations which they had no imput into. The regulations contained all the problems. The regulations were said to have been supplied by the UN

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          Ross

          Ok, that sort of makes sense and I knew there were only 6 of them, so I suppose they thought they were irrelevant and hence no need to follow up. Which is why it looks like the whole act/regulations is going to be repealed by the WA government. What a schemozzle.

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          David of Cooyal in Oz

          Sounds like another reason to vote No to the Voice. Too much chance of another takeover by bureaucrats to me.

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    Neville

    I’m afraid that Tony b is probably correct and the Tory polling is not like the polling for the wider electorate in the UK.
    I hope I’m wrong and we’ll just have to wait and see, but in the meantime we have to remember that hardly anyone really understands the lunacy of net zero and TOXIC , UNRELIABLE W & S energy.
    Also the NON OECD countries will be emitting MORE co2 for many decades and OECD countries haven’t made a scrap of difference since 1988.
    In fact the OECD countries have wasted 35 years and TRILLIONs of $ for NOTHING and very few voters understand or really care enough to just LOOK UP THE DATA for themselves.
    This takes a few minutes online, yet most people are too dumb to make the effort.

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      Bruce

      This entire rock-show has ONLY ever been about money and POWER, personal and political POWER.
      No other “more charitable” explanation is valid.

      All those Trillions of Dollars, Euros? On what percentage of “spillage” are the usual suspects?

      One percent of a trillion is a fair whack. At five percent, we are starting to talk real money.

      And you apparently don’t need even a small percentage of teh “spillage to get “honest politicians”. (Don’t forget to take into account the “inflation” that is said to ne almost non-existent).

      As in:

      Q. How can you spot an honest politician?

      A. When they are bought, they STAY bought”.

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    David Maddison

    I wonder if this influenced Sunak?

    Surely not!

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/23697572.rishi-sunaks-family-firm-infosys-signed-1-5b-deal-bp/

    Rishi Sunak’s family firm Infosys signed $1.5B deal with BP

    3rd August

    JUST two months before Rishi Sunak opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, an IT firm founded by his father-in-law signed a $1.5 billion deal with energy giant BP.

    The Times of India reported in May that Indian IT giant Infosys – in which Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty also has a reported £400 million stake – won a deal from the global energy company thought to be the second-largest in the history of the firm.

    Despite the company being partly owned by his wife’s family, Sunak previously said the matter is of “no legitimate public interest”.

    It comes as the CEO of oil giant Shell also joined Rishi Sunak’s new business council two weeks ago. The Byline Times reported in July 2022 that Infosys had oil giant Shell as a client, too.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    Neville

    So what has happened to the co2 emissions data since 1970?
    The OECD has increased co2 emissions by about 2 billion tons per annum by 2021 and the NON OECD has increased co2 emissions by about 19.62 billion tons per annum by 2021.
    AGAIN more OECD WASTED time and TRILLIONs of $ for NOTHING.
    Are our MSM, pollies, bankers, unions, CSIRO, finance companies etc really this BARKING MAD?

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OECD+%28GCP%29~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29

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      Kalm Keith

      But, but; we have to try, even if the effort is only a token of what’s needed.

      TOKENISM, the biggest, newest, brightest and most sanctimonious religion.

      Tithes gratefully accepted through cheque, net transfer or gold bullion. Cheques can be made out direct to Tawdry Anhydrous.

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      Serge Wright

      OECD collective emissions are the same today as 1980, but global emissions have more than doubled. The greatest crime ever perpetrated on the west is being done by the UN and is still in progress. This started in 1992 with the UNFCC, that forced OECD countries to reduce emissions by offshoring all intensive industry to developing countries, but gave the developing counties that represented a potential 85% of global emissions, a free pass. The UNFCC agreement could only have ever resulted in one outcome and that was a huge increase in emissions, because it provided the injection to kick start the developing economies on a growth boom, resulting in China’s massive expansion and now being followed by India and SE Asia.

      The fact that the UNFCC “free pass” clause was never removed during the massive explosion in emissions over the past 30 years, as the developing countries went from 40% to 70% contributors of all emissions and the clause still exists today, is absolute proof that the UN does not regard CO2 as a climate problem. This has always been all about changing the global power balance.

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    Steve

    Another lying tory barsteward telling the gullible what they want to hear whilst actually doing FA.
    Words are cheap, actions cost more !

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    Serge Wright

    The UK has gone harder and faster to Net Zero than us and is feeling more financial pain, but our PM is trying to inflict a multi pronged attack on our citizens, which also includes changing the constitution towards an autocracy, creating a new ruling/elite political class based on race, removing our land rights, forcing us to pay rent and water rates to the new landlords and establishing an Orwellian “truth” commission to silence and vanquish those that protest against the new ruling class. The prospect we face in Australia is one of brutal regime change, akin to the totalitarian states many people fled to come here as refugees. Unless a pro-democracy political party can rise up against the Marxist forces and restore power to the people, our outlook is not good.

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      Kalm Keith

      The damage done to Australians over the last four years has been horrific and the areas of control you mention are disgusting, considering our past supposed history as a democracy.

      The control, the wilful damage of the Jabberwocky, house arrest, the threat of death by incineration due to CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and sharing of our savings with Non contributors who are imported to vote under guidance from above. The hidden danger is the massive national debt owing to ? China, O’Biden?

      It’s all there but we just keep tolerating each incremental bit of abuse.

      When the avalanche of stored debt used in the cover-up finally collapses on us, We Are Done For.

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        Serge Wright

        Our debt is mostly in AUD$, created by bond sales. The problem we have now is that bond yields are down and the dollar is falling under the weight of debt, so we can’t keep raising money by selling more bonds. The government also can’t print more money via quantitative easing without impacting the currency, so they now look at our super and assets.

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          David Maddison

          That’s why they are desperate to introduce death taxes, even Labor-Lite former PM Scott Morrison refused to rule out such taxes when he was treasurer. Ref 1.

          Ref. 1. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/turnbull-government-refuses-to-rule-out-return-of-death-duties-20151114-gkywn9.html

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          David Maddison

          And as you say Serge, they are coming after your superannuation (US=tax benefitted retirement fund) to steal it.

          Former CPSU union hack, now Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones, said this:

          https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/stephen-jones-2022/transcripts/interview-madeleine-morris-news-breakfast-abc-0

          Now there will always be bequests in a superannuation system. There’s no doubt about that. But it’s not the purpose of superannuation to have a tax preferred estate planning mechanism. It’s about providing for people at the end stages and in their retirement. We’ve got a crisis of funding in aged care and at the same time we’ve got one‑third of the value of superannuation funds being written out in bequests. That doesn’t square. So it is a conversation that we need to have and the discussion paper and the discussion that my colleagues Anika Wells and Jim Chalmers are leading looks at a range of options. But I don’t think we can carve superannuation out of that.

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            Serge Wright

            Yep, it’s now “their” super and if you worked hard and saved hard to create a nest egg to enjoy your retirement, then you’re the target and if you bludged off the system all your life then you get rewarded. Welcome to socialism !!!

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              Tel

              Look on the bright side … some things never change.

              They ain’t gonna steal from widows and orphans are they? At least you should know the deal by now.

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    MH

    Typical Fabian tactic. These people will never stop. It’s a take all strategy by small increments over a long period of time using deception at every level. This is just a small pull back to relax people while the main game is played elsewhere.

    There will not be significant change until enough people realise and stand up to governments that have morphed into corporate criminal organisations, that there will never be negotiations with the people or anything left on the table for the individual.

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    David Maddison

    Despite Rishi and his wife having a net worth of £730 million (A$1,415 million, US$930 million) he still takes a PM salary and doesn’t donate it like President Trump did.

    And how much was spent installing Sunak as PM?

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/29/rishi-sunak-leadership-donors-liz-truss

    Finance, property and mining: the money behind Sunak’s £460,000 leadership bid

    Multimillionaire flew on private plane and received more donations than any rivals, including Liz Truss

    Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

    Sat 29 Oct 2022

    Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party leadership bid was bankrolled to the tune of almost £500,000 by City figures including a multibillionaire hedge fund manager, a spread betting tycoon, and intriguingly, a close friend and policy adviser who masterminded his campaign.

    Sunak, 42, who together with this heiress wife has a £730m fortune, received a total of £458,570 in donations as well as gifted office space and the use of a private jet for his failed – but then eventually successful – bid to lead the Conservative party and become prime minister.

    He received more money than any of the other contenders in the race, ahead of Liz Truss who collected £424,000, and in excess of the £300,000 spending limit put in place by the Conservative party.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    Neville

    AGAIN more proof that their so called DANGEROUS warming could be just more BS and fraud.
    Daniel Fitzhenry details the BOM Fort Denison SLR data since 1914 and finds NOTHING to worry about.
    So why do they want to WASTE many MORE TRILLIONs of $ for decades for NOTHING?
    And why do they want to WRECK our proven, RELIABLE ENERGY supply as well?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjOmsqIibk

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    The Stimulus-Response model evidently operates for Rishi Sunak too. Ivan Pavlov would have been chuffed. I’m even a bit chuffed.

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      John Connor II

      Imagine Pavlov’s house when his neighbour installs a wind chime. Wet vac on standby. 😄
      Same thing with pollies – it’s always about them, knee jerk reacting to anything that benefits them.
      Sunak’s masses-appeasing stunt won’t change anything.
      Don’t people understand politicians YET?
      /rhetorical question

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    Ross

    Words are cheap. Rishi will probably say anything to to stay in office. Hell, he might even take a bottle of North Sea oil into parliament with him one day. Let’s say the Tories win the next election and Rishi is still PM. What’s the bet Net Zero gets rebadged and some elements of it are enforced anyway. Look what happened in Australia. We re-elected Tony Abbott and had 9 years of LNP. In that 9 years we should have built more dams, upgraded coal plants, defunded the ABC, reduced immigration to sustainable levels, kept energy prices low and enacted pandemic plans that TA himself helped put in place. What did we get? No new dams, coal plants closed, a more belligerent/unaccountable ABC, higher immigration, higher energy prices and a pandemic plan that was completely ignored.

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      Steve

      Quite. And, as mentioned previously the UK under Bozo Johnson made meeting net zero a legal obligation. Therefore, the PM cannot just change things willy-nilly, the law would have to be changed by Parliament. The courts will overturn any attempts at illegal changes. Sunak knows this.
      After 13 years of the tory regime, the people are used to the lies that the government and the various PMs make on a daily basis: Brexit, Immigration; NHS, Covid, Climate Change, Ukraine, etc.
      Still they vote for them.

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    Ronin

    Let’s hope Peter Dutton is watching and listening.

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    Neville

    AGAIN, Willis Eschenbach checks all the DATA on all their BS SCARY stories and finds NOTHING to worry about.
    So what are these donkeys and liars and con merchants up to I wonder?

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/25/wheres-the-emergency/

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    hoopie

    Saw Oppenheimer. When the vision of the exploding bomb occurred, all I could think was “what the hell are we farting around with solar panels and wind turbines, when nuclear is out there”.

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      David Maddison

      Because it has nothing to do with truth, logic or securing an inexpensive supply of energy but REMOVING our inexpensive supply of energy.

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    Gbees

    Rishi cannot be trusted.

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    Ronin

    Flinders Island on 99% diesel.

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      David Maddison

      The fact that unreliables are a failure in the one place in the world they might possibly work, right in the middle of the Roaring Forties but with no umbilical cord to a power station, ought to be a huge wake up call for the whole country. But present company excepted, no one knows or cares.

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    Old Goat

    The energy landscape is changing . Follow the money . Russian oil is still being used despite sanctions and western goods are still getting to russia . Rishi is a rich muppet . Boris Johnson should be handed over to the Ukrainian widows association .

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    MrGrimNasty

    “When it comes to offshore wind costs, Whitehall is lurching from one ludicrous evidence-free claim to another in a desperate attempt to maintain the pretense that it can be delivered at low cost. In reality, they have no choice but to lie, because cheap renewable energy is central to government’s claims that Net Zero is affordable. And as if to confirm that we are dealing with disinformation, the appearance of the new estimates comes against a background of increasingly shrill demands from the wind industry for further subsidy.”

    https://www.netzerowatch.com/a-fairy-story-offshore-wind-costs/

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    Phil O'Sophical

    “Many of us have been raising the alarm over its timetable and estimated trillion-pound plus cost…”

    Of course that’s a start, but is itself a kind of cowardly virtue signalling now the wind has changed a fraction, because she still dare not go to the real root, and say the emperor has no clothes; that timetable and cost are irrelevant; that no action at all is necessary.

    They should be stamping on it altogether, as a deliberate scam by some for ultimate control and by others jumping on the bandwagon for self-enrichment with no regard to those they impoverish.

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    Ronin

    Planting windmills all over the countryside is starting to die a natural death, they are losing their social licence, farmers are fighting the march of power pylons on their farms, making life difficult for the carpetbaggers.
    People have simply had a gutful of the lies.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Farage highlights Scotland’s windmills at the expense of almost 16 million trees.
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1799384/Nigel-farage-snp-wind-Scotland

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