We’re doomed, doomed, doomed!

Friday-weekend blog

It’s all too easy to write Armageddon-style, clickbait headlines. So, hopefully most people see these for what they are – pathetic attempts by third-rate supposed ‘journalists’ to boost their own readership, profile and careers. After all, there’s the well-known press aphorism – “if it bleeds, it leads” – meaning the more shock factor a story has, the more likely it is to feature strongly in any media’s output.

But this time we really are doomed:

Legally-binding stupidity

What is dooming us is our useless, self-serving, expenses-fiddling, virtue-signalling, lying politicians’ decision to make the targets in their ludicrous Climate Change Act legally binding. Some readers may remember that only five or seven (I think) out of 650 MPs were smart enough to vote against the Climate Change Act and the irony that it was passed in April 2008 on a day when (if I remember correctly) there was unusually heavy snowfall in London.

We are now just beginning to see that disastrous effect that making the Climate Change act legally binding is having on British jobs, the UK economy and all our lives:

• The billionaire-funded eco fanatics launched a legal challenge whether Surrey Council had acted unlawfully in approving the planning application by Horse Hill Developments Ltd to expand an existing site on the Weald to include drilling four additional oil wells. Their claim was that in their environmental impact assessment the council had failed to take into account the carbon dioxide emissions that would occur when the oil, or products derived from the oil, were burnt. The development was blocked by our ‘wise’ judges
• The most recent casualty of this precedent is the High Court ruling against West Cumbria Mining who were pursuing permission for the UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years. The scheme had been approved in December 2022 under Michael Gove’s ‘levelling up’ remit. Again the complainants’ claim was that the environmental impact of the ultimate combustion of the coal should have been included in the decision on the planning application, but had not been. The development was blocked by our ‘wise’ judges

By making the targets set in the Climate Change Act legally binding, our waste-of-skin MPs have opened the floodgates for the billionaire-funded eco-fanatics to challenge any development on the basis that any development will inevitably increase CO2 emissions. For the moment, the climate catastrophists are only attacking proposed new developments. But how long will it be before they start looking at existing commercial acivities like factories, warehouses and infrastructure and start demanding that these be closed down (with the loss of thousands of jobs) by claiming that such activity makes it less likely that the UK will reach its 2050 legally-binding Net Zero targets?

A great time to invest in Britain?

You don’t have to be a clever economist like Rachel ‘Robber’ Reeves to see what effect these legally-binding Net Zero targets will have on the British economy. After all, what international or even British company will choose to build a new factory or warehouse or anything in Britain if they will be faced with years of legal challenges by the well-funded climate catastrophists? And what international or even British company will choose to build a new factory or warehouse or anything in Britain if they have to deal with raving red temptress Angela Rayner’s new employee rights whereby any employee can demand to work from home and to claim that any time their boss speaks to them this can harm their mental health requiring weeks or even months of fully-paid leave?

Doomed, doomed, doomed – we really are doomed.