Has There Ever Been A More Clueless Prime Minister?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-tells-private-sector-to-start-paying-their-fair-share-on-global-climate-change-13252884

The private sector pay for everything anyway you wally! The public sector are an expense. Unbelievable!

[barney4444]

You couldn't make it up you know, the health service, schools etc are absolutely in dire straights, desperate for funding, and what do our senned  come up with, let's have an additional 32 senned members, build extension to the Cardiff Bay mousileum so we got more committee rooms for us to have tea and cakes and dream up things like spending millions on 20 m.p.h speed limits then after a while spend millions taking them off again, funding the additional members and building costs don't seem to be a problem.

[New Judge]

“….voting for more extreme party's like Reform,”

Reform is not an extreme party. It has policies which are slightly to the right of centre, that’s all. It is where the Tory party needs to pitch itself if it is to have any chance of success. Some examples of its “extreme” policies are:

-    Reduce taxes and the size of the State
-    Promote & grow the private sector (which pays for the public sector in its entirety)
-    Reduce and properly control immigration
-    Replace indoctrination with learning in schools and universities
-    Promote the freedom of speech

If those policies are now thought to be “extreme” then something has gone seriously wrong in this country.

[max137]

The answer is probably not though I could name some contenders he and Ed Millibandit are in Azerbaijan promising to make you in Britain colder and poorer.

[barney4444]

scary innit, how can our 'leaders' be so wrong about what people are really worried and concerned about. I had 2 jobs for nigh on all my working life, paid tax N. I. from both ( shift system on main job allowed time off ) my wife worked from when our youngest daughter started school, we sat here now with a quilt over my legs, and wife with wooly cardigan over her, can't put heating on, then you got Starmer in his 5 star hotel, lovely and warm, well fed, pledging millions and millions of pounds to make us green. U.S.A, China, Russia not joining in though, fed up to the back teeth I am, really I am.   

[max137]

I mistyped yes he is the worst barney4444 all your illegals are tucked up nicely in four star accommadation you couldn' make it up.

[New Judge]

It’s telling that although there are 50,000 delegates (dowwn from 100,000 last time out) attending the latest “COP” jamboree, leaders from the three most polluting countries haven’t bothered with it.

In contrast our manic obsession with “Net Zero” and our legally binding commitment to get there (our emissions being 1% of the global total), China (33%) simply has an “ambition” to reach net zero by 2060 and has either under construction or in planning coal fired power stations which will add 20 times the UK’s total capacity from all sources. President Xi has made it clear that cutting emissions will not be allowed to interfere with economic growth. Even under Biden’s Presidency, production of oil and gas has soared in the US (13% of global emissions). This is just as well because much of the UK’s gas is now imported in large diesel powered ships from that country). President-elect Trump has, of course made no secret of his plans to get the US tapping and fracking.

What have we done here? Drax power station has been converted to burn 7m tons of wood every year. Most of this is felled and processed in the USA and Canada and transported by diesel powered ships and trains to be burnt in Yorkshire. The emissions the transport spews out do not matter because they are counted against the US and Canada’s totals. Those that burning the wood produces - twice as high as if coal was used -  also do not count as (it is claimed) new trees are being planted to reduced those felled. Drax is considered “carbon neutral” and it receives close on £1bn a year in subsidies to do this. 

We’ve spent almost £50bn on wind turbines. Over the past fortnight during a spell of particularly calm conditions across the entire UK, this investment managed between 1% and 5% of the country’s demand. On occasions that figure was close to zero and at times during that spell, gas (which Mr Miliband wants to see eradicated as a source by 2030) was meeting over 70% of demand.

The people overseeing all this are fanatical lunatics – there is no other word to describe them. It is fairly well agreed that by 2030 supply will be unable to meet demand and there will almost certainly be power rationing. And the cost reaching that unenviable position means UK consumers are paying the highest prices of any member of the International Energy Agency.

The fanatics believe the UK’s actions will “save the planet” – in the same way that burning your house down may get rid of a troublesome wasps’ nest.

[Deskdiary]

Ah, but there'll be somebody along shortly (there usually is) to educate us that we need to be seen to be setting an example to others. No, me either.

[barney4444]

And we are unable to change a thing. Almost makes me think about for the first time in my life to stand in Trafalgar square waving my placard about, but then you get arrested, we not allowed to speak out just roll over and suck it up.  

[Peter Pedant]

Reform is not an extreme party.

Reform is an extreme party, and its leader is a liar (*). but I agree that that is par for the course for politics

(*) we havent forgotten that liddle liddle " £350m for the NHS. LIE and many many more

[Old_Geezer]

Depends on what scale you are measuring extreme.

Correcting the nation's problems should be in the middle of any reasonable scale.  Either being excessively Woke, or excessively enthusiastic to do the WEF's bidding, well they should both be extremes. I'd suggest opting to achieve as little as possible was an extreme position too.

[Old_Geezer]

To repeat yet again, £350m for the NHS was never promised, simply pointed out as an option; so can not be a LIE. Plus more money did get to the NHS anyway.