Intro by Steve Cook

I received the following message from Together. It does such a fine job of describing the enemy attack on the country thinly disguised as an environmental crusade that I decided to feature it here in full and unedited.

As predicted, since it got elected with the meagre support of one voter in five, the cadre of cowardly criminal saboteurs masquerading as a deranged “Labour” have poured coals on their effort to crush what’s left of your once strong nation. Make no mistake, Starmer, Milliband and their c0-conspirators are on a mission to impoverish, demoralise and ruin your country.

If a foreign power had set out to cripple and impoverish the country the way these lunatics have done, it would have been treated as an act of war.

And so it should be.

This country can do so much better than the sorry mess the sociopaths in power are making of it. They are standing in the way of progress and must be taken out of our road.

Of course, it would help if we could knock off the suicidal habit of electing criminals and sociopaths to high office because nations only decline and fail when they are made to decline and fail.

Groups such as Together are leading the patriotic fight-back and they deserve all the support we can give them.

Net Zero Madness: End of the Beginning?

As we write, the UK is busy de-industrialising and de-developing itself in the name of Net Zero. New government, same crazed ideology – but for how much longer?

Ed Miliband, the new minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, has lost no time in announcing the first plans of his ‘mission-driven department’ to ‘accelerate’ the UK’s ‘journey toward Net Zero’.

They include a ban on North Sea oil and gas drilling and approval for energy firm Sunnica to build a solar panel facility covering 2,792-acres of arable land in eastern England – the equivalent of over 2000 football pitches.

This during one of the cloudiest summers in living memory and while many are warning of farmers going out of business and even food shortages.

Miliband doesn’t seem too worried, cheering on the closure of the UK’s last coal fired power station as ‘historic,’ even as we discover the UK now has the highest electricity prices in the world.

And just in case anyone was still wondering whether Net Zero really means exporting our industry, jobs and CO2 emissions to less deluded nations, they’ve just had confirmation that Tata Steel is building a massive new blast furnace in India while closing down Port Talbot’s blast furnace

.Good job the Net Zero plan of showing ‘global leadership’ and inspiring all these other countries to change their wicked ways is working, isn’t it?

It’s worth remembering that Net Zero is a very new idea. This potted history by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit traces its history from academic science papers in the early 2000s to the Paris Agreement in 2015. Only in 2019 did the UK become the first G7 country committing itself to legally-binding emission targets by 2050.

As commentators everywhere are pointing out – you can read some recent pieces  here and here – the new government’s obsession with Net Zero commits the UK to making huge sacrifices. No-one knows what the exact cost of Net Zero will be.

But it’s not just the financial cost of Net Zero that should concern us. It’s how it will increasingly intrude on every area of our lives, if we allow it to play out…

Doctors are nowbeing advised to reduce services to patients  to help the NHS reach its Net Zero goal by 2040. A ‘green toolkit’ produced by the Royal College of Physicians encourages medics to reduce ‘unnecessary prescribing’, to ‘think twice’ before requesting a blood test and consider if a diagnostic image is ‘essential’.

The NHS is also committed to reducing its use of emission-creating anaesthetics – your pain, Net Zero target’s gain!

And while the last government’s change of heart on phasing out gas boilers means we may not have to become a nation of heat pump owners just yet, there is plenty on the horizon to worry householders.

Speaking at our recent Together event at Leeds, Dr David McGrogan highlighted concerns about the pressure to install smart meters and the Energy Act of 2023:

‘There are times when you think something very suspicious is going on. It’s very clear: “we have the power to force you to have an energy smart device… and we have the power to licence regulators to regulate the flow of electricity.” So it’s pretty clear [that] at some point in the future they want to control the flow of electricity into household appliances through the internet.

‘Why do they want to do that? Well in the preamble to the Act it’s says that one of the purposes of the Act is facilitate the achievement of Net Zero.’

Observing the slow motion car crash of Net Zero could make you gloomy.

But time and time again, history – including recent history – has shown the power that ordinary people wield when we speak up, say no and assert ourselves #together.

Since we began campaigning against Net Zero after an overwhelming member vote to do so a year ago, the “mood music” around the issue has changed a lot.

And with some trades unions belatedly waking up to the reality that Net Zero is costing jobs and “hollowing out working class communities” as well, it feels like we may be at “the end of the beginning” of undoing this unholy mess…

The Conservative party leadership contest provides more evidence. Regardless of what you may think of them, three of the four candidates have made pretty sceptical noises about Net Zero:

:”Robert Jenrick said that Britain should be working towards net zero but called for an end to “mad” net zero targets, while Kemi Badenoch described herself as not a climate sceptic but a net zero sceptic, suggesting targets could be reviewed. Tom Tugendhat said he did not accept the term ‘climate emergency’ and argued that Ed Miliband’s policies were going to “destroy Britain”, with every single project designed to make power more expensive and harder to get.”

You don’t have to trust them, or overlook the hypocrisy from the party that brought Net Zero into being. You simply have to recognise that they wouldn’t be saying it at all unless they thought they were now in tune with party members and much of the public.

Changing public opinion on Net Zero is an essential first step, and we are playing our part.

Together draws its strength to campaign, co-ordinate and raise awareness from our members and supporters, who are ordinary people just like you, so:

Please join us as a member here to support the fightback against Net Zero making us poorer, colder and less free

We’re constantly making the case in the media and on social media. We’ve commissioned original research reports from Together’s Ben Pile, exposing Sadiq Khan’s bogus ULEZ claims and the anti-democratic organisations like UK100 and C40 Cities exerting undue influence over Britain’s councils and local authorities in the name of Net Zero and related ideas.

We pull together individuals and groups with common interests. We work hard every day to organise campaigns, public meetings and protests from Aberdeen to Bournemouth, and support a network of local groups across the country. We can also help members set up new local groups in their area.

While there are encouraging signs, however, huge damage is being done to our country, right now. Ed Miliband wants to ‘accelerate’ this – which means the pushback had better accelerate too!

We have plenty of will – what we don’t have is the kind of resources that government and ‘green’ billionaire funded NGOs have. We are a grassroots organisation that depends on ordinary members of the public.

So please, if you can, JOIN Together as a member here, at whatever level suits you. Take out a membership as your pledge to stand firm, connected with others, against whatever unwarranted measures the new government tries to impose in the coming term.

You don’t need deep pockets to do so. There are a range of options and if you’d like to contribute more, you can do so by adding a donation at the time you join:

Please join Together as a member HERE to help continue the fightback against destructive Net Zero policies – thank you!

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