Kettlegate - The Truth. Bonkers Boris Was As Crazy As Mad Ed

Don’t let the brief passing of a few years convince you that Net Zero is exclusively the brainlesschild of Mad Ed Milibean. He’s as cuckoo as they come for sure, and he’s had his sticky green fingers in the carbon reduction pie since at least 2008, when he was Energy Secretary and oversaw the introduction of the Climate Change act 2008. But, the Tories are equally complicit in this mess. It was Theresa May who shafted the country with Net Zero legislation as her ‘parting gift’ and vainglorious ‘legacy’ in 2019. And it was Boris the Red, aka Bonkers Boris, who locked us all down in March 2020 and then started wittering on about ‘clean’ wind power as part of the Great Reset post Covid recovery. So yes, The Sun quite rightly is on Mad Ed’s case:

PEOPLE will have to restrict when they boil the kettle to help Ed Miliband hit his 2030 clean power targets, according to a report.

They will be told they must be much more “flexible” about when they use gas and electricity.

And coastlines and the countryside will be littered with around 6,350 more windfarms if the Energy Secretary is to achieve his ambitious environmental goals.

A report into how Britain can meet Mr Miliband’s climate targets describes them as a “huge challenge” that requires a doubling of onshore windfarms, a tripling of offshore windfarms, and a tripling of onshore solar sites.

After all, this is serious: the great British cuppa is at stake! But The Sun and others should also recognise that it was Bonkers Boris who set us up for this failure to boil the kettle four years ago when he said this at the Tory party conference on Oct 6th 2020:

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that he wanted the country to become the “world leader in low cost clean power generation.”

Speaking at the Conservative Party annual conference, which was delivered virtually, Johnson stressed the importance of renewable energy sources, especially offshore wind.

“We believe that in ten years’ time, offshore wind will be powering every home in the country, with our target rising from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts,” he said.

“You heard me right: your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug-in electric vehicle, the whole lot of them, will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands,” he added.

The pledge to increase offshore wind capacity was included in the Conservative Party’s manifesto for the 2019 general election.

Johnson said he remembered how some people used to sneer at wind power 20 years ago, in an apparent reference to himself, given he had once claimed wind farms couldn’t “pull the skin off a rice pudding.” His comments criticizing the effectiveness of wind power were made in 2013, however.

The prime minister said £160 million ($207.46 million) would be invested in ports and factories to manufacture what he described as the “next generation of turbines” — a move he later claimed would generate 60,000 jobs — and also acknowledged the role floating offshore wind could play.

“As Saudi Arabia is to oil, the U.K. is to wind — a place of almost limitless resource but, in the case of wind, without the carbon emissions, without the damage to the environment,” he said.

So how’s the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’ doing now Boris? Not great, it must be said. Not enough “sea breezes” to boil one sodding kettle, let alone millions. The wind turbines around here have ground to a halt and it’s been like that, most of the time, for the last few days. Same across the country. Same across much of western and central Europe. So, Brits can only make a cup of tea at the moment because Mad Ed has not yet blown up all the gas fired power stations, unlike the Tories who blew up our coal fired power stations in a fit of planet saving virtue. Mad Ed has however shut down North Sea gas exploration so the gas which we will need to back up ‘renewables’ for the foreseeable future will have to be imported. Great ‘energy security’ move there Ed!

Oh, and guess what? Bad Enoch has reinstated Claire Coutinho as shadow Energy Secretary, so expect more continuity Net Zero nonsense if ever the Tories get back into power. Because Coutinho whilst in actual office was gung ho full speed ahead for Net Zero madness. Only now, when Labour have gone one better in the insanity stakes, has she been complaining that they’re doing it all wrong! Grim.