It’s a question I’ve been struggling with for a while and one which the nation is struggling with (or not, as the case may be) as we witness the full, jaw-dropping extent of Mad Miliband’s apparent cult-like, unhinged obsession with Net Zero on display for all the world to see at COP29.
I saw an article in the Guardian by Trot Richard Seymour recently, lamenting that lockdowns were not harder and faster. He does the usual of cherry picking studies as expected but his concluding paragraph gives the game away...
"The costs of lockdown were severe. A case could in principle be made that they were too much. However, the value judgment that most people made was that suspending capitalism for a while, even at some cost to their income, social lives and mental health, was a good thing. That should infuriate the right, and their backlash is understandable. Why it should drive those ostensibly on the left to such gross hyperbole and travesty of the facts is something more of a mystery."
Suspending capitalism (and what he omits is all the rights the 'left' have fought so hard for (in their eyes). Kill the pest sparrows because they are eating all the crops. F the ensuing famine. F the consequences. F the dead. F the living. We will chase the starlings. We will smash Capitalism! Ideological zealoted sociopaths, or to give them their correct designation...Demons. As Hitchen's recently said Herr Schtarmer et. al are further left than dear deposed leader Jeremy. There's very little reflection or internal monologue for these people, they are consumed and they will consume us with the consequences of their actions. History may not repeat but it sure echoes.
Milliband reminds me of a religious zealot who cannot be argued out of his beliefs. Essentially harmless if working in a religious setting, extremely dangerous in his current position.
Starmer is using the cult of climate emergency to advance the cause of destroying non-state enterprise in Britain. Make everyone reliant on electricity for heating, cooking and transport, you can then readily turn it on and off to control activity and behaviour.
Anyone else here old enough, to remember, I think it was an Al Capone film, in which all the actors were children? It wasn’t particularly good. Anyway, there’s been a sort of reprieve of this genre recently: I think it’s a Barclays Bank advert in which a group of children sit around and sagely nod their heads about financial products? It is bizarre and banal as the film.
My point is this: looking at this Labour administration, remind me of these two questionable pieces of media. I mean seriously? David Lammy in the foreign office? It’s like watching kids in the kitchen, wielding, knives and blenders and hot kettles, without really understanding what’s going on. 🥺
In recent discussions with Jaime on the question of mad versus bad, I had just about persuaded myself that Miliband and Starmer were mad (and probably bad), but in less than a day I’m now thinking bad (and maybe mad).
I came to think mad, particularly Miliband who has been pedalling the climate change scare for 20 years, because I think he long ago swallowed his own propaganda and become a true believer climate cultist. As such, he has probably become as deranged and blind to reality as the flying saucer cultists described in Leon Festinger’s psychology study “When prophecies fail”. I was also influenced by the obvious madness of US Democrats and others afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
I also couldn’t believe that Miliband and Starmer could be so brass-necked as to lie so publicly, blatantly and outrageously about Net Zero, especially with public opinion and world politics moving against them so fast, e.g. the non-attendance of so many Western leaders at COP29 and, in particular, President Trump’s coming defenestration of the climate change hoax.
Then I remembered how their globalist overlords had shown their evil true colours during the Covid “plandemic” and how Labour were so compliant, pushing for longer, harder lockdowns and stricter vaccine mandates and censorship of free speech (worse now with their two-tier policing and justice), how Starmer is a member of the globalist Trilateral Commission and has openly said that he prefers globalist Davos to Westminster and how the TCW comments of Polly (previously Pretty Polly) show Starmer being influenced behind the scenes by the likes of Bill Gates and George Soros: http://disq.us/p/30vjoej.
Bad most probably or mad, they are all very, very dangerous. People need to stop voting for the treasonous Lab/Con/Lib/SNP Uniparty.
Further to the research by Polly on traitorous Tony Blair’s grifting for globalist philanthropaths like George Soros, Blair showed up at COP29 alongside tyrannical Starmer. Whatever he was doing there, you can be sure it was not in the interests of the general public: https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1856763738302410938.
Good word kakistocracy. It’s quite amusing that corrupt, self-unaware Wikipedia says “it has been used to criticise … the Trump administration”. There's a lot of TDS about!
A year and a bit ago I asked the government if they had verified any of the climate science in Net Zero to be safe for the public. I asked for verification reports or procedures where you would go through key inputs and check them for suitability. Things like the temperature record etc.
They just point to the IPCC. Maybe they think because it’s intergovernmental you don’t have to do any due diligence. This was under the Tories but the same groupthink is there.
I noticed that interesting pivot too. He mentions the recent floods in Spain, the random day two years ago when we hit 40 degrees (for a few seconds as some RAF jets took off/landed next to a thermometer) and “what’s happened in America” (by which I presume he means Hurricane Milton and Helene) as his “proof “ of climate change. All of which are ridiculous non scientific examples (albeit presumably ones that speak to ordinary punters).
And just as was I digesting this and taking it as decent evidence that he is actually mad and not intelligent enough to understand what he is talking about or provide a scientific rationale, he contorts perfectly as to the message to Trump seconds later. And comes up with an answer that was impressively switched on as to the realities and politics at play. And I saw his eyes and thought, no, he knows it’s all BS, it’s about power and money….but….argh.. but is it?!
And thus I was promptly back with my conundrum as to what on earth is actually going on with him - and your article just arrived as if you are a mind reader!!
I saw an article in the Guardian by Trot Richard Seymour recently, lamenting that lockdowns were not harder and faster. He does the usual of cherry picking studies as expected but his concluding paragraph gives the game away...
"The costs of lockdown were severe. A case could in principle be made that they were too much. However, the value judgment that most people made was that suspending capitalism for a while, even at some cost to their income, social lives and mental health, was a good thing. That should infuriate the right, and their backlash is understandable. Why it should drive those ostensibly on the left to such gross hyperbole and travesty of the facts is something more of a mystery."
Suspending capitalism (and what he omits is all the rights the 'left' have fought so hard for (in their eyes). Kill the pest sparrows because they are eating all the crops. F the ensuing famine. F the consequences. F the dead. F the living. We will chase the starlings. We will smash Capitalism! Ideological zealoted sociopaths, or to give them their correct designation...Demons. As Hitchen's recently said Herr Schtarmer et. al are further left than dear deposed leader Jeremy. There's very little reflection or internal monologue for these people, they are consumed and they will consume us with the consequences of their actions. History may not repeat but it sure echoes.
I doubt he's a fool, more likely an ideologue blinded by a narrow vision to which he's stubbornly dedicated to pursue.
My view on the 3 stooges.
Milliband reminds me of a religious zealot who cannot be argued out of his beliefs. Essentially harmless if working in a religious setting, extremely dangerous in his current position.
Starmer is using the cult of climate emergency to advance the cause of destroying non-state enterprise in Britain. Make everyone reliant on electricity for heating, cooking and transport, you can then readily turn it on and off to control activity and behaviour.
Lammy must just be a DEI hire?
Anyone else here old enough, to remember, I think it was an Al Capone film, in which all the actors were children? It wasn’t particularly good. Anyway, there’s been a sort of reprieve of this genre recently: I think it’s a Barclays Bank advert in which a group of children sit around and sagely nod their heads about financial products? It is bizarre and banal as the film.
My point is this: looking at this Labour administration, remind me of these two questionable pieces of media. I mean seriously? David Lammy in the foreign office? It’s like watching kids in the kitchen, wielding, knives and blenders and hot kettles, without really understanding what’s going on. 🥺
In recent discussions with Jaime on the question of mad versus bad, I had just about persuaded myself that Miliband and Starmer were mad (and probably bad), but in less than a day I’m now thinking bad (and maybe mad).
I came to think mad, particularly Miliband who has been pedalling the climate change scare for 20 years, because I think he long ago swallowed his own propaganda and become a true believer climate cultist. As such, he has probably become as deranged and blind to reality as the flying saucer cultists described in Leon Festinger’s psychology study “When prophecies fail”. I was also influenced by the obvious madness of US Democrats and others afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
I also couldn’t believe that Miliband and Starmer could be so brass-necked as to lie so publicly, blatantly and outrageously about Net Zero, especially with public opinion and world politics moving against them so fast, e.g. the non-attendance of so many Western leaders at COP29 and, in particular, President Trump’s coming defenestration of the climate change hoax.
Then I remembered how their globalist overlords had shown their evil true colours during the Covid “plandemic” and how Labour were so compliant, pushing for longer, harder lockdowns and stricter vaccine mandates and censorship of free speech (worse now with their two-tier policing and justice), how Starmer is a member of the globalist Trilateral Commission and has openly said that he prefers globalist Davos to Westminster and how the TCW comments of Polly (previously Pretty Polly) show Starmer being influenced behind the scenes by the likes of Bill Gates and George Soros: http://disq.us/p/30vjoej.
Bad most probably or mad, they are all very, very dangerous. People need to stop voting for the treasonous Lab/Con/Lib/SNP Uniparty.
Further to the research by Polly on traitorous Tony Blair’s grifting for globalist philanthropaths like George Soros, Blair showed up at COP29 alongside tyrannical Starmer. Whatever he was doing there, you can be sure it was not in the interests of the general public: https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1856763738302410938.
Paul Homewood easily demolishes the blatant and outrageous Net Zero lies being put out by Starmer and Miliband: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-energy-operator-tells-miliband-your-plans-cannot-work/.
Whatever the motives for Nutty Zero, "our" deMOCKracy has morphed into a kakistocracy.
Good word kakistocracy. It’s quite amusing that corrupt, self-unaware Wikipedia says “it has been used to criticise … the Trump administration”. There's a lot of TDS about!
A year and a bit ago I asked the government if they had verified any of the climate science in Net Zero to be safe for the public. I asked for verification reports or procedures where you would go through key inputs and check them for suitability. Things like the temperature record etc.
I wrote a post about it:
https://open.substack.com/pub/overhead/p/when-i-asked-a-simple-question-about?r=2r6e6n&utm_medium=ios
They just point to the IPCC. Maybe they think because it’s intergovernmental you don’t have to do any due diligence. This was under the Tories but the same groupthink is there.
I think that if they are not genuinly insane, we should be very, very scared.
I noticed that interesting pivot too. He mentions the recent floods in Spain, the random day two years ago when we hit 40 degrees (for a few seconds as some RAF jets took off/landed next to a thermometer) and “what’s happened in America” (by which I presume he means Hurricane Milton and Helene) as his “proof “ of climate change. All of which are ridiculous non scientific examples (albeit presumably ones that speak to ordinary punters).
And just as was I digesting this and taking it as decent evidence that he is actually mad and not intelligent enough to understand what he is talking about or provide a scientific rationale, he contorts perfectly as to the message to Trump seconds later. And comes up with an answer that was impressively switched on as to the realities and politics at play. And I saw his eyes and thought, no, he knows it’s all BS, it’s about power and money….but….argh.. but is it?!
And thus I was promptly back with my conundrum as to what on earth is actually going on with him - and your article just arrived as if you are a mind reader!!
Great minds think alike Josie!
Sorry long screed there 😳