This Friday, January 24th, the UK Parliament is due to vote on a Private Member’s Bill that could lead to mass starvation, widespread disease and fatalities and the almost certain collapse of civil liberties and society within a few years. The bill has the support of a third of voting MPs and there is a clear and present danger that it could pass. Many MPs depart for their constituencies on a Friday and 200 remaining zealots could have a chance to swing a vote their way. The bill is a thinly-disguised attempt using meaningless climate and nature crisis verbosity to ration and control almost everything that citizens consume. The obvious attack on civil liberties should serve as a warning to other countries to stand against the Net Zero hysterics that have infiltrated large sections of elite British society.
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I know the US system for how a bill becomes law, but not yours.
If it passes, what else needs be done, who else needs to approve it?
IOW, where are the sanity checks?
From what I read here it seems to me that Britain needs to hit rock bottom before they come to their senses. Wasn’t that the plan: “don’t vote for the lesser of two evils” in the last election. Well sounds like this is headed to rock bottom and perhaps it is better to get there quickly to shake the country out of is stupor rather than be ground down over another ten years of death by a thousand cuts?
So, perhaps there is an argument that this bill is a good thing?
And perhaps success in places like Argentina, Italy and that country north of the “Gulf of America” will be an object lesson in how to rescue yourself from a return to the stone age? Britain is lucky in the sense that they now have an American President firmly on their side.
In order to keep Trump47 firmly on our side over-promoted little gobshites like Lammy and Khan will need to be muzzled. In the past he has undoubtedly nursed grudges but now, with far more important matters to consider and as his day one EO’s have shown, he is likely to settle them more quickly.
Define “Britain.” Surely you don’t mean the government.
bobby b: There are no sanity checks, the House of Commons is like your Federal House, the Lords the Senate. After that, Royal Assent is given by ‘Lords Commissioners’ (government hacks in the House of Lords) on behalf of the Sovereign, who does not give assent. (This started when Henry VIII got commissioners to pass a Bill of Attainder on (IIRC) Anne Boleyn to cut off her head). So the only scope after that is a ‘Human Rights’ challenge in our UK Supreme Court.
Mr Ed
(My prounouns are: Trump/Drill Baby!, Drill!)
This is the stages the Bill has to pass to become law.
Ha! the bill starts by committing to “halts and reverses
its overall contribution to the degradation and loss of nature”.
Industrialisation and imporved agriculture *HAS* reversed the degredation and loss of nature, and becoming richer has allowed us to increase the amount of “nature” around. There are parks in the middle of my home town that 100 years ago were grimey industrial factories, and I can only just remember the main river with greasy scum floating on it.
To be fair, one has to wonder how much of the improved environmental conditions are because some polluting company came to their senses, how much of it came from pressure from the public, and how much of it came from government saying “you will clean up your act or else”. Big business went on for decades just dumping waste anywhere it wanted with no repercussions and it wasn’t until normies had enough of it that they were able to force government to pass laws. The companies in and of themselves rarely saw it in their hearts to spend millions on abatement or air scrubbers or refrain from just dumping toxic waste because it was always cheaper to simply not do it. It’s very easy for us to cluck our tongues and stroke our beards and say “government has no right to tell business how to do its thing” without saying “of course, business shouldn’t be doing that thing in the first place.”
Assuming that this current government in the UK hits rock bottom in approval numbers is it guaranteed they can hang on until 2029 before calling another election. I know in the past that governments have “fallen” due to current events, scandals, etc. But given the enormous majority that Labour enjoys is it possible that no amount of discontent (and I assume there will ultimately be considerable discontent) will cause there to be an election prior to the statutory mandated time. I also assume the House of Lords has been sufficiently neutered or converted that it will not present an obstacle to Labour’s designs.
No matter how bad Labour is, this current situation is the responsibility of the feckless Tories. Labour is just being the scorpion in the fable when it stings the frog causing them both to drown. It’s what they do. A more sober course was expected of the “conservative” party. Is there any chance for Reform in the long run. Can the disasters being called down by Labour’s policies redound to the benefit of a party espousing common sense? Let’s say for sake of optimism that the Reform party could garner 40% of the vote in a few years, would that afford them the same gargantuan majority Labour has now. If so, could they overturn decades of oppressive legislation. How easy would it be to repeal legislation?
I vacation in the Highlands of Scotland for a few months each summer and I have a great affection for the people, the landscape, and the life I can lead there of golfing frequently, being outdoors whenever I wish and being lulled to sleep by the waves of the Northern Sea (or as it is called in one of the Holmes stories “The German Ocean, so it looks as though Trump isn’t that far off in renaming the Gulf of America). It saddens me to see this island which was the birthplace of so many of the liberties we insist on here across the pond to fallen into the hands of two repressive and tyrannical political parties who seem to be in competition to be the worst.
To make a long story short, I think you guys need a Trump-like figure to stand up for the people of the UK and cast off a lot of yokes that have been placed upon them by politicians whose only acquaintance with good intentions is to turn them away. I have been welcome in the small community on the northeast coast of Scotland because I have kept my mouth shut about your politics and avoiding being baited into rancor when running into hostile questions about Trump. Here in this place I fear I have become the “ugly American” who stands up on his hind legs and says “You know what you need to do here is….”
Understand these are sincere questions coming from a source who has harbored a fondness for your island and it people for going 3/4 of a century.
We are living through multiple Micklethwait Alphas.
Nature doesn’t have a single wheat field or warm house in it, never mind schools or hospitals. Every work of humanity is a degradation of nature.
I am told that even the Labour Government is against this Bill – not because they disagree with its, insane, aims – but because they think it goes “too fast”.
Their position appears to be pro economic collapse, starvation and so on, but not at-once – they want this “achieved” more slowly.
Meanwhile most of the United States, and other places, suffers from terrible cold, and the climate of California has (contrary to establishment lies) not changed.
There is no sign of either the Arctic of Antarctic having less ice than they did, say, 40 years ago. And “rising temperatures” exist in computer models (which, as with “Covid vaccines have saved millions of lives”, spit out what they are programmed to spit out) rather than actual thermometer readings.
The Communist Party Dictatorship of the People’s Republic of China continues to emit more and more C02, and the international establishment appears to be utterly indifferent to these C02 emissions – so whatever this agenda is really about it is NOT about world C02 emissions.