Parliament is sitting.
And you might wonder whether anything is being raised or discussed about the significant issues facing Australia.
I will keep repeating that Chris Bowen is a dangerous advocate of a destructive energy policy which will injure the economy, harm business profitability, jeopardise our international competitiveness, and yes … cost jobs.
It is worth repeating what Net Zero Australia have said in their report.
As the title suggests, they are in favour of Net Zero, which, in my opinion, is an illusion.
But even they have said ‘climate policy remains in the grip of an intelligencia that lacks the wisdom to recognise the boundaries of their own ignorance’.
As I have said, with the government blundering on with an energy policy that will destroy the national economy, Bowen is a metaphor of those who can’t ‘recognise the boundaries of their own ignorance’.
Well, some eminent people are seeing the light.
Tony Blair, now Sir Tony Blair, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 10 years, has established the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
It has 750 staff in 40 countries.
It prides itself on saying 100 of its staff are currently ‘embedded’ in governments around the world, and not in the back office.
The Tony Blair Institute has embarked on an audacious new project, The Future of Britain.
It’s being said that if Starmer were to win the next election, Tony Blair, at 70, would be effectively running the country.
Blair spoke last year of ‘the gaping hole in the governing of Britain where new ideas should be’.
Well, is this a new idea?
Tony Blair has entered the climate policy debate.
With mounting public concern about the rising cost of this Net Zero push – that is, to abolish coal and gas including some idiocy where new homes won’t be connected to gas – Tony Blair has warned about imposing even higher costs on consumers.
Do you check your electricity bill?
My peak power costs have gone up by 11 per cent.
The shoulder cost, that is between peak and off, is up by 30 per cent; but the off-peak costs have gone up by 39.9 per cent.
Tony Blair is warning of ‘even higher costs on consumers’ as a result of this Net Zero nonsense.
Tony Blair has warned against asking the public to do a ‘huge amount to tackle climate change’ and he is saying, ‘Britain’s unilateral policies have no real impact in the light of China’s rising carbon dioxide emissions.’
Are you listening, Chris Bowen?
Tony Blair recently said, ‘Don’t ask us to do a huge amount when frankly whatever we do in Britain is not really going to impact climate change.’
I have said repeatedly, and now Tony Blair has said it, that Britain’s unilateral decarbonisation targets make no sense in the absence of the world’s major economies adopting equally binding caps.
He has warned (are you listening Bowen?) that Britain’s Net Zero plans are dangerously expensive and will result in painful reductions in living standards for all but the richest.
He says that Net Zero means abandoning coal and gas, trusting renewables, banning certain motor vehicles, and changing your appliances away from gas – we’re being swamped with this rubbish.
And so is Britain.
Sir Tony Blair warns that these policies threaten Britain with economic decline, social instability, and the eventual failure of the decarbonisation effort.
Tony Blair talks about extremely costly policies that are both unaffordable and unattractive.
As Net Zero Watch says of Blair’s intervention, it is hopeful that Blair’s pragmatic approach ‘will open the door for a fresh debate that, for too long, has been seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist and depressingly intolerant’.
And that’s us on energy policy ‘seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist and depressingly intolerant’.
If our economy is to be saved, Bowen must go, and his ideological energy baggage should go with him.
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