Treason - What does our spinelesss lickspittle MP say? (Debate)

Tue 7 Nov 2023, 18:22

King's Speech? Really? How did he allow his tongue to utter the words? A sense of duty? Or have his views over the last 50 years simply been PR gloss? And if not - what dishonour for our political "leaders" to forbear upon the Royal Tongue for such utterances?

Betraying for grubby electoral gain the future for children and grandchildren and so unto the fate of further generations - if there be  futures worth the having. The word Genocide pales into trivia when compared to each little step en route to Ecocide.

I don't think I've often felt such, such ... beyond anger, beyond disgust, beyond contempt for the dishonourable; such existential despair beyond the contemplations of the type of end-points of such as Auschwitz or Holodomir machineries of depravity ... to worse? To contemplate where the lines between Insanity, Depravity and Annihilation ... Evil ... where they lie? Do the propagators really not Know? Not Believe? Or know? Act in Consciousness? And if so...? 

When the point of breaking strain upon a rope is reached it is then that just "that little thing", that final straw.... 

The commentary of The King's Speech was that for me. I can bear peace no longer. 

It's not that it is such a difficult thing to technically achieve. Our People's future, our "nation's" Energy Independence, a facet of security in life, is only possible if EVERY Penny necessary is put into Electrification as completely as possible. Simple, basic basic things we know how to do now - not needing mighty breakthroughs of technology or economic structuring. Like insulating cold, damp draughty homes (the worst in Europe). Batteries built with current techniques and will only improve. So forth. NOT BILLIONS upon Billions of Pounds of our - that's us ordinary Taxpayers' (tax is only for little people)  vast monies poured into subsidies for international Big Carbon Corporations (into the insatiable maw of the "stateless cosmopolitans" of the beyond "rich" 1% literally eating the Planet's future. With something beyond just the desires of "greed" I can't imagine - and don't want to even try to). To promote that unfathomable desire, to lose the future to gorge upon the now - is an act of the utmost treason possible. Again, imagination fails.

No politician with a vestige of spinal cartilage can countenance such depravity for short term preservation of power and privilege. Betray generations to at best bare brutish existence amongst a ruined, extincted, denuded world of maggots, mushrooms, cockroaches... if there be generations. 

If a MP does nothing to change a dismal future whose course is now set - then your vote is beyond Dishonour. The word Treason does not suffice. Maybe another tongue may have such a word.

In our tongue we have words like "debate", "argument", honour, honesty, decency. Right and wrong. Lets hear some.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/07/anti-green-measures-in-kings-speech-are-desperate-political-play-by-sunak

Anti-green measures in king’s speech are desperate political play by Sunak

Fiona Harvey

King Charles speaking with Rishi Sunak during a reception at Buckingham Palace before the Cop27 summit

King Charles speaking with Rishi Sunak during a reception at Buckingham Palace before the Cop27 summit last year. Photograph: Reuters

Just over three weeks from now, King Charles will make the keynote address at the crucial Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, urging heads of government from around the world to act decisively on the climate emergency before it is too late.

But on Tuesday morning, the king opened the UK’s new parliamentary term by reading out his government’s plans for new oil and gas drilling licences in the North Sea despite warnings from the world’s energy watchdog that new exploration will push the world beyond the 1.5C climate limit.

The first king’s speech in 72 years was crafted not by the palace but by the government. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has made clear for months his determination to “max out” the fossil fuel reserves of the North Sea. The new legislation announced by the king will allow for new rounds of North Sea licensing to be held each year.

But this is clearly contrary to expert advice. The International Energy Agency, at the request of the UK before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, warned in 2021 that no such expansion could take place anywhere, to stay within 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

What is equally significant – and this will not be lost on the king – is that Sunak’s much-trumpeted new legislation will achieve almost nothing because there was already nothing standing in the way of new licences for the North Sea. Ministers have been at liberty to hold licensing rounds at any time, and have done so.

So what is the point? “Pure politics,” said Shaun Spiers, the executive director of the Green Alliance thinktank. “It puts Labour on the spot.” Labour has pledged to award no new licences in the North Sea if elected, but will honour those already granted. Some trade unions are unhappy with this stance, putting pressure on the party’s leader, Keir Starmer.

Sunak also contends that the UK needs new home-produced fossil fuels. The government says key “climate tests” will have to be met, including that the UK is importing fossil fuels and that North Sea oil and gas is extracted with lower emissions than those from imported liquefied natural gas (LNG).

These claims don’t hold much water. LNG is a poor comparison, as it has higher emissions than more likely import sources, such as gas from Norway. The government admits that new drilling will not reduce energy bills. Most of all, the North Sea has long been in steep decline: production will drop by about 95% by 2050 even if “maxed out”.

Tessa Khan, the executive director of campaigning group Uplift, said: “This government’s obsession with oil and gas is making people in this country poorer and colder, all just to please a handful of multinational fossil fuel firms. Big oilfields like Rosebank, which will see most of its oil head abroad, won’t even bring in tax revenue, thanks to the vast subsidies this government is giving the industry to develop fields.”

The UK’s insistence on producing new oil and gas while claiming to be a “world-beating” climate champion – based on emissions reductions made decades ago – boosts countries that want to continue their own much bigger fossil fuel operations.

If the prime minister is trying to win votes, green Tories are doubtful. Sam Hall, the director of the Conservative Environment Network, told the Guardian: “Oil and gas is one of the least popular parts of the government’s energy policy. A major political focus on new exploration could undermine voters’ perception of the Conservatives’ commitment to climate action before the general election. It could also overshadow efforts to promote the party’s positive record on renewables, which is not widely known and significantly more popular.”

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There are plenty of other ways to improve energy security, from boosting renewable generation to insulating draughty homes. If ministers were serious about reducing the carbon content of oil and gas, they could ban flaring and venting from North Sea operations, which they have refused to do.

We will never know what the king really thinks of Sunak’s climate policies, or what is said in their weekly meetings. Charles has been a champion of environmental stewardship for more than 50 years and his global reputation is what led the United Arab Emirates, host of Cop28, to honour him as one of the foremost voices at the summit’s opening.

When the king speaks at Cop28, his listeners – scores of heads of state and government, hundreds of ministers and high-ranking officials from 198 countries and hundreds of millions of people around the world – will know that the prime minister of the UK, and his governing party, are sending an entirely different message.