2023-09-08
Another critique of the Bill - this time from the Daily Sceptic. As you might expect, it's sceptical.
The war is not between Left and Right, the war is between centralisation (empowerment of the few) and freedom (empowerment of the many).
The Bill wants to impose the elite's favoured "solutions" upon the many, and it will as always end in disaster, because they never choose their "solutions" either wisely or appropriately. Despite having all the best advisers at their beck and call ready to advise them, their solutions are invariably political and one-size-fits-all because without that - well, I guess we have no need of them!
They are behaving like zombies that cannot see or hear any conflicting evidence. Maybe we really do have no need of them.
If we find our own solutions then we will quickly pick up on those whose solutions work best, and these solutions will be copied because they work best.
Under one-size-fits-all, there is no variety of solutions to choose from, and the elite will impose the solution that best suits the elite rather than the people.
The Bill is a case in point. It is long on imposed solutions (by "reasonable force" if necessary) and short on persuasion.
"Under the totally misleading title of ‘Energy Savings Opportunity Schemes’, authorities can force any person or company to make energy savings using the threat of criminalisation for failure to comply"
Another excellent review of the Bill and the debate in Parliament.
The Bill is likely to receive the Royal Assent this month.
Of course this is all about reaching that mythological nirvana in the sky, "Net Zero".
But what are the chances? The government seems unwilling to come clean.
Whichever way you look at it, without an assessment of the risks we cannot know whether the Energy Bill as presented is (a) any use at all or (b) completely over the top. It's probably somewhere between these two ...
But is Net Zero (whatever that means) a sensible target anyway?
