How the UK government has “buggered up” the future in pursuit of the “faux science” of non-existent climate and health emergencies
Exposenews.com has run a couple of articles in the last few days about the uke insane “green” policies of the UK government.
This one from a few days ago
As renewable energy goes into meltdown in Europe, the UK ramps it up – The Expose (expose-news.com)
And this one, today
One paragraph, in particular, stood out from the first article:
“..The Telegraph reported that households have already paid as much as £15,500 in green taxes on energy over the past 13 years through a combination of direct taxes and taxes that are passed on by businesses. Not only are these levies contributing to the 70-year high tax burden, but they’re also artificially inflating prices for consumers. “
Ok, I am not a paid subscriber to The Telegraph, so I may not have the complete context, but “£15,500 per household in the last 13 years”???
So I thought I would do a little digging via the net. For those of you who have no interest in the UK or don’t think any lessons can be learned from the demise of the UK, look away now - it is a bit of a “thought ramble”!
There are around 28 million households in the UK. £15,500 per household works out at around 434 billion pounds.
UK national debt 13 years ago in 2009/2010 https://ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debtwas around £1.03 trillion pounds, it is now around £2.55 trillion pounds for an increase of £1.5 trillion pounds (more than 150%) over the same 13 years.
That debt of 2.55 trillion pounds would cost around 5% per annum if charged at the current UK Base Rate = 127.5 billion pounds PER ANNUM – which would roll up to A TRILLION POUNDS IN INTEREST IN JUST UNDER 8 YEARS – just after the 2030 start date for most sustainable development goals and = to the entire tax take for 2024.
This is part of the story. Debt up 1,5 trillion, with “green” subsidies 0.434 trillion = a little under 30% of the increase = 33.4 billion pounds a year.
Here’s a look at Central and Local Government Spending (same source as previous one for national debt, in FY2019 pre-scamdemic - and next years plans FY2024 – on large ticket items. (The UK has almost exactly one fifth the population of the US).
Left hand side FY2019 actual – right hand table budgeted FY2024
That money could have been spent on a lot of things. As it is, it looks like a bunch of “Welfare” spending has been allocated to “Pensions” – the total of these two items has gone down 4% - BEFORE INFLATION - from 223.3 billion to 214.3 billion per annum – probably a large impact from deaths misclassified as C19 and the impact of DNR’s and Midazolam + morphine.
Health care has jumped from 149.6 billion to 217.2 billion per annum = +£67.6 billion (+45%). This is the change from the year before the C19 scamdemic – 2019 - and a year without any C19 scamdemic impact on health spending - 2024. I wonder how much is the cost of “spikes” in drug prices, or equipment prices or “rents” or more admin staff – certainly the striking nurses and junior doctors do not think it is down to their wages!
(Side note, the revisions to the IHR and the new pandemic accord will add 5% to that annual 217.2 billion pounds (MORE THAN 10 BILLION POUNDS a year) PLUS a fixed percentage of the UK’s 2.5 trillion pound GDP (0.5% = 12.5 billion pounds A YEAR). For a total hit to the UK’s exchequer of around 22.5 billion a year.
Spending on Education is up around 10 billion (+30%) to £58 billion per annum and Defence is up from £50 billion to £87 billion per annum (+74%). All no doubt already deployed in Ukraine.
So, for these 5 big ticket spending items, -£8 bn Pensions&Welfare, +£68 bn on Healthcare, +10 bn on Education and +£87 bn on Defence = +£157 bn pounds extra a year.
So, there’s a comparison with the £33 bn per annum in subsidies for “Green” bogeys. Pensions, welfare and education a wash – its all about the scamdemic and Ukraine.
The UK government probably has the view that 33 billion pounds in spending of taxes is paltry compared to those big ticket items.
This is not the whole picture of course. There is also the brutal taxes on hydrocarbon energy production and also petrol/gasoline/diesel taxes at the consumer level.
I won’t bore you with a walk through all the numbers – just supply some sources
And just in case you were wondering about the UK government’s approach to 2030 and 2050 UN development goals we have this from over a year ago (1 Nov 2021):
Industry lobbies against 2040 UK ban on new diesel trucks | Automotive industry | The Guardian
“In July the government revealed plans to ban internal combustion engines in new lorries after 2040, following a ban on petrol and diesel cars after 2035 to help tackle the climate crisis. It is now consulting on the measure.”
The expectation must be that all the taxes from oil producers and petrol/diesel consumers will be entirely replaced with taxes on… hmmm.. “green energy”??????
Here’s current sources of taxes of :a trillion pounds for FY 2024.
UK GDP = around 2.5 trillion pounds.
The UK government makes Brits work 2 days a week for the UK government (1/2.5 = 40% of a five day working week).
Around ten years for all electiric cars and 15 for all electric trucks. Maybe there will be sufficient electricity, maybe there won’t be. My reaction is – “you cannot be serious”.
The People Promising Us 'Net Zero' Are Clueless About Energy Storage - Climate Change Dispatch
Imagine the rape of the earth for the raw materials for these EV’s, not just from the UK, but globally. There will have to be a massive increase in child slave labour for the raw materials plundered from open cast mines for EV’s – PLUS – even more slave labour tomine raw materials required to build the massive plantations of solar panels and forests of wind farms – enough to cover half of the country – and still not have resilience for those icy, snowy, foggy, cloudy, windless days and nights.
That will require back-up hydrocarbon power sources for “renewables” when they fail to produce or lots of battery storage.
Note, hydrocarbons are NOT fossil fuels, the (stupid) aim is to reduce CO2 emissions, not “carbon” footprints – CO2 is a gas without some sort of sooty “carbon footprint”,
Here's that “raw material” for the calculations of tax revenue currently harvested that will have to be replaced.
UK energy production (page 10 of 52) production down 50% across all sources since 1990
UK Energy in Brief 2022 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
A chart of consumption of energy on page 12, reliance on imports back to over 40% - the same as the 1970’s after being an exporter for much of the 25 years from 1980 to 2005. I am sure that is taxed at the same rate as domestically produced hydrocarbon fuels right???
A chart of the almost 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 on page 17 (yay, lots of virtue signalling over that one! Down from 806 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in 1990 to 424.5 in 2021 (provisional). Of this, net CO2 emissions down from 605 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents to 341 million tonnes. Ponders – I wonder how many billions of tonnes of clean water were used to make the windmills and batteries – NIMBY, right?.
Here's some detail on taxes on UK energy companies:
Energy Taxes Factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Which has these bullet points amongst others:
From 1 January 2023, the rate of the Energy Profits Levy will be increased to 35% to ensure oil and gas companies benefitting from extraordinary prices pay their fair share.
In addition to this, a new and temporary tax of 45% will be introduced on the extraordinary profits of electricity generators who, like the oil and gas sector, have seen profits increase well above their company predictions
I know the BBX is a mouthpiece for the anti0human Cult of Moloch and can’t be trusted with turning on a light, but here is the BBC’s take during the height of the surge in oil prices:
Why are BP, Shell, and other oil giants making so much money right now? - BBC News
“Shell paid $134m (£110m) tax on its UK operations in 2022, out of a worldwide tax bill of $13bn. BP paid $2.2bn (£1.8bn) in taxes on its UK operations, out of a global tax bill of $15bn.”
What makes up the price of a litre of petrol? | MoneyWeek
Petrol/gasoline prices in the UK are set AFTER these taxes are paid. Here’s a pie chart of the components of the price.
Taxes are over 50% of the final price to the consumer. VAT = Value Added Tax and is charged AFTER fuel duty is levied – a tax on a tax - it is 20%. VAT is an import tariff brought in by the EU in the early 1980’s, which the UK had to copy to “normalise” trade arrangements with the EU. It is a highly regressive tax – everyone pays it on whatever they purchase – it passes on to the next person in the supply chain until it reaches the consumer – who cannot charge anyone else. Some items may be “zero rated” for VAT purposes, some might be 20% (or even 25% in some places).
Current price Petrol prices and diesel prices in the UK | Latest fuel data from the RAC | RAC Drive
Around £1.45 per litre, there are around 3.8 litres to a US gallon and the fx rate is around 1.27 dollars to the pound, so that £1.45 works out at around 7 bucks a gallon v around 4 bucks 68 cents a gallon in the US.
Number of cars on UK roads.
Number of Cars in the UK 2023 | NimbleFins
“By the end of 2021, petrol and diesel cars still dominated British roads. In fact, 58% of cars on the road were petrol and 36.9% were diesel. In terms of real numbers, there were 19,085,249 petrol cars and 12,852,314 diesel cars registered in the UK in 2021. “
Used car mileage: UK average and how much is too much? | Carbuyer
“The average car travelled just 6,800 miles in 2020. “
“Figures from the RAC show that newer cars cover higher mileages. Cars up to three years old rack up an average of 10,400 miles a year and that’s split up into 12,500 miles a year for diesel cars, 9,400 for electric cars and 7,500 for petrol cars.”
Number of trucks and heavier vehicles – around 5.5 million
How Many Commercial Vehicles On The UK’s Roads? | Truck News | Truckpages UK
31 million cars and 5.5 million heavier vehicles.
Of these “In 2021 there were 1,632,997 EVs in the UK, a 6.9X increase since 2014. At the end of 2021, 5% of cars in the UK were fully or partially fueled by electric power. Hybrid electrics are by far the most popular, with 932,335 on the road in 2021.”
Five per cent. That took more than 20 years.
Multiply that by 20 to replace the existing cars, then by another what? 10% for increased demand from immigration and population growth over the next ten years?
They will need a lot of batteries and recharging infrastructure.
I wonder what the plans are for the UK government to completely rebuild the UK electricuyt grid to handle the increased demand.
And, of course, what the plans are for increasing taxes on electricity that will have to increase to replace the revenue from hydrocarbon taxes.
Green murder and stupidity – making people, poorer, sicker and stupid(er) every day the plans remain in place.
Maybe someone should start a political party that abolishes all transaction taxes, sets income and corporate taxes at 10% - no adjustments for anything – and cuts the cloth for the provision of welfare and services accordingly.
Lord knows the State has failed abysmally at every turn to provide cost effective and quality services. The changes to IHR and a new pandemic treaty will result in increased taxes to fund handle the compliance costs and deterioration in health outcomes.
That is before the “Green Murder” of climate “emergency” policies are enacted.
There is no climate emergency – there is an “emergency of morons”, gobernment ones – hey a new collective noun! A little better than kakistocracy!
Onwards
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Thanks PH. Please take enormous care around of near any UK Poloticoturds.
Their known proclivity for Buggery is FACT.
As an English person I would like to confirm that we are governed by insane people and none of it adds up.