Tony Blair’s Britain

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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and who turned out the lights?

Thanks to decades of neglect and wishful thinking by successive governments – and now the devastating impact of a directive from Brussels – we are about to see 17 of our major power stations forced to close, leaving us with a massive shortfall.
Even after 2010, the experts say our power stations cannot be guaranteed to provide us with a continuous supply, meaning that we face the possibility of power cuts far worse than those which recently – largely unreported – blacked out half-a-million homes.
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Scaremongering? Just look at the hard facts. At the moment, to meet Britain’s peak electricity demand, our power stations need to provide a minimum 56 gigawatts (GW) of capacity.
Ten gigawatts, nearly a fifth, comes from our ageing nuclear power stations, all but one of which are so old that over the next few years they will have reached the end of their useful working life.
On top of that, however, we shall also have to shut down nine more major power stations – six coal-fired, three oil-fired – forced to close by the crippling cost of complying with an EU anti-pollution law, the so- called Large Combustion Plants directive.
This will take out another 13GW of capacity, bringing the total shortfall to 22GW – a staggering 40 per cent of the 56GW we have today.

It gets worse.

96 Replies to “Tony Blair’s Britain”

  3. I see a whole bunch of Welshmen smiling in the near future. There is still an abundance of coal in them thar hills…
    brydia baban brydia!

  6. GEpower can offer cheaper cleaner than Nuke power
    IGCC machines require a start-up fuel because of the dangers of starting on fuels that contain hydrogen. This allows many plants to begin operation on backup fuel with introduction of IGCC and synthesis gas capability phased-in at a later date.
    Dual fuel capability has been developed into a standard co-firing feature so users can design plants for uninterrupted power output if syngas production is restricted, or if a plant is contemplating parallel or staged co-production for utilization of syngas.
    Gepower.com/prod_serv/products/gas_turbines_cc/en/downloads/igcc.pdf
    ================== GePower.com
    = TG

  7. Just another banana nation with no electricity except for the elite. Soon it will be cars banned , than other commodities. England meet Mugabe land. You did all to yourselves. You sold your birthright for a pot of neo-Marxist scum. Now enjoy the fruits of your neo-Marxist paradise as we will ours when this country takes the jihad creep as well its ideological pre-determined outcome. It never ends up less than complete poverty with camps with poison gas, or bullets. Name me one it hasn’t? You thought you where different I bet, to civilized. lol This is how death cults religious or no always end. The enviro-freaks must be in heaven contemplating the de-industrialization of Briton as it becomes more green in two senses.

  8. Oh well, won’t be able to see the Islamic invasion with or without light! What will it matter?

  9. regarding Hydrogen as the energy cure:
    “All the losses with the elemental Hydrogen Economy are directly related to the
    nature of hydrogen. Hence they cannot be significantly reduced by any amount of
    research and development. We have to accept that hydrogen is the lightest
    element and its physical properties do not suit the requirements of the energy
    market. The production, packaging, storage, transfer and delivery of the gas are
    so energy consuming that other solutions must be considered. Mankind cannot
    afford to waste energy for uncertain benefits; the market economy will always
    seek practical solutions and, as energy becomes more expensive, select the most
    energy-efficient. Judged by this criterion, the elemental “Hydrogen-Economy” can
    never become a reality.”
    http://planetforlife.com/pdffiles/h2report.pdf PG 33
    More snake-oil and green noise distracting Canadians from focusing on what WE already have in abundance; oil and uranium.
    Britain screwed up.
    So Canada has to follow along, creating a problem we don’t have, (energy available) in order to import a solution, (from Europe of all places) while paying megabucks down the road?
    Thats a realistic national plan?
    For who??
    Canada needs to use what it has NOW. Build the refineries and nukes while we can still afford to.
    Dump Kyoto. Britain wishes it had.
    G

  11. G @ 4:03 “test”
    Haha, yes the electricity is still on and you can send emails for now. Canada isn’t quite in the same sorry state as the UK, for now.

  13. the greens wont be happy till we are all living in log cabins with long beards containing squirrel nests and our women folk hold up their grey socks in birkenstocks held up by backcombing the hair on their boney gams.

  15. I believe we are one Liberal govt from being in the same boat as England. I have already started my own personal campaign. Every dealing I have with a govt dept is no longer just an ordeal for me. I ensure they also feel the pain. Ther are many ways. Large and small.
    “They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.
    One final speech received a standing ovation.
    A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone. He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then it happened.
    All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED!!!!
    The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said, “GOD BLESS YOU”, and walked off stage.
    The audience exploded into applause. This graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God’s blessing on their future with or without the court’s approval.
    Isn’t this a wonderful story? Pass it on to all your friends and GOD BLESS YOU!!! This is a true story.
    It happened at the University of Maryland.
    Tear those walls down!!!
    Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went to Taunton and went into a shop. We were only in there for about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a Policeman writing out a parking ticket.
    We went up to him and said, ‘Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?’
    He ignored us and continued writing the ticket.
    I called him a Turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tyres. So my wife called him a shithead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.
    Personally, we didn’t care. We came into town by bus.
    We try to have a little fun each day now that we’re retired. It’s important at our age

  16. Sounds a lot like Ontario – shut down all the coal fired plants while the nukes slowly fall apart. But then as the auto industry goes belly up there is going to be a lot less need for all that power.

  18. Sad to see, but heck there no need to shut down the still good plants , just IGNORE the EU directive.

  19. This might explain why the commie-leftist government in Britain has been flooding the country with hundreds of thousands of third worlders as immigrants every year,decade after decade.
    These third world immigrants are so used to not having electricity that they will easily assimilate into their new country.

  20. I guess they weren’t worrying about the details during the granola orgy (kyoto).
    Can hardly wait until the same thing happens in Ontario. Will be able to watch Taliban Jack sit in the sun and cook his hemp and recycled sewage sludge pancakes with a magnifying glass.

  21. I think your all missing the point of the global warming scam, It is to destroy western economies and enslave 80% of the population that survives.
    By the UN standards Britian is right on course.
    Maurice Strong and his gang of one world government Nazies did not ever intend this to save the planet rather they intended it to enslave the people and cull the herd.
    Fear is the greatest motivator.

  22. Just another perfect of example of bureaucrats on a power trip who have no facility in logistics or numbers.
    Shut down power plants with no ability to replace the necessary power.
    So how is Ontario doing today?

  23. TG, it may have escaped your notice but the price of steam coal has tripled over the past three years. The price of metallurgical coal has increased even faster. So much for your boasting about cost advantages. And by the way, nuclear waste is not just waste, it’s spent fuel that can be used again. Do you actually know anything about energy, or do you just cut and paste press releases?
    Tim, yes there’s coal in Wales. It’s deep and expensive. In Britain, it’s cheaper to import coal than it is to dig it out of deep underground deposits. It was the use of cheaper, imported coal that was instrumental in defeating the NUM strike in the early 1980s. So what you are suggesting is that Britain be put back in the hands of the militant coal miners unions that took so much effort by Thatcher and Marshall to break in the first place. Good plan, sheer genius; after winning a battle decisively let’s give everything back to the losers and fight it all over again.
    Brian, Britain is already the largest importer of electricity from EdF, about 20 TWh annually totaling about 6-8 per cent of Britain’s electricity supply. That’s the equivalent of about two large French reactors working 24/7 all year long.

  24. I just love what is happening in the UK and Europe. They think they are so morally more advanced than North America. How long can it be before Europe disintegrates to the violence? Oh well…. you reap what you sow….at least it will be a lesson for us here in Canada and USA….keep the socialists, liberals, Democrats out of government, unless you want to end up like Europe.

  26. You know, all this talk of electricity shortfalls is interesting. Lots of governments since the 1960s have pretty much done nothing, so all those big, beautiful generating stations built back then have been carrying the whole load.
    Kind of like all the airplanes, ships, trucks, tanks and whatnot our Canadian armed forces bought back in the 1960’s and early ’70’s.
    Therefore now, today, Britain (and Canada too, kids) is facing a huge shortfall in generation capacity. That means brownouts and rolling blackouts.
    Given the highly electric-dependent nature of modern society, what do you think is going to happen in Britain in the next ten years? First, there will be some big-ass blackouts. Then, people will start voting for the party that makes the best promises on CHEAP ELECTRICITY.
    At which point, if the EU (or Eeeeew) is still on this Greenie kick, the new Brit government will stop complying with their idiot regulations, run up the Union Jack, run out the cannons and dare ’em to do anything about it. There will then be a crash building program, probably a coal and nuke mix, and vast profits will be made by “friends” of the new gubmint party.
    Or, as an outside possibility some clever bastard will finally figure out a better-than-break-even fusion method. If that happens, all bets are off, because electricity will be too cheap to meter. Go Mr. Fusion!

  27. Today the Irish have their vote on the Lisbon Treaty, will they have the courage to say “no”? Veiled threats were uttered from Brussels last week that there will be consequences if they reject it.
    http://euobserver.com/9/26299
    I doubt they’ll vote No because for too many people once they are herded to the socialist trough they morph into needy unprincipled sheeple. It will be interesting to see what the Irish do.

  28. Sooner or later, it’ll become clear to politicians that it’s impossible to go along with the kind of draconian reductions demanded by the climate change extremists/lunatics/fascists.
    We can see from this post, looking at the facts and figures, that British politicians are going to soon realize that they’ll have a choice between having reliable electrical power or letting the EU run their country for them without having to suffer the consequences for stupid policies. Britain will suffer if she goes along with the whole emissions-reducing thing.
    Want electricity or not? It’s up to all of us.
    Can we live without electricity? Oh, sure. But who wants to? Who wants to go through life wondering when the power will be available and when it won’t? If there still is any, that is!

  30. Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun – sums it all up in one small paragraph. It illustrates how easy it is to see through this shallow scam. If only one takes a few minutes to think about it.
    [Here’s the real question: Are we willing to play Russian roulette with each other’s livelihoods, while politicians pull the trigger and arbitrarily decide the winners and losers, in hopes of “fixing” the climate, long after we’re all dead, based on a theory that may or may not work, assuming things are as bad as climate hysterics predict?] LG
    It is time for all Journaists to call a spade a spade.
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/06/12/5850336-sun.php

  32. The report on my imminent death is premature. I have been sloshing around in the basins on the crust for more than four billion years. I now cover nearly 71 per cent of the planet. Since the last ice age I have lifted myself out of the basin by 120 metres and scared the tribes of Noah to the higher ground. During deep time I became the universal solvent for the volcanoes and the clouds. I have taken up as much salt as required by local circumstances and sometimes give it back in hot shallows and desert areas of my world. I have given man the salt in his blood. Your CO2 output is infinitesimally small. I have absorbed as much gas as I need to maintain balance with the organic world within me and on land. The exchange is so peaceful that science calls it equilibrium. I can absorb more CO2, if the plants do not need it, and it does not give me acid imbalance. My pH will remain basic no matter what you say. These variations you measure have come and gone many uncountable times on the planet and your baseline is too small to know the truth. What you do not get is that warming of the oceans releases CO2 and other gasses from my water, while cooling my water allows me to take up CO2 in vast amounts to nestle with the other molecules in my coldest most remote realms. I can absorb all that man can produce because your impact is feeble compared to my capacity.
    Please watch me with humility for you cannot change me. I am the ongoing sink for the planet, and I am huge and my heat content is beyond your estimation. Measure me here and there with your microscopes but know that I will never be that way in that place again. Open your mind to the infinite cycles of chemistry and physics and kneel on my beach. You can only hurt me by not respecting my infinite ability to change chemistry and temperature in all the corners of the seas. My CO2 feeds your plants and your plants provide all the oxygen you breathe. Your base line is infinitesimally small yet your mouth is wide open.
    Ocean

  33. What will be the tipping point for the citizens of the UK? A regression to a pre-war lifestyle? Ever increasing government control? Tension between ethnic groups? Extreme poverty?
    Maybe not. Perhaps those that had any spirit have already left the country.

  34. From the article cited by penny:
    “Ireland is the only country to vote on the EU treaty and is feeling the strong pressure from the rest of Europe to secure a “Yes” vote.”
    In every other country the elitists have decided what the people need, without bother of recourse to a vote. Even if the Irish patriots save the other fools from the self-inflicted fate today, tomorrow the EU idiocy goes on and the elitists’ plan to destroy the basis of European culture and enslave its native population continues apace.
    As summum bonum said, we Canucks are only one Liberal government away from the same fate. Actually, watching Mr. Harper and Co. recent performance, we may not even need one more Liberal government.

  35. Sum total of my sympathy for the British people: ZERO. They did this to themselves, and it is absolutely imperative that they suffer for the choices they have made. I hope that the people starving in the dark have to walk by Branson’s brightly lit mansion everyday too, just so the hypocrisy is driven home that much harder.
    That is my answer to all you Brits, suck it up, and try not to be so stupid in the future.

  37. That’s what happens when a nation yields sovereignty over domestic policy (or foreign policy for that matter) to a “union” of other nations. The fact that the looming UK energy shortfall is based on a declaration from Brussels, of all places, says it all.
    Canadians should take note of this situation every time someone says we should follow any dictum of the United Nations.
    I agree with Kevin: the Brits have brought this down on their own heads, the same way as they’ve brought cultural segregation and isolation on themselves through absolute deference to multiculturalism and PC codes.
    One day, when they wake up to no electrical power, food shortages, no cars and the Muslim call to prayer blaring over the loudspeaker at the mosque on the corner, they’ll realize how undone is their once proud nation.
    May it never be said of Canada.

  38. Here’s whats going to happen: The people will get pushed to far, up until now there has been no sacrifice, squeeze em so they hurt a little and they will vote out and fire all these yahoos with thier wierd agendas, people just want to be left alone.

  39. When you give Popularity Pimps absolute power over every aspect of “civil society” what do you expect. Pseudo-environmental mass hysteria has long driven the agenda of politicians and subsequent legions of bureaucrats ensuring the: narrative is reinforced, industry is co-opted, markets distorted, technology smeared, fear and loathing promoted and power entrenched. This isn’t just a British phenomenon. This is the politics of leviathan.

  40. From time to time, Great Britain produces a leader like Elizabeth I, Pitt the Younger, Churchill, and Thatcher. They could use one now.

  41. Not just Ontario following this path of self destruction. It’s BC as well.
    The Socialist government in MB is sabotaging the economic future in other ways but hydro power mismanagement is part of it.
    You do not need crystal balls to see into the future .
    You just need to know history and look around you today!
    It’s very disconcerting that our Conservative government is willing to pander to these flakes who embrace the global warming cult and appear to be bought into the concept of the government as manager!
    If I have to concede to the government the management of resources an infrastructure then I expect that they will do it properly and in the best interests of our economic security and physical wellbeing.
    The performance of the socialist governments and their bureaucracies is far short of satisfactory.

  42. It’s all a plot, you see they know there is an ice age coming, you cut the electricity and everyone freezes, since the English only discover central heating and indoor plumbing in the 50’s the native born will adapt faster, the rest will leave for the EU, returning England back to a stable place with bad food and good beer.

  43. ** life without electricity ?? **
    Many Brits are innovative and tech – savvy.
    Simple home power systems are affordable for basics like lighting, microwave, radio & TV.
    Heavy demand for stove/oven, hot water, washer/dryer and the satanic dishwater is another question however.
    Trends are gradual. Brits will adjust. = TG

  44. This is all moot because even labour isn’t stupid enough to shut down power stations.
    And besides, they won’t exist past the next election. They’re gonna make Kim Campbell’s two seats look like a stunning victory.
    If all goes well, Ireland will do all of Europe a favour and veto the EU’s end run around democracy and fascism will be averted.

  46. “This is all moot because even labour isn’t stupid enough to shut down power stations.”
    Doesn’t matter what any British Government thinks . . . the courts will invoke the LAW and the LAW is now made in Brussels.
    The UK has ceded control to the Euro Common Government.
    Fait Accompli, game over, done deal.

  47. TG…
    The UK is capable of providing only 60% of it’s domestic food needs at the present level of energy consumption. Cheap food comes from cheap and plentiful energy.
    London alone consumes better than 25% of all the resources produced domestically plus imports just for the sustenance of the population.
    No matter how many energy gadgets are deployed in the UK they do not have the capacity to feed or sustain themselves.
    Now do you want to start talking about the cost of manufacturing production?
    Thanks to the relentless stupidity and incompetence of the liberal/socialist forces Britain is Dead!

  48. Ratt:
    Most certainly. But be careful. The Conservative Party may consider it a fining offence.

  49. I think I will die laughing.
    “Heavy demand for stove/oven, hot water, washer/dryer and the satanic dishwater is another question however.
    Trends are gradual. Brits will adjust. = TG”
    Here’s the green agenda in a nutshell, no cooked food (meaning lots of malnutrition and disease), no hot water (just great for hygiene). As for the trends are gradual stuff, lifestyles will be ground down and impoverishment will increase irrespective of the aspirations of those being oppressed.
    Brits will adjust is just another way of saying big government will ram this down your throat whether you like it or not.
    Welcome to TG’s stalinist world, brought to you by his Greenwar friends.

  50. Take all those eco-wackos take them to the power plants and make them peddle bicycles hooked up to gerators and make the power since these eco-freaks want to prevent us from having cheap abundant energy

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