the brilliantly leaping gazelle

Is Moribund the most dangerous man in Britain? Is is The Minister for Net Zero either enacting a terrible revenge on the British people, or worse, an unwitting agent of the Chinese State? Or more innocently, but no less ruinous for the UK, massively deluded, dangerously naive or recklessly optimistic? He may be some, none or all of these things. Ultimately it doesn’t matter. Whatever he is, his actions and the cascade effect that these actions create are many things, but sensible, desirable and in this country’s best interests they most certainly are not.

With the escalation of the war in Iran, their closure of the Straits of Hormuz – a vital shipping route through which most global oil and gas supplies are transported – and with it the inevitable surge in energy prices that causes, makes me consider questions that have plagued me for some years.This was evidenced a couple of Sundays ago, when whilst appearing on Laura Kuenssberg’s show, he said, “There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one in my view for the long term on energy policy, and that is that we need home-grown, clean power that we control.”

Exactly how detached from reality must one be to imagine that we have any control whatsoever over the weather? Power deprived from either wind or solar energy, is, by its very nature, far from dependable. The weather and its unpredictability has been so much a constant of living here that it has become a conversational ice-breaker at social gatherings.   

Regardless of the wisdom or otherwise as to whether achieving ‘Net Zero’ is desirable in and of itself, doing so by  2050, has – and is having – increasingly profound implications upon the way we live our lives. This is where my Moribund revenge theory comes in. Anyone who betrays their brother in order to win the Labour Party leadership, only for the electorate to reject him at the 2017 general election, has to be hurting. He’s only human, even though when he tries to smile he looks like Wallace. 

Quick recap. Net Zero is the the ambition to reduce the amount of carbon emissions we produce to to the same level as 1990. Sounds simple. But Isn’t. To achieve this, a series of drastic, expensive and complex changes to the way we live our lives would be needed. And not just changes to the way we live our lives either, but to the kind of lives we live.   

So revenge. Of the ‘I’ll get my own back. They’ll be sorry.’ kind. To that end, he’s charmed the membership of the Labour Party to such an extent that he’s basically unsackable by Emu. And therefore could, when Emu is eventually deposed, very well become the next Prime Minister. This would only fuel his desire for revenge. How maddening would it be to know you’ve finally got the top job, the one you’ve sacrificed so much for, not as a result of unbridled public enthusiasm for his soft-Left politics, but because of some shabby backroom deal?

Or there’s the notion that he’s an unwitting agent of the Chinese state. That it long ago identified the enthusiasm with which European countries embraced combating climate change and decided to use that enthusiasm against them. Its not just us that legally committed ourselves to achieving Net Zero by 2050. The French, Spanish and the Dutch have done so to. Not the Germans though. They have 2045 as their target.

One might think that as the Chinese are the worlds largest exporter of solar panels, wind turbines and quite a few of the other technical innovations upon what the whole Net Zero scheme depends, that the Chinese were setting an example. Possibly by demonstrating how a country might switch from fossil to renewable energy without a massive collapse to its economy. Being a trailblazer by showing that the living standards of its population were not affected. That essentially, things would remain pretty much the way they were.

Which they have, as far as the Chinese are concerned. Because while Britain is closing our few remaining coal powered fuel stations, China is opening them. It already has over 1,000 of them, which accounted for half of all global coal generated power in 2020.   This year it plans to open 85 new ones, adding 55 gigawatts (GW) of power to its capacity and already plans in place to add a further 500GW. But what is a GW? 

A GW is a unit of electric power equal to one billion watts or 1,000 megawatts. One GW can power roughly 750,000 to over a million homes, is roughly the same as nuclear power station produces and is a bit less than the flux capacitor needed to power Marty McFly’s DeLorean in ‘Back to the Future.’

So either he’s an unwitting agent for the Chinese, as they make the absurdity of Net Zero technologically possible, and in so doing, make the energy we produce more expensive and less plentiful. Or he’s a revenge obsessed madman, potentially just over a month away – because of the widely expected disaster for Emu of Mays local elections – from fully realising his demonic plans.

I don’t know which one is worse, him being a fool or mad. Net Zero may well confer benefits to future generations of Britons, cleaner, cheaper energy.  Just as equally, it may not. But right now, and for the lifetime of every Briton alive today, wherever we’re going ‘Back to’, it isn’t good.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a statement earlier this week announcing something that should never have been needed to have been announced in the first place. 

According to ‘The Guardian’ ‘[The IOC] has banned transgender women and DSD athletes from the female category of events at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and future Games.’ Pretty much the rest of the UK media had the same reaction, which essentially amounted to ’Transgender women banned’

Alternatively, they could’ve gone with the far more honest,  ‘IOC to prevent men from competing as women.’ Because that, in a nutshell, is all they’ve done. They haven’t banned anyone as much as they’ve belatedly defended the rights of biological women from being eroded still further by deluded men. A consequence of this, and not the reason for doing so, has been to restrict women’s events to biological women only.

But reason is in short supply for some people when transgender enters the conversation. Quite why they have trouble believing that a male who has gone through puberty will, no matter how many drugs he takes, have numerous biological advantages over women, is baffling. The IOC helpfully produced the yet more scientific evidence that proves this. 

“There is a 10-12% male performance advantage in most running and swimming events. There is a 20+ per cent male performance advantage in most throwing and jumping events. And the male performance advantage can be greater than 100 per cent in events that involve explosive power, eg in collision, lifting and punching sports.”

But no-one really needed scientific evidence to confirm what thousands of years of human evolution had produced. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice to have it confirmed. But sports are the one area where the advantages of a trans women over a biological woman are so fucking obvious that its almost insulting to have to point them out.  Doing so does not transphobe make. 

And whilst this announcement is long overdue, it only applies to athletes wishing to compete at the Olympics. 

Nowhere else. So once every four years deluded men can’t do something that they can still do everywhere else the rest of the time. Worse, this announcement only highlights the risks to biological women and girls at the grassroots, schools and local level. The irony here is extraordinary. If biological women and girls don’t feel protected by sporting bodies to defend their rights with the same ferocity with which they defend transgender women’s rights, then they’ll simply not bother taking part.

At what point does the inclusion, dignity and fairness that transgender fantasists claim to want for themselves, cease to be a extended to others? Why is the media so blatantly and consistently gaslighting us on this issue, claiming that some people have been ‘banned’ when in fact these people have effectively had their cheating prevented? And if the media are gaslighting us about this, then one has to wonder what else are they gaslighting us about?