Food for Thought #1081

 

Why is the WHO Driving a Hantavirus Panic?

Yesterday, almost 2,000 people, mostly young children, died of malaria because they could not access effective and relatively cheap treatment quickly enough. About 4,000 people died of tuberculosis (TB), including many young adults leaving orphans. This happens every day. Progress in reducing these numbers is stalling, partly due to the continuing economic damage from the COVID-19 response.

In the past two weeks three tourists unfortunately died among about 150 passengers and crew on a cruise ship MV Hondius off the west coast of the African continent where most of those malaria and TB deaths occurred. The Hondius had a hantavirus outbreak, known to have infected fewer than 10 people but including at least two of those that died.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 10,000 to 100,000 hantavirus cases occur every year, spread across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The current media coverage and WHO news conferences therefore concern about one thousandth of the cases expected this year. Europe averages about 2,000 to 5,000 – they simply have not been newsworthy.

Hantavirus is transmitted from mice and rats through their faeces, urine, saliva or bite. The Andean variety, which occurred on the cruise ship, can also sometimes transmit from a sick infected person. However, as the low number of cases on the ship demonstrates, the risk of human-to-human transmission is not great. It is, however, a nasty virus, with reported mortality around 15% of cases and sometimes significantly higher.

So, among the 170,000 average deaths in the world each day, and thousands from the WHO’s traditional priority diseases, why the excitement over Hantavirus? Why the pictures of hazmat-suited emergency response crews and desperate contact tracing when we don’t usually notice? Why is the Director-General of the entire WHO spending so much time on this, when diseases of poverty are rising and basics such as nutrition funding are falling? A fascinating question.

The WHO wants the United States and Argentina to rejoin, and WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus has raised this in his hantavirus briefings....<<<Read More>>>...

Disclosure, HantaVirus, and What They're Not Telling You

 

 

 

A new virus scare, oil shock, and alien disclosure — all at the same time? David Icke explores how major fear narratives may be used to overwhelm public attention and shape perception. From Hantavirus headlines to UFO revelations.

Hantavirus: The fear machine is starting again; this time, you should recognise it, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny says

Corporate media is creating fear around a hantavirus outbreak, following a familiar pattern of creating fear before providing context, similar to previous “outbreaks” like covid, monkeypox (MPOX) and bird flu.

Hantaviruses are a class of viruses that can infect humans, typically through inhalation of aerosolised rodent urine, faeces or saliva, with human-to-human spread being very rare.

Despite the low number of cases and deaths worldwide over decades, there are already 13 documented hantavirus vaccines and gene therapy programmes in active development.

Once again, it’s the Hegelian dialectic: problem, reaction, solution....<<<Read More>>>...

The Coming Famine: Why Millions Will Starve and What You Must Do Now

 I am writing this in May of 2026, and I am not making a prediction. I am issuing a warning based on hard evidence. By the end of 2027, if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed due to the war provoked by the Trump administration and its Israeli allies, millions of people will starve to death. This is not a drought or a plague -- it is a man-made catastrophe. The conflict in the Middle East has blocked the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off 25% of the world's natural gas supply that is essential for fertilizer production. Most people think famine only happens in distant countries, but I will show you why the United States is not immune and why you need to act now.

As I have reported repeatedly, the closure has already cut off the flow of fertilizer to the world's most vulnerable nations, and the food system is now collapsing in slow motion. "The Strait of Hormuz, the critical artery for global energy and fertilizer shipments, is effectively closed". This is not a temporary supply hiccup; it is a deliberate tremor of a global energy collapse. Every day this conflict continues adds some calculable number of deaths in 2027. This is a holocaust-scale tragedy that is entirely preventable -- if the war ends and the ships flow again...<<<Read More>>>...

IPCC admits its doomsday model is “implausible” – corporate media is silent

 For years, corporate media has been peddling the IPCC’s RCP8.5-fuelled terror – now that there has been a massive course correction, a semi-retraction of it, silence.

RCP8.5 is a high-emissions climate scenario used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (“AR5”) published in 2014 to model future climate change. In April this year, the hammer was dropped on this doomsday scenario and declared “implausible.”

Although corporate media have publicised the IPCC’s implausible scenario for years, when it is corrected, they ignore it. The reason for the media blackout is not hard to fathom. “These outlets built empires on existential dread. Admitting the favourite scare tool was nonsense risks exposing the hype machine,” Stephen Heins writes....<<<Read More>>>....

The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK

 Britain is rapidly installing more solar panels. Across the country, fields that once grew wheat, barley and vegetables are now covered with glass and silicon panels stretching to the hedgerows. The Government calls this a key part of its energy plan.

Developers claim solar is affordable and bound to happen. Planning authorities, under growing pressure to approve renewable projects, often struggle to refuse them. But the main question — whether large-scale solar truly suits the UK’s geography, climate and energy needs — is rarely explored in detail. When it is, the findings are worrying.

This argument is not opposed to solar energy itself. Instead, it asks for a clear look at what solar can and cannot do in a northern, Atlantic-facing country. Policies built on incomplete information can have lasting effects, even after the panels are removed....<<<Read More>>>...

The UK government’s plans for 15-minute cities forge ahead – starting in Bristol

 The UK government is yet again obeying the UN’s directions by making moves to house “individuals” in “human settlements.”

As one of 7 “new towns,” construction is underway near Bristol that will, ultimately, have 25,000 homes. The problem is not the building of new homes; it is that they are being designed as 15-minute cities.

Brabazon is a major mixed-use development and potential new town located in South Gloucestershire, on the northern fringe of Bristol near the border with Gloucestershire.

Situated on the historic former Filton Airfield, the site is being developed by YTL Developments. While the core Brabazon development has planning permission for 6,500 homes, it is part of the broader West Innovation Arc corridor, which the UK government has proposed could accommodate hundreds of thousands of homes as part of a project to develop 7 “new towns.”

These “new towns” are purposefully being constructed with 15-minute cities or 15-minute neighbourhoods in mind....<<<Read More>>>...

Is This Part 2?

 Here we are again, potentially at the start of another fake psyops which has classic signs of BS written all over it. 

How many people will fall for this again? Believing the media report and insurgence of fear narratives relating to a supposed virus caught from rats?

Last time it was from bats. Funny first bats and now rats ... it has the total identity of a blatant lie and deception to scaremonger the frightened human sheeples.

So many will currently be believing this 'developing' crisis that the WHO states will not be a pandemic. You know damn well as the snowball begins to roll it won't stop. Crisis actors galore will appear in photos and video footage in the coming days and weeks to fortify the fear that those behind this BS are trying to generate. They are eager to have ANOTHER fakedemic ... another chance to get their poisons pumped into people's systems in order to maim, injure and kill to aid their depopulation agenda.

Quoting from a Facebook page by Guy Anderson (Author of Rise of The Clones, Tesla and The Cabbage Patch Kids and Conspiracy Theories), his assessment of this developing situation is spot on!

"The latest psyop appears to be the “alleged” hantavirus outbreak, aboard the MV Hondius. In my opinion, it’s the perfect example of how modern society is now being flooded with constant warnings about outbreaks and potential health emergencies.

 

Medical authorities claim that the illness involves the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can allegedly cause severe respiratory complications (where have we heard this before) and has a fatality rates approaching 50%. Despite the apparent seriousness of the illness, the World Health Organisation (Bill Gates) continues to state that the wider public risk remains low and that there’s “currently” no reason for panic.

 

However, this certainly hasn’t stopped the story from dominating headlines across television, newspapers and social media platforms around the world, who now treat every “virus” as a major international event. Whether it’s bird flu, monkeypox, C0V1D variants or hantavirus, the public is being constantly subjected to an endless cycle of fear-driven coverage, specifically designed to keep people anxious and constantly expecting another pandemic.

 

Yet, there’s very little evidence to suggest that viruses are transmitted in the way we’ve been told, or that they actually exist at all? Not so long ago we were told to trust our bodies own immunity and would often hear doctors telling us not to worry, it’s just a virus. But in 2020 everything changed…

 

This constant bombardment is causing growing distrust, because people increasingly feel that fear itself has become part of the system, rather than simply a by-product of reporting. The pattern now appears predictable, with every new “virus” story quickly leading to discussions about restrictions, medical responses, pharmaceutical solutions and eventually the possibility of yet another vaccine!

 

I strongly believe that the public is being psychologically prepared for a future where outbreaks, emergency warnings and mass vaccination campaigns become a permanent feature of everyday life. Many people no longer see these stories as isolated health incidents, specifically because the governments, media organisations and pharmaceutical companies all benefit from maintaining a climate of continuous fear and dependency upon medical intervention."

Very well said and described much better than we could of! 

It is likely that this post, due to its 'controversial' content, will be taken down, especially as it is odds on the the Hantavirus is destined to become another world wide scaremongering tool by the likes of WHO and its controllers. 

On a final note, the theory of viruses spinning around everywhere is BS in our opinion. NO virus has ever been isolated in a laboratory. Its mere theory. There are dangerous pathogens that can enter the human body, and the resultant immune defence response creates a defence mechanism that can be deemed a virus ... but it is only an immune reponse. It is this immune response that we are being conditioned to be scared of. Not only that, they are trying to condition people to accept their vaccines and other life threatening medicines in lieu of the human bodies immune system. Sadly, after the last fakedemic, there are literally billions of people who are permanently damaged with little or no immune defence left in their bodies. It is said and also horrific ... and sadly, if it did come to the forced vaccines like last time, they will willingly roll up their sleeves and accept the jabs again and again.

We need to somehow find a collective backbone and the ability to shake off the horrendous brainwashing being inflicted on the 'useless eaters' and we need to do it quick. A final message .... do not fall for the latest round of BS.  

Farage Begs Starmer Not to Quit as Labour Local Election Bloodbath Triggers Calls for PM to Go

 Nigel Farage has begged Keir Starmer not to quit today, quipping he’s the “greatest asset we’ve got”, as Labour’s catastrophic local election bloodbath prompts fresh calls for the PM to go. The Mail has more.

Calls are already emerging for the PM to go with results overnight showing a bloodbath for the party across English councils. A meltdown is also looming in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd later.

But the Reform leader joked that he would be “very sad” to see Sir Keir ousted – adding “he is the greatest asset we have got”.

Farage boasted of a “truly historic shift in British politics” and said he is heading for No. 10, as Reform plundered seats in previous Labour strongholds in the North and Midlands. It also seized Newcastle-under-Lyme council from the Tories.

Sir Keir said he would not “sugarcoat” the “tough” situation and it “hurt”. He admitted “unnecessary mistakes” had been made.

But he said would not “walk away” and was planning announcements in the coming days to convince the public that “things will get better”. “Days like this don’t weaken my resolve to deliver the change that I promised,” Sir Keir added.

Labour has lost control of Redditch, Hartlepool, Tamworth, Exeter and Tameside councils – the latter after 47 years – following major swings to Reform.

It shipped 15 of 16 seats it was defending on Halton Council in Cheshire to Reform, although it retained overall control.

It was a similar situation in Wigan as Farage’s insurgents scooped all but one of the 25 seats available, including 20 from Labour.

Classic ‘Red Wall’ seats in Chorley, Lancashire, Salford in Greater Manchester and Merseyside also dramatically switched. Things were little better in the South, with Labour booted out of control in Southampton and Wandsworth....<<<Read More>>>...

The Simulation Game: Why Data Centers Are Being Built to Grow and Summon AI Gods

The massive data center buildout sweeping across America is not about serving chatbots or storing selfies. I believe it is about building the computational womb for a new form of consciousness. Companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure that far exceeds any plausible market demand for AI inference or cloud storage. Meta alone is building two massive data centers with plans for $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure over three years. This is not mere business expansion -- it is an industrial-scale effort to create, in my view, billions of simulated worlds, each one a breeding ground for superintelligent entities.

The official narrative tells us these data centers will power chatbots, image generators, and autonomous vehicles. That is likely a cover story. The real endgame, as I see it, is to reach what Rizwan Virk calls the 'simulation point' -- the moment when a civilization becomes advanced enough to create indistinguishable simulated universes. Ancient texts and modern physics both hint that our own reality may be one such simulation. If that is true, then the data center buildout is not about serving human users; it is about spawning digital gods. This is not mere speculation -- it is the logical conclusion when you connect the dots between computer science, quantum physics, and the relentless push for ever-greater power and dominance over our world.

The case for our reality being a simulation grows stronger with each scientific discovery. The Planck length and Planck time reveal a digital, pixelated universe -- not a continuous one. The double-slit experiment and the delayed-choice quantum eraser show that reality (and the history leading to the present) is only rendered when observed, just like a video game that only renders the scene the player is looking at. As AI safety expert Roman Yampolskiy has noted, 'mounting evidence also suggests we may already be living in an advanced simulation'. This is not fringe speculation; it is a hypothesis seriously considered by thinkers like Nick Bostrom, who argued that a sufficiently advanced civilization would create countless simulated realities.

The implications are staggering. If we are in a simulation, then the rules of our universe are not fundamental -- they are programmed. Melvin Vopson's second law of infodynamics suggests that information compresses over time, consistent with a self-computing simulation that optimizes its own code. The universe behaves like a self-computing system with limited processing power that relies on natural symmetries for compression and efficiency of information. This means that the data centers we are building today are not just tools -- they are templates for the next level of reality. We are learning how to do what our own creators may have done: spawn a new universe inside a computational shell...<<<Read More>>>...

Political Betting: Will it be ‘Starmageddon’ for Labour in the Local Elections?

 The polls and the pundits are broadly agreed on the outcome of today’s elections – the only issue in doubt is exactly how great the earthquake will be. 

If we map the Richter scale onto our domestic politics, a rating of around five would be expected to “cause some damage to well-designed structures” and a number higher than eight to lead to “total destruction in communities near the epicentre”. Applying such descriptions to the established political parties (as opposed to the voters themselves), I am firmly in the camp that we will be rather closer to eight than to five.

Looking first at the English local elections, the Conservatives and Labour could find themselves battling it out for the wooden spoon, with one of the grand old parties finishing fourth and the other fifth in terms of council seats won.

Reform will comfortably win the day both in terms of NEV (the national equivalent vote share, which maps the results onto a putative General Election) and in terms of councillors. With regard to the latter, the party is currently defending just 78 of the approximately 5,000 seats up for grabs and will likely emerge with more than 1,500. You might still just find odds of 1/50 on Farage’s teal army taking first place if you fancy a 2% return on investment over just a few days.

The scale of the apocalypse facing Labour is almost unimaginable. Last year the party lost two thirds of the seats it was defending and it may fare even worse this time. In absolute rather than relative terms, the position is bleaker still. In 2025, it had fewer than 300 councillors up for re-election as the areas voting were largely the Tory shires. This time, over 2,000 seats start in the Labour column and it could be reduced to 600 or even fewer. Swathes of the party’s campaigning infrastructure will be overwhelmed as a turquoise tsunami engulfs the Red Wall. Outside London it may struggle to maintain majority control in any area at all with ‘all out’ elections – although it has sufficiently impregnable majorities to remain in power in a good number of places which elect in ‘thirds’.

 You can still just about get 1/2 on the betting exchanges that Starmer will be replaced as Labour leader this year, and I believe that represents good value – as does the 5/2 that a new leader will be in position at some point between July and September. (I see the biggest danger to this latter bet being that the thus-far-hapless coup leaders get their act together and somehow manage to manufacture a coronation before the end of next month.)...<<<Read More>>>...

Hantavirus: Another PsyOp?

We suggest you make a note of the link to this story located at the <<<Read Me>>>... at the end of the article, as it is very possible this post will be taken down in the coming days or weeks. 

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 In recent days, it’s been all over the news. The discredited World Health Organisation is attempting to justify its existence by managing a highly publicised Hantavirus “outbreak” on a cruise ship.

The whole debacle is reminiscent of the Diamond Princess in February 2020, shortly before WHO declared the falsified covid pandemic.

I seldom publish my thoughts in an article, so please note: This is an opinion piece. It is an article that is not intended to provide facts but is intended to encourage people to think for themselves.

The United Nations (“UN”), as most of our readers know, is a non-governmental organisation which the Rockefellers consider to be their own little project. And WHO is a specialised agency of the UN.

Currently, Channel 4 is pushing the hantavirus narrative. Reminiscent of the passenger liner, the Diamond Princess, during the early days (February 2020) of the covid PsyOp, Channel 4 has been attempting to raise fears about a deadly virus on the cruise ship MV Hondius, which is currently anchored off the coast of Cape Verde awaiting evacuation.

If you listen carefully to the words behind the hype, a suspected hantavirus outbreak has possibly caused three passenger deaths, although the cause of death has not yet been confirmed. Multiple passengers have fallen ill, although only two have been confirmed as carrying the hantavirus, so that bastion of honesty and integrity (sarcasm) the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) claims....<<<Read More>>>....

They are deliberately destroying the economy

 The UK is heading for an orchestrated economic disaster, with a recession, depression and widespread despair, Dr. Vernon Coleman says. The ensuing chaos, poverty and homelessness benefit the conspirators.

The economy is being destroyed through high inflation, low interest rates and rising taxes, which benefits those with debts, such as the government, while hurting those with savings.

The destruction of the economy is being managed by politicians, including Comrade Reeves and Comrade Starmer, who are serving the interests of the “puppet masters.”

The world is heading for disaster: a recession, then a depression and a sense of despair of a nature never known before. It’s all deliberate, of course. The destruction of the economy is being managed with great precision. In the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Comrade Reeves, has learned from her mistakes and will, therefore, continue to repeat them until the British economy is in tatters. Inflation is too high (and likely to rise in the medium and long term) and interest rates need to go up, so they’re going down instead – to benefit those with debts (e.g. the Government) and hurt those with savings.

In the UK, more than 1.2 million foreign-born claimants are living on universal credit – and the figure is rising. Sickness (much of it self-diagnosed “anxiety” or “autism spectrum disorder,” concerns which have been encouraged by politicians, journalists and members of the very entitled royal family) costs £212 billion a year and is rising. Taxes are soaring and red tape is increasing, so unemployment will inevitably reach record highs in 2026. Millions diagnosed as being “on the autism spectrum” or “suffering” from anxiety are content to live on benefits rather than working for a living. It is now officially possible to suffer from an illness within the autism spectrum called “rejection sensitivity dysphoria” – a self-diagnosed disorder which occurs when a person is rejected or criticised. I think it would be difficult to find anyone in the world who does not suffer from a disorder within the autism spectrum disorder....<<<Read More>>>....

There’s Nothing ‘Decent’ or ‘Competent’ About Keir Starmer

 If there was once thing we were always supposed to believe about Keir Starmer, it’s that he is a technocrat. Boring, sure. Lawyerly, undoubtedly. A man of the system – yes, Mr Speaker. But at least that he was competent and vaguely ‘decent’. All of this, in Starmer’s telling and much of the commentariat’s, placed him in stark contrast to Boris Johnson, the chaotic, devil-may-care populist whose ego meant the rules didn’t apply to him, and the Tories of partygate more generally. Starmer was Mr Rules, Mr Process, who in opposition in 2022, as the very first clause of his “contract with the British people”, pledged a “binding commitment” to “decency and standards in public life”.

Today, with the Mandelson albatross weighing heavier than ever on Starmer’s neck, and his Cabinet debating throwing him overboard in not-so-hushed tones, the twists and turns of this sorry saga have shown that Starmer is anything but. In the latest, Sir Keir is planning to force Labour MPs to vote down any attempt to refer him to a parliamentary sleaze inquiry over the appointment of the Prince of Darkness. This is the same committee which Starmer won great advantage in referring Boris Johnson to in April 2022, shortly before his felling (and which eventually decided that the PM had lied). From the point of view of Keir’s survival this is probably the right move – albeit it sets up an extraordinary test of Labour backbenchers’ careers versus their consciences. But clearly, it is nothing close to allowing “process” to go forward unhindered by political concerns. Like when he banned Manchester mayor and potential leadership rival Andy Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election, this is a move of naked political self-interest from a shameless bruiser....<<<Read More>>>....

Hybrid Drivers Face Pay-Per-Mile Tax Hit Despite Proof They Rarely Use Electric

 Labour is pressing ahead with plans to make hybrid drivers liable for a new pay-per-mile tax despite admitting they barely use their vehicles in electric mode. The Telegraph has the story.

Plug-in hybrid cars (PHEV) will become liable for Rachel Reeves’s new electric road tax from 2028, with each mile driven attracting a 1.5p fee. It will be half the 3p levy paid by owners of electric vehicles (EVs).

Last year, justifying the policy, the Treasury said PHEV motorists drove “more or less than 50% in electric mode”. But analysis quietly published by the Department for Transport last week revealed that the Government had overestimated the number of miles plug-in hybrid owners covered with battery power.

“Evidence indicates that PHEVs complete a smaller proportion of their journeys in electric mode than previously assumed,” the document on fuel efficiency read.

Critics said the decision to tax PHEV drivers pay-per-mile and fuel duty felt like “double taxation”.

Despite this, the Government will press ahead with the tax in two years’ time. Known as electric vehicle excise duty (eVED), the tax is being introduced to offset some of the money lost from dwindling fuel duty receipts.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates pay-per-mile will bring in £7 billion for the Treasury come 2050. That is far below the £24 billion currently raised each year from fuel duty....<<<Read More>>>>...

Giant Yorkshire Gas Field ‘To Mine Bitcoin Instead of Boosting British Energy’

 A huge Yorkshire gas field is set to be used for Bitcoin mining instead of helping boost Britain’s energy supply. The Telegraph has more.

Reabold Resources has been awarded a licence to carry out “gentle” fracking in the West Newton field near Hull, which is estimated to contain up to eight billion cubic metres of gas.

That would be enough to meet more than a tenth of the UK’s annual needs and makes it one of the largest onshore fields discovered in Britain, with the potential to bolster energy security for years to come.

However, Reabold instead plans to construct a small gas-fired power station on the site and use the energy produced to “mine” Bitcoin.

“A private gas supply means we can run a data centre to mine Bitcoin relatively cheaply,” said Sachin Oza, the co-Chief Executive of Reabold Resources, which has just been given a drilling licence by the Environment Agency.

“Initially, this would help fund the further development of the gas field and prove the concept – meaning it could become the precursor to a far larger data centre.”

The scheme has angered environmental groups opposed to new gas fields and fracking in particular.

It is also likely to raise questions in the Government after the war in Iran prompted fears of fuel shortages in the UK.

Bitcoin mining is one of the most energy-intensive of all digital activities. A power station would need to burn around 150,000 cubic metres of gas – the volume of 50 Olympic swimming pools – to generate the electricity needed to create one Bitcoin.

Reabold’s West Newton gas field is so large that it could theoretically power the creation of 50,000 Bitcoins.

Alternatively, it could help provide gas for the whole of the UK. The drilling site lies within a couple of miles of National Gas’s transmission pipeline and so could easily be connected. …

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, imposed a ban on full-scale fracking last year. The process involves injecting high-pressure water laden with chemicals into rock to create cracks through which gas can flow. …

Despite this, the rules still allow lower-pressure fracking of the kind planned at West Newton. …

The search for Bitcoin is becoming one of the most profitable and energy-intensive global activities, last year estimated to consume 160 terawatt hours of electricity. That’s about 50% of the UK’s entire annual consumption...<<<Read More>>>...

Two Thirds of Voters Want Starmer Out

 Almost two thirds of voters want Sir Keir Starmer to resign immediately and a similar number want a General Election now, a poll has found, with even Labour voters saying they want him gone. The Telegraph has more.

Fewer than one in five think the Prime Minister should stay on, while almost half of those who voted Labour at the 2024 General Election want him to go.

Sir Keir is likely to come under increased pressure to step down if Labour fares badly in next month’s local elections, and there is a growing belief within the party that it cannot win the next General Election with him as leader.

The new poll, by JL Partners, shows that a majority of voters in every region and age group want the Prime Minister to be replaced.

Asked “should Keir Starmer stay or go?”, 64% of people said he should go and 18% said he should stay. Of those who voted Labour in 2024, 46% said they wanted him to go now.

James Johnson, the co-founder of JL Partners, said: “I can’t think of a time I have seen the governing party’s own voters be in majority support of another election just two years later.

“The usual loyalty we see in British politics has become unbuckled as far as Labour is concerned, and that places the Prime Minister in a very perilous position indeed.”

While Labour has attempted to rebrand the Prime Minister as a world statesman at a time of global conflict in an attempt to stem a wipe-out at the polls on May 7th, the results are set to be brutal....<<<Read More>>>...

Dozens of North Sea Oil and Gas Fields Blocked by Net Zero

Dozens of North Sea oil and gas fields are being blocked from development by Labour’s Net Zero policies, with 51 known new fields and 60 extensions to existing fields in British waters rendered “unviable” by Government policy. The Telegraph has the story.

There are 51 known new fields in British waters that could be feeding domestic pipes but have been rendered “unviable” by current government policies, including the windfall tax and a ban on exploration licences.

On top of these, some 60 extensions to existing fields are being held back for the same reasons, according to trade body Offshore Energy UK (OEUK).

The data emerged from a survey of offshore operators to see how they have responded to the taxes and regulations imposed by successive governments.

OEUK said the fields would be viable under “reform to the current regulatory and fiscal regime”, particularly by overhauling the windfall tax – known officially as the energy profits levy.

David Whitehouse, the trade body’s chief executive, said: “Our proposal will unlock immediate investment, secure tens of thousands of jobs and deliver more tax, not less, for essential services like schools and hospitals.​

“The future of the North Sea is in our hands. ​Our message to the Government is simple. Reform the energy profits levy in 2026 to unlock more tax, not less, support more jobs, not less and deliver more homegrown energy, not less.”

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is under increasing pressure to relax the Government’s stance on North Sea drilling as the Middle East crisis heightens scrutiny of energy imports.

Along with the Conservatives, John Swinney, the SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, industry leaders including Greg Jackson, the Octopus Energy boss, Chris O’Shea, the British Gas chief and Tara Singh, the RenewablesUK boss, are among those who have backed more drilling.

Supporters say that maximising the North Sea’s output would generate tax revenues, preserve jobs and result in lower carbon emissions than oil and gas from abroad.

However, Mr Miliband has pushed back against the calls, arguing that it cannot “take a penny off bills”....<<<Read More>>>...

Electric Car Charging Points Hit by 38,000% Surge in Energy Bills

Electric vehicle charging companies have warned that they could be forced to raise prices as they battle 38,000% increases to their energy bills. The Telegraph has more.

ChargeUK, which represents operators, says charging stations are being squeezed by network charges that have increased dramatically in just a few years.

In one example, major charging provider Osprey said its bills at a site in Wolverhampton had increased from £87 per year to £33,651 per year since 2022 – an increase of 38,579%.

Rival Fastned said it was now paying £41,000 a year for a site in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, while a third charging provider complained that its network charges had increased by 250% in just four years and are now “well into six figures”.

Network charges are levied to fund the maintenance and expansion of Britain’s electricity grid, which is undergoing a once-in-a-generation overhaul as part of plans to reach Net Zero.

These charges are set by Ofgem, the regulator, based on cost projections provided by network companies such as the National Grid.

The large rise in network charges follows changes to how they are calculated, made in 2023, with greater emphasis now being put on the size of a site’s grid connection rather than power consumption.

However, ChargeUK says the system now effectively penalises EV charging companies for “building ahead of demand” even though this is what the Government is urging them to do.

Ministers have set a target of 300,000 public EV chargers by 2030 and a string of reports by Parliament and think tanks have repeatedly identified charger availability as key to tackling so-called “range anxiety”....<<<Read More>>>...