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Wednesday, 29 July 2026

The Case for EVs Has Failed

 The pantomime scene called 'CO2 Is Innocent But Let's Blame It For A Non-Existent Crisis" is in full swing but people have woken up and have seen through the deception

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UK Net Zero policy aims at balancing the production and removal of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide by 2050. The primary greenhouse gas from transport is CO2 produced by burning fuels containing carbon such as petrol and diesel in conventional internal combustion vehicles. The entire Vehicle Excise Duty regime pivots on this single metric. Current Government transport policy is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions to help meet Net Zero targets. In addition, Government documents also mention as objectives reducing local pollution from transport, improving connectivity across Britain, growing the economy by enhancing the transport network and increasing the global impact of the UK to boost influence and maximise trade. However, these other objectives are not clearly prioritised, the costs and challenges of implementation are not specified and flagrant contradictions between these different aims are simply ignored.

The scale of the challenge of ‘decarbonising’ transport is very large. Transport accounts for 26% of total UK emissions, which is 0.27% of total global emissions. As a rough guide from Government statistics, the major contributing sectors to transport emissions are road transport (70%), aviation (20%) and marine (8%). In Great Britain, there are around 42 million registered road vehicles – 34 million cars, five million vans and 0.8 million heavy goods vehicles and buses. Of these vehicles, as of March 2025 only 1.5 million were pure battery electric vehicles. Cars and vans account for about half while heavy goods vehicles and buses account for 15% of total transport CO2....<<<Read More>>>...

Monday, 27 July 2026

The Death of ‘Silly Season’

 ‘Silly season’ is supposedly upon us. Traditionally, the parliamentary recess marked a brief lull in political news. Ministers retreated to their constituencies, MPs disappeared on holiday and newspapers, deprived of Westminster intrigue, filled their pages with escaped llamas, giant marrows, seagulls stealing chips on Scarborough seafront and other harmless absurdities. The absence of serious political news was taken as evidence that, for a few weeks at least, the machinery of government had slowed to a crawl. As a teenager, I remember wondering: “If the news stops when Parliament stops, perhaps less government would mean less news.”

Silly season no longer seems to arrive. Every summer now brings another existential crisis demanding constant commentary. Brexit negotiations gave way to Covid and lockdowns. Covid gave way to Ukraine. Ukraine gave way to inflation, leadership contests, small boats, riots and a seemingly endless succession of emergencies. Westminster has become a theatre in permanent performance. There is no interval, and the actors never leave the stage. There is only crisis....<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Burnham’s Net Zero Secretary Wants to Raise Tax to Stop People Flying

 Miatta Fahnbulleh advocated frequent-flyer levies that would add hundreds of pounds to the annual costs of regular travellers.

Now the Energy Secretary, she called for the taxes while chief executive of the New Economics Foundation think tank between 2017 and 2023.

During her time there, the think tank proposed in 2021 adding an escalating levy to tickets which would increase for every subsequent flight taken within a year, replacing the current Air Passenger Duty system.

Her appointment on Monday is likely to raise concerns that some of her previous policy proposals may be taken forward.

The think tank’s work has been incorporated into Labour policymaking in the past, including work on green industrial strategy and energy.

Richard Holden MP, the Shadow Transport Secretary, said families were already paying some of the highest flight taxes in the world “just to get away for a well-earned break”. “But Andy Burnham’s pick as Labour’s Energy Secretary wants to pile another tax on top,” he said.

He added British families were already being “taxed through the roof” and claimed the new taxes on air travel represented a punishment for “anyone who dares to fly for a holiday”.

Under the frequent-flyer tax proposal, the first flight taken by any individual in a given year would be exempt. The proposal was designed in part to keep costs neutral for lower-earners, who typically travel less, and to also protect family holidays. However, costs would then ratchet up in increments.

Under one model, for example, the tax on the first flight would be £0, the second flight £25, and each additional increment would increase by £10 thereafter (£35, £45, £55) for each subsequent flight. By the 10th flight the total green tax bill would come to £585.

The costs would be even higher for those travelling for business, representing a significant cost to companies.

It would be felt most by higher earners, who fly more, with models suggesting the highest 20% of earners would cut flying by around 30%, while the lowest 20% would be unaffected....<<<Read More>>>...

Saturday, 11 July 2026

UN created a global disinformation task force; now it’s taking control of information through “AI governance”

In 2024, the UN created a new task force on disinformation. This task force is not about addressing misinformation or disinformation that would lead to any type of real-world truth. Its sole purpose is to focus on how certain information would affect achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030).

Last week, the UN held a “Global Dialogue on AI Governance.”

The task force and AI governance are linked in their desire to control the information the public is allowed to see under the guise of safeguarding information integrity.

AI is eroding information integrity while weakening “the shared reality required for public trust, social cohesion and democratic deliberation,” according to the United Nations (“UN”) preliminary scientific report on artificial intelligence....<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 10 July 2026

European Parliament Imposes Mass Electronic Surveillance Regulation After a Majority Votes it Down Three Times

 That title is polemical, okay? But it’s morally right.

If anybody cares, what actually happened is that an extension of the European Union’s mass surveillance regulation known as Chat Control 1.0 failed to make it out of the European Parliament twice in March. 

Unable to summon a clear parliamentary majority, advocates (mostly in the centre-Right European People’s Party (EPP)) turned to the European Council, which adopted the failed Chat Control 1.0 renewal on July 2nd. The Council’s position hardens automatically into law unless the European Parliament can summon an absolute majority to stop it. 

To forestall any such majority from forming, the EPP on Tuesday moved with member state backing for urgent procedure, angling to force their scheme through in the last days before the summer holiday, after many MEPs had already left. The parliament narrowly approved the urgent procedure, and in consequence there were not enough votes to stop Chat Control 1.0 when it came for a vote today. Hours ago, a majority of 314 MEPs voted to stop Chat Control against the wishes of the Council, while a minority of 276 voted to let it happen. Because 314 is less than the absolute majority of 361, Chat Control 1.0 passed even though most MEPs present didn’t want it to.

It was a sleazy vote, not least because it’s far from clear this procedural manoeuvre was even appropriate in this case. Also, electronic surveillance is bad, but if we are honest with ourselves this battle was already lost.

Chat Control 1.0 was first instated in 2021 as a temporary exemption to the ePrivacy Directive of the EU, allowing messaging services and online platforms to scan chats and other electronic communications for child sexual abuse material. The exemption expired in April, but various platforms have continued their surveillance with no legal basis in the intervening months. Now their formal permission to scan our private communications has been restored and extended through April 2028. We are, in other words, merely returning to the prior regime.

Chat Control 1.0 is a temporary stopgap while the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council try to negotiate their Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, or Chat Control 2.0. As envisioned by the Commission, this permanent law would not merely allow platforms to scan private communications for child sex abuse material, but require them to do so; would require additional AI-assisted automated scanning not only for known child pornography but also for such vaguely defined activities as ‘grooming’; and would extend scanning to end-to-end encrypted services like Signal via mandatory monitoring on the client side. This insane proposal has been watered down over the years, in large part because of parliamentary opposition, but it’s coming in some form. We’re getting Chat Control 2.0 before Chat Control 1.0 expires, and Chat Control 2.0 will be at least somewhat worse....<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Emotional surveillance is the next level of Orwellian technology

 Meanwhile .... back in the pantomime, the parasite elite have their Agenda 2030 fear narratives in full swing. Everywhere you look on the internet there are unwitting bots spreading the propaganda on behalf of the parasites. 

Stories appear daily on social media about the incoming Agenda 2030 and its dystopian control measures ... and sadly, its entering into the perceptions and the sub-conscious of the gullible humans. 

They see and believe the sources of this bot spreading, without questioning who is releasing the propaganda news to these sources. The parasites have set their intention off and have infiltrated all areas of the internet, even the well intentioned conspiracy sites. Its a wish fulfillment exercise for what is left of the parasites, who despite their media declarations that say contrary, are not as much in control as the stories make out .... here is one such bot spreading story .... its time to take everything you read on these matters with a pinch or two of good quality salt ....

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According to a report from Biometric Update, the next evolution in digital identity and security systems is moving beyond traditional biometrics and behavioral data to analyze human emotions themselves.

San Francisco-based Valence AI has raised $5 million in seed funding and secured two U.S. patents for technology that detects emotional states in real time from live speech.

The company’s Pulse Emotion model analyzes vocal cues such as tone, pacing, and other indicators, converting them into structured data for use in voice agents, contact centers, sales, and support operations. This development signals a broader shift where emotional signals are being integrated into the trust and identity stack alongside device reputation, behavioral analytics, and transaction history....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Thursday, 25 June 2026

Air Conditioning Torn From Homes Under Net Zero Clampdown

 Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their properties under Net Zero laws that prioritise “passive cooling” and only permit “active cooling” as a “last resort”. The Telegraph has the story.

Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”.

The Net Zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.

The Tories said Britain was being “kept in the dark ages” under a Net Zero mindset that denies people “modern conveniences that are completely normal in other countries”.

Meanwhile, temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 40°C this week, with Britain sweltering under a record heatwave that has forced schools to close, brought trains to a halt and led to the Met Office issuing a red “risk-to-life” warning.

Widely published advice states planning permission is not required to install air-con. However, planning is required in certain situations, such as in conservation areas, and there are different rules for flats, leasehold homes, as well as shared buildings.

It means there is a risk units are installed under the assumption they are permitted, but are later caught by council enforcement officers.

In one of a string of cases uncovered by the Telegraph, a resident living in North London was forced to “permanently remove” two air-con units from the back of their home.

Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units and that they failed to comply with the local authority’s so-called “cooling hierarchy”.

In an appeal, the resident was told to open the windows and balcony doors of their first-floor flat to ventilate the property “by natural means”....<<<Read More>>>...

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

German Public Health Authorities Dispense Lunatic Heatwave Advice Warning Against Air Conditioning

 An ominous Heat Dome has settled over Western Europe.

It is literally 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) as I type this, and if you were an alien from Pluto listening to central German radio you’d have to conclude that these temperatures are at the very limits of human survivability. (It’s substantially warmer further west, but the hysteria is the same everywhere.) Meteorologists are running short of death doom colours to depict the dire state of our temperature emergency.

And former Covid Minister Karl Lauterbach has declared that “many people will die” and denounced “Right-wing conspiracy theorists” for not taking sunny summer weather seriously enough.

Meanwhile, in what has become a fixed seasonal ritual, German public health authorities and state media have begun circulating lunatic emergency advice for how to stay cool in this life-threatening heat situation....<<<Read More>>>...

Sunday, 21 June 2026

Starmer is Ready to Resign, Say Allies

When Starmer resigns, whoever replaces him will be just the same. ... same script, same lies, same everything. Another WEF puppet carrying out the wishes of the parasites to destroy the UK and open the door to Islamic take over. 

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Allies of Sir Keir Starmer believe he is preparing to step down as he realises the “game is up” after facing an evaporation of support over the weekend. The Telegraph has the story.

A senior Government figure told the Telegraph the embattled Prime Minister was realising that the “game is up” and his thoughts were turning to how he could “shore up his legacy”.

They said there had been “quite a bit of movement” among Cabinet Ministers since Andy Burnham’s Makerfield by-election victory, leading Sir Keir to reconsider his previous commitment to soldiering on.

One Labour MP, who is usually considered to be a loyalist to the Prime Minister, said he believed Sir Keir would announce his departure date as soon as Monday given that his support among MPs was now down to only a handful of “friends and family”.

“There’s no one left. Literally people whose relatives work in No. 10 or people who are long term personal friends of Keir’s are pretty much the only ones left,” they said, adding that trying to stand in the way of Burnham’s path to Downing Street was “like trying to fight gravity”.

One Government figure predicted that “something will have happened by the end of the week”, warning that if Sir Keir did not resign “we could end up in mass resignation territory”.

Another Government source said Sir Keir was reflecting on his future over the weekend, adding that “the sorts of people” who were now telling him that his time was up were “different – they are not the usual suspects”....<<<Read More>>>...

Saturday, 20 June 2026

Net Zero Leaves Britain Paying France to Take Our Power

 Work this story out for yourselves .... do we have power cables connecting us to France? Under the English Channel? If not ... then how can this story be true? You can't e-mail power or send it by wifi!  How can France be given our power ????  Apparently there is indeed an undersea cable running to France from the UK! 

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The cackhanded pursuit of Net Zero by Ed Miliband and his predecessors has left Britain having to pay France and other countries to take excess power off our hands for a significant portion of the year. The Telegraph has more.

It’s the Ed Miliband paradox: why does Britain have among the highest power prices in Europe when we have so much electricity that suppliers have to pay customers to use it?

It was a question repeated across the energy industry last week after power prices briefly turned negative, meaning customers and countries abroad were paid to use surplus electricity generated in Britain rather than having to pay for it.

It meant free energy for some consumers to use as they pleased – to charge their electric vehicles (EVs) or simply make a cup of tea – and saw Britain offloading the rest to the likes of France and Holland, not just free but with a chunky payment attached.

This might sound like an oddity, but it was far from the first time. So far this year, Britain has seen around 50 hours of negative prices. Last year, the amount totalled 150 hours – a sevenfold increase since 2021, according to Aurora Energy.

By 2028, UK prices could be below zero for 15% of the year – more than 1,300 hours, LCP Delta says.

The reason is that Britain is generating too much energy, resulting in a surplus that must be absorbed for the power system to function properly.

The obvious answer would seem to be switching them off. But in Britain, the system for connecting solar power and some wind means they are always on. Our nuclear stations are also difficult to ramp up and down....<<<Read More>>>...

Thursday, 18 June 2026

Klaus Schwab’s “intelligent age”: AI will replace human cognitive abilities

 Another day in the pantomime and another dose of scare tactics. The optics of fear are all around us; fall for them and you are letting your vibration sink to the level they want you have. Munch on your popcorn, laugh and smile ... realise you are in a virtual reality in which your thoughts govern your experiences. Fear binds and controls the narrative that comes into your experiences in this pantomime. Don't let these soul-less walkers control you, and don't let their desired realities come into yours.

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Klaus Schwab may have been ousted from active leadership of the World Economic Forum, but that hasn’t stopped him from flitting around the world spreading his dystopian ideology.

The intelligent age is replacing our cognitive capabilities with AI, and universities should prioritise teaching students how to capably use technology over teaching actual knowledge, according to World Economic Forum (“WEF”) founder Klaus Schwab.

Livestreaming today [29 May] at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Schwab spoke at length about what he calls ‘the intelligent age” and what it means for jobs, students and humanity.

Comparing previous industrial revolutions to the so-called intelligent age, the grand architect of the Great Reset agenda said that our thinking abilities were now being delegated to artificial intelligence...<<<Read More>>>...

Sunday, 14 June 2026

Ed Miliband is coming for your electric towel rail in Net Zero drive – as critics brand the move ‘Soviet’

 Ed Miliband is planning to limit the use of energy-intensive electric towel rails in his pursuit of reaching Net Zero – in a move critics have branded ‘Soviet’.

Underfloor heating, gas fires and storage heaters are also in the Energy Secretary’s sights as he tries to cut Britain’s carbon emissions.

And Mr Miliband plans to introduce new energy efficiency requirements that will make it illegal for a third of ‘space heating systems’ to be sold.

Temperature controls will become mandatory under the new regime, while some towel rails will only be allowed to be turned on for six hours a day.

But the Energy Secretary – nicknamed ‘Red Ed’ – was yesterday pilloried for foisting these restrictions on the public....<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 3 June 2026

UFO Abductee: The Human Body is Just a Container for the Soul

 One particularly controversial area of UFO abduction study is the extraction of the human soul by extraterrestrial beings, as discussed in detail by Dr. Corrado Malanga, an Italian UFO abduction researcher and professor, in his book Alien Cicatrix.

Based on decades of research and interviews with hundreds of UFO abductees, Dr. Malanga presents a chilling theory: UFO occupants possess the capability to extract a human soul from its body using rotating cylinders.

According to Dr. Malanga’s hypothesis, aliens view the human body as merely a vessel for the soul, a concept eerily reflected in reports from various abductees.

One such abductee claimed that the extraterrestrials told her that the human body was “just a container for the soul and of no other value.” This perspective reflects a disconnect between human and alien understanding of life and existence, suggesting that these extraterrestrial entities are primarily concerned with the soul, possibly for its energy, consciousness, or some unknown purpose....<<<Read More>>>...

Monday, 1 June 2026

The Engineered Collapse: Why Energy Lockdowns and Food Shortages Are the Next Phase of the Depopulation Agenda

 I have warned for years that the elites driving global policy are not merely incompetent -- they are executing a deliberate depopulation agenda. The COVID-19 pandemic was their test run for mass behavioral control and biological warfare. Now the same architects are leveraging the Strait of Hormuz crisis and fertilizer scarcity to accelerate mass starvation, especially in vulnerable nations.

Catherine Austin Fitts warned that the Strait of Hormuz shutdown signals “COVID 2.0” and engineered famine. The global fertilizer shortage means the spring planting season will see diminished crop yields in the northern hemisphere. This is not accidental. It is the next phase of a plan to reduce global population and install a technocratic surveillance state. As I have reported repeatedly, Agenda 21 explicitly lays out the framework for centralizing control over human life, including the elimination of property rights and the culling of “surplus” populations.

The goal is to reduce humanity from billions to perhaps 500 million, ruled by a digital ID and a central bank digital currency. And here is the hard truth that most Americans refuse to see: Donald Trump, whom many hoped would be the spoiler of this globalist plan, has seemingly become a willing accomplice. He is not the savior; he is speeding up the very machine he claimed to fight. The same forces that used fake climate narratives to justify energy lockdowns are now using war in the Middle East to justify food rationing. This is the engineered collapse, and it is accelerating...<<<Read More>>>...

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

The Nocebo Effect: The Real Psyop Behind Fake Pandemics

 When authorities tell you to be afraid of a virus, your mind can make symptoms real, even when no pathogen exists. This is not conspiracy theory; it's documented science, and it has been weaponized against the public for decades. The nocebo effect -- the evil twin of the placebo -- is the key to understanding how pandemics are manufactured as psychological operations. The word "nocebo" means "I will harm" in Latin, and that's exactly what this phenomenon does: it turns negative expectations into real physical harm.

The idea that a suggestion can make you sick is as old as medicine itself, yet it has been deliberately ignored by the scientific establishment because it threatens the entire foundation of the infectious disease model. Research on the nocebo effect in the context of COVID-19 shows that the pandemic produced a "nocebodemic effect" characterized by mass negative interpretation of health services and medical treatments [1]. When combined with the fear narrative pumped out by governments and media, this creates a perfect storm of psychogenic illness that requires no actual virus to produce symptoms. The institutions that profit from sickness have learned to weaponize this effect on a scale never seen before...<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 8 May 2026

The Coming Food Crisis: Why You’ll Find Gravel in Your Grain and Wood Chips in Your Bread

 I’ve spent 12+ years analyzing food quality in my laboratory, and what I’m seeing today terrifies me. Viral videos are now surfacing that allegedly show wood chips embedded in commercial bread loaves, and produce that would have been tossed a decade ago is now filling grocery shelves. The coming food crisis isn’t a distant threat; it’s already starting.

As a food scientist, I believe we are witnessing the systematic degradation of the world’s food supply. Fertilizer shortages ignited by ongoing wars, combined with the deliberate lowering of quality standards, mean that consumers will soon find inedible debris in their staples. This is not about a single bad batch -- it’s about a broken supply chain that prefers volume over safety. Here’s why this matters, and what you can do about it.

The root of the problem lies in the energy and fertilizer crisis. War in the Middle East and Eastern Europe has disrupted global fertilizer supplies, driving costs through the roof. Farmers, squeezed by rising input prices and stagnant crop prices, are forced to cut corners. One common shortcut is to run harvesting equipment at maximum aggression, which sometimes pulls up rocks, dirt, and debris along with the grain. As Dale Allen Pfeiffer documents in Eating Fossil Fuels, the decline in energy availability directly impacts agricultural productivity and forces unsustainable practices.

Meanwhile, quality control mechanisms are being quietly dismantled across the supply chain. Buyers who once rejected contaminated shipments now accept them because there is no alternative stock. The 21WIRE news report on 2026 trends warns that “trade turbulence and economic instability will persist,” and that the US, European, and UK economies face a difficult year . When every link in the chain is compromised, the end result can be frequent contamination of food staples with unusual matter (to say the least)....<<<Read More>>>...

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

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>>>....

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are “Implausible” – Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk

 Activist climate scientists, journalists and Net Zero-obsessed politicians are in shock following an official admission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a set of key assumptions promoting a climate ‘crisis’ since 2011 are “implausible”. The notorious set of always-improbable RCP8.5 ‘pathway’ assumptions which fed into computer models trying to measure an unmeasurable climate are no more. Since around 2011, these ‘business as usual’ assumptions have produced outlandish claims of future climate catastrophe which have been lapped up by lap dog journalists and politicians. The influential writer Roger Pielke Jr. called RCP8.5’s demise, “the most significant development in climate research in decades”.

Others might observe that we have not heard the last of RCP8.5. Its gross misuse is likely to be given a starring, central role when the history of the Great Climate and Net Zero Scam comes to be written.

Pielke lays it out clearly what has happened:

What matters today is that the group with official responsibility for developing climate scenarios for the IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.

He goes on to note that tens of thousands of research papers have been and continue to be published using these scenarios. In addition, a similar number of media headlines have “amplified their findings”, while governments and international organisations have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation....<<<Read More>>>....

Monday, 4 May 2026

UK Government’s obsession with controlling our lives continues: Net Zero Zealots are targeting tumble dryers

Just when are people going to wake up to this insanity and utter madness?

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 Ed Miliband, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, is implementing regulations to phase out the sale of traditional tumble dryers (including vented and condenser models) to meet Net Zero targets.

This policy, part of the proposed replacement of ‘Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Household Tumble Dryers) Regulations 2021’, bans new models with an Energy Efficiency Index (“EEI”) above 85.

“The government will repeal and replace the current ecodesign and energy labelling standards for household tumble dryers in GB with new regulations that will bring in requirements in line with the European Union (EU) Regulations,” the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s response to a consultation on raising standards for household tumble dryers said.

“The policy does not prohibit owning or using existing tumble dryers, but instead restricts the sale of new, less-efficient models in order to achieve Net Zero targets,” Express reported.

Critics, including Reform UK and the Conservative Party, have condemned the move as ludicrous and a “mad” form of “Soviet control.”

Miliband’s machines are more expensive, require longer drying times and heat pumps are noisy; according to the Hearing Health Foundation, anything above 70dB is enough to damage hearing over time. Additionally, certain heat pump models have technical faults that have caused the machines to burst into flames. In December, the owners of 85,000 heat-pump tumble dryers were warned about a fire risk with their machines....<<<Read More>>>....