{"id":362764,"date":"2025-01-20T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362764"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:14:11","slug":"starmers-millstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362764","title":{"rendered":"Starmer\u2019s Millstones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Jit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK\u2019s Doom Loop<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who can forget Keir Starmer\u2019s Six Milestones? Who can remember them? Were there even six?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s barely a fortnight since the latest Government Reset, and I\u2019ve already forgotten what happened. It was a case of cold reboot and the start screen showing something substantially similar to what went on before: it was still broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had to take a stab, I\u2019d have to say there were<\/em> in fact six of the Milestones. One of them was \u201cCleanish\u201d energy by 2030. The other five? I\u2019m guessing that we had an NHS waiting list target. Stop the boats? Something on stop the boats? Net immigration in the \u201ctens of thousands\u201d? Fastest growth in the G7? An army? Less stab stab stab on the streets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nope, I\u2019m going to have to check. According to Sky<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The milestones cover six policy areas \u2013 healthcare, policing, education, housebuilding, energy and the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raise living standards and aim at the highest growth in the G7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 92% target for a shorter than 18-week wait for NHS treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.5 million new homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCleanish\u201d power by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More cops. 13,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

75% of 5-year-olds ready to learn when they start school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is what ought to be a trivial task in \u201cordinary\u201d times. Two, three and four won\u2019t happen. Five is trivial. Six is a joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milestones come and go. Who can forget Rishi Sunak\u2019s? Well, me for one. They\u2019re not quite as faint a memory as the list of concessions that David Cameron came back from Europe with. Stop the boats! That\u2019s the ticket. Actually, it\u2019s the most expensive ferry to Britain you can take. Don\u2019t worry, we don\u2019t check your passport before embarkation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is Jit rambling about milestones, you might wonder?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it occurred to me that the UK might be in a doom loop. A doom loop is, or at least I think of it as, a damaging, indeed dooming, cycle in which actions taken to address a problem only make matters worse. A classic example is the fine British pub, which responds to a lack of customers by putting up the price of a pint of beer, resulting in fewer customers, and the need to raise prices further, unto doom, windows covered in oriented strand board, and eventually a couple of nice flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the back of a fag packet \u2013 I don\u2019t smoke, I just happened to have one handy \u2013 I wrote a list of what I decided to call \u201cStarmer\u2019s Millstones.\u201d You see what I did there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starmer\u2019s Millstones<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here is my list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The green electricity crap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Employer\u2019s NI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. War on the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Grocery tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will these measures make things better for Britain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The green electricity crap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aficionados of this site are well aware that if your electricity generator has to have three qualities \u2013 cheap, reliable, and no carbon dioxide emissions \u2013 it belongs in the pages of a book by Douglas Adams. It is quite obvious to everyone, except the people who matter, that pushing the UK into a renewables future is going to end up with electricity costing twice as much, or more, and finally going off with a sad little fizzle, probably permanently. It also has a number of other disadvantages, like the fact that carpeting good English land with solar panels means it cannot be used to grow crops, which will increasingly have to be imported. Oh, it also needs to compete with the fantasy-land 1.5 million houses that are (not) going to get built in the next 5 years. And having extension leads trailing all over the North Sea does wonders for energy security. Vlad probably doesn\u2019t even want to sabotage offshore wind farms anyway. Why interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake? Doubling electricity bills? Make the poor, poorer. And from Vlad\u2019s point of view, make it impossible for the UK to afford to have an armed forces to speak of. Of course, I should point out that the Government want to borrow on the open market to pay for all the green electricity crap. And the markets are just throwing money at the Government like guests hurling confetti over the bride and groom, knowing how much growth the green electricity crap is going to generate. Or are they? In fact, the numbers seem to show that our lenders think we are just going to burn the money. Which is probably fairly accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you wanted to boost the UK\u2019s vehicle manufacturing industry \u2013 one of the few that remains here \u2013 then forcing manufacturers to build cars that they can\u2019t sell is quite the doom loop move. And they will try to patch things together by making the better cars more expensive, or making the VED on older cars as much as they are worth. Making it harder to own or use a car\u2026 makes the poor, poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I happened to notice that our carbon is leaking. Places around the world like to do things cheaply. Like growing crops with fertiliser made using methane. Of course, in the doom loop world, you have to raise a tax on imports of food grown in those conditions. So on the one hand we\u2019re carving out chunks of farmland and using them for other purposes. Then we\u2019re making food imports more expensive. This makes poor people poorer: everyone has to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Employer\u2019s NI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not strictly a climate matter, but there is an angle here, and it\u2019s a perfect example of a doom loop move. Not getting enough taxes in to pay for all those green crap intermittent power thingies? Slap a tax on jobs. That way, you\u2019ll raise tonnes of dosh. Oh wait. No, you won\u2019t. You\u2019ll cause companies to fire employees because they can\u2019t afford to keep them on. They won\u2019t hire new employees. They\u2019ll bang up their prices \u2013 just like the pub \u2013 and spiral down into the doom loop. As you know, all I know about economics I learnt from \u201cEconomics for Dummies.\u201d But throttling the horse that you want to pull the cart has to be the dumbest move you can take as a government, unless<\/em> you really want the doom loop. Those newly-unemployed people will need subsistence pay, enforcing yet another doom loop. People afraid of losing their jobs won\u2019t change jobs. They won\u2019t move house. They won\u2019t spend money. They won\u2019t buy a shiny new EV. If you want to boost the economy, this is stupid. Part-timers? Low paid? Your jobs are the first in line. It\u2019s a great way to make the poor\u2026 even poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. War on the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tax the rich! That\u2019ll show \u2019em. Will it? Will it really? Or will they just naff off elsewhere, and take their wealth-creation mojo with them? It will raise taxes! No, not if the rich have naffed off. It will reduce<\/em> taxes. But at least Britain will be a fairer country? Yes, we\u2019ll all be poorer together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Grocery tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Yes; this is a trivial example.) Taxing packaging is a seductive idea, except when you realise that supermarkets already try to minimise packaging \u2013 who wants to pay for something they don\u2019t need? I look forward to the day that eggs are laid out loose, like apples used to be, when the UK still had orchards. (It is eminently possible to re-use egg boxes.) Can\u2019t see any wastage going on there, can you? Who will pay this tax? Shoppers. Making poor people poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is not a party-political point. Yes, Labour is awful. I can\u2019t even think of a suitable adjective for how awful they are. But the Conservatives started this doom loop. They started Net Zero, and the Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate, and the Boiler Tax (which I haven\u2019t even mentioned above!). They have only recently begun to whistle a slightly different tune. And that is as infuriating as anything else, because the obvious facts were right there under their noses, and all it took was for them to be booted out of power \u2013 to have the ability to do anything useful<\/em> removed from them \u2013 for them to suddenly realise that they themselves had doggedly steered us down this ruinous path in defiance of all good sense, and in pursuit of the shallow appearance of virtue, that they <\/em>had tipped the UK into a doom loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything is terrible, and it\u2019s getting worse, and the worseness is getting worse faster and fasterer; in short, we\u2019re in a doom loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wise man once proposed to \u201ccut the green crap.\u201d If a government wanted to achieve something useful \u2013 like improving living standards \u2013 it would do well to heed that call. I think it might be a good shout for getting out of the doom loop, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always warn against despair, but right now, rivers of hope are flowing out of the UK. We need to stem that flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s barely a fortnight since the latest Government Reset, and I\u2019ve already forgotten what happened. 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