UK preparing for organized blackouts in January: Report
Wed 1:01 pm +01:00, 10 Aug 2022 4Press TV – Aug 10, 2022
Britain is reportedly planning to impose organized blackouts for the nation’s industry and households over the winter, when cold weather is expected to coincide with gas shortages.
According to the government’s latest “reasonable worst-case scenario,” electricity capacity shortfall in the country could total about one-sixth of peak demand, even after emergency coal plants have been utilized, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing individuals familiar with the government’s planning.
Under the outlook, along with anticipated below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France, Britain could be exposed to four days in January when it may need to set off emergency measures to conserve gas.
The report followed a warning last week by the Bank of England that the UK was on course for a lengthy recession as unprecedented energy prices push the country’s inflation rate toward 13 percent.
Any political response to the grim economic outlook, however, has been stymied by the Conservative Party contest to select a new prime minister on September 5. No government official has so far reacted to the report.
While European governments are struggling to conserve gas usage and increase storage following the outset of the Ukraine conflict in February, the British government has split into warring camps led by Foreign Minister Liz Truss and Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, who have clashed over how to respond in rival campaigns to win the UK’s premiership.
This is while British charities, business groups, and politicians have called on Truss and Sunak to come up with plans on how they would help Britons cope with a forecast 82-percent hike in energy prices in October.
The development also came shortly after a leading British think tank warned that the UK’s inflation will soar to “astronomical” levels over the next year, insisting that such massive inflation would force the Bank of England to raise interest rates higher and for a longer period than previously expected.
In a report last week, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) also forecast a long recession that would last into 2023 and hammer millions of the most vulnerable households, particularly in the most deprived areas of the UK.
The think tank further warned the deteriorating cost-of-living crisis would devour savings of households unless London boosted support for households immediately.
More than a million households would be forced to choose between heating their homes and purchasing sufficient food, the think tank said, as consumer price inflation hit a 40-year high of 9.4 percent in June.
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I can see us returning to the days when the power went down every time we had a thunderstorm, especially as they have now done away with those big power stations across the midlands.
I notice Drax is now “Drax Global”. That’s truly ambitious.
At some fundamental level the “shortage of energy” is an artificial one. Cheap and safe nuclear energy is possible, albeit a couple of contrived “accidents” have steered policy towards the misnamed “fossil” fuels – and of course the carbon credit Agenda 21 BS.
Nuclear energy confuses people – as TPTB are quite happy about – because the process by which it produces energy is basically by heating water by radioactive decay to drive turbines; just like coal. The purported – and process I dispute of “nuclear explosion” – is conflated in peoples’ mind. As a didactic point, what is a “nuclear submarine” ? Is it a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor or one with “nuclear missiles”. Within the conflation of the two nuances of “nuclear” there is a wide opportunity to drive the wedge of popular ignorance for agendas…
The sourcing and managing of energy is linked into the underpinning of our monetary systems. While inflation is measured by the incorporation of household energy prices, it might be argued that it is a tax that actually preserves the status quo by soaking up all the extra money sloshing about since the scamdemic.
There will of course be ostensible reasons given for the hike in prices that broadsheet reading suit wearers will nod their knowing heads to; reams of copy devoted to explaining the emperor’s new clothes
Now the question is, should this “tax” be paid ? It is after all a corporate aspect of the NWO whose governmental part manages the money supply by more formal taxation.
During the great age of industrial production, mass protests – strikes – were accommodated by the gathering of large bodies of people. The means by which mass action is possible in a new age has changed with the possibility of exchanging so much information. The manner of non-compliance has altered too.
Although I maintain this unofficial fuel tax cloaked in the emperor’s new clothes should not be paid – think General Strike – I also believe TPTB might possibly be hoping there are mass non-payments as well in order to roll out Big Brother technocracy. Nevertheless, I believe energy bills should be regarded in the same way many of us have regarded the TV licence. We are governed by people who are worse than criminals. It’s time to convene in Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood and not pay the Sheriff of Nottingham’s tax. I do not believe the Sheriff has the wherewithal to prevent an unstated non-compliance that many people now sense is warranted.
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