BRITAIN'S DOGE? - Quangos - No Budget Cuts? - Cummings' Deep State - Globalisation Revealed - Terror Laws - Gender Fails - Digital IDs - Bridgen Wins - Solar UK? - Letter from Great Britain [05-17-25]

A quote from Milton: “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”

NOTICE TO READERS. My monthly Letter from GB is suspended until Britain's economic and geopolitical situation is clarified. Key events will be included in my biweekly Part 2 and Letter from SA will continue each month, all FOC to read.

BRITAIN DOES HAVE A FLEDGLING DOGE: "DOGE UK, they say: "We are committed to maximizing taxpayer value by meticulously tracking government procurement and inefficiency, driving our mission to minimize waste and enhance public sector accountability. Explore insights into Britian's governmental procurement, auditing inefficiencies to aid taxpayer savings." BLOG: How Citizens Can Advocate for Better Spending [February 13, 2024 By Chris Morrison]

A person identifying as the Conservative MP, Esther McVey told Mike Graham on his morning Talk show that “Net Zero was a dud.” Surely this could not have been the Esther McVey who is a leading light in the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), a Green Blob-funded activist group promoting a “no ifs, no buts 2050 Net Zero policy”. “This calls for “accelerating” the transition away from fossil fuels in the power, transport and heating sectors in order to deliver “lower, more stable bills for consumers and greater energy security”.

Perhaps Talk’s strict vetting process to weed out imposters failed on this occasion, or maybe McVey is just demonstrating how fluid opinions can be in the hands of a modern politician. Readers can decide after considering the thoughts of Groucho Marx: “Those are my principles and if you don’t like them, well I have others.” Current events are making a mockery of every British politician in the ‘Uniparty’ that supported the crazy Hard Left New Zero fantasy over the last 20 years. The electricity blackout across Iberia recently, which experts have blamed on unreliable wind and solar energy, sent shock waves through the political class.

The problem of fluctuating frequency gets worse the more renewable power is loaded onto the system and will not go away. Almost certain blackouts are on the way for any grid that follows the potentially catastrophic renewable policy. Now Conservative politicians like McVey are running for the hills since they suspect, rightly, that any British blackouts will be blamed on them.

The wily politician, Nigel Farage from Reform UK has already set a political trap by popularising the term Net Stupid Zero. McVey is suddenly speaking of the poverty that Net Zero will cause, shamelessly noting that for the Left, the policy was one of “hope over reality”. It is as if McVey never sat in Cabinets run by Net Zero fanatics, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, and hasn’t spent the last decade campaigning and voting for the whole ghastly collectivist project.

Quite how she kept a straight face on Graham’s show and claimed that the Right, including herself was always sceptical about Net Zero, and the costs it imposed on people will forever remain a mystery. She is still part of a Green Blob activist group that thinks, like the Mad Miliband, that Net Zero will somehow lower bills and provide a de-industrialised Britain with energy security.

What will Sir Christopher Hohn, a significant funder of CEN and a past paymaster of Extinction Rebellion, think of McVey’s statement that after the “disaster” in Spain and Portugal the best thing that Keir Starmer can do is sack Ed Miliband and “ditch Net Zero”? And what are we to make of McVey’s remarks, given CEN’s claim that it is a forum for conservatives in Britain and around the world who support Net Zero. It can only be concluded that CEN’s claim shows the eternal truth that a week is a long time in politics.

It was all so different a year ago. The Conservatives were still in power and a third of the Parliamentary party could indulge their luxury virtue signalling and sign up for the CEN. The billionaire-funded operation was said to support a network of “Net Zero champions” inside Parliament, “to make the positive case that Net Zero is an economic opportunity as well as a moral responsibility.” Running all this moral flim-flam was Ben Goldsmith, one of five trustees of Hohn’s fund, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Another major provider of CEN cash is the Clean Air Fund, also heavily supported by Hohn. Financial support also came, and still does, from Gower Street, whose largess also runs in the direction of Extinction Rebellion (XR) operations.

Funding is provided for XR old hands Gail Bradbrook and Stuart Basden to help “make good on the potential of Extinction Rebellion.” Meanwhile, Gower also provides cash for the World Environment Crimes Unit, which is building a database on individuals “holding back action on climate in Britain.” It must be hoped that the talkative McVey is not about to be added to its list.

These days the CEN seems to have fallen on harder times. Just 50 Conservative MP are signed up, and perhaps make that 49 in future given McVey’s recent remarks. But that is still a significant percentage of the current Conservative party whose leadership is trying to row back on the 2050 Net Zero commitment. Two names stand out in the list showing just how difficult it will be for the party to present a credible line on Net Zero going forward.

Both Simon Hoare and Sir Roger Gale spoke in favour of the recent Climate and Nature Bill, a private member’s legislative attempt that thankfully failed to make progress. This horror bill would have reduced hydrocarbon use in Britain, both domestic and imported, to just 10% in less than a decade. Sir Roger Gale suggested it had a “few flaws”, which was an interesting way to describe almost certain economic and societal collapse. Around 200 MPs supported this destructive bill, including all the Greens and LibDems, indicating that reality in large parts of the British House of Commons is still a work in progress. [Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor]

REMARKABLY, ELON MUSK IS ON TRACK TO CUT THE UNITED STATES DEFICITS BY HALF

Should Musk succeed in closing the gap between revenue and expenditure by removing fraud at the federal level, he will have transformed the Western world’s prospects and given us hope that the same could be done in Britain. The country is, it is no exaggeration, already on life support. Not least because Britain's not-for-profit, life-sucking sector is gigantic, in particular compared with the size of the economy. There are more than 300 quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos), not to speak of the state-funded elements of the charitable sector.

These organisations are designed to operate independently from ministerial control and wield considerable power. They are responsible for regulation, public services and policy implementation. Figures published yesterday by the TaxPayers’ Alliance showed that at least 1,472 quango staff received over £100,000 in total remuneration (comprising salary, expenses, benefits, bonuses, compensation for loss of office and pension benefits or contributions) in 2023-24, while 315 received a higher salary than the £172,153 of the prime minister.

Here is a list of quangos published by the Adam Smith Institute. They employ close to 400,000 people on a budget of £390billion per year, nearly 300% more than the total deficit and over a third of the entire annual £1.3trn government spend. Added to this richly funded, unaccountable, relatively new branch of government, we must add the partially or fully state-funded charitable sector, which is in effect the PR arm of the vitality-sapping British Quangocracy.

Nearly a third of the £100bn budget for charities comes from government. Around £30billion is spent by the government on ‘charities’. For comparison, housing received £5billion; the department of (no) Energy and Net Zero £14bn; policing £18billion for the fiscal year 2024-2025. This represents a huge amount of lobbying firepower, paid for by the public, often (if not always) against their interest. These bodies are not accountable to anyone. They are certainly not capitalist revenue generators. They are leeches per se.

The people manning quangos are mainly from what one would generously call the progressive political side; anti-business, anti-borders, anti-Western. Britain is sinking into a quagmire of mediocrity and potential global irrelevance because successive governments have allowed the growth of permanently funded activist charities and NGOs to become the all-powerful arm of the State’s incontestable power.

Democracy in the shape of HMG is now but only a theatre. There never was a politician who sold to voters the destruction of the car industry, the dismantling of borders, or the legalisation of either shoplifting or burglary, not to speak of grooming gangs in many towns and cities across the land. But this is exactly what an out-of-reach taxpayer-subsidised, politicised public sector has delivered over the last three decades. The energy industry, which has burdened consumers with some of the most expensive electricity prices in the world, four times higher than the US, has been sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero.

Meanwhile, HMG has cynically moved to take control of British Steel amid fears that the blast furnaces at its Chinese-owned site in Scunthorpe could be at risk of shutting down, essentially ending steel production, not that what remained was anything to be proud of. Any reprieve is but a stay of execution. Net Zero zealots are waiting in the wings.

All the while Ed Miliband is looking for a CEO to sit at a desk of an organisation called Great British Energy. The total compensation is advertised at £525,000, no less. With such budgets, unelected NGOs wield enormous political power and exert veritable and unwanted influence over government policy. Unfortunately, these are largely unaccountable to the voting public. This is little more than political activism dressed up as social justice.

In short, the transmission mechanism between the taxpayer and the State, its supposed servant, is fractured. From one perspective the taxpayers are milch cows; from another, the people are merely indentured and powerless serfs with no rights but to pay and keep quiet. Voters have no say, consumers little choice, and businesses less freedom. But the out-of-touch, inevitably ‘woke’ quangocrat, yells from his ivory tower that this societal destruction is for your own good and that he is doing this only to save us from ourselves.

Britain will not prosper until the axe is taken to this rotting edifice. It is high time that they were knocked off the pedestal that self-interested parties built for them. Without cutting the £400bn budget for unelectable power, Britain will never recover albeit at an impoverished standard of living. [This article appeared in Country Squire Magazine on April 28, 2025, and is republished by kind permission.]

WHY BRITAIN CAN NEVER CUT PUBLIC SPENDING

In her much-anticipated Spring Statement, Britain’s first female Chancellor, "Rachel-from-Accounts" announced a £3.25bn transformation fund to bring down the costs of running government. They have witnessed the USA, in the activities of Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE), how to cut government spending.

Already the US has scrapped USAID saving billions, it looks like all DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) employees in the US Government are being fired and a few days ago Donald Trump signed an executive order to close down the Department for Education. But what about the British approach to getting value for money for British taxpayers by making public services more efficient?

Here's one example of why HMG is unlikely to see any real savings in the British public sector. Apparently there is an 'Office for Value for Money' (OVM) in Britain. The OVM was set up in Rachel's 'Bankrupting Britain’ October 2024 budget and “provides advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief Secretary to the Treasury to ensure that value for money is at the heart of Government’s spending decisions“.

The brilliant, Rolls-Royce-brained civil servants at the OVfM, have noticed that HMG is spending a fortune on procuring short-term accommodation for homeless Brits and for all the doctors, engineers and scientists pouring across the Channel in small boats each day in spite of Starmer promising to “smash the evil people-smuggling gangs”. So the OVM has set up a “VfM (Value for Money) study on procuring short-term residential accommodation”.

Here’s the problem explained in the terms of reference for the groundbreaking Value for Money study: https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/29/why-britain-can-never-cut-public-spending/

This is how the Blob Uses Public Sector Procurement Frameworks to Enforce Compliance With Woke Ideology. Britain's Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are being forced out of supplying to the Public Sector by procurement policy demands that they cannot afford to implement. 20 years ago the author worked for the Mayor of London, specifically, Transport for London (TfL), and worked closely with the procurement department. At that time there was a huge drive to promote what was called “sustainable procurement”. The idea was to make it easier for local small businesses to supply and work with the various organisations under the Mayor’s remit. So if they needed to award a contract for paperclips, they allowed 'Bob’s Paperclip Emporium' on Finchley Road to bid and made allowances so that Bob could compete with the likes of Viking. The principle was very simple: to put money back into the community via local small businesses.

The principle spread to paying bills on time. Small businesses don’t have access to cheap credit that large businesses enjoy and they can literally face ruin if forced onto invoice schedules longer than 30 days. It got so bad around 2008 that in some industries corporates were putting suppliers on to six month payment schedules. The suppliers had little choice but to factor the invoices, that is to borrow money against the invoice, which obviously costs money. It became such a scandal that the Telegraph started to name and shame corporates doing this to their suppliers.

Larger suppliers always have lower costs through economies of scale, but cost isn’t always the reason why suppliers are appointed. Local suppliers often have local knowledge, hands-on delivery, and quick response times when issues arise. They often find more expertise among smaller suppliers. Finally, there is the social aspect, already mentioned. Engaging a supplier that is owned by an international conglomerate is literally sending money overseas. Surely companies, and especially public sector organisations servicing a community, should consider their responsibility to that community?

Thus, why are we increasingly seeing smaller suppliers forced out of supplier relationships, particularly in the public sector? One client makes highly specialised products for the health sector. It has been doing this for decades and has a great reputation. Its skilled management and workforce means it’s a British success story and, until recently, it has been able to compete with larger suppliers from overseas. It employs about 50 staff in a rural location in the West Midlands and is exactly the sort of business that the government should be encouraging and, where possible, assisting. It isn’t looking for any favours because its products are excellent and speak for themselves. All it wants is a level playing field on which to compete.

So, why has it withdrawn from the latest Cabinet Office Framework for the supply of its type of products into the NHS? First, what is a Cabinet Office Framework? The Cabinet Office runs a number of procurement frameworks to support the British public sector. So if I am a recruitment agency which wants to supply bin lorry drivers into local Councils. I go on to the Cabinet Office Framework website and I look to see if there is an open framework accepting applications to supply.

I find the framework specific for the provision of staff into local authorities and then have to jump through a series of hoops to ensure I meet the framework’s requirements. This is demonstrating that you’re a bona fide, solvent business with the right group of policies to meet the demands of the framework. Once having secured one contract, I can bid to supply to any Council bin department looking for drivers who use that framework to help them engage with suppliers. The framework system is essentially there to support public sector organisations so they don’t have to do the donkeywork of checking out their suppliers. The NHS uses them extensively.

Now, increasingly we have been seeing large organisations impose Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) policies on their suppliers through their procurement policies. Most notoriously, we are seeing quite radical Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies and training forced on to suppliers by corporate and public sector procurement teams.

The purchasers want to demonstrate their commitment to ‘change’ and one way to do that is to force ‘change’ down through your supply chain by making demands on suppliers that have nothing to do with the product or service being supplied. This started as a fairly well-meaning and innocent initiative. For example, it is entirely reasonable to ask a supplier to demonstrate their health and safety policies are up to scratch before paying them to supply a product. It’s reasonable to ask them if they comply with waste disposal polices around toxic substances like asbestos. But it has become a charter for imposing a particular ideology through the supply chain.

If a politician who wanted to ‘change things’ in the 1980s or 1990s, you might have become an EU Commissioner. These days, it’s someone like Angela Rayner or Ed Miliband. Let’s say you want businesses to behave in a certain way. Well, here is a ready-made vehicle through which to secure ideological compliance.

And that is exactly what has happened. The framework agreements have been the enforcement arms of the state but also for anyone with an ideological axe to grind. Investment companies like Aberdeen Asset Management or pantomime villains BlackRock love them because they allow them to force all sorts of ideological policies and accompanying training programmes on their supply chains.

Is it all about box ticking? First, the procurement departments and the Cabinet Office know about box ticking so they go to great lengths to ensure that your business is compliant. ‘Lengths’ sometimes means forcing bidders to send their management teams for EDI training. It can also mean spending thousands of pounds and many hours writing long and involved ‘Net Zero’ strategies. It always means publishing an anti-slavery policy, even if you are legally exempt from having to do so because your business turns over less than £45 million.

Net Zero zealots forget that 6,000 products are made from crude oil, including equipment needed for their “green” agenda; so, here’s a reminder!

In the past, the government knew that saddling small businesses with unnecessary red tape undermines their ability to compete with larger businesses. The anti-slavery policies are there to make sure that you are doing everything possible to ensure that the products you are buying from overseas aren’t being made by slaves. As most businesses with a turnover of under £45m are not directly dealing with suppliers in this category, those businesses have been given a legal exemption in an attempt to level the playing field and make them more competitive.

Only the Cabinet Office are insisting that all bidders on their framework have an anti-slavery policy, regardless of size. Last year, a client pushed back when an NHS trust insisted he send his senior management team to them for two days in the middle of a working week to take their EDI course. It wasn’t enough to have your own EDI policy, in this case, an NHS trust – wanted to make sure the company had been indoctrinated with its ideological beliefs.

The sheer hubris here is astonishing, but most staggering is how removed from the reality of commercial life to expect a small business to send three of its top people on a training course, half way across the country in the middle of a working week. Six man days, travel, hotel, the impact of them being out of the company. It’s essentially a whole week’s production, business development and administration down the drain to massage the egos of an NHS Trust leadership team who are probably chasing a gold star from Stonewall or similar.

The final straw for the client was when the framework managers demanded an involved and detailed Net Zero strategy demonstrating how his business planned to become Net Zero over the next five years. This had to include figures, business plans, supplier choices, etc. Hell NO! He demonstrated how much it would cost him to produce such a document: over £20k in either his company’s time or, more likely, external consultancy fees, in other words paying a bunch of recent university graduates to write the documents for you.

The client withdrew from the framework, leaving it to large corporations who have departments whose only role is to churn out such policies and who have teams in their sales departments who are specifically there to win bids on frameworks. So, “How do you expect small businesses to compete when you load them with so much red tape that it places them at a significant disadvantage to corporations?” Labour have already stated that they intend to make EDI training and policies mandatory in Public Sector procurement. So at a time when the FTSE100 and 250 are pulling back on EDI, at a time when across the world, and in the USA, employers dump DEI/EDI and 'U' turn on the politicisation of the workplace, HMG is doubling down!

NHS Trusts are thus far not obliged to buy through the Cabinet Office Frameworks. They do tend to, because it makes life a bit easier, but if you have a product or service they require they can buy it directly, it only involves a bit more work. They can demand the same paperwork, but at least sitting down with a human being, and explaining why not producing it will allow a decision to buy the product.

Cabinet Office Framework agreements are making life impossible for SME suppliers. Where ‘sustainable procurement’ once meant putting money back into the community by engaging with local suppliers, it now means ESG, EDI, interference, red tape and, of course, costs all of which make it very difficult for any smaller supplier to compete. Either way, it is yet another example of the egregious treatment SMEs are facing at the hands of HMG.

[C.J. Strachan is the pseudonym of a concerned Scot who worked for 30 years as a Human Resources executive in some of the U.K.’s leading organisations. Subscribe to his Substack page.] Sources

• Blob Rule: The Labour MPs Revolting Against Jobs, Wealth and Industry https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/06/blob-rule-the-labour-mps-revolting-against-jobs-wealth-and-industry/

• The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/06/the-blob-has-sunk-to-new-depths-in-its-quest-to-destroy-educational-freedom/

CUMMINGS & THE DEEP STATE - Is Dominic Cummings Right About the Deep State? [Direct quote from James Alexander at The Daily Sceptic]

“It is obvious that ‘deep state’ language has made sense to many since COVID-19 however, it is not easy to analyse. There is the cabal element, the corporate element, but also the ‘mass formation’ and ‘death spiral’ elements. It's psychological warfare with a smile.

Green Blob-funded Climate Central is celebrating a significant fearmongering coup having persuaded the BBC’s lead weather presenter Simon King to sub and publish its press release claiming that since 1970 the average UK spring temperature has increased by 1.8°C. Source

• Even the BBC is part of this government fraud https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/06/the-gaping-holes-in-the-bbcs-boiling-spring-story/

DONALD TRUMP CAN ALREADY BE CREDITED WITH AT LEAST ONE ACHIEVEMENT IN BRITAIN

It's fair to say that Trump put the debate around globalisation at centre stage, and in so doing, he's made rebuilding national resilience and self-sufficiency fashionable again, way beyond his own shores. For this service, workers at British Steel in Scunthorpe may have plenty to thank him for.

Trump has provided the galvanising, anti-globalisation backdrop that Labour ministers needed to seize control of the plant and prevent it from closing. Prior to Trump, it's hard to believe that saving Scunthorpe could have commanded the almost universal, cross-party support we see today. The frisson of anti-Chinese rhetoric around the seizure gives added impetus, even if it doesn't bode well for future Chinese investment in Britain. Source

• Reindustrialisation is back in fashion even in traditionally free-trade Britain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/15/donald-trump-deglobalisation-save-british-steel-scunthorpe/

UN WANTS ANSWERS FROM BRITAIN'S HMG ON ITS TERROR LAW ABUSE

KIT KLARENBERG: As the British state harasses and arrests a growing number of activists and dissident journalists, including the author of this piece, UN rapporteurs delivered a forceful letter of protest to London condemning its abuse of counter-terror legislation. In December 2024, a quartet of UN rapporteurs focused on “peaceful assembly and of association” and the “right to privacy” delivered a strongly-worded letter to HMG.

Expressing grave concerns about the potential “misapplication of counter-terrorism laws” to arrest, detain, interrogate and surveil dissident activists and journalists, including The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, they demanded clarity on a number of serious issues. Given 60 days to respond, London remained suspiciously silent.

As a result, the UN’s correspondence with HMG has now been made public. The rapporteurs were clearly disturbed by reports of Schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act, and Schedule 3 of the 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act, which covers “hostile” state threats, “being used to examine and obtain data from journalists and activists Johanna Ross, John Laughland, Kit Klarenberg, Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst in circumstances where they appear to have no credible connection to ‘terrorist’ or ‘hostile’ activity.”

While awaiting a reply that never came, the UN “urged” British authorities to undertake “interim measures” to prevent any recurrence of potential human rights breaches under counter-terror legislation, and “ensure the accountability” of anyone responsible for “alleged violations.” Evidently undeterred by pressure from the UN, Britain has continued to escalate its war on dissidents. Since the UN issued its letter of protest, British activists and journalists have since been arrested, raided, and prosecuted, including Asa Winstanley, Tony Greenstein, Sarah Wilkinson, Palestine Action cofounder Richard Barnard, and academic David Miller.

Individuals “who are critical of Western foreign policy in the context of the conflict in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war are especially affected by the reported misuse of these powers,” the rapporteurs wrote https://ukreloaded.com/un-demands-answers-from-uk-on-terror-law-abuse/

Former Biden Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz Resurfaces with Shady American Sunlight Project. Jankowicz did not last long as Biden’s misinformation czar as her dystopian title made it clear she was all in for censorship and the Left’s brand of fascism. Now, she’s surfaced once again, refusing to reveal who the donors of her non-profit are. It’s probably a safe bet that George Soros is among her backers. Former Biden misinformation czar Nina Jankowicz is back as the head of a self-proclaimed transparency group called the American Sunlight Project that seeks not only to silence Americans but seems to have a particular fixation on Elon Musk and DOGE

“The American people are witnessing a hostile takeover of its systems by an unelected oligarch. Elon Musk’s illegal attempt to eliminate the US Agency for International Development will have far-reaching consequences for the peace and security Americans have enjoyed for generations,” she said, defending USAID, a known front for the CIA and a Democratic money-laundering outlet that Musk has helped to shut down.

STOP PRESS – JK ROWLING, TAKE A BOW

The defeat of gender ideology is now almost complete, The Supreme Court ruling is a brilliant victory and a lesson to all. If you think you can remove our rights and protections, think again.

Actually it was the Left, not the Right, that delivered it. Paradoxically, the greatest victory for UK conservatism since Brexit, which was engineered by a heroic gang of Left-wing feminists, most notably J K Rowling, only belatedly supported by a Conservative Party that for so long was too timid to stand up to the 'woke juggernaut'. It’s a tale that has a lot to teach about the realignment of modern politics, the Labour Party’s retreat into a weird metropolitan bubble, the fading of the Tories, and the rise of Reform UK.

This episode is one that the Tories and Labour alike would like us to forget, but it raises many questions. Why did the mainstream so fully take leave of its senses, buying into a fadish mania? Why was Sir Keir Starmer unable to say what a woman was? Why were so many intelligent and powerful people so cowardly, so unwilling to stand up for the truth and for reality, so willing to collaborate with a destructive, hysterical mob? Why were women so easily sacrificed on the altar of a totalitarian American-inspired belief system? Why were so many cancelled and pushed out of their jobs for daring to question an absurd orthodoxy?

BTW here is an example of Britian in 2025: In Britain the “Thought Crime” Is Real A pensioner faced a raid. not for plotting mayhem, but for posting a sarcastic tweet fewer than 30 people saw. It takes a very special kind of madness to send six baton-wielding, pepper-spray-toting police officers to arrest a 71-year-old man in his slippers. But here we are: welcome to Britain 2025, where tweeting the wrong opinion is treated with the same urgency as a hostage situation in Croydon.

Julian Foulkes, once a proud servant of law and order, now finds himself on the receiving end of what can only be described as a full-scale, Kafkaesque raid. His crime? Not drug-dealing, not fraud, not even refusing to pay the TV license. No, Julian questioned a pro-Palestinian demonstrator on X. Because apparently, free speech is now a limited-time offer.

DIGITAL IDs ARE COMING TO BRITAIN, Sooner Rather than Later; Even this Year?

Jumio leverages the power of AI, biometrics and the latest technologies to streamline the identity verification process and help companies onboard customers remotely, comply with AML and KYC regulations and better detect fraud all the while delivering a definitive yes/no decision in seconds.

The Government Digital Service (GDS) was warned by the Cabinet Office and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that its One Login digital identity system had “serious data protection failings” and “significant shortcomings” in information security that could increase the risk of data breaches and identity theft. Source

• Government faces claims of serious security and data protection problems in One Login digital ID https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366622533/Government-faces-claims-of-serious-cyber-security-and-data-protection-problems-in-One-Login-digital-ID

FUN TIDBIT

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – VIVA ANDREW BRIGDEN! - LET'S GET THIS BASTARD NAILED TO THE CROSS - Matt Hancock Fails to Stop Andrew Bridgen’s Covid Vaccine Libel Action

ER Editor: A 2.0 warning for Matt Hancock. Covid criminals, especially those working for governments, have long been picked up. EO 13818 anticipated Covid-19 crimes. Andrew Bridgen is one of today’s heroes, however, even fighting his own parliamentary colleagues to get Covid injection crimes exposed. See our coverage of him here. Source

• Hancock 2020 (L), and in the Telegraph:

A reminder that Bridgen is bringing the libel case against Hancock for wheeling out an ‘antisemitism’ slur against him in Parliament. Hancock failed twice to stop the case. Source

• Matt Hancock Fails to Stop Andrew Bridgen’s Covid Vaccine Libel Action https://ukreloaded.com/matt-hancock-fails-to-stop-andrew-bridgens-covid-vaccine-libel-action/

REVEALED: WHY UK ELECTRICITY COST SO MUCH

It seems the real culprit has been hiding in plain sight: it’s because the Government is using a tax to prevent renewable electricity producers from benefiting from the difference between the high price of electricity (set by gas) and the cost of producing it from renewable sources (negligible on a day-to-day basis). Fair enough: but, crucially, the Government is then failing to pass the money it makes from this scheme onto consumers, meaning we keep on paying the high price while the Government pockets the savings due to the renewable sources, Here’s the exchange in full https://dailysceptic.org/2025/04/15/revealed-why-uk-electricity-costs-so-much/

BRITAIN IS THE WORST PLACE IN THE WORLD TO BUILD SOLAR POWER!

The potential for electricity generation from solar photovoltaic sources in most countries dwarfs their current electricity demand. Policymakers and investors often wonder whether the PV power potential in a specific country or region is good enough to take advantage of and if so, on what scale.

Until now, a global and harmonised assessment of country-level PV potential has not existed. A new World Bank report: “Solar Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country” attempts to fill this gap by evaluating the theoretical potential (the general solar resource), the practical potential (accounting for additional factors affecting PV conversion efficiency and basic land use constraints), and the economic potential of PV power generation, considering a simplified evaluation of electricity production costs. Source

• Solar Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/energy/publication/solar-photovoltaic-power-potential-by-country

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