TONY & THE NET ZERO LIE
Things are moving fast these days.
Here sits a man in an interview, saying calmly, almost reasonably, that we spend too much money on Net Zero, and that it's not the right priority for England right now.
There is not a single number on the table he's laying out that hasn't been on that same table for over AT LEAST ten years.
EVERYTHING is the same.
China, the USA and India account for over half of the world's emissions. Britain accounts for less than one percent. China builds more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined and yet judges every single decision through one single consideration - cheap energy. NONE of this is new. It has been true THE ENTIRE TIME.
The man in the clip is Tony Blair.
What's interesting is not really what he says, but how carefully he covers himself while saying it. He hastens to establish that he's not against renewable energy. He hastens to establish that he's not a climate denier. He builds a little fence of caveats around a sentence that, in another mouth, five years ago, would have cost a person their reputation. Opportunities. Standing. Despite everything being true then as well.
But those words he now reaches for to protect himself - climate denier, opponent of the green - were never descriptions. They were tools. They were built to make a particular sentence impossible to say. And HE KNOWS IT, because he himself has lived in and nourished the world where those words functioned as weapons.
When he now reaches for them to shield himself, he confirms what they always were. Not truth. A fence around the permitted.
Because the calculation hasn't moved. Britain was under one percent then, just as it is now. China was building then, just as it builds now. The only thing that has changed is not reality.
It's the Permission.
To say the words.
And notice - there is no apology. No reckoning. The people who were mocked, ridiculed, called the worst things you could call anyone, year after year after year, get nothing back. No vindication. The position just quietly wanders across the boundary it has guarded itself, and takes the vocabulary with it, so no one gets to point backward toward all those years when the same statement was proof of foolishness.
That's how the Lie retreats.
Never with a confession. It just moves, dresses itself in sober realism and calls itself "reason".
In an incomprehensible clown show, we'll also see the same thing rolled out here at home in the near future. Everyone will look grown-up, responsible and serious. Fold their faces into expressions they've learned from their spin doctors and media training classes.
And it will probably work.
On some.
But it'll be fewer and fewer - because the Signal from this group no longer works.
The Man in the Television's magic trick is losing its hypno-effect.
That's how it is with the Lie.
It was never the numbers that were missing.
It was permission to read them aloud.
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