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title: "Green Agenda aka The Long Con"
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###### **Yup, the long con. Years in the making.
[Long Con](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/long_con) A scam in which the scammer takes a long period of time (usually weeks, months or longer) to defraud the victim, by first slowly gaining their trust.**

**The rip off is in plain sight. It’s not hidden except to the willfully blind**

####  **[Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/15/push-for-net-zero-has-become-a-handy-excuse-to-rip-us-off/) via [archive.ph](https://archive.ph/jgKg5#selection-2687.4-2687.68) The push for net zero has become a handy excuse to rip us off**

**Though the article is still obfuscating The rip off and oppression of the green agenda is undeniable!**

> **Elected politicians may claim that the goal of “saving the planet” can be achieved without permanently damaging the prosperity of their populations,** but even they accept that in the short and medium term, **`the comforts and freedoms to which the developed world has grown accustomed will be made prohibitively expensive, if not banned outright.`**
> 
> If the accumulation of private wealth and increased disposable income are now bad things, then we –**` every individual and organ of society – must accept a vow of poverty and self-denial.`**
> 
> **`This imperative is now being enforced by energy companies.` Increased gas and electricity prices are not** purely **a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.** **`Charges to private households and businesses are also going up in the name of reducing carbon emissions, with no apparent need for explanation or justification.`** **With what seems to be total impunity, suppliers are imposing costs on consumers who have no recourse in law or through the democratic accountability of their government.**

> **If making everybody poorer has become a social virtue**, w**hat is the moral status of the profits from these enormously increased charges? Are they some sort of reward to the energy suppliers for making their products prohibitively expensive** – **(having nothing to do with so called human caused ‘climate change )**

> **Private profiteering and energy rationing that hits the poorest disproportionately**

> But the energy companies may actually have a more plausible defence for their pricing explosio**n than those involved in the great war against the car.**
> 
> But **the policies being introduced to discourage (or effectively prohibit) car use are bizarrely incoherent, and the money-making opportunities that they present are being so openly exploited that they insult public intelligence.**

> The instance of this that has grabbed most attention has been the **mayor of London’s attempt to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) charge to the outermost fringes of London’s leafy suburbs on the edge of the green belt.** **`Using outlandish claims that traffic pollution in these areas is causing thousands of deaths a year, Sadiq Khan is proposing to make life impossibly expensive for the small businesses and tradesmen who rely on diesel vans to provide `**their services. But **`more to the point, he – which is to say his mayoral operation – would increase his revenue very substantially with this gratuitous tax. I`**t seems **`so grotesquely obvious that money is the motivating force behind the move, that the outer London boroughs, which have been granted a judicial review of the policy, are very likely to win their case.`**
> But if reducing car use is now incumbent on all local authorities, **how to explain the insistence by borough councils that car parks at outer London Tube stations be shut down?**
> 
> Losing the car parks makes that arrangement impossible. **What it does do is allow councils to develop the parking sites into blocks of flats that produce far more council-tax revenue.**
> 
> **Councils are now employing private firms to enforce street parking restrictions that seem designed to make the everyday functions of shopping, transporting children or doing business – the activities that constitute modern life – as difficult as possible. Often, these hired enforcers are in peculiarly protected positions, and almost impossible to hold accountable. But their freewheeling tactics produce massive amounts of revenue – and this is all about making money**
> 
> **Who is going to put a stop to this Wild West of limitless charging and penalising?** The old political assumptions in which the **Left sought to protect the poor** and the **Right promoted individual self-improvement have been abandoned in the face of a “climate emergency” that has reduced all the parties to consensual impotence.**

**We as individuals are going to have to put a stop to this mass exploitation. You. Me. Together, we have end our own exploitation.**