The EU giveth, and the EU taketh away...

Or rather, it taketh away, and then it gives a little back, if we're good.

One gets the impression that the EU policy process resembles the following:

1. Legislate against what we don't like, as if there will be no other consequences
2. Ignore or deny the consequences
3. When (2) is no longer feasible, enact new legislation to counteract the effect of the old
4. If it breaks existing rules, never mind
5. Repeat (1-4) until everything stops.

So in this particular case:

1. Legislate to raise the price of energy, as if this will not actually involve increased prices or relocation of production
2. Deny that the policies are to blame for high energy prices, and claim that anyway this will help production in the future, because private citizens don't appreciate how great renewables will be if we only invest enough in them, so we have to expropriate their wealth for their own good
3. Finally note that increased prices actually affect economic decision making, and legislate to reimburse those lucky enough to have mobile assets, thereby cleverly requiring them to buy into the corporatist game and divert resources from production to lobbying. Maintain the costs precisely on those who are least able to escape them, or to lobby effectively for their interests: the citizenry
4. If this breaks state aid rule, who cares? They are only our rules. Let's establish a loophole, and who is going to call us on it?
5. Now, where did I put that CAP subsidy list?

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Great work Richard, your encyclopaedic knowledge [of the inner machinations of the slave empire] and attention to detail is simply astounding - the crazy gang have outdone themselves here have they not?

A conversation in Brussels...................

"What's the plan Marios/Herman/Manuel?"

Er.............. were gonna have a carbon emissions trading scheme and turn the whole of western Europe into a de-industrialised green Utopia for all of our people, in doing so and the end vision: is to send them back into the dark ages literally and figuratively".

"Der wotz that?"

"Yer know - Big industry hamstrung by the mad, bad, lunatic green nutters - EU Kommissars."

"Why?"

"To save the world by limiting man made CO2 emissions and making industry pay for their evil pollution by buying carbon indulgences making lots of investment bankers oodles of cash and so that polluting industry in Europe can still carry on to pollute the atmosphere....um by planting trees and helping our Asian brothers buy Mercedes in India".

"Why?"

"Because we can - its a power jig baby!?"

"Do you hate these western European people so much, I guess so".

"Well, we've been a long time planning, those pesky peasants they were always causing trouble and even Joe couldn't quite fix it in Moscow or chubby chops in Peking. But since post apocalypse and WWII when Bobby Schuy and Claude [or was it Jean?] got together with the US Democrats [pinkos] and world elite and club of Rome, when we decided to throw Western Europe to the dogs.... lordy and riding that juiced up buggy going to hell in a hand cart when CAGW came along, shi7 we all nearly fell over ourselves - the jigsaw was complete - it was so perfect!

"Jeez".

"Make the people pay!"


"But how are you going to tax the people when all the industry closes down?"


"Er........................well we'll do a bit of tinkering and make the taxpayer pay again - just a little bit more.....................but what if the taxpayer has no money left...............................well ahem, er we'll give the IMF a bell!"

Not quite the end by any means but very nearly the start of the end and do you know what?

British politicians insist, "staying in the EU is good for Britain". Time for the tumbrels.

This has always been the core of my argument aginst the warmers, we haven't reduced our carbon, if that's what floats your boat, footprint at all, we've exported it. In doing so we have in fact increased it. Whereas our home industrial production has been subject to various emission and clean air act directives the far east has no such restrictions. If there's a buck in it burn it.
Not only are these people lying to us they're lying to themselves.

A bit late for Anglesey Aluminium.

. . . too little, too late OR too much, too soon.