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And these ev fantasy solutions are now being pushed into aviation. So many people are living in a ephemeral internet pseudo reality. Internal rational filters have just been erased. It is amazing to watch. Just like the madness of religions and the death, war, persecution and totalitarianism that accompanies it. We look at things like witch hunts of past times and like to believe that such complete loss of rational thinking could never happen again. Well it is happening again and this time there is mass communication to hypnotise more people and mass media that are as much a part of it as the preachers. It won't be long before the first death from hyperthermia is reported by somebody who's ev ran out of juice, they had no warm cloths in their car and froze to death waiting for the emergency boost to arrive.

Lease. Yup, it is the only possible way of it being viable. But if people could afford those leasing costs now, they would have upgraded to lease plans years ago. As it is, the five hundred pound car brigade [which means people who can only afford something like a £2500 with £500 running repairs/insurance/ tax a year and all below that] will never be able to afford leasing or the payment plans for battery insurance. There is a reason why so many live where they do and commute. They can't afford to live close to work and the balance in costs with cheapo cars just about keeps the system working. The impact of rising fuel prices has a massive impact on spending power and then wage inflation. And that is just a few tens of pounds a month additional cost. Like I've said before, the governments are going to have to give them away for free and then about 5 years down the line there is going to be the problem of beginning to replace batteries. Where are all these heavy metals going to be found, and no recycling will only recover limited amounts of reusable material.
Everybody buzzing around in evs all happy clappy is a pipe dream a hundred years to early. If people have to be forced and coerced then it guarantees the policy must fail as have all forced policies in the past. It has to work for the people within their budget and needs. If it doesn't, it is guaranteed to fail. But this time, the combustion engine factories will have been closed, not mothballed, but closed.

Whilst it is new and shiny woody, but those battery cells will begin to fail one by one, the efficacy of the cells will deteriorate as the quantum holes stop releasing electrons and eventually you'll have a very, very expensive replacement to do. I know a great deal of the quantum physics behind storage of electrons and all storage devices lose capacity over time and there is nothing you can do about it. Where a petrol car simply loses horsepower over time, if you keep it lubricated and top up the tank, it'll still work a century latter as can be seen with actual cars 100 years old and still very active. If you use your battery in the same way as a petrol car you might be lucky to still have 25 miles range after just 10 years. Current technology is only good for the school run and local supermarket if you have the money for the one-upmanship. As an alternative for commuting or being out 'on the road' it has no chance.

my god Danphonc, where to start? Where exactly do all these heavy metals come from? Heavy metals are in batteries, not fossil fuel. C-H-O-N make up fuel, there are no metals involved. And the alloys used in engines are nowhere near 'heavy' metals. Your getting confused with particulates emitted from engines with a very poor combustion.
And the old argument that alternatives have been suppressed by oil. There has never been any evidence presented of oil money, suppression or anything remotely connected. Is that crap STILL being peddled? Jeez... some off the old chestnuts brought back? Is the climate change hysterical bandwagon desperate now? The battery storage technology has never existed until the heavy metal batteries came along. The best you had before was a lead/acid milk float capable of about 10mph. Ernie had one, he drove the fastest milk cart in the west - if my memory serves me.
And your analogy with somebody punching me in the face everyday. Well, you are partly correct with that one - it is the hysterical environmentalsits. All day every day hammering away trying to fit the square peg of fantasy through the round hole of reality. Yes, we are beginning to stand up to it, the hysterical madness is becoming more and more apparent to people and the extensive impact of their policies is starting to surface. One election to go to stop this lunacy.

And the best of all, this is priceless,
"There is literally no link between the environmental lobby and travel restrictions."
You are 'avin a laugh with that aren't you! You put that as line one and then expect anybody to take anything else you say, ever, seriously. Some mothers', apparently, still do 'ave 'em!

How much to fit a charging point? How much to replace the batteries? In a few years time when the battery costs mount up as the various schemes and payment plans get ever more expensive and your range drops and drops even without heaters on during freezing winter trips, you'll be wishing to switch back. But you wont be able to and you will be stuck in your freezing car in a layby with no power waiting for a very expensive charge boost to get you just far enough up the road to join the mile long queue at the only charging point for 10 miles. What fun.

There are disused airfields all over the world with millions of unsold evs piling up! You will all be forced to have one, even when they are eventually given away for free as the governments of Europe especially have to fulfill their promise to underwrite the switch to manufacturing of evs. Think it through. Major manufacturers closing production lines and converting to solely ev car production with no market to sell them too? They are only doing that because they have been given cast iron guarantees that governments will either force people to buy them, as with the 2030 deadline or buy them and run a kind of state lease scheme. That was what Nissan was getting all uppity about over Brexit. It was never about the free movement of car parts, it was whether the UK would stay part of the EU policy forcing a switch to evs.

What is more worrying is this same ethos is moving into aeroplanes with all this nonsense about battery powered planes or Hydrogen. Even dirty recycled fuel is one hell of a risk without very extensive research. Those engines are very finely balanced machines and even just an extra fraction of % of carbon deposit of minor change in acidity or minor change in molecular weight will build up with deposits, metal and seal chemistry changes and stress redistribution. I expect we will see an increase in engine failures on the increase and there will be one common denominator - engines running dirty fuel failing more frequently and similarly pumping and auxiliary unit failures increasing. It will only be when the dirty fuel planes start dropping out of the sky and all hands lost will somebody finally take off the rose tinted glasses and start doing some proper research.

The intended consequences of throwing doubt on how travel rules might be suddenly changed and nudge theorying people into not travelling is working again. This is a deliberate act, it is part of the big reset and is not being implemented by swampies on the outskirts of society. These dramatic policies are being implemented from within the 'establishment' by people we would otherwise expect to stop such nonsense. But the hysteria around climate change has become a religious campaign where no counter argument is tolerated. ANd it is going to get much, much worse.

https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/heathrow-traffic-hit-by-cancellations-from-business-travellers-31890

Finally we get a name of somebody at the so called parties. And here the house of cards falls apart. It was a routine end of week briefing which appears to have had some additional seasonal activity or theme prior to people leaving for the holiday period. I have suspected there has been a significant bit of twisting going on here and whilst those trying to whip up a storm for resignations, you have to have a firm basis for that to take hold and remove someone from office. Recasting team meetings as 'parties' and then trying to wind up the country to believe whilst everybody else was in intense emotional depression due to covid restrictions there were wild parties hidden within Downing St. can have the opposite effect as people are sensitive enough to notice when something is being trolled and engineered. It seems very much the reporting this morning is getting a little tense trying to hold on to the idea there were parties and as these 'parties' are actually identified people are simply reporting back it was no more than a normal team meeting with a seasonal reference, something that a lot of people will have had all over the country. No Christmas lunch this year folks but there is a 5 min speech and some thank you gifts as 12 in meeting room alpha for accounts, 12:30 for sales, 13 for wheeltappers and shunters ect in order to keep numbers less than 10 for social distancing. That is it folks, that is all that was going on. A huge amount of political capital has been expended on this and it turns out to have been a big waste. The key is when the feds said there wasn't anything to investigate, let alone anything to charge people with something. The security logs recording everybodies movements would have immediately shown any 'party'. Why the delay getting here, because nobody was expecting normal routine meetings to be the 'gatherings' being described as 'parties'.

So, for IAG, the connection is that Boris is a weak susceptible leader who has caved in far too easily to implement travel bans and allow the nudge theory unit a free hand. This has caused a serious impediment on travel freedom and there may be a subcontext to make that a permanent thing. On that basis Boris and his green crap must go. But he will survive this unless he personally decides he wants out, he can not be pushed out now. So we have to hope a very significant rebellion can move the government next Tuesday and dump the rules immediately.

No idea what that hocus pocus means but if you say it is a positive then I'm popping a cork on that claim. Otherwise known as 'any old excuse' :)

"No western government has ever put the environment in front of growth."
Errmmm..... every single policy in every single part of almost all governments are predicated with environmentalist interest at the forefront. As for growth, these same people have deluded themselves into believing green=growth. It hasn't so far and it can not possibly do so in the future. Growth requires consumption, consumption is under constant attack. And the replacement green products are out of reach for most people and will always continue to be. It is very slowly unraveling and the zealots have had to resort more and more to ever extreme predictions and claims and also a total cancelling of every single question or counter point made. When you are left defending your position like that, you've lost. It will be played out to a conclusion with the banning of fossil fuelled cars. Only question is just when the penny will drop. You have one election left before a complete collapse. Even now problems of no charging points and stress on the grid are emerging and you've only got a few percent of the cars sold as evs. There has been no open and honest debate or research done on this forced change over. All nicely swept under the big carpet.

Should have gone to specsavers! A number of old routes are listed as not being reinstated [yet]. Those old routes on the published schedule do not automatically mean they will return, only one is bookable. They are not starting in Spring, they are delayed to summer. They are the money spinning long haul [for BA]. You don't spin much money for routes not taking bookings. It indicates a very slow recovery which means slow restoring of revenue.

Maybe the hammer blow to airlines hasn't taken out enough carriers so the covert climate change action committee have instructed heavier restrictions using variants as a cover. If that doesn't work, what is the bet direct targeted action introducing the travel miles cap will be released instead. It is beyond conspiracy theory, this is your new world order and you all sat back and let it all happen by simply accepting everything TV threw at you no matter how big the lie and fraud was on climate change. And you all continue to sit there on your arses and expect somebody else to stop it all.

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-summer-2022-long-haul/

Not great news, because summer is a long time away and only one route is bookable. So revenue has been hit again substantially. Can't see how a new year RI is avoidable with this kind of information.

Conspiracy theories revert to just that as the thread of evidence dries up and details here and there are explained over time.

The situation with travel before the pandemic was already on the environmentalists radar with suggestions of quotas or frequent flyer taxes. The pandemic has gifted a an opportunity to simply reduce large parts of the market. And rather than time allowing details to be explained, the exact opposite for this one is happening. The longer it goes on, the more sure the details are.

Any annoyance with travel equates to significant decline in travellers as has been demonstrated yet again with 100s of flights now cancelled. The warning was there as soon as the transatlantic routes were reopened and the comment 'mostly full' used to describe flights. The cumulative effect of making rules around flying unknowns, constantly changing and being unstable has had the intended effect of putting of a great deal of free travel. It is a deliberate policy to sabotage travel. Whatever you may have thought about that as some sort of weird conspiracy theory last time, this time round it it very clear and obvious. The stealth quarantine! Hardest testing regime introduced! Banning flights from countries claiming it will slow down the spread of a highly contagious cold! Claiming unknowns about the variant would take weeks to be revealed when from day one the critical information was being reported directly from the doctors involved!

It is a deliberate sabotaging of the industry from the Downing St nudge theory unit. It is part of a collective effort to reduce air travel significantly in a belief that will be good for the environment. Like all of the anti fossil fuel policies there will be no measurable effect and most policies release far more carbon than prevented. And the same policies are being deployed against cars. On that one, the effects won't be on a more limited sector in air travel, it will be one everybodies doorstep and the result will be a catastrophic collapse of civilised society. Millions will no longer be able to commute to work and every work place and production line requiring people to physically be present will cease and many millions more will be so restricted in their ev range they will not be able to function and further collapses in the services and maintenance industry will follow. And that is just a few short years away.

And extending the mask wearing.... a 100% guaranteed way to spread the virus. The the extent now it can even be argued omicron has not exploded as 'wanted', so the mask wearing is extended to try and encourage a faster spread. Sounds crazy? It is the only reason I can see as to why you would want mask wearing at all outside clinical environments [and even then there are very specific rules required].

So is the mask wearing being used as a way to deliberately spread the virus in order to create a situation requiring population control? A lot of backbenchers are getting very angry of this new lockdown which is definitely looking like it has been designed rather than due to a new variant.

On Today programme, one lonely voice questioning the claims of mass contamination, but the presenter constantly checking him and not allowing the idea that an alternative narrative might exists.

No surprise police won't investigate. In the real world there isn't actually anything to investigate. No names, no numbers, no location and NO SECURITY LOGS!!!! I said yesterday that the party story was being twisted a bit too much. Boris won't be brought down through trolling in the house or in the media. You need to have a solid base of misdemeanor and then a real cover up to go as far as removing the sitting PM. Otherwise you have to go after them on policy.

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/omicron-variant-global-airlines-say-nations-over-reacted/175708

PS Jtan, it was the Daily Mail that ran with this and has been hard on it. They are doing their bit to get the knife in Boris' back. Unfortunately, for a story like this to actually have impact, it needs to be true. I note not one single name has been released attending this 'party' and no numbers given. The location has not been revealed. In fact, so far there is no direct evidence of a party taking place. There will be clear records in the security logs and security inspections of any 'event' and who was where in the building. That detail should be out by now but there doesn't seem to be anything incriminating to be leaked. Furthermore, the mock press briefing seems to have been about an event that most likely didn't happen as it there in the text; a reference to a fake party as an exercise in answering the impossible proof of innocence question. There is a lot of wordplay and rewriting of history going on, especially in media reports on a bit of a runaway trolling. As a media storm intended to remove Boris, it will fail as there is, as actual actionable fact, very little to go on - just the spinning of a good yarn in a troll TV age. As will be seen when the met police report, unless they actually find some real evidence, there is nothing to prosecute over. That'll be the next headline trolling, that there was a mass cover up. I suspect the only thing the met police will come up with is a diarised business meeting with light buffet, one of probably 1000 that month alone in the various offices around Westminster where a degree of hospitality is typically provided because many are well outside of ordinary work hours. In fact, remembering back to how things work in Whitehall, it would have been almost impossible to conduct government business staying within a lot of the tier rules, and includes for the office of the Mayor who will be wishing people would stop throwing such big stones in all those glasshouses!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhh noooooo Benji boy gone? But how will he fend for himself out there in the big bad world? Hope he has his special hat and inhaler with him. Bye bye Benji boy.

If a pill was introduced tomorrow guaranteeing a complete symptom free cure within 12 hrs, there would still be the same social coercion implemented. This variant is simply used as an opportunity to get back into the social control. It was always going to be the case that once the invasive level of control had been implemented, letting go of the power would be very hard. It requires a deliberate and enforced set of policies to return to full freedoms. And it looks like around the world there are many political communities that just don't have the courage for it. Its going to take a lot of people out on the streets to wrestle control off these control freaks.

INteresting, spike was across the sector, some have fallen back to the -3% mark, others have stayed up at the same -3% mark - approximately. Looks like the bots have put the market in the sector back in alignment. Only mm can manage the price like that, so the mm have repriced the shares in the sector to fall back in line. And the FCA will continue to look on and simply ignore. As bad as the idiots in government.