One in 7 shops in UK has turned cashless in the past year, survey finds - BBC Headline

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm211jnz568o

This seems like propaganda for abolition of cash. Small traders are facing enough problems already without turning money away because the customer wants to pay cash. The article also fails to mention that the trader loses part of their profit on every card transaction, because the card issuer takes a commission - a fraction of one per cent on UK debit cards but with debit card use running at over 2 billion transactions a month the banks are on a nice earner for doing nothing.   

 

One in 7 shops in UK has turned cashless in the past year, survey finds

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Kevin Peachey

Cost of living correspondent

Published
6 March 2026
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High Street shops are increasingly accepting only card or phone payments, new research suggests, as traders balance security, costs and the needs of customers.

Some 14% of shops have turned cashless over the last year, according to a survey of small businesses by the UK's main ATM network Link.

The findings highlighted retailers' efforts to avoid payment charges and tackle security concerns, despite around half of in-store purchases still being made in cash.

MPs on the influential Treasury Committee last year warned of a lack of data on cash acceptance and said the government should be ready to force shops and services to accept cash to protect vulnerable people.

They said there was a risk of a two-tier system, potentially pushing up prices in outlets that still accepted cash and creating a poverty premium for those who best budgeted using cash.

Shops and services can currently accept whatever form of payment they want. Some countries have introduced, or plan to implement, limited but mandatory cash acceptance for some essential services.

Image caption,

Alex White, owner of store Arkwhites in Hastings, says he has adapted to his customers' preferences

The coastal town of Hastings in East Sussex has a vibrant mix of independent and chain stores, as well as traditional seaside traders.

It also has a typical mix of shops that are cash only or card only, with the majority happy to take either form of payment.

When Alex White started Arkwhites in Hastings Old Town, selling items near their best before date at discount prices, he would only accept cash. Now, he accepts cards too.

"When I started I wanted it just to be a cash store, because that's the way I've been brought up. I didn't really want to go into using a credit card machine, which is an extra cost," he said.

"But then over time I realised that a lot of people just use their cards and don't use cash."

Elsewhere in the town, fish and chips and books are sold only for cash, while cakes and ice creams require a card payment.

For the most part, the decision to go cashless is based on business costs and worries about theft.

Link's report, called Keeping Choice Alive, found that 77% of High Street businesses asked in its independent consumer council's survey, still accepted cash.

However, more than half of those which no longer accepted cash had taken that decision within the last year.

Of those which had gone cashless:

• About a fifth said this was the result of the perceived threat of fraud, such as counterfeit banknotes

• The same proportion suggested it was the result of security concerns, such as theft, shoplifting and violence against shopworkers

• Nearly as many highlighted a lack of demand among their customers to pay in cash

The cost of handling money was another factor, especially when faced with the closure or limited opening hours of bank branches.

About half of retailers said they paid more than £50 a month to handle cash deposits, with 15% of those asked paying more than £200 a month.

 

 

THE DEATH SPIRAL OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES

 

 

In nearly every European Union member state, public spending, and in particular spending on welfare and benefits, is accelerating at all levels, from municipalities and social insurance systems all the way up to the European Commission, while the economy of the private sector at best stagnates and its industrial core sectors visibly erode.

The economic imbalance, in which a contracting private sector is  unable to finance a continuously expanding state apparatus and the state has to plug the gap by continuous borrowing, is already  causing  in the bond markets.  Yields (real interest rates obtained when governments have to sell their bonds for less than face value, have been rising steadily for years, making the servicing of government debts increasingly expensive. As long as financing the needs of public  spending continues to grow under the ruling ideology of an all-encompassing state this financial burden will fuel the need for ever higher taxation and a destructive race among parties of government to squeeze taxpayers at every level. Such an irresponsible approach to financial polit can only result in economic chaos.

Naturally, when it comes to fleecing European taxpayers, the European Commission will be at the front from the starting signal. Brussels is currently preparing its seven-year budget framework, set to exceed €2 trillion beginning in 2028.

Apollo News recently reported that the European Parliament is even demanding a further 10 percent increase in this budget ceiling. Excess, wastefulness, and a complete detachment from economic reality are driving the EU’s relentless search for new sources of tax revenue.

To this end, Commission President Ursula von der Squeeze'em-til-the-pips-squeak commissioned the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) last year to produce a study examining the potential of a wealth tax across the entire EU. 

There is no point in any attempt at a “redistribution” policy, so long as the central redistribution mechanism which leads to an ever increasing wealth gap remains in place: an above zero inflation target.

THIS is the reverse robin hood, distributing wealth from the lower, middle, and upper middle class all the way to the top.

When “money” (or currency, rather) continually loses value (by design!), and “assets” increase in value, then the defining characteristic is how your wealth is split. The closer to the top of the food chain you are, the faster you get rich. This is by design, and nothing can stop it so long as we don’t have sound money with a zero inflation target.

The fiat money system and bank laws grant financiers like Larry Fink and the banks ways to leverage their wealth into multiples of what the capital investment really is. Obviously, the political machines running Europe are following suit but without oversight. The ability of government to borrow against future revenues allows almost infinite short-term revenues. And,  the exceptional power to change laws allows the politicos to think they MAKE the future by over spending revenues. 

They starve the golden egg-laying goose to allow more spending and when the health of the golden goose becomes questionable the bond markets apply rising interest rates. The politicos become tone deaf and resort to further starvation of the goose. 

Government refuses to take heed and instead resorts increasingly short-changing the food going to the golden-egg-laying goose. The goose lays fewer eggs and the government punishes the goose by reducing the quality of the food (reduction in the value of the currency). 

When that causes still fewer eggs, the government resorts to plucking the goose through wealth and inheritance taxes. No surprise, the goose produces even fewer eggs. Just watch what happens not just to cities like NYC but to whole countries around the world (Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc.) Total control over taxation by government ends up as self-indulgence by government that ultimately kills the goose. 

Only the USA is somewhat protected by its role as issuer of the dominant reserve currency. 
While the BRICS+ bloc have plans to engage in currency wars with the aim of promoting the Chinese Yuan as a reserve currency to rival the dollar such a project would take decades to make any serious impact on the balance of world trade

Because other nations will always need to buy dollars to settle international trades, US government agencies and commercial ventures can dictate prices.

And that is how the European Union and other nations like UK and Japan have thrown themselves into a death spiral. But with the governments of the EU and the rest of the developed world hooked on virtue signalling policies like Open Borders and Net Zero, the will to take those hard decisions that could break a nation out of the death sipn just does not exist.

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Trump Says Deal With Iran Is Close - Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei Says 'Death To America'

 

 

Two days ago US President Donald Trump told a White House press briefing an agreement with Iran has been "largely negotiated" and details will be announced soon.

The deal would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, he said on Saturday, without giving further details.

Trump wrote on social media that he had a "very good call" with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and others about a "Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE".

"An agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalisation between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed," his Truth Social read.

In response an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman told state television that US and Iranian positions had been converging in the last week, but warned that did not mean agreements would be reached on key issues and accused the Americans of "contradictory statements.

A British Prime Minister of the 1960 once famously said 'A week is a long time in politics.' That was then and this is now, a digital age of information overload when a week is almost eternity and Two days is an aeon.

 While Tump was again calling for peace today (May 26 ), Iranian leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei issued a message  calling for greater unity across the Muslim world against the United States and Israel, saying that the chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” will become the rallying slogans of Muslims and “the oppressed of the world.” 

Khamenei’s message was to mark Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage. In it, Khamenei described a historic struggle against U.S. and Israeli influence in the Middle East, repeatedly invoking the revolutionary slogan “Allahu Akbar” as the “weapon” that had enabled Iran and its allies to resist outside pressure.

He said Iran had succeeded in “making the Zionist regime helpless under its severe blows during the second imposed war” and in delivering “a harsh slap to aggressive America,” while thwarting efforts to force Tehran into submission.

The statement also praised what it called the “Resistance Front,” saying Iranian forces and allied fighters in Lebanon had secured “notable victories” against “the two terrorist armies, armed to the teeth by the American-Zionist side.”

Khamenei coupled the aggressive rhetoric with a broader appeal for cooperation among Muslim-majority countries, calling on Muslim leaders to “no longer serve as shields for American bases” while denouncing Israel as a “faltering” regime that was nearing “the final stages of its cursed life.”

Khamenei’s message came as the United States, Israel, and Iran remain locked in a tense standoff following months of fighting that included U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities, Iranian retaliation across the region, and disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

An aspect of the conflict's wider impact that is not being discussed in mainstream media is the increase in terrorist activity since the outbreak of hostilities initially between Israel and Iran around three months ago. Iran had long been known as the main sponsor of The Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation formed to take jihad into the western democracies. Yet many western leaders are so committed to virtue signalling they refuse to ban the organisation. 

Although the ceasefire Trump negotiated has largely held for the past month, with only minor violations by both sides, negotiations continue over a proposed memorandum of understanding intended to end hostilities and establish a framework for future talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on May 25 that negotiations with Tehran were “proceeding nicely” but warned that failure to secure an acceptable agreement could lead to renewed military action.

Earlier today we heard that overnight.US forces carried out “defensive” strikes on a missile site and two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mine-laying boats, which officials said were targeting the United States.

Iran immediately accused the US of violating the ceasefire (although to be fair both sides have been violating it on a daily basis,) and criticised the “bad faith and unreliability” of Washington, adding that it would be held accountable for “all consequences arising from these hostile acts”.

“Without any doubt, the Islamic Republic of Iran will leave no aggression unanswered and will not hesitate in defending Iran’s sovereignty with the utmost determination,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

And so it looks as if we are back to square one. Start stocking up your survival cupboards folks, oil and a lot of things that depend on  oil are going to be in short supply for a while yet.

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A street in Cuba's historic capital, Havana, showing the kind of prosperity communism never fails to deliver (Picture APnews.com )

 

According to White House sources, President Donald Trump reportedly has Cuba in his sights as a new target within a broader strategy aimed at regime change.

A report in Atlantic magazine suggests that discussions within the White House are not only focused on Iran and Venezuela but also include Havana as part of a geopolitical push to reshape the power dynamics in the Western Hemisphere.

Washington insiders whisper that Trump feels he is "on a roll" following recent (and it must be sid, not spectacularly successful,) international maneuvers, bolstering his determination to seek new challenges.

The Atlantic describes conversations among Trump's close circles where there's consideration of increasing pressure on the Cuban regime.

Publicly, Trump has floated the idea of a "friendly takeover" of the island, repeatedly highlighting the severe economic hardships faced by the country.

 Cuba's decline, which began in 1959 when the revolution led by Fidel Castro succeeded in replacing the corrupt regime with an equally corrupt but far less competent communist dictatorship, and fall, which has been a slow motion train wreck that started immediately ater Castro's takeover, is accelerating due to the sanctions, embargoes, lack of income and insufficient aid from its allies Russia and China. 

The writing was on the wall for the communists in Havana since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I'd speculate that a US backed coup is not too far away, this will establish a militarily controlled government to stabilise the country. Cuba will probably end up with a fake puppet democracy controlled by Washington. 

US business interests will then move in. Trump is not about freedom and democracy, hence Venezuela still has the same party in power. However, Trump's bid to disrupt the world order has denied China a main source of oil. He controls where Venezuela's oil goes. And let's be honest, anything that impedes China's bid to usurp all western manufacturing industry benefits all of us in the liberal democracies and offers at least some respite from our political elites' attempts to commit national suicide on behalf of the nations they rule. If in Trump' masterplan Europe is to be written off as collateral damage, then it is up to we Europeans to do something about it.

Cuba's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to hold between 4.6 billion and 20 billion barrels of untapped, undiscovered crude oil. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the most likely volume of technically recoverable undiscovered crude in the North Cuba Basin is 4.6 billion barrels. Deep-sea marine drilling requires vast capital and highly specialised deepwater platforms, which Cuba’s state oil company (CUPET) cannot fund on its own.

A tempting opportunity for The Donald to step in with US money and technical expertise.

It should also be noted that about 25% of Cuba's population has fled to the USA, Canada, Europe and South American nations  over the past 5 years, largely as a result of the regime's human rights abuses. Yet the snivelling gobshites at the United Nations elect the Cuban regime to the international panel which oversees human rights. If it is to fix the problem the Cuban state must remove the dictators, and let the people return and rebuild the relitavely prosperous nation it had been from the 1930s to 50s and work towards a democratic future freed from the authoritarian and delusional communists who now only cling to power so they can continue to exploit the country for their personal benefit. And it appears those who seek fredom can expect no help from the globalists of Britain and the EU.

 Cuba is what communism always becomes, and it is hard for our socialists to let go, as the old saying goes 'in a democracy we can vote out failed leaders but socialism can only be removed with blood on the streets. But the time has come for Cubans, wherever they go, are successful, there is no reason to believe they won't be successful in Cuba after a regime change frees them from the brutal oppression of communism. 

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Ceasefire in Ukraine? Peace Deal With Iran? Don't Hold Your Breath

 

This weekend President Donald Trump has been busy claiming a deal with Iran to end the latest Gulf war, which includes the repening of the Strait of Hormuz is 'almost complete.' whatever that means. Nither side is giving away much in terms of what precisely might be in the deal, with President Trump having earlier said he's in no hurry. But we can hope weekend contains some of the most positive momentum towards an actual peace deal and extended ceasefire to date. The New York Times (NYT) has the latest information:

Iran’s leaders or official state media have not publicly commented on what is in any potential agreement or what is being discussed. Over the last 24 hours, Iranian and U.S. officials have offered some conflicting depictions of what a deal might contain. On Sunday, the U.S. official said a deal had not yet been signed and was still subject to final approval from President Trump and Iran’s supreme leader, which could take days.

The senior U.S. official said the mechanism by which Iran would dispose of its highly enriched uranium was still being negotiated. Mr. Trump has insisted that the United States seize the material as part of his vow to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Mr. Trump said in a social media post earlier on Sunday that he had ordered his negotiators “not to rush into a deal,” after saying a day earlier that a preliminary agreement between the two countries was “largely negotiated.”

But Trump is taking some political flak both at home and in Israel, for potentially agreeing to a deal which cedes too much ground to Tehran - or at least that's the growing criticism of the hawks.

Meanwhile in the Black Sea region a drone strike on a student dorm in Russian-controlled Luhansk killed 18 people and triggered rescue efforts. The attack sparked a sharp UN clash as Moscow weighed retaliation and Kyiv denied targeting civilians..

Denial or no, retribution was swift and terrible as an overnight bombardment kills four and destroyed many targets in one of Russia’s most wide-reaching assaults since start of war. 

Russia unleashed hundreds of drones and missiles on Kyiv overnight, including a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile.

The Oreshnik, an intermediate-range ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads, hit the town of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, 50 miles south of the capital, Ukrainian officials confirmed.

The weapon, which travels 10 times faster than the speed of sound, has been said to be impossible to intercept. Footage purporting to show the strike on Sunday appeared to show its characteristic clusters of projectiles streaking towards the ground.

And so the wars in Ukraine and the Middle east go on like a merry go round and every news repoprts starts to sound like deja vu all over again.. 

This item was posted today by Karlofi on MoA. We bring it to you not because Boggart Blog either agrees or disagrees with the content but because we feel it offers an insight into Russia's current thinking on the world situuation in the light of wars in Ukraine and Iran.

Far too much of the propaganda published in western media about both these wars has plugged the good guys versus bad guys theme with the western alliance presented as the good guys wearing white hats while Russia and Iran respectively are bad guys. Naturally Russia and Iran take the opposite view.

Unfortunately nothing is ever that simple. 

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Today, Russia’s MFA issued a “statement on the end of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” that deals with the Twin War Crimes on Iran and their effect on the NPT. The first three paragraphs are translated below:
 

Against the backdrop of the landslide degradation of regional and global security, characterized by a significant increase in threats and an increase in the role of the force factor in international relations, the conference demonstrated sharp contradictions between many States Parties to the Treaty, which together became decisive both for the course and content of the discussions, and for the overall outcome of the event.
 
 
The most serious obstacle to the implementation of the tasks facing the forum was the aggression of Israel and the United States against Iran, carried out in June 2025 and February-March 2026 under the far-fetched pretext of “protecting” the nuclear non-proliferation regime. The use of the Treaty to settle political scores and justify the use of force has taken place before. However, the current state of affairs has clearly revealed the disastrous consequences for the NPT that such unprovoked, unjustified and illegal actions entail. The conference was not ready to give a balanced assessment of the situation around Iran.
 
 
The “contribution” to the formation of an unfavorable atmosphere at the forum was made by the delegations of the “collective West”, who arrived in New York to solve their own political problems that have nothing to do with the subject of the NPT. They, primarily the EU countries and NATO members, as well as the Brussels European bureaucracy, in every possible way hindered an effective dialogue, promoting a destructive agenda focused mainly on criticism of Russia, China, Iran and the DPRK. [My Emphasis]

 
IMO, Western conduct at this meeting doesn’t bode well for any settlement of the twin War Crimes visited on Iran since the attack on the NPT is led by the Outlaw US Empire. Today, Lavrov was involved at the XXXIV Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, which is a very serious gathering that needs to be investigated deeper than the statement Lavrov made. Here’re its first several paragraphs:
 

The report mentioned by Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy Fyodor Lukyanov is indeed very useful. It leads to many thoughts, including the idea that is increasingly making its way into the public space – whether everything we are experiencing is not another world war. There are arguments that are used to prove this particular statement. There are also qualitative signs that testify to a fundamentally different nature of hostilities, which has changed so much that, indeed, it is necessary to speak quite accurately about a war of a completely new type. In particular, President of the Association for the Export of Technological Sovereignty, Professor of MGIMO A.O. Bezrukov mentions this in his report.
 
 
I am sure we will talk about its global reach today. In Eurasia, it is already in full swing: following the aggression of Ukraine against Russia prepared by the West with another attempt to weaken our country, knock it out of the list of key world players, an operation began in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz. There were clashes on the borders of large states in both the southern and eastern parts of the Asian continent. Not to mention Latin America, where not everything is finished, as we can understand.
 
 
Therefore, the coverage is global and universal. I think that historians will understand how much the intensity of each of these episodes and conflicts leads to a union called “World War” a little later. [My Emphasis]

 
Russia sees what’s happening in a very serious light, far more seriously than what’s being discussed in most media, and that’s the connections between the two conflicts, a reality often mentioned by barflies. The meeting’s general topic was “Time for Solutions: Russia in an Irreversibly Changed World.” Clearly, solutions are required but the criminal West doesn’t want to seek any that are based on justice and thus refuses to even communicate. 

 

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The Disintegration Of The Imminent Climate Catastrophe Psyop

 

Earlier this year President Trump delighted his fans and outraged his opponents by pulling the USA and all its money out of the United Nations Intergoernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Globalists were quick to complain that without American money the climate scaremongering project would be bankrupt.

Trump signed a presidential memorandum in January that pulled the United States from the climate pact and 65 other international organizations and treaties that “no longer serve American interests.” About half of those are United Nations organizations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, “As this list begins to demonstrate, what started as a pragmatic framework of international organizations for peace and cooperation has morphed into a sprawling architecture of global governance, often dominated by progressive ideology and detached from national interests,” .

The US withdrawal from on climate cooperation comes as the United States’ main rival on the world stage, China, has come to dominate the clean energy technologies of the future. At the same time, many of the United States’ most powerful allies, including Australia, Britain and the European Union, are also advancing their ambitions to reduce emissions of planet-heating greenhouse gases and ramp up renewable energies. 

Five months later the credibility of the IPCC has been dealt an equally damaging blow with recently-published research showing that 42% of its climate scenarios rely on improbable rises in future temperature that even the UN-funded body believes are of “low likelihood”. The research notes the IPCC admission of the improbability of its scaremongering predictions is “deeply buried” in the full Sixth Assessment Reports (AR6), and is “unlikely to be read by the policy makers”. The authors point out that significant and important sections of the full IPCC work emphasise these improbable claims, “potentially invalidating those sections of the report”.

Climate and emissions outline SSP5-8.5 assumes a rise of around 5°C by the end of the century. That was always somewhat detached from reality and has long been dealt a death blow, given that global warming ran out of steam about 25 years ago.

A recent New York Post (NYP) article, titled “Billions have been wasted on UN’s climate change lies,” describes how vast amounts of Dollars, Pounds, Euros and other major currencies have been spent worldwide attempting to slow or stop the world from experiencing the extreme climate change as forecast by the flawed, but widely used RCP 8.5 computer model projections. The NYP is absolutely correct. The future climate conditions described by the RCP 8.5 high-end emissions scenario, and subsequently cited in hundreds of climate science research papers warning of likely disastrous outcomes, were never going to happen, and all the investment into climate policy has been a total waste.

RCP 8.5 has officially been retired from consideration by official climate researchers at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Opinion writer Jonathan Lesser writes that the IPCC “is responsible for the “climate catastrophe” pseudo science and “the world is burning" predictions that environmentalists, academics and many politicians have promoted to force high-cost, coercive energy policies on the developed nations, which “relied on academics whose careers depended on using RCP 8.5 and several other worst-case scenarios to predict everything from the demise of French wines and the end of pasta to aliens destroying the earth. (No, really.)”

Over the past decade, Wattsupwiththat, The Heartland Institute and Climate Realism have published dozens of articles refuting studies slavishly promoted by various media outlets that relied heavily on computer-modeled emissions scenarios like RCP 8.5 and SSP5-8.5. The stories referenced by Lesser here are familiar; the supposed destruction of French wine (or overproduction!), pasta, and aliens of a different kind, all have been covered and much more.

RCP 8.5 was used to say Gila monsters would be decimated by climate change, that climate change would spread lethal fungal outbreaks around the world, that climate change would cause a dramatic uptick in deaths from sedentary lifestyles, and The Daily Mail went so far as to create AI generated apocalyptic images of the world’s future all based on RCP 8.5 projections.

Scientists have been moving away from promoting RCP 8.5 as the business-as-usual scenario for a while now. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  abandoned it years ago, yet it has still been regularly used as a realistic high end emissions scenario in hundreds of papers published by prestigious journals like Nature. It never was realistic. It was always implausible and likely impossible, even assuming a rapid, large, and sustained increase in coal consumption – a scenario that would require five times more coal than we actually have reserves of.

Climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr. explains in a Substack post, “A scenario requiring five times proven coal reserves is not plausible by any standard,” and that the scenario also required an increase in the use of coal-to-liquids instead of petroleum and that other technologies would stagnate. None of this was realistic, even at the time the scenario was first created.

Unfortunately many people too busy with work and family life to investigate issues are of the opinion that what comes from the IPCC is “Science”. Those people take the view that if all scientists are saying something (i.e. The science is settled,) then it must be true so  who are they to question these knowledable academics. So they mostly just accept it all.

In fact the opposite is true, we all have a right and a duty to question authority, and the very use of the phrase, "The science is settled," by climate scientists shows they are motivated more by politics than pure scientific inquiry. 

What these people promote isn’t science at all. It is “Official Narrative”. It is computer modelling full of assumptions that don’t match what is actually happening in the real world, and our governments, by attaching a 'science' label to this propaganda are using false authority of “science” to spread irrational fears about the climate, in order to coerce public support for authoritarian, globalist policy like NET ZERO and punitive taxation of fuel consumption. 

Those policies are harmful to our prosperity and well being. They always talk of the risks of using fossil fuels without ever mentioning the risks of NOT using them. Life expectancy has doubled because of those fuels, and there are over a billion people who don’t have them sitting burning dung for heating and cooking dying young from preventable diseases and of back breaking labour. 

Wake up people. Globalist Eco Socialism is NOT science. You are being played for fools. 

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Germany: AfD On Course For Absolute Majority In Saxony - Anhalt Regional Election

 

According to latest opinion polls on voting intention for the regional election in Germany's Saxony - Anhalt region, the anti - immigration AfD party is on course to win the September election state in the state and is polling figures were reproduced in the election could govern alone without needing coalition partners.

"There's a real sense of optimism here in Saxony-Anhalt. It's a wonderful feeling. We want nothing more and nothing less than to make history. We're making the first AfD-led government in all of Germany a reality here in Saxony-Anhalt," the party's dynamic 35-year-old leader in the region, Ulrich Siegmund told Germany's foremost news organisation DW in an interview at the state parliament in Magdeburg.

Siegmund's branch of the AfD is one of the more controversial in Germany.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution the state's domestic intelligence service, the AfD's regional chapter describes the party as "right-wing extremists". They argue that the party pushes a concept of citizenship based on race, which contradicts the German constitution, the Basic Law.

Siegmund dismisses the intelligence agency's classification as politically motivated. For several years now the party has been smeared with accusations of far right extremism and has even faced efforts by the rival CDU and SDP parties which rule in coalition to have it banned as a threat to democracy. Germans are not noted for their great sense of humour but even so these parties show a remakable lack of self awareness in being unable to see the irony in claiming to defend democracy by banning opposition parties.

Even now, with the smears and lawfare obviously backfiring bigtime with AfD now the most popular party, consistently topping national polling,  political opponents and police chiefs are still warning that an AfD government would present risks to national security, including the sharing of classified information.

The AfD, Siegmund insists, is "committed to the rule of law."

But many political pundits are sceptical: "I assume that an AfD in government would further establish and professionalize its radicalism," Matthias Quent, from the Institute for Democratic Culture at Magdeburg-Stendal University, told DW. "Especially in Saxony-Anhalt, which has one of the most far-right state branches. There are no forces there that would want a different course."

AfD has promised to get tough on rejected asyslum seekers or migrants whose visas have expired. In contrast to current legislation, the AfD wants all people awaiting deportation to be detained.

"Under our government, individuals required to leave the country must, of course, be placed in detention pending deportation," Siegmund said.

He wants to set up a deportation task force to enforce those new rules. According to Saxony-Anhalt's Interior Ministry's figures, there are just under 5000 people in the state who are required to leave the country.

Despite the attemts to brand it extremist, the AfD's support in opinion polls has continued to grow. If the regional surveys in Saxony-Anhalt are correct, September's election could end more than two decades of conservative rule and mark a breakthrough for the AfD, which was founded as an anti-EU party in 2013, and embraced the issue of anti-immigration in 2015.

Despite the pressure to deliver results, Siegmund believes an AfD victory would be a springboard for the AfD in other regions.

"It would send the signal that a political shift is finally taking place, that we are once again pursuing policies tailored to our own state. And that would, of course, have a domino effect," Siegmund said.

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