PART 2: THE ECONOMY AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS
The first thing we will do is protect the land and sea beds from the environmentally unfriendly “green movement” that is destroying our farmlands and natural environment by the setting up of wind turbines that in addition to the great harm to the ground are killers to bird and marine life.
(Picture features a dead buzzard strick by a wind turbine)
The Scottish Heritage Party rejects the notion of “net zero” as it is unattainable and even if it achieved its objective would cause famine for CO2 is a good gas enabling crops to grow.
“Carbon Neutral” & “Climate Change” in the UK means jobs for China. That is the long and the short of it. A total of 83% of power consumed in China is from fossil fuels (Coal + Petroleum + Natural Gas [2021]) It is this that makes the dreaded windmills supposedly to “save the planet”.
If we can reduce energy costs which we can by scrapping “net zero” we are offering opportunity to great business talent in Scotland to grow business, develop the tourism and hospitality industry. Our policy will also bring great relief to existing business including farmers and fisherfolk.
The price of our energy is dependent on demand and scarcity. “Carbon Neutral” is a great way to make energy scarce, expensive and to take your money away. We have Wind Farms all over the place and our energy bills have literally skyrocketed. Energy cost is in the price of everything, and the reason why we have sky rocketing inflation. “Carbon Neutral” fear mongering is making the UK poor and China rich as they have zero qualms about Carbon, concentration in our atmosphere being 0.04%, and it needs to be this.
We have to remember that the Conservatives dramatically blew the economy by crazy green policies under Boris Johnson, dramatically extended by Ed Windmilliband to reach a point now that the whole UK economy is at risk of bankruptcy, and the Scottish Heritage Party in Scotland is prepared to open up the doors to oil and gas expansion and explore the possibilities of environmentally friendly inshore gas and coal production making Scotland the richest part of the now Great Britain with Scotland leading the way.
We therefore reject passionately the unproven “net zero” in favour of more environmentally safe fossil fuel development – developing primarily the gas and oil “treasure chest” of the North Sea; restoring our once great steel industry and opening the door to inshore fossil fuel production too.
We will also encourage the development of environmentally friendly fossil fuel cars as opposed to electric vehicles that are far from being good for the environment. This will save children in Congo going into deep mines for lithium, save our roads from increased pot hole production and increase safety of road users in far great danger of vehicle fire, far greater danger of being unable to get out of their vehicles in an emergency and also enable pedestrians to hear vehicles coming for silent cars are dangerous.
We are now bringing the conditions for economic development and inward investment, the Scottish Parliament being responsible for Income Tax on non-saving & non dividend income and this we will bring in parity with the rest of the UK, looking to at the possibility of having local taxes associated with Income and Corporation tax rather than outdated property values. We will develop Scottish Development Bonds to finance capital investment particularly concentrating on small business enabling opportunity to successfully compete with global business, so that we can restore our once great High Street back to having that Scottish feel again.
It will be our aim by dramatically reducing energy costs to bring the conditions for every business and home to be properly heated in the winter and cooled in the summer, ensuring too that the disabled, the vulnerable and the pensioner is properly protected from rising costs by having reducing costs. In addition we regard it a national disgrace for the State Pension to be the lowest in Europe. Analysis has shown that British State Pension is about 17% of average income whereas in the EU it is 57%. As a oil and gas rich nation this is a disgrace on Scotland in particular and Scottish Heritage Party MSP’s and Councillors will push strongly for increased fossil fuel revenues spending this on ensuring every pensioner receives a living wage.
We also believe in encouraging hard work giving incentive for real expansion of the economy but we must also have to deal with the country’s mental health problem particularly after the nonsensical lockdown and global pandemic scares coming from those looking to bring international harm rather than life.
The Scottish Parliament is responsible for the nation’s bank holidays and Sunday Trading so on coming to power we will change the 2nd. January holiday to St Andrew’s day in honour of our Scottish Christian Heritage and restrict Sunday Trading to bring nationwide rest to a hard working nation that protects too its disabled and elderly who with increased economic growth can look to enjoy further social care and benefits.
The Labour Party/SNP attack on the elderly and disabled will be of the past once we are in Holyrood, a growing economy meaning a more caring one, the end of the “net zero” obsession saving lives by increased crop growth avoiding famine, increased fishing fields unpolluted by wind turbines improving our diet, and cheap energy meaning business growth and affordable heating and cooling for all. Not complicated – but simple!
Making our country self-sufficient in energy takes costs off business. creates jobs and a healthier and more prosperous society.
Your Vote to the Scottish Heritage Party is a VOTE "NO" to UN Agenda 2030, and that the current attack on fossil fuel use must stop, the anti-environmental use of non-recyclable wind turbines must stop, and so under a Scottish Heritage Party in line with the Heritage Party UK, we can look forward to a healthier and prosperous future making full use of the world’s resources, and protecting the environment at the same time.
Giving our UK wide policy is David Kurten:
There is no climate emergency. Carbon dioxide is a natural atmospheric gas; it is not a pollutant, nor is it harmful. Human activity contributes very little towards global warming, a phenomenon caused by naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere such as H2O, CO2 and CH4. The adherence to green ideology is scientifically spurious and economically insane. We need to abandon the unnecessary commitment to ‘net-zero’ carbon dioxide emissions and ensure that we produce enough energy to keep the lights on and power our industry.
This can be achieved with our 5-point plan to energy security and self-sufficiency:
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We will immediately re-open mothballed coal power stations and stop the insane practice of burning wood pellets from North and South American forests in place of coal at our largest former coal power stations such as Drax.
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We will open new oil fields and gas fields in the North Sea which are already known about. In the medium term, we will develop the on-land shale gas industry for exclusive use in the UK. This will meet our natural gas needs for decades from domestic supply.
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In the long term, we will commission 20 or more small nuclear power stations, each one providing a consistent supply of 600 – 800 MW. These are cheaper to construct than singular large nuclear power stations, and will provide a significant proportion of supply to the National Grid reliably and cost-effectively.
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We will divest from wind turbines and solar arrays on prime agricultural land. They are a blot on our landscape and they do not work when the wind stops blowing, blows too fast or the Sun doesn’t shine. Their intermittent nature means back-ups must be available at all times in case they stop producing electricity, which requires massive subsidies that increase the energy bills of every household. In addition, wind turbines kill vast numbers of birds and offshore wind farms ruin the sea bed, making them more harmful to the environment than if they were not used at all. We will begin the process of decommissioning wind farms and solar arrays, so that our scarce farming land is returned to producing crops and the sea bed is returned to marine life.
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We will support new energy production technologies that do not need government subsidies and can operate viably on the free market. To this end, we shall explore the possibility of harnessing the power in tidal rivers using discrete turbines.
In addition, we will end the use of ‘biofuels’ made from crops or grown on plantations which should be used for growing food. It is wrong and immoral to use crops to make biofuels when the UK is not self-sufficient in food.
To ensure sovereignty over our energy and environment policy, the UK must leave the Paris Climate Agreement which implements a significant portion of UN Agenda 21/2030 and demands that the UK government adheres to the false ideology of climate alarmism. It imposes restrictions on the nation’s energy policy and forces us to be bound by carbon trading systems from which other nations are exempt. It is already undermining our competitiveness and freedom. It will fundamentally alter our way of life as petrol cars, gas boilers and gas power stations are successively banned, and restrictions are placed on roads which prevent vehicles from travelling easily from one place to another. It is wrong to stay in such a far-reaching agreement whose effects were never explained to the British people.
It is as important to maintain beauty and harmony in our urban environments as it is to protect the countryside from rampant development. Once beautiful towns and cities across the country have been brutalised by depressingly ugly modernist architecture. This must end.
The Heritage Party will require all new homes and commercial buildings to be constructed in keeping with the traditional and historic character of the area. We will also create renaissance zones in towns and cities whose character has been spoiled by the construction of depressing, densely-built, dehumanising eyesores. In these zones we will restore and recreate the historic beauty of urban spaces which have been ruined.
Every young British family should be able to buy their own home. This means that the housing market must work for home buyers rather than big property developers.
Demand for new housing has outstripped supply for over two decades now due to mass, rapid immigration, including through a rapid increase of student numbers in University cities. In 2021, over 1.1 million visas were granted for foreign nationals to come to the UK either to work, to live or to study, but there were only 150,000 completions of new homes. This is completely unsustainable.
Immigration numbers need to be slashed with strict caps on the number of student and work visas granted to foreign nationals. This will relieve the pressure on house prices by reducing demand. Foreign nationals should not be permitted to buy property in the UK unless they have been resident for 5 years, in which case they may be permitted to purchase one property as their main residence.
Schemes which interfere with the housing market and the ability of councils to provide council homes to local people who need them should be abolished. These include ‘Right to Buy’, ‘Help to Buy’ and government Home Equity Loans.
All housing targets for local councils should be abolished, along with the practices of building large housing developments on prime agricultural land and ‘densification’ and ‘intensification’ where zones in town centres are turned into blocks of flats dozens of stories high to meet imposed targets for housing units. Regeneration schemes must work for the benefit of established communities and not destroy historic neighbourhoods and buildings. Such projects should be subject to a ballot of the residents who will be affected, and no residents should be forced to move against their will.
Building regulations should ensure buildings are safe with adequate fire escapes, but requirements to meet erroneous energy and ‘climate’ targets that disadvantage older buildings and their owners or construction in traditional styles should be scrapped.