BBC Writing Scripts For Possible Use In Winter Blackouts

With the energy crisis worsening by the day in Europe, the media and public officials have already floated out the grand possibility that residents could be forced to endure rolling blackouts and power outages this winter. But now it has been revealed the BBC is already preparing scripts if in the event this actually happens.

SEE: France Electricity Networks Says Country May Have To Forgo Power For Several Hours During The Winter Because Of Energy Crisis

According to a report by The Guardian last week, the outlet “has seen” these scripts, though The Guardian never explains how they obtained or saw a glimpse of them.

Be that is it may, the English outlet says that these scripts are only designed to be aired to residents in the United Kingdom and nowhere else, including Ireland – which operates on a separate grid system.

The Guardian described some of the details of these preplanned broadcasts, writing:

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The public would be advised to use car radios or battery-powered receivers to listen to emergency broadcasts on FM and long-wave frequencies usually reserved for Radio 2 and Radio 4.

One draft BBC script warns that a blackout could last for up to two days, with hospitals and police placed under “extreme pressure”.

The government has said it’s hoped power will be restored in the next 36 to 48 hours. Different parts of Britain will start to receive intermittent supplies before then.

Another says

It is understood they were written by BBC journalists as part of routine emergency planning to deal with hypothetical scenarios. They include local details for the different regions and nations of Britain.

In a national emergency, the BBC has a formal role in helping to spread information across the country, as part of the government’s civil contingencies planning. The broadcaster’s governance framework states:

If it appears to any UK government minister that an emergency has arisen, that minister may request that the BBC broadcast or otherwise distribute any announcement or other programme.

The government works with the BBC as part of its emergency planning process, although it is unclear whether it had any input on these scripts. A spokesperson said:

The government is confident that this is not a scenario we will face this winter.

The BBC said it did not comment on its emergency broadcasting plans.

Ministers have been at pains to reassure businesses and householders that blackouts are unlikely. However, National Grid, which oversees electricity supplies in Great Britain, has issued a rare warning that power supplies could be at risk. The organisation said that in a worst-case scenario it could order planned blackouts for up to three hours a day if Russia cuts off all gas supplies to Europe.

On Monday, National Grid’s chief executive, John Pettigrew, went further and said that if everything that could possibly go wrong did go wrong, there could be rolling blackouts between 4pm and 7pm on “really, really cold” days in January and February, when wind speeds are too low to power turbines.

The BBC’s draft scenario suggests that in a national blackout it would run a greatly reduced temporary radio service from the UK’s emergency broadcasting centre, called the EBC, based in a rural location not acknowledged by the BBC.

This would provide half-hourly news bulletins on Radio 4’s FM and long-wave frequencies and a “music service”, with news updates on the FM spectrum used by Radio 2.

One scenario used in some of the scripts assumes that mains electricity is available in only a few lightly populated parts of Scotland – the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, and some parts of the Highlands.

The draft scripts for on-air news bulletins include space for a quote from a Cabinet Office minister, given the fictitious name Jose Riera.

The scripts report that these blackouts would affect gas supply systems, and knock out mobile phone networks, cashpoints and internet access. Traffic lights would stop working, causing disruption on the roads.

One script, written for a hypothetical news bulletin, warns:

The emergency services are under extreme pressure. People are being advised not to contact them unless absolutely necessary.

It states that in Wales an emergency coordination centre has been set up, while in Scotland the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is chairing the devolved government’s emergency planning meeting. It adds:

Officials are saying there is no current risk to food supply and distribution. But they’re asking people to look out for vulnerable neighbours and relatives.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[27] An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. [28] A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. [29] A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. [30] He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 16:27-30

As I noted in the intro, The Guardian claims to have seen these scripts, but they do not leak the entirety of these scripts, neither do they give us access to them. All in all, The Guardian, BBC, and others, all working in concert together to fearmonger some more, obviously.

More predictive programming as usual. More fake news as usual.

The way the world works is simple: the whole world is a stage, the media and politicians are professional liars and bootlickers; and these elites who tell them what to do have a metaphorical deck of cards or filing cabinet full of evil schemes they could unleash, ready in place to use whenever they need to use them. These scripts – if they are even real – are an example of that.

Whether they happen or not, I would prepare and act like they will. If not you lose nothing; but if you are caught napping, then it will not be well, needless to say.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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