As Zac Goldsmith resigns over the supposed “apathy” of the Government on environmental issues (yes, really), Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph says it just goes to show that there’s no pleasing the Net Zero extremists. Here’s an excerpt.
The resignation of Zac Goldsmith, prompted by the Government’s supposed “apathy” on environmental issues, should teach Rishi Sunak a salient lesson.
The Tory peer quit his role as a Foreign Office minister, claiming the U.K. had “stepped off the world stage” on climate and nature, adding: “Too often we are simply absent from key international fora.” Because that’s exactly what the world needs right now – VIPs flocking by private jet to more fora on flora and fauna.
As one of Boris Johnson’s closest allies, there was undoubtedly more to his dramatic sayonara than green concerns. You do not need to be Poirot to work out the hidden meaning in his suggestion that “having been able to get so much done previously, I have struggled to even hold the line in recent months. The problem is not that the Government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our Prime Minister, are simply uninterested”.
It is no secret that Johnson and his supporters despise Sunak and will do everything in their power to undermine him between now and the next general election after ‘Big Dog’ was forced out of the Commons kennel over partygate. But what Goldsmith’s resignation letter proves is that there is no pleasing the environmental extremists of this world – or any extremist, for that matter.
The Conservatives have been bending over backwards to meet a Net Zero target that is seemingly anathema to many of its own supporters, yet still those such as Goldsmith, like overgrown Greta Thunbergs, are bleating on about doing more.
It’s not enough for the likes of this entitled Old Etonian that we should be stripped of our right to drive petrol and diesel cars come 2030, or forced to replace our gas boilers with expensive heat pumps. He won’t be satisfied until wind farms have taken over the entire British Isles and we’re all commuting by eco-scooter – regardless of the crippling cost to the U.K. taxpayer – while other nations build more CO2-belching coal-fired power stations.
Goldsmith (net worth: an estimated £300 million) might not be affected by the £170 green levy that has just been slapped on our energy bills, but sadly that’s not the case for many Brits who, until yesterday, paid his wages. When he talks of a kind of “paralysis” in Whitehall is he aware there is a cost of living crisis, or is he too busy auditioning to replace Chris Packham on Springwatch?
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Gibt man jemand den kleinen Finger, dann will er die ganze Hand.
German proverb, If you give a finger to someone he’ll want your hand next. The old non-white men at the UN want Net Zero to be pulled forward by ten years because all their past predictions were wrong. Should the government commit to that, they’ll want 2030 next and then, 2025. And that’s all just code language for We want more money!, a demand which can inherently never be met.
I think, as awareness grows that there isn’t an emergency, clinging to that line makes them more and more ridiculous. We know it, they know it. All they can do is to try and move faster and faster to complete the plan before we cross the line of critical mass of cognisance in the citizens. Its a race to the line, but we’re winning…
I have a question.
Who is this toff? Why is he a peer? What exactly has this guy accomplished in his life, what makes him so special, that he should have a lifetime position making laws that affect me?
I have just lost all respect for our system.
It was.ok when we were left.alone and could lead our lives as we wished. It didn’t really matter who these people were. The problem is that these people now think they have a right to lord it over us.
Here’s an idea, Zac, whoever the hell you are. Piss off, live your life how you want and let us do the same.
“I have just lost all respect for our system.’
What took you so long?
Just = simply, not just now.
The day they locked us down I realised how wrong I was about many things and our system was not what I had assumed.
You didn’t get suspicious when immigration quintupled after cottager Blair?
I think, for me, there was always a very Western presumption that there was a limit to how corrupt and stupid our politicians could be. Lockdowns smashed that presumption and made us realise that they are no better than any other banana republic dictatorship.
Isn’t he the man that lost the London Mayoral election to Sadiq Khan a few years ago? Thank goodness he did. He might well have been worse than Khan.
“worse than Khan” – impossible.
I moved back to London at the tail end of Livingstone’s regime (lots of stabbings going on) was there for all of Al ‘Boris’ Johnson’s era and the beginning of Khan’s regime. It goes to show that most of Johnson’s era was a pretty good one in terms of the ‘feel’ of London. Johnson was a perfect Mayor of London, playing a buffoonish cartoonish character to promote the city around the world while appointing other people to administer the place.
When Khan arrived, it was all diktats, banning images of attractive women on advertising hoardings and playing up to activist organisations. By the time I left in 2019, I’d come to despise the place. I suspect Goldsmith would have been more activist too, probably in a different way, but I bet he would have sanctioned the ULEZ nonsense too.
Yes, he claimed to be ‘pan-sexual’ or some nonsense to pander to the hedonist left wing Islingtonite crowd.
Do I take it that he will still want to remain as a peer and continue to be paid (by us taxpayers) for just turning up to the House of Lords? What good is this guy doing?? What is he contributing to help a better society??? I suppose I could easily ask the same question for many of our ‘politicians’. I hope and pray that society continues to wake up to the fact that this is all about control and not the climate/Covid/Ukraine/Weapons of mass destruction/hate speech etc.
Utopians like Goldsmith cannot tolerate anything other than the utopia they seek. There is no compromise, understanding nor reason in their position.
He’s surely a dystopian who expects to benefit from the dystopia he wants to inflict on the white gentiles
I don’t understand how he can call himself a Conservative when he appears to be completely the opposite?
Goldsmith is an oxygen thief.
He’s also a CO2 emitter!
We are getting rid of petrol and diesel. We are getting rid of coal and want rid of gas. We want to take the best central heating system we ever had (gas) that keeps us warm in a very cold winter and we want to replace it with basically anything that isn’t gas, whether it is any good or not. Grant Schapps was asked 3 weeks ago if heat pumps are as good as gas central heating and he relplied “I don’t know”. —————-WHAT? Is he f…ing insane? How can he not know? Him and his silly eco socialist government masquerading as conservatives want to get rid of the best ever heating system and fob you off with a heat pump that might not be any good? And the people just sit back and take it. ——-We are building thousands of wind turbines, and solar panels right left and centre. We are spending 30 billion on smart meters etc etc etc. ——Yet the blithering idiot Goldsmith says we are not doing enough. We have entered into NET ZERO with not a single question of cost/benefit asked and government have no idea if it can be achieved or even if the technologies required can ever be invented and we are prepared to impoverish people and force millions into energy poverty but that “Isn’t Enough” ??????????????????????. Maybe he would prefer if we sat with sack cloth on our heads and ate turnips cooked by candle light.
They won’t be happy until either we’re dead or back in the Middle Ages with us camping outside their castle walls freezing to death in our sack clothes whilst they Lord it up throwing chicken bones over their shoulders belching and farting as they go.
There is no climate crisis. Global warming is a contested theory. The climate change people are a political movement led by elites seeking power a control.