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?
Worth reading in full.
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