Rishi Sunak’s popularity among Tory members has surged in the wake of his watering down of Net Zero targets, a survey has found. The Telegraph has the story.
The Prime Minister’s satisfaction rating among the Conservative grassroots has risen out of negative territory to become the eighth-most popular member of Cabinet.
He had placed seventh from bottom last month, having sunk to his lowest approval rating among the membership since taking office.
Mr Sunak was polling at –3.8 ahead of Parliament returning from summer recess, but now sits at +25.8 points.
His popularity bounce comes after he announced a delay to a raft of Net Zero targets, including pushing back the ban on new petrol car sales to 2035.
He still remains behind Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, and James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary. They have all remained in the top five Cabinet members for the party’s grassroots.
Kemi Badenoch, the Trade Secretary, came top of the ConservativeHome website’s Cabinet League Table for the second time in a month, leading with a net satisfaction score of +59 percentage points.
The Prime Minister’s popularity had previously rebounded following the Conservative victory in Uxbridge in July, a by-election widely seen as a referendum on the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to outer London.
Mr. Sunak also watered down the ban on new oil boiler sales from 2026 to 2035 during his Net Zero speech last Wednesday, in which he promised a “brave new approach to politics”.
He also increased heat pump grants and promised not to introduce taxes to discourage meat eating or flying.
The latest Cabinet rankings come ahead of the Conservative Party Conference taking place this weekend, the first that Mr. Sunak will attend as Prime Minister.
He is expected to use the conference to announce a new “plan for motorists”, in which he will block councils from introducing new 20mph zones and scale back low-traffic neighbourhoods.
With the Tories also recovering a little in the polls, will Sunak now learn the right lessons and look at how much further he can go in rolling back the alarmist climate measures? Or is it really just a little morsel of red meat ahead of an election year?
In truth, though, with Net Zero by 2050 still locked in by legislation and a Labour party stuffed with climate fanatics like Ed Miliband looking likely to come to power next year, it all feels like too little too late.
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Summit of the Futile.
One would hope that the human desire for the pursuit of happiness would win out in the end, but I think we’re in a downward spiral in our lifetimes.
You can control some of the people some of the time, but you cannot control all of the people all of the time. ———This has to be the message we steal from Abraham Lincoln and apply to the tyranny of today.
I ‘enjoyed’ reading this.
My only concern is how technology has changed how ‘leaders’ now can control the systems, making it harder to non-comply.
And whilst they are playing their ‘future’-games, a lot of harm will be done to the individual.
The real control mechanism is the welfare state (cradle to the grave) – once they had control of our health, education, and social ‘security’ – we were all bought and paid for, propagandised, controlled and manipulated into serfdom to the governing elite.
Technology is actually a means of resistance.
Summit of the Tyrants and Psychopaths.
Defund the UN and WHO.
End the farce.
They are just the tip of the iceberg – there are hundreds of other international bodies, organisations we don’t see all part of the nexus of control.
That would make an excellent poster.
What are the tractor production figures?
Just asking so I know when they miss them.
1.5 million houses.
I too enjoyed reading this. However the first appeal to authority – that of a deity, is followed and believed by quite a number, a growing number of inhabitants of this continent. “The first puts ultimate authority in God, from whom all other forms of authority derive; this is the position of the medieval scholastics” and can be argued to be also a possibility in the near “future”? I would be very interested to read Dr. McGrogan’s refutation of that possible scenario.
Yes great article. ——“A Sustainable Future” = A world run by communist technocrats at the UN controlling of the world’s wealth, resources and YOU. ——Except I do not recall voting for any of these people, do you?
The main underlying characteristic of these elite goals and aspirations is that nothing is measurable and so, like everything else at the UN, there is zero accountability. The UN theme should simply be ” Keep the cash coming fools” and be done with all the posturing.
““to protect the needs and interests of present and future generations”
Like the future generations that were booted out of their farms in the Netherlands for the Climate Agenda. Some farming generations went back over a century, what about the future of those kids you cun*s. There are plenty more examples from all walks of life that are under threat from these Globalist psychopaths.
There will be only one way to stop this.
Sooner or later people – the majority – had better understand that, or simply acquiesce and become slaves.
correction … This all stems from yet another deluded pipedream of world communism dreamed up in 2021 by the current UN Secretary-General Comrade Ayatollah Antonio Guterres, called Our Communist Agenda.
I think this is one the most hopeful essays I’ve yet read about today’s dystopia because it carefully shows how eventually (maybe not in my lifetime) the current (western) “world government” may come to an end (perhaps to be replaced by another dystopia, but let’s not cross bridges until we come them). And Dr Grogan’s essay demonstrates how it may be effective that everyone who has a voice – however small your voice may be – can play their part in preventing – or ending – the tyrannies (of #netzero, #woke and #pandemic, etc.) under which we live by spreading the truth – as each of us see it – and to participate in debate, to voice (reasoned) opinions, and to keep going. As with Bob Marley’s “Small axe fall big tree”.