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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The inference of this article is obvious, the elephant in the room.
Does that mean the excess cardiovascular deaths were not caused by climate change???!!!
From Bob Moran …
Lancet is blaming SADS on air pollution
(November 2022). https://bgr.com/science/study-claims-tiny-particles-in-the-air-can-cause-sudden-heart-attacks/
Clown world. Nothing to do with poison injections.
They think we are as idiotic as they are
Sceptic readers not but most of the population most definitely are unfortunately which is why they get away with the cr4p.
‘Nobody is blinder than the person who decides he does not want to see’
Dot to dot should be on the curriculum not enhanced maths
Bob Moran is a genius. He never fails to prove that a picture can say a thousand words.
That’s next week.
The guilty keep lying. One day, maybe soon maybe not so soon, they will run out of lies, or they will end up telling lies so big that even the sheeple will cotton on.
One can but live in hope!!!
“the Government could and should do better to get to the bottom of what is driving the excess in cardiovascular deaths. We’ll keep digging.”
Hilarious. Yes keep digging Carl, right underneath the giant Syringe shaped elephant. Maybe you’ll get to Australia and you can ask them what caused it.
Don’t look here……………………………………….look over here…
Carl,
You gaslight on plenty of TV and Radio shows. Regularly. Weekly in fact.
You know what is causing this just as much as I do – and I’m not a medical professional.
Why not compile the facts as you have them now and come out on TV and say there is strong indication/evidence that the excess deaths are caused by…….
…or will you keep the TV and Radio slots for as long as you can, not mention the unmentionable while the rest of us guess the correct answer and ask why all these super-experienced and super-educated medical professionals continue to be “baffled”.
There is real harm in the public being caused because of loss of confidence (more than now) in the medical profession because you/they will not call out the Emperors new clothes. We all see the nakedness.
Slowly slowly catchy monkey.
It’s a bit harsh to criticise a practitioner of ‘evidence based medicine’ for not resorting to speculation. CH and team are asking the government to provide the evidence required to form conclusions and then scrutinise that which is provided to test its reliability, that’s the difference between him and Dr Malhotra or Dr McCullough (neither of whom i’m criticising either, they just take a different approach).
I want to see these jabs exposed just as much as the next guy but it won’t be done by wild speculation.
I’d say we’re a bit past “speculation” at this point. It’s probably because he doesn’t want to risk jeopardising his job. Understandable but a shame because he, along with the likes of Malhotra, would have a heck of a lot of clout. No offence to Prof Heneghan but it does come off as cowardice. Don’t tell me he isn’t personally seeing evidence of vax harms first hand in his clinical practice. He’d also be in a position to establish the vax status of his patients.
I quite agree. We’re 2 years in. The time for speculation is long gone. Enough data the world over has been collected. The Prof has a duty of care both clinically and academically. It’s painfully obvious he’s dancing around the flaming obvious, all the while ignoring the Yellow Card system screaming the safety signal for anyone with zero letters behind their name to see. He’s failed in his duty to protect patients and inform the public and that’s a huge disappointment for someone so highly credentialed. He’d make one hell of an opponent for tptb and ally for others who’ve got the courage to speak up though. What a let down.
Swineflu Vaccine:- 1 adverse reaction in 100,000. Withdrawn
Rotashield Vaccine:- 20 adverse reactions in 100,000. Withdrawn
Covid mRNA Vaccine:- 125 adverse reactions in 100,000. Actively promoted.
(yet the AZ C19 Vaccine was quietly withdrawn with (less than??) 1/800 reaction rate)
Adverse reaction reporting is reputed to be only 1/10 of actual events?
That I would suggest is a very good starting point for any evidence based scientist and the medical profession to openly question the current “treatment” plan.
We all need to keep an open mind until there is clear evidence one way or another.
Those who claim the vaccines are causing many of the excess deaths need to explain why there haven’t been excess deaths in the highly vaccinated Nordic countries, at least up until July 2022:
“Between January 2020 and July 2022, Sweden’s age-standardised mortality rate was 4% lower than the five-year average. By contrast, Iceland’s was 3.9% lower, Denmark’s was 2.8% lower and Finland’s was 1.7% lower.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/04/sweden-did-better-than-its-neighbours/
Cholesterol…statins …a whole other can of worms…..40 million Americans are taking statins!
‘Our review of the literature indicates that statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD is not warranted for individuals on an LCD with elevated LDL-C who have achieved a low triglyceride/HDL ratio.’
‘….a person on an LCD with a nonatherogenic lipid profile (low TGs/high HDL-C) is more likely to experience the adverse effects of statins including an increased risk of new onset type 2 diabetes, an increase in fasting blood glucose in patients with and without diabetes, mitochondrial dysfunction, tendinopathy, myopathy, acute kidney injury/renal failure and cognitive deficits than benefits.
https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/Fulltext/2022/10000/Statin_therapy_is_not_warranted_for_a_person_with.14.aspx
Cognitive deficits?
‘……the study predicts that the number of people with dementia will go up in every country in the world, resulting in a near tripling in the global rate of dementia.’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00249-8/fulltext
Hmmm………
Great points Monro, and completely echoes what a long career in medicine has taught me.
A simple test of lipid subfractions (which splits LDL into 7 subtypes of which only some are atherogenic) as well as HDL and TG’s can stratify who may benefit from statins.
In my experience, few GP’s know of this test, such is the power of Big Pharma marketing.
The deleterious effects of the mRNA spike protein on the cardiovascular vascular system were theorised years ago – Sucharit Bhakdi – and on a biomolecular level this paper, particularly para. 10 :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
No doubt those to be tasked, lol, with looking at any causal relationship will be well aware of the above.
Maybe I’m stupid, but to my mind we have –
Excess deaths from CVE’s in highly vaxxed countries,
A temporal link with the mRNA vaccines,
Evidence of harmful effects on the immune system/CV system theorised in many papers written by independent experts in their appropriate fields and absence of any coherent rebuttal.
Instead all we do have is a deafening silence from the public face of the medical profession, government and the MSM.
Warning for the jabbed, CVE’s may just be the start of the problems. But no worries, those won’t be investigated either.
CVE’s may just be the start of the problems. But no worries, those won’t be investigated either.
Indeed. It makes me shudder, and I’m unstabbed.
Apologies, ref to above paper should have been to para 14 in as opposed to just para 10
Considering he’s Prof of Evidence Based Medicine, Dr Heneghan sure is reticent about mentioning the word “vaccine”. It’s always the same in his articles. Weird..
The usual suspects would like us to believe that it is. It would support the finances of the manufacturers. As one or two have mentioned Malhotra in their comments, it’s worth noting that he has his own point of view about the large scale use of statins.
Aseem Malhotra is not alone in his view of statins. The International Network of Statin Skeptics has thoroughly trashed the cholesterol/heart disease link but has faced the same stonewalling and denigration that coronavirus vaccine sceptics are now seeing. Statins do reduce cardiac risk, but only a tiny bit, and the effect is almost certainly because of an anti-inflammatory action and not anything to do with their cholesterol-lowering properties – look at the recent introductions which are even better at cholesterol-lowering but no better at reducing cardiac risk. So I think that blaming a (non-existent) reduction in statin prescriptions is ridiculous. As far as being over-cautious with blaming vaccines goes, I think this is wise, as the high vaccination levels run in parallel with the appearance of new virus variants such as Omicron, and it is far from clear yet whether the viral variants confer a differential cardiac risk. It’s also pointed out that the risk of inflammatory cardiac disease is still (probably) higher with infection than with vaccine. Nonetheless it makes more scientific sense to pause the vaccination programme while all of this is sorted than continue, at risk, until the evidence is totally clear-cut.
Dr John Campbell with an inmteresting video on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26zP0YhEdmg
All these heart attacks are due to anything and everything but the real cause – which we all know.
We need to start laughing at the professional liars in Public Health when they come out with such ridiculous statements.
Trying to argue with professional liars using facts doesn’t gain traction. Laughing at them will.
Not listing vaccines as a hypothetical cause to be investigated and quantified alongside e.g. ambulance delays, is in itself suspicious.