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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One of the first questions (because it is the biggest cause of the cost of living crisis) the Conservative Party membership will ask is: where does each candidate stand on net zero?
It will be very interesting to detect the foot shuffling, hand wringing, averted gaze, equivocations, of the various candidates on this matter.
And the simple untruths. Candidates will claim what their audience want sto hear but vote according to convenience in Parliament to avoid upsetting their staff, other MPs and the MSM.
I’m waiting for the various candidates to parrot the WEF line “Build Back Better.” That will be the clearest indication possible that the only thing which has changed is the face of the puppet.
Net Zero is a scam from top to bottom, a mechanism to make the populace fearful and therefore more likely to accept extra taxes to “solve the problem”, the proceed of which then finds its way into the pockets of crooks and their mates in the corridors of power. Crony Capitalism. Corrupt transfer of wealth from the many to the few. Doesn’t matter what colour the “government” is, they’re all the same. They get power because they want to control YOU. End of story.
Same can be said of The Deadly Virus. Obviously. But then everyone here knows this.
Although there are lots of sheep out there following the mantra of climate emergency, many quite genuinely, the guys at the top driving all this stuff know its a load of hogwash. I’ve spoken to so many people who have said, ‘if only Boris would drop Nett Zero…Carrie this, Carrie that etc, etc’. We’ll he wouldn’t, he couldn’t. That decision is taken much higher than Prime Minister. Once you see the lie, and then you see the other lies, you finally realise that there is just one big lie. Its not going to end well, and we’re not on the good side.
Cui bono?!
Provides the answer to this and almost every other question and folly.
Well it isn’t me who bono from net zero
And I don’t like Bono, eithers
Off piste is where we go
Renegades, true disbelievers
(Lines 2 and 4 rhyme if you use Cockney)
Well if the polls are to be believed, cuddly Ben Wallace is favourite.
No one has heard of him which probably the point.
He may not be a warmtard but he’s a devout covidian and warmonger who called Brexiteers clowns.
I take it the Conservative party membership won’t be given a chance to choose anyone half way sensible (Chope Redwood Brady McVey Bone etc.)
I would have included Owen Paterson too but they’ve got him already…
I cut up my membership card, and tweeted a video of the process, explaining exactly why, but then I got banned from Twitter. And no, I didn’t renew.
I do not believe there is a majority in Parliament to overturn the Climate Change Act. Even if there was, they would not dare to take on the blob, the array of financially interested academics and the MSM who continue to bay for ever more action on the theory of man made global warming (or, as they now chose to term in, climate change).
The most ruinously expensive legislation in UK history. Until the covid1984 shambles. I suppose nothing will be done until millions of us “waste” our vote like in 2015. Or am I being too optimistic?
No disrespect to Dr John Fernley, but I think anyone who thinks that the British Prime Minister has the power to go against global climate change policy should be automatically excluded from writing for the DS for being too naive.
Next we’ll have someone writing that the next PM should revoke the emergency authorisation of Covid jabs on the grounds that their safety record is not good enough.
“Realistically, the world will make more progress in reducing CO2 emissions if green technologies improve.”
This one sentence destroys the whole case.
What a plonker!
No attempt from the downticker to counter my statement. It is beginning to look more and more like a state employee, 99.9 % of which are sad firkers.
Aye. This retired scientist is a halfway-houser. Direction of travel…hydrogen…mini nukes. He has lost the argument before he starts. Better to go straight to the heart of the problem. CO2 follows temperature so cannot be the main driver of climate change.
https://www.history-of-geo-and-space-sciences.net/2021-05-26_hgss-2021-1_latest-version-of-the-manuscript.pdf
From low concentrations you get a bit of warming but the effect wanes and reaches a saturation point at current levels.
https://clintel.org/the-greenhouse-effect-summary-of-the-happer-and-van-wijngaarden-paper/
Furthermore, since CO2 is food, decarbonisation is one of the most evil things peopls can propose.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
The next Tory leader appointment has got to be the right. Its more crucial than ever they get this correct. If they don’t get it right they are going to lose millions of voters. Personally I doubt if I would ever vote for a main stream party again, and I believe there are many Ex-Tory voters, rather than Ex-Labour voters, who are on the verge of a similar decision. I think this is make or break for the Tories, and if they get it wrong, it will be curtains for them, at least for the next 5-10 years.
If the Conservative Party even so much as mentions ” Net Zero ” , their vote base will collapse. Remember, the last PM. We will be the “Saudi Arabia of wind”. I’m a fully qualified engineer and the political class are as normal; deluded.
True, but the political class are bought and paid for by megalomaniacs who have created this nonsense so they can enslave the western population. Check out what’s happening in the Netherlands around Nitrogen. The guy who has driven the bill through parliament is brother to a man whose farming empire has just had £600m invested in it by none other than Bill Gate. We are miles beyond being able to dismiss this whole thing as a conspiracy theory.
Our wind will last forever.
Saudi Arabia’s oil will not.
Interesting, to some extent. Note that “green hydrogen” is a storage medium for electricity generated by renewables. If it is only used for surplus output from the latter, it might be reasonable – but it is not exactly efficient. Compared with direct use of the electric output from anything (such as electric traction on a railway), it’s crap – roughly 30% thermal at best? Then there are costs to do with it’s storage and physical transmission.
There are some manufacturers promoting the use of hydrogen as a short term storage mechanism for some railway rolling stock, using fuel cells to release the power as required, but presently a lot of hydrogen is a by-product of other things, extracted from methane (‘natural gas’), from firms like Air Products. I think “blue hydrogen” is the moniker for the output via that route.
Indeed. Horrible hydrogen. Since there is nothing wrong with co2 there is pretty much no need.
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2020/06/Hydrogen-Fuel.pdf
Agreed. In most use cases hydrogen as an energy storage medium is silly. Direct use, or batteries make much more sense.
I’m puzzled as to why railway operators think H is the solution. They argue that some parts of the rail network are hard to electrify, so why not use batteries on trains to bridge these gaps?
The most absurd statement any politician has ever said came from the mouth of this roaring arsehole last year. In front of group of young children in Glasgow he referred to the first steam engine as “the doomsday machine.”
As another reminder for anyone whose friends or relatives still think net zero is a ‘good idea’ here what this three trillion pound scam is going to cost in actual stuff:
-636 missions to Mars.
-The cost of an Uber journey across our entire solar system and back.
-3 million KLFs with 3 million furnaces.
-6000 brand new hospitals with free parking.
-16 million fully trained NHS nurses for ten years.
– 6 million fully trained police officers for ten years.
-12 million ambulances.
-750 million ICU ventilators.
-24.8 million affordable homes or social housing.
-Free university education for 60 million students.
-A cheap briefcase containing £100,000 cash for every household in the UK.
-200 billion clean water tanks in Sudan.
-500 billion plastic taps in Sierra Leone.
-60 billion hand washing stations in Mozambique.
-3 trillion pounds towards cyber and physical defence against attacks by our enemies.
-3 trillion pounds towards recycling and cleaning our oceans of plastic waste.
-3 trillion pounds towards protecting elephants, tigers, rhinos, whales and many other rare and endangered species across the world.
-3 trillion pounds towards finding a cure for Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Altzheimers, Malaria or any other devastating disease you can think of.
Climate change is a trillion dollar a year business, all funded through western countries tax revenues. Too many people rely on this for income. Too many entrepreneurs, elite politicians, NGOs, media & climate scientists are making millions from this. Until western countries shut down this funding, this wave of abuse will continue.
Getting shot of Princess Nut Nuts will be a good first step in stopping the Net Zero nonsense
“the more CO2 emitted the more the Earth will warm – but the magnitude of any temperature rise is highly uncertain”
– which is exactly why we should reduce GHG emissions as quickly as possible. Playing the Lottery is fine but Russian roulette is not.
If we get this wrong, having to rapidly suck GHGs from the atmosphere will be horribly expensive and be absolutely no fun at all.
Fossil fuels are finite (the supply is limited so they will run out) so we must make the switch to renewables at some point. Let’s not wait until we are forced to.