Rishi Sunak is putting Britain on a “path to ruin” with his pursuit of Net Zero targets, the leader of the Net Zero scrutiny group has warned, saying the Prime Minister must “wake up” and roll back damaging climate policies before it is too late. The Telegraph has more.
Craig Mackinlay accused the Prime Minister of overseeing a “shameful acceptance of decline” in the name of the green agenda.
The Chairman of the 50-strong Net Zero scrutiny group urged him to “wake up” and roll back damaging climate policies before it is too late.
His intervention, in an article for the Telegraph, comes as Mr. Sunak faces pressure from restless backbenchers on a number of fronts.
The Prime Minister has suffered several bruising rebellions on Net Zero, including one of the biggest of his premiership on electrical vehicle (EV) quotas.
He is set to face another mutiny within the next few weeks over plans to fine boiler companies that do not hit sales targets for heat pumps.
Mr. Mackinlay said the news that Grangemouth Refinery, in Falkirk, will close next year was the latest sign that green targets were backfiring.
Bosses at the plant – one of only six remaining in the U.K. – have announced it will be turned into an import terminal for gas with 400 jobs being lost.
“The rush to Net Zero presents a severe threat to industries that have long been the lifeblood of our economy,” Mr. Mackinlay wrote.
“This shameful acceptance of decline from a Conservative Government would previously have been unthinkable.
“We cannot burden industries with excessive costs that foreign competitors avoid, whilst expecting them to continue operating in the U.K.
“Nor can we recklessly pursue a transition to EVs by diktat, which ordinary consumers do not want, on the chimera of ‘green jobs’ tomorrow at the expense of real jobs today.
“Do we continue down this path to ruin? Or do we finally wake up and prioritise true British energy security?”
It is a rare recent intervention by Mr. Mackinlay, who is recovering after suffering from sepsis last year, which led to him being put into an induced coma.
He said the pursuit of climate targets has seen Britain “lumber ourselves with some of the world’s highest power costs whilst subsidising intermittent renewables”.
“Our attitude towards energy security has bordered on dangerous indifference,” he added, pointing to windfall taxes and the refusal to allow fracking.
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The cost of living in Britain is far too high because the government presides over an incompetent and bloated public sector. That means high taxes.
For the government then to think it ‘a good idea’ to subsidise ‘green (not really)’ energy and consequently raise taxes even further is just plain dumb. Where is the evidence that incontrovertibly supports this policy? Where is the detailed cost/benefit analysis?
Well said, Mr Mackinlay. They really are all doomed….and quite phenomenally dim!
LNG Import terminals.
The next American racket and weapon to weaken their competitors and get their energy intensive businesses to relocate there instead.
Glad they found some other useful idiots than just the Germans who fell for that one, especially in light of the recent export moraturium news, which just confirm that to anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=110286
Does anyone apart from me think ‘this shameful acceptance of decline’ is actually a deliberate strategy to destroy the UKs energy capability?
Literally everything this government (wilfully supported by the Unaparty) has done has been directed at this aim.
It is planned. Meanwhile,,Sunak and Hunt talk down the election clock in full knowledge Starmer will continue it.
He will be rewarded at DAVOS nowhere to be seen when things hit the fan.
Sunak and his pals are coining it from green ESG funds. British polticians are enemies of the people. Deliberately destroying our economy because they are actually not very practically bright
Oh they are “bright” enough. ——–This is not done by stupid people. It is done by people who do not work for the people or this country. They work for the International Community, the UN and WEF. ——They are traitors pandering to Malthusian Eco Socialism rather than their own citizens.
As I have said many, many times: everything makes sense if you understand that the objective is the destruction of European Christian civilisation.
…which it undoubtedly is.
Latest from Nigel Farage….’I think the 2nd & 3rd Lockdowns were devastating’. come again….So NF thinks the first was acceptable!
Farage is proving to be an annoying little tic that occasionally manages a worthwhile bite out of the Westminster body politic.
True…There are worse people on GBN:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOS–WufMlI
That channel seems to be run by a lunatic
Whoever downticked you is on the wrong site !
GB News will often have on Ross Clark etc and I think Chris Morrison and Andrew Montford have been on, and they will openly question radical climate policies and junk science. I would personally hope they go further than they do, as they often let the radicals like Jim Dale off the hook. Especially the morning hosts like Anne Diamond and Eamonn Holmes who know virtually nothing about the subject.
They have people from Net 0 Watch who make some good points about the costs vs benefits of Turbines. EV etc, but they don’t question the C02 baseless assumptions. They used to have Lembit Opek on who would make that case but he has not been on GBN for ages. Anyone would think they are controlled opposition. On another note, has anyone noticed when GBN interviews people they flash the screen in between takes, that must be annoying for people with epilepsy. There is a lot of that on adverts too.
We also have the leader of UKIP on a lot (Lois Perry) and she does not hold back. ——-Remember you will never see the likes of this on BBC or SKY. —-SKY NEWS even has its own “Climate Show”. ——-GB News gives viewers the opportunity to see that there is much more going on here than the official science presented by 95% of mainstream media, in the hope they will then investigate things for themselves.
Yes she is the new UKIP leader, and does question everything, hope she can give the party new life.
Perhaps we might forgive one lock down being done by people who never knew what they were doing but after that we cannot forgive anything.
“This shameful
acceptancepursuit of decline from a Conservative Government would previously have been unthinkable.”I believe Mr Mackinlay has misunderstood the intent behind Fishy’s world leading immiseration policies.
Notwithstanding the horrors of sepsis – hopefully not jab generated – perhaps if Mr Mackinlay and his 49 partners in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group had paid more attention when the Climate Change Act was nodded through without a murmur the country would not now be staring into an abyss.
Perhaps if Mr Mackinlay and colleagues had been doing the jobs they are so well paid for since they were elected we would not now be so broke and in debt.
Too little too late sunshine.
Mackinlay is right of course, but way too late. Was he one of the few who voted against Miliband’s Climate Change Act? Did he raise a peep when that buffoon of an energy minister was touring the country posing for photos of him blowing up coal power stations?
Defeating the green agenda, and net zero in particular, is (jointly with immigration) the most important challenge facing the Conservatives today, and they have come up short every time.
Good on him for having the courage to say what most people are thinking.
Sunak is a WEF stooge. Sub 50 seats for the Consocialists should wake them up. It’ll be too late then; though.
But where was Craig Mackinlay in 2019 when Net Zero was simply waved through Parliament and not a single question of cost or viability was asked? So why are this 50 strong “Net Zero Group” only asking questions NOW, after the horse has bolted and Net Zero is now firmly enshrined in law? What have they been doing for almost 5 years? —————So if we are going to continue down this “path to ruin” it is mostly down to people who sat in Parliament back in 2019 and kept their mouths firmly shut and their bums comfortably on seats. ——So suddenly it is the “Net Zero Scrutiny Group” that is finally waking up. It was the Prime Minister and the rest of the political class that have always been sleepwalking
Does McKinley really expect the cowardly, unquestioning, virtue-signalling lobby fodder who allowed the Establishment to destroy our economy and millions of lives over a Low Consequence Infectious Disease (see Kruger’s mea culpa) to stop the Establishment’s lunatic Net Zero project?
Parliament is the biggest herd of sheeple in the country.
Largest Fifth Column….Fight Russia?….Arm the public and I will join the fight to ‘sack’ Parliament.