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 crook Fauci.
Hopefully he’ll have plenty of more dealing with judges.
Yes hoping too.
I signed The Barrington Declaration early on, the writers were those scientists, who were both censored and devalued in both the US and verbally in our parliament by a in my view a shabby dishonest contribution by Matt Hancock . If this US court case is successful could this give weight to prosecutions here too please?
I do hope so.
Incidentally, there was a hilarious quip of the horrible former health secretary (and Sino Sunak supporter) on GB News’s Dan Wooton show tonight. And a comment also on GB News (Mark Steyn?) about the MHRA getting 90% of their funding from former pharaceutical companies. Do you think the Yellow Card figure for “vaccine” deaths might possibly be on the low side?
I should add that it should have been blindingly obvious to one and all that something was up when Oxford professor Carl Heneghan (who notably succeeded in stopping PHE from counting anyone who died who had ever tested positive for “covid” as a “covid” death in August 2020) started getting censored.
Yes thanks I will look need humour too.
And it is not just a tangled web it’s a mangled web of deceit and will need to be unpicked so those who enabled this authoritarian censorship can be exposed. That’s the start I hope please god.
And another interesting fact to remember is that beloved Patrick Vallance held £600,000 worth of Big Pharma shares at the start of the deluge of Covid nonsense.
It was asked, might there possibly be a tiny conflict of interest?
Oh no! How preposterous! How could you suggest such a thing! After all, he isn’t the man that chooses which brand of bioweapon that will be pushed in your arm!!
I wonder what his shares are worth today? In any case he has received a second knighthood for his efforts.
And he is just one of these shithouse rats.
I think it might be 86 rather than 90% but that’s beside the point. It’s why the MHRA is now an “enabler” rather than a “regulator” according to their boss.
Please, give credit where credit is due – crook and murderer.
Good. Let’s see if he perjures himself.
I guess that, sadly, the death penalty is not imposed on perjury.
Fauci is finding himself mat the centre of a few things which are going to be difficult to explain. I do hope he doesn’t commit suicide.
There is a small possibility of a heart attack. However, Fraudci is such an inveterate liar that perhaps he will convince his handlers that he will be able to lie his way out of this.
I know little of the US judicial system but fear that this Order will be appealed to death?
Big tobacco’s eventual demise (although they still make billions) was initially procured via Discovery/Inspection, but it took decades to nail the bastards.
Let us hope for swifter justice this time – but don’t hold your breath.
I find myself hoping that Fauci doesn’t die before this process is completed. I want him in an American jail.
An American friend & I have decided that public humiliation in the being pelted with rotten produce would be the best punishment for this egotistical maniac. She also wondered whether being pelted with loaded syringes would be taking it a tad too far…. But as she said, dreams are not yet censored