As the Labour Government prepares to deliver a Net Zero coup de grâce to the jobs and industries that made and make Britain, there are at last signs of industries and workers beginning to organise their own defence. But these overdue counters to the establishment’s green orthodoxy suffer from a failure to understand their enemy, which has always sought their destruction.
Introducing a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference last month, outgoing editor of the Spectator Fraser Nelson explained to the audience that he was unable to find any sponsors or speakers to represent the Government’s position in a debate called ‘Is the 2030 Net Zero target achievable?‘ “Mention the name Gary Smith and the line goes dead,” explained Nelson. Gary Smith is General Secretary of the GMB Union, and has maintained something of an opposition to Net Zero policies. As the new Government has increased the level of ambition in its own climate agenda, to include “clean power by 2030”, Smith has responded by increasing his level of criticism.
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