Britain’s families face paying hundreds of pounds more a year on food, flying and shipping costs to meet the net-zero emissions target by 2050, according to a new report. MailOnline has more.
The poorest tenth of households will pay an extra £80 each year by 2050 while the richest tenth will face a £400 annual bill to help sectors that currently have a low chance of hitting the Net Zero emissions target by this date.
The National Infrastructure Commission said the UK needs an industry to store the gases to help meet its pledge on carbon emissions – and taxpayers will have to spend up to £400million in the next decade to fund this.
However the executive agency added that the biggest polluting industries such as agriculture, shipping and aviation should make a £2billion-a-year contribution from 2030 – even if these costs are passed onto households.
The suggestion issued in a report provoked fury among consumer groups amid mounting concerns over how much Boris Johnson’s Net Zero commitments will end up costing hard-working families in the long run.
Among the organisations concerned about the costs involved is the TaxPayers’ Alliance, whose chief executive John O’Connell told MailOnline today: “The net zero target must not see working taxpayers landed with the bill.
“With the highest tax levels in 70 years, family finances are already strained and they cannot be expected to pay more for food, goods and travel. Ministers must promise to protect Brits from any green cost hikes.”
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“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive”.
Thomas Sowell
So, spending six-figure sums on diversity advisors has been effective – if we use the Covid vaccines definition of ‘effective’.
Imagine how much more discrimination of minority groups there would have been if six-figure sums on diversity advisors had not been spent.
That’s the way we’re supposed to look at things these days. Never mind that there were massively more Covid deaths after mass vaccination, compared with before, in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, as well as increases in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Turkey, it would have been so much worse if we imagine how even more massive the increase in Covid deaths would have been without the Covid vaccines. (The problem with anti-vaxxers is that they have no imagination.)
Congratulations to all the woke diversity advisors for their great success in preventing a massive increase in discrimination of minority groups – that’s an even greater level of success than the Covid vaccines.
“”the trust saw eight out of 13 assessed measures worsen.”” Maybe they should take a look at their measures and the measurement methodology.
What this evidence clearly proves is that more DEI staff are required. It’s not rocket science is it?
On double the pay.
Oh, most definitely. Quality shyte has to be paid for.
Sorry – couldn’t read the rest after ‘NHS’ and ‘Trust’ – laughing too much.
Is it really intended to reduce discrimination when people are encouraged to look for every possible difference and then treat it as an injustice? Working as intended.
There are obviously many ‘bullshit jobs’ which have been brought into being by the rise of the profesional managerial class. Just remember that this is imposture and they will be nothing in the horror to come. You will be surprised who remains steadfast and who turns out to be a turncoat. Don’t think about it. They will reveal themselves.
The woketards in the NHS are like the woketards in the Civil Service – going their own sweet way and ignoring (admittedly feeble) attempts by Government to stop their money wasting nonsense. Time for he who pays the piper to start calling the tune.
‘Woke’ diversity advisors’ will always find problems because if they said everything was ok then they would be out of a job.
Its what happened when Personnel became HR and then we saw the explosion in Health and Safety, led by ‘make a claim’ solicitors. All adding cost for deminishing returns.
The NHS never miss an opportunity to spend money on anything but frontline staff and equipment