News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Ed Miliband is reportedly set to end new drilling in the North Sea and the cost of Net Zero is projected to run into the hundreds of billions. The scene is being set for the failures that could bring down the Government.
Ed Miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea – overruling his own officials and risking triggering a wave of legal action.
Keir Starmer has been accused of dragging Britain back "to the dark ages" by risking a £4.5 billion hole in public finances with Labour's ban on new North Sea oil and gas.
Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy made by ex-PM Jacinda Ardern amid blackout fears.
"North Sea oil workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero," the Unite union has told Labour as it launches a campaign against the party's "irresponsible" green agenda.
The expensive and dangerous folly of more than two decades of UK climate policy has been laid bare by the Offshore Energies UK's new data on Britain's energy production, says Ben Pile.
In the King's Speech the Government confirmed plans for mandatory annual oil and gas licensing rounds, but measures to stop anti-car schemes like Ulez were missing.
Fears that Rishi Sunak's recent watering down of green targets will economically harm the U.K. are unfounded, says Ross Clark. If anything, it will do the opposite.
Labour thumping victory over the SNP in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election was achieved in part by backing off from Net Zero policies, the war on the motorist and gender woo.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Costa Coffee's trans virtue-signalling, Andrew Neil becoming a TERF and Gina Miller's debanking (a wake-up call for Remainers who thought they were safe).
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