Boris goes green

HAVING understandably spent taxpayers’ money throughout the pandemic with an abandon that Jeremy Corbyn could only dream about, one would have thought that by this stage Boris would be concentrating on finalising all those post-Brexit trade deals, getting the economy going and paying off the debt. That’s what Tories do. Afraid not.

Instead he will be hosting the “COP26” climate change conference in Glasgow and is already imposing “climate levies” (otherwise known as stealth taxes) that are clobbering energy consumers and providers alike. For instance, UK gas prices are up 70 per cent this year and electric bills “inflated” by 25 per cent largely because of such “green taxes”. Result? Gas-supplying companies are consequently left with an unmanageable two per cent profit margin and are going bust. Manufacturers of CO2, vital for food production, have consequently ceased production. Result? Possible food shortages, power cuts, calls for nationalisation of gas suppliers who are liable to go bust and demands for government subsidies from the big firms. In other words more spending of money Boris hasn’t got.

As I write, the PM has reportedly “done a deal” to get CO2 manufacturing going again. At what cost? I dread to think. Yes, world gas prices are rising, so lobbing “green” taxes on top is pure posturing madness. The UK is already one of the lowest producers of climate-changing carbon emissions in the world. The answer is simple: scrap the “green” taxes and tackle the main polluters, like Communist China and the USA. Save the planet by all means Boris, but not at the cost of destroying the British economy. It would help if he remembered he’s supposed to be a Tory.