Climate hot air is just plane crazy

EVERYBODY is getting excited about COP26. I just don’t understand why a bunch of politicians from all over the world, apparently concerned about the environment, are flying into Britain on big jets with huge entourages.

They don’t sound that concerned to me. If anything, quite the opposite. They could have done this all on Zoom. And, to be honest, with all this talk about having to get rid of your gas boiler and your car, wearing old clothes and becoming a vegetarian, it doesn’t sound like the kind of world most people would want to live in.

I know lots of people pay lip service to the whole climate fiasco and tell other people how to live their lives but don’t do it themselves. Now, before you call me a climate change denier, I can assure you I’m not.

I know the climate is changing and whatever we do it will continue to change. We can clean the planet up and I implore all of us to buy less single-use plastic, create less mess and stop building on floodplains.

But it is utterly wrong to look up to these nutcases who block up the motorways. As for this rubbish about carbon neutral, it isn’t going to happen, whatever anyone thinks – particularly not when the so-called leaders of the world fly in to Britain, polluting everything without a care in the world.

A RETAIL boss in London is posing the question: should those with new pet dogs get Pawternity leave? For reasons yet to be discovered, they have carried out a survey to find out if staff should be given time off to look after a new puppy.

Personally, I think it’s a great idea.Why hasn’t anyone come up with it before? Let’s face it: most people seem to be able to work from home now. I do most of the time. The only people I’m concerned about, who always seem to have an excuse about doing no work at all, are civil servants.

They are a class apart who think they run the country, and sometimes probably do, but many have not been seen in their offices for over a year.

And, seeing that we pay them, maybe it’s now time to tighten the purse strings. So no Pawternity leave for them.