Sunak’s decisions show common sense

AT last some common sense coming out of No 10. Could it be that a sense of reality has finally returned?

Extending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars till 2035 gives Britain a bit more breathing space to adjust to a greener world. The EU took this same decision over six months ago without all the fuss.

Likewise the scrapping of the plan to rip out gas boilers in favour of extortionately priced heat pumps by 2035 is a most welcome relief for those who would also struggle to find the funds to comply.

I have no argument with those who wish for a greener Britain but there is no point in bankrupting the majority of the population to achieve this. There is no point in jumping off a cliff edge when there is a safer pathway down to reach the destination but takes a bit longer.

Naturally the liberal left and the Labour Party as well as the unelected Blob of Whitehall will be up in arms at this logical move by Mr Sunak, but must be relieved that this bold decision has been taken out of their hands.

Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to reverse this if he is elected to power at the next election, but past experience tells us he won’t. Tony Blair, with all his years in office with a handsome majority, never contemplated reversing

Mrs Thatcher’s laws on secondary picketing and other trade union restrictions, the selling of council houses or the privatisation of the utilities or railways because he preferred to let the Conservatives do his ‘dirty work’ for him. Love him or loathe him, he was a pragmatist.

Sir Keir Starmer, if ever elected by a hoodwinked population, would sit on his hands in the same way despite all his rhetoric. But on balance I fear that, like a marionette, his strings will be being pulled by the Whitehall Blob and the top union barons. Beware what you wish for – a dream could become a nightmare.

Edward Kynaston Lydney, Gloucestershire