A HEARTENING rebuttal of the demented drive for ‘inexperienced’ vitality has come from former Brexit minister Lord Frost – a distinguished supporter of Liz Truss.
He says the Authorities ought to cease specializing in ‘medieval know-how’ similar to wind energy and stop selling ‘unsatisfactory’ electrical automobiles.
In a paper for the Coverage Change think-tank, reported within the Instances, Lord Frost says present proof doesn’t present we face a local weather emergency and the Authorities must cease ‘hectoring’ folks to make sacrifices to save lots of the planet.
‘We’re advised to cease travelling, dwell native, eat much less, cease consuming meat, flip our lights out and customarily to cease being a burden,’ he writes. ‘As most of us are typically reluctant to do that as people, the state has needed to step in, with sensible meters, warmth pumps, unsatisfactory electrical automobiles, tailor-made taxation measures, and “nudges”. Dissent, if not not possible, is probably pricey to a person’s social and financial prospects.’
Lord Frost, who resigned from the Authorities final yr, is tipped for a comeback ought to Truss grow to be Prime Minister, presumably as her Downing Road chief of workers.
If that’s the case, let’s hope she listens to this refreshing clarion name of widespread sense as an alternative of craven virtue-signalling from one of many massive beasts of Whitehall – and begins to drag again from Boris Johnson’s Web Zero insanity.
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