Sir,
Since 2004, UK industrial electricity costs have risen by more than 160% and are becoming increasingly un-competitive, driving energy intensive businesses abroad, to countries where they often cause more CO2 emissions than before.
Now Stanley Johnson and Liam Fox (according to a report in the DT on 07-06-21) want to further penalise those who import goods from such countries – which have already taken U.K. jobs – because of their high CO2 emissions. So the long suffering British consumer is to be hit again by import prices, inflated by Carbon Border Tariffs, to give another twist to fuel poverty in the U.K.
Those gentlemen are burnishing their green credentials at enormous expense to us and our children – when they must already know that the total cost of the government’s 2050 zero carbon target is estimated at £100,000 per family. Which of their constituents would vote for that, knowing that the U.K. only emits around 1% of global human CO2 emissions? Why should we pay for their evangelism?
Respectfully, Roger Arthur
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Sir,
We’re all aware that ‘conspiracy theories’ are bad – even when they turn out to have been spot-on, as in the current reports in the MSM about the ‘Wuhan Lab Escape’ of the SARS-2 covid virus. However, anyone who has followed the recent and latest reports about illegal immigrants crossing the Channel must surely wonder why it is that the Home Secretary Ms Patel is so manifestly unable to get to grips with this.
Her Border Force collaborates – and collaborated – with the French to ‘rescue’ those illegals and shepherd them to our shores. It’s not new, Nigel Farage has made videos about this a year ago already. Nothing but hot air came from Ms Patel’s Home office then, and nothing is coming now.
Never mind that allegedly she is talking to her French counterpart. Never mind that Boris Johnson is talking to Emmanuel Macron “about the “concerning rise” in Channel crossings by migrants and the need for both countries to “deter [them] from attempting this perilous journey”, as the DT reported yesterday (here).
It looks as if the mighty in Paris and London are simply talking for talking’s sake while the EU is refusing to accept those illegals who have been shown to have made false asylum claims. This means that none of those 1,500+ who came last year have been deported as they ought to have been: EU ‘safe countries’ from which they came – that’s France, mainly – simply don’t take them back.
Is this yet another way where Brussels is ‘punishing’ us for Brexit or would that statement be a conspiracy theory? Given that Johnson and Macron talk to each other I do wonder if they actually want to achieve something or if they’re happy to keep this people trafficking going – for reasons which we can only guess at.
Respectfully, Jack Russell
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Sir,
During this covid year it became manifest for me that on the one hand government claims to ‘follow the science’, with graphs and numbers of cases, deaths and hospitalisations. On the other hand it became clear that the government and SAGE simply don’t trust us when we say we aren’t ill. Thus they demand incessantly that we get tested. Thus the still current attempts to create a ‘vaccine passport’, and if not an official one form the government then the unofficial ones created by dating apps, as we read about yesterday.
It is strange that these dating apps don’t demand actual proof but rely on the say-so of their customers. It seems to me that ‘following the science’ and providing factual proof isn’t necessary when this dating app and other covid claims are being pushed by the MSM. The latest is a hilarious report in the Daily Mail where ‘scientists’ have discovered that people who claimed to be vegetarians or ‘pescatarians’ experienced less severe covid symptoms. The report which you can read here then says that this earth-shattering finding was based on ‘self-reported observations’. I’m sorry but that’s not scientific! It is however a nice try by those who want us to become grass-eaters to ‘save the planet’ to scare us into changing our diet by using ‘covid’ as argument.
Since the PM, Boris Johnson, is hell-bent on making us all go green, and since we’ll surely be told next to save the NHS again by losing weight, is this going to be the next ‘follow the science’ argument to make us accept that new normal where government tells us what to eat and how to live? I’m disgusted.
Respectfully, Irene Catto
Roger Arthur’s letter
The virtue signalling of Stanley Johnson & Liam Fox over carbon dioxide “pollution” begs the question as to how much of a threat carbon dioxide & global warming really are to life on earth.
Carbon dioxide, which we are told drives global warming, is only 0.04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere by volume. And of this 0.04 percent CO2, 95 percent comes from natural sources, such as volcanoes or organic decay. Thus the human supply of CO2 content to the earth’s atmosphere amounts to only 0.002 percent.
Five hundred million years ago the portion of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere was twenty times more than today, with a climate ten degrees centigrade warmer, yet life on earth went on. How strange.
The theory behind the claim of global warming has been comprehensively trashed but it suits the globalist / government agenda so they simply carry on regardless. Worryingly people believe them although perhaps we have to forgive the recently educated who have been indoctrinated but only until they grow up and, hopefully, think for themselves.
I wish Jack but remember, not only have the young been indoctrinated, they have been taught to repeat parrot fashion, not to think for themselves.
(Sorry parrots. I realise you are clever to do it. It gets you what you want!)
Ralph. It’s nonsense of course, but it’s worrying. What are they really after? Is it sucking up to the present Leader who apparently believes the nonsense?
So, what are you-all gonna DO about it?
Never, ever vote for an establishment party?
Miz Patel is not in charge of the Home Office. She has almost no control of the people in the Home Office. Politicians do not employ etc the Civil Service. The Queen does. Thank goodness ( Perhaps )( I think ) … All that policians do is make Laws etc. The Civil Service should ( But thereis far too much slack.) execute these laws and police them. The Home Office has been out of control for 80 years, and bites back at the hands.
I agree T.G.S. The Home Office is out of control. IT is controlling the Home Secretary.
The civil service has so many servants that they can always run rings around any politician that wants to take them on. Meanwhile the Cabinet Office controls the departmental civil servants, thus bypassing the minister responsible. Priti has probably recognised that she has no chance – her mistake is to carry on regardless and lose all vestige of trust – not that the trust of the people matters these days . . .
When will we wake up to the fact that the Civil Service is the government and the ministers and MPs just so much window-dressing? Trouble is that we would then have the problem of what to do about it, and people don’t like problems that they think they cannot address.
The buck stops with the PM not the civil service and a PM with an 80 seat majority has, if he chooses to use it, one hell of a buck. But I expected all of this mischief, incompetence and spineless dithering from the Fat Boy – he is an establishment Tory to the top of his fly.
When John Reid was Home Secretary he is reputed to have said the a Home Office was not fit for purpose.
I don’t recall his ever explaining exactly what was wrong with it.
But having seen TGS’s comment and other comments, perhaps I do see what he means about 80 years..
Since there is a belief that Civil Sepents run their ministers and the country thereby, perhaps there are more departments still and perhaps never have been “fit for purpose” ( I am thinking particularly of the Foreign Office and the Falklands
Anyone who expected any different from The Fat Boy is living in fairy land.
Roger Arthur:
Boris is clearly subservient to the UN and its Global Compact for Migration; even though said to be not legally binding, he is seeking Brownie points at the upcoming WEF meeting. He lost all loyalty to the British people soon after the election (if he really had any in the first place) and is clearly one of our enemy within.