Well done on foreign aid, Keir – now ditch all the pretend green crap that’s fleecing hard-up workers of their cash

OUR government has been given a gigantic boot up the jacksie by our friends across the Pond.

And it seems to have knocked some sense into Starmer and Co.

GettyWell done on foreign aid, Keir – now ditch all the pretend green crap that’s fleecing hard-up workers of their cash[/caption]

GettyBelieving that wind turbines and new boilers in the UK will save the planet is an absurdity[/caption]

We’ll be spending less money on crackpot foreign aid schemes. And a lot more on the defence of our country.

That is exactly as it should be.

Sir Keir has suddenly been gripped by a sense of realism.

He’s beginning to focus on the stuff that MATTERS. Rather than the virtue-signalling and the window dressing. The stuff they do for show.

I think this will rebound in a positive way in the polls.

But there’s a lot more he could do if he wants to show that he really is living in the same world as the rest of us.

Ditch the pretend green crap. Pretty much the lot of it. Get rid.

Shove it in a green recycling bag and leave it out for the dustmen.

I am well aware that climate change is happening and that it is man-made.

But we will tackle it by the gradual introduction of new technology. Not by fleecing a hard-up public of its money. And bullying us all.

Already a bit of realism is making itself known in the corporate sector.

BP has announced it will resume drilling for oil and gas — i.e. doing its job properly. It had embraced the green revolution. And almost went bankrupt, its share price hitting rock bottom.

But it has woken up. And I realised that while we do need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, that will take some time to accomplish.

And in the end we need our dependable sources of fuel.

Sir Keir should take note.

And maybe put Ed Miliband in that green recycling bag too.

Can we have chilli sauce?

It is quite wrong that the Government should be targeting home- owners by telling them to get new boilers or hugely expensive heat pumps that don’t actually work.

And it is equally daft to be putting our faith in wind turbines, which aside from being hideous, don’t work when it is too windy and don’t work when there’s no wind at all.

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Believing that wind turbines and new boilers in the UK will save the planet is an absurdity. The changes they will make to the overall carbon emissions in the world are microscopic.

What Keir should do, first and foremost, is push ahead with plans for small modular nuclear reactors. Dependable, clean and almost renewable fuel, which we control ourselves.

Then, if there’s still room in that recycling bag, he should shove the Climate Change Committee into it, seal the top with string and head off to the recycling centre.

This committee has just decided that we have to eat fewer doner kebabs. Nope, not kidding. A woman appropriately called Emily Nurse has said we need to eat less meat. And cut our meat intake by 260 grams each week by sacrificing, as she put it, two doner kebabs.

Can we still have chilli sauce, Nursey? And how about shish kebabs? Will they be all right?

Cutting meat eating, if the animals come from the UK, will not help climate change. It may well increase our emissions. Imagine the transport costs for all that quinoa brought in from Ecuador, just to keep Nursey happy.

Stuff like that Climate Change Committee — and their fellow traveller, Ed Miliband — are the performative side of green politics. It is stuff which is being done for show, not for a good purpose.

And with our new sense of realism, we have no use for it. Get rid, Sir Keir.

TRUMP CARD FOR PM

I THINK Sir Keir Starmer is a far more effective Prime Minister when he’s out of the country, rather than in it.

He’s flying to the US today to meet with Donald Trump.

He has had a difficult balancing act to enact regarding Trump.

And so far he’s played his cards rather well.

Now, he’s announced that UK defence spending will rise sharply.

That will go down well with The Donald.

All you need to do now is suggest, carefully, that perhaps Vladimir Putin isn’t the kindest chap in the world and shouldn’t call all the shots over Ukraine.

Good luck, PM.

BEEB’S HAMAS HORROR

A WEEK has passed and nobody seems to have resigned from the BBC in the wake of Gazagate.

Mysterious, no?

BBCThe BBC decided that a suitable presenter for a film about Gaza would be the son of a senior Hamas leader[/caption]

The BBC decided that a suitable presenter for a film about Gaza would be the son of a senior Hamas leader. The resultant documentary was, of course, hideously biased.

Although it is now revealed that the production team took out some of the more inflammatory anti-Semitic viciousness so they wouldn’t get into trouble.

Successive inquiries suggest the BBC has been serially biased on the issue. This, though, really caps the lot.

When is the BBC’s director of news, Deborah Turness, going to ask for her P45?

A LIDDLE BIT SEXY

AT last I have discovered what gender I am!

There are apparently at least 72 genders. And I’ve been working my way through the list.

But so far none of them really grabbed my imagination.

But now I’ve discovered that actually I am autosexual. This was the most googled word of the year, so it looks like I’m not alone. Autosexual is when you find yourself strongly sexually attracted to yourself.

And you can’t wait to give yourself one. That’s me, down to a tee.

Sometimes I catch sight of myself in a mirror and think: “Who is that lovely creature? I think an angel just fluttered down to Earth.”

I regularly take myself out to dinner, or to see a film and sometimes buy myself loving treats, such as one of those large bags of prawn cocktail flavour Skips. I have been tempted to pop the question, too.
Autosexual, then. Out and proud.

As the planets line up, Mercury’s appearance is a kind of magic

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IF you look out of your windows tonight you’ll see a fairly rare thing – all the planets will be visible to the naked eye.

And they will all be lined up as if they are in an identity parade down the local nick. Even Mercury is putting in an appearance.

And Mercury is usually a shy and reclusive planet, always preferring to hide itself away rather than parading about.

It probably means something, astrologically, for this to happen. But I don’t think I want to find out exactly what.

Overseas aid scam

THE overseas aid budget has been cut almost in half. The money will be going to the Ministry of Defence.

Quite right – we don’t have the cash to blow billions on stupid schemes in the Third World.

We were signed up to bung the Democratic Republic of the Congo another ten million quid, for example. The reason? To make recruitment more diverse and inclusive.

In other words, less meritocratic and less efficient.

Y’know, I’m not entirely sure that’s top of my list of priorities.

Pretty much all overseas aid is a scam and the less we spend on it, the better.

INCREDIBLY, although more than nine million Brits are not in work, there’s a huge shortage of people to drive the nation’s lorries.

We are short of some 40,000 drivers.

GettyThere’s a huge shortage of people to drive the nation’s lorries despite nine million Brits not working[/caption]

And yet it’s a well-paid job, with some firms offering £60,000 per year for the role.

There’s so much fun to be had, too. You can take 15 minutes to overtake another lorry on an incline of the A1, for example, causing a tailback stretching from Newark to Grantham.

I suspect this is what happens when you tell young people they all MUST go to university.

Leaving us with a chronic shortage of builders, plumbers, mechanics . . . and lorry drivers.