Waste land
EVER wondered why Britain seems to be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy?
Of course we have monstrous debts, a £180billion-a-year NHS and a ballooning benefits bill the Government must cut today.
PALabour must consider the attitude towards public funds as Britain teeters on the brink of bankruptcy[/caption]
But consider too the attitude towards public funds.
Quango chief Philip Duffy — head of the Environment Agency — doesn’t like to get to official visits before 10am, his top aide says, because he is “not an early bird”. On Fridays he really likes to knock off at 2pm.
Such dedication to hard graft costs taxpayers £175,000 a year.
Down in Brighton, two girls who are in a punk band 50 years late detest everything about “racist, xenophobic, nationalist” Britain, especially straight, white men and Prime Ministers who are, without exception, “fascists”.
What Phoebe and Lilly DON’T hate is the free dosh handed to them by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy who inexplicably considers them among “the best of British culture”.
We’re all for free expression in art.
But why must the public actively fund tedious hard-left dolts who despise our existence?
Liberals apparently believe we must now pay to be abused.
Across Whitehall, meanwhile, 20,000 Government credit cards have been frozen because civil servants have blown £675million of our money in one year.
The common threads are the self-entitlement of so many to a handout — and the scandalous profligacy of those meant to act as guardians of the public purse.
It’s as if the people’s money doesn’t matter . . . it’s just a cash machine for civil servants, quangocrats and even talent-free “artists”.
So much for Labour scrutinising “every pound” to get value for taxpayers.
Reality at last
AT last, after all these years, a Tory leader will today tell the truth about Net Zero.
Not that it isn’t desirable long-term. Simply that it can’t be done, even by 2050.
Kemi Badenoch’s statement will be a sea change after all the vacuous eco posturing of successive Tory Governments and now Labour Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, whose delusional fanaticism poses a dire threat to our economy and security.
The Tory leader will echo what The Sun has often said. That reducing UK emissions to zero, even within 25 years, will inevitably be ruinous.
That, scandalously, neither her party nor Labour ever had a realistic plan to achieve it.
And that going it alone — without the rest of the world, including the biggest polluters, doing the same — will amount to insane self-harm.
Kemi will be putting an ocean of clear blue water between herself and Labour . . . as well as previous Tory regimes.
The Government will rubbish every word.
The public will know she’s right.
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