Drill baby
DONALD Trump yesterday delivered another much-needed reality check to Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband.
The President says he is happy with the trade deal the US has struck with Sir Keir Starmer.
APDonald Trump delivered another much-needed reality check to Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband[/caption]
But he warns Britain’s energy costs — the highest in the world — could derail it.
He urges the PM to tear down the Chinese windmills that could be spying on us and start drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea.
Taking his advice would be of enormous value to Britain’s energy supply and security.
And Trump is right that it would deliver a swift reduction in bills.
But so far the Prime Minister appears unwilling to listen.
His separate trade deal with the EU means Britain has signed up to the bloc’s carbon levies scheme, which will make energy costs even higher for businesses.
Ignoring the wealth of resources on our doorstep while handing control of any part of our energy supply to hostile China makes no sense.
Pay later
LABOUR has now handed nearly £17billion to public sector workers — yet still faces the threat of MORE strikes from its ungrateful union paymasters.
Doctors, nurses, teachers and other employees of the state will get up to six per cent.
And the hard-left BMA — which represents junior doctors — says they will strike anyway.
Yet funding is only in place for wage rises of 2.8 per cent.
So how on earth will this — plus commitments on the Chagos Islands and the new EU deal and the pensioners’ winter fuel payments U-turn — all be paid for?
By failing to stand up to the militants, Labour has walked into a never-ending spiral of pay demands.
There will now be chaos in Government departments over spending cuts and calls for taxes to go up.
That must be resisted at all costs by under-pressure Rachel Reeves.
Demanding hard-working people in the private sector bail out the
Chancellor must be a non-starter.
Bill health
TURNING around our broken NHS is an enormous challenge for Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
So he’s right to free up much-needed cash by curbing the pay of failing hospital bosses.
A record 2,600 senior NHS executives are now paid over £110,000 per year.
Yet services get worse for those needing care, and productivity in the NHS is down by ten per cent.
Bonus schemes linked to performance and delivery for patients is a good start.
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