I OFTEN think some bright spark should do an environmental audit of these climate-change summits.
We’ve had 29 of them so far. All involve hordes and hordes of privately chartered planes.
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GettyEd doesn’t worry about the effect on the environment when HE has to go places, but wants YOU to cut down the number of flights you take[/caption]
An incalculable number of long-haul flights. Ferrying VIPs from Brazil to Baku, and from Auckland to Glasgow.
And then, after a number of very agreeable lunches, all the way back again.
There’s probably enough carbon emissions in all of that to melt an ice sheet the size of Peru.
Why can’t they do them on Zoom? Imagine all the polar bears that might be saved.
Ed Miliband has been at plenty of these summits. He’s probably responsible for the deaths of 40 or 50 polar bears, then. I’m only guessing at this, mind.
Ed is an eco-loon. I have no doubts about climate change and our role in it.
But there is a fringe of campaigners — like Ed and that weird Swedish doom-goblin — who have become obsessive and warped by it all.
But Ed doesn’t worry about the effect on the environment when HE has to go places. He wants YOU to cut down the number of flights you take.
Not him. That’s because he’s saving the planet, you see. While you just want a few days on the lash in Riga.
Ed, who is our Energy Secretary, also wants us to cut down on domestic flights.
I kind of agree with this. I know our trains are pretty crap. But there’s still no reason for anyone to travel from, say, London to Glasgow by plane.
Ed is very clear about this.
When he was in opposition he was asked if internal flights should be banned completely and he replied: “Not completely, but as much as we possibly can.”
And now we discover that his office, the Department for Energy and Saving Polar Bears, has spent a whopping £43,644 on domestic flights in just six months.
Can you believe this? While advising the rest of us that we should never be taking domestic flights, his people have been soaring across the country on domestic flights themselves.
One rule for him
I think this is a resignation issue.
If this gimpy Wallace lookalike can’t persuade his OWN staff to take the train, what possible right does he have to lecture the rest of us?
His opposite number in the Conservative Party, Andrew Bowie, agrees: “In opposition, Miliband was all too happy to lecture the rest of us — but now, in government, it’s one rule for him and another for everyone else.
“Worse still, he’s forcing the country to suffer under his sanctimonious eco-agenda.”
Well said that man. And Ed is also trying to con the rest of us into investing £30,000 in a home heat pump system which won’t work properly.
Miliband knows that all of his fatuous Net Zero schemes are just flights of fancy. They are on a level with unicorns and elves. They simply do not pertain in the real world.
Ed demands the rest of us take part in his fantasies but, if you don’t mind, he’d rather sit on the sidelines watching.
And dreaming up more stupid ideas that will cost us a fortune. And not remotely make a difference to climate change.
Come on, Sir Keir — the man has become an embarrassment. Get rid.
Your government is showing an awful lot of common sense right now.
It must be clear to you that Ed, therefore, doesn’t fit in.
A CHAOTIC police chase through the suburbs of Newcastle.
Five people taken to hospital and the A1 closed in both directions.
A total of four police cars damaged, one losing a roof and three of its doors. The fact that four cop cars were “in attendance”, as they say, leads me to one obvious conclusion.
The coppers must have been chasing somebody who had said something a little bit hurtful on Facebook, or something.
Only a crime so serious could demand the attention of quite so many officers.
MOTHER DENIED JUSTICE
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THE prison sentence that was handed down to mum Lucy Connolly is a travesty of justice and utterly disproportionate.
Connolly tweeted nasty things about asylum seekers then quickly took her post down.
The ludicrous judge Melbourne Inman sentenced her to 31 months in prison. That’s longer than burglars, street robbers and domestic abusers get.
Now she has been refused temporary release to see her children. That is spiteful and quite unjustified. The truth is that Connolly is a political prisoner.
She has been banged up for political reasons.
We didn’t used to have political prisoners.
We do today.
A DIRE STATE OF AFFAIRS
ReutersWhy are scientists trying to bring back obsolete beasts from extinction such as the dire wolf instead of preventing creatures that are still with us from going extinct?[/caption]
SCIENTISTS in the US have managed to clone a dire wolf. That’s a large predatory animal which went extinct at least 10,000 years ago.
It’s closely related to the grey wolf, except larger and with a bad attitude. I’m not sure why the scientists have done this. There was no human involvement in the demise of the species.
The dire wolf probably became extinct because of the lack of megafauna around as well as climate change.
There’s still not much megafauna – mammoths and stuff – around, is there? So what’s it going to eat?
It puzzles me why we should try to bring back obsolete beasts from extinction when we could do so much more to prevent creatures that are still with us from going extinct.
Right now the wolf puppies are cute and adorable. Just wait till they grow up a bit, you scientists. They’ll rip your lungs out, Jim.
SIMPLY CRETINS
THE bone-headed Liberal Democrats who run a council in Hertfordshire had decided not to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
It said there would be no parade in the district of Dacorum because they are “elite”.
Instead locals were told to organise their own parties.
Thanks to a backlash, yesterday the council U-turned and vowed to put on a parade.
Do these cretins not understand how important it was to beat the Nazis? And liberate the whole of Europe? Are they actually ashamed of our past?
CRABBY OVER TARIFFS
ReutersDonald Trump is probably right to tell people not to panic as markets plummet and economists predict worldwide recession[/caption]
IT doesn’t take much to send the whole world into a tailspin, does it?
Markets have been plummeting and economists predicting worldwide recession and an invasion by giant, mechanical, man-eating crabs, or something.
I think Donald Trump is probably right to tell people not to panic.
The US has long been a supporter of tariffs, right back to 1776.
And a lot of these tariffs – against the EU, for example, and China – are deserved. There will be a bumpy few months while the countries decide how to respond but soon an equilibrium will return.
And we will all wonder what we were getting so upset about.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to turn the whole of Britain into a theme park
I SOMETIMES wonder if it would be a good idea to turn the whole of the country into a theme park.
Britainland would feature rides that didn’t turn up and you had to get a replacement bus service.
There would be no lighting because the wind turbines don’t work. When you queue to go on the big dipper you’re put behind 200 asylum seekers in the queue, because their rights take precedence over yours.
The only people who can afford entry, though, are those on sickness benefit and civil servants “working from home”.
The thing that gave me the idea for this was a new theme park which will cover half of Bedfordshire.
Many of the locals are very cross about it, but nobody cares what they think.
Do we need a new theme park? Haven’t we got enough of them?
WOKE’S BROKE
HERE’S a lesson to all the big Hollywood production companies.
Walt Disney’s new Snow White, starring the gobby halfwit Rachel Zegler, is set to make massive losses. Some people are talking about $115million.
Well, that should help focus the minds of studio execs.
Disney went woke a few years ago. And this Snow White was about a Strong Independent Woman who didn’t give a toss about Prince Charming. Also, there were no dwarves – just “magical creatures”.
Meanwhile, Zegler couldn’t resist shouting her mouth off about her idiotic lefty politics.
I doubt anyone will hire her again – she’s a nightmare.
As always, the lesson is go woke, go broke.
Now, start making stuff we’d like to watch and drop the lecturing.
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