More #NetZero madness!

"First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets...
Now it’s Ireland’s turn..." 1/7
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/0… First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. 2/7

How the hell is Bailey still in a job? 🤬

The Bank of England has made Britain the sick man of Europe again 1/10

telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/… "Over the last three years, our central bank has done a significantly worse job than any of its comparable rivals."
"...it is not just the euro-zone...In the United States, the inflation rate has dropped...below 5% despite a surge in government spending. 2/10

"The Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU) was set up by ministers to tackle supposed domestic “threats”, and was used to target those critical of lockdown and questioning the mass vaccination of children." 1/8
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/0… "The CDU, which is still operating, was embedded in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)."

"As well as the CDU, the Government operated a Rapid Response Unit (RRU) in the Cabinet Office that hunted online for content it considered disinformation." 2/8

"It bears noting, uncomfortable though it may be for some, that, despite everything, Boris Johnson is about 10 percentage points more popular than the Prime Minister among both Leavers and 2019 Tory voters." 1/9

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/0… "...Rishi Sunak, about as Remainer-friendly a Brexiteer as you can get, is at minus 35% popularity among Remain voters. Surely it’s better to try to bring back people who actually voted for us very recently, in an election that we won...?" 2/9

This 👇from Guto Harri who had been critical of BJ 1/9

Boris Johnson feared Covid left UK infantilised and in ‘permanent state of doublethink’ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/… "Boris Johnson feared the Covid response left Britain infantilised and in a “permanent state of doublethink”...
Guto Harri claimed Mr Johnson had become uncomfortable with the size of the state in the wake of more than £300bn of spending in response to the pandemic." 2/9

Interesting!

"Despite the clean and paperless allure of tech companies, Silicon Valley is fast emerging as a key threat to the race to net zero." 1/6

The data giants more damaging to the environment than airlines telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/… "The world’s computing and information storage sector has a larger carbon footprint than the airline industry, while a single data centre can consume as much electricity as 50,000 homes." 2/6

"Lord Frost, the former Brexit negotiator, told The Telegraph that the EU had also turned down the same proposal when he was leading trade talks in 2020." 1/5

EU rubbishes Keir Starmer’s big idea to ‘improve’ Brexit telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/… “It’s always been clear that the only kind of food standards or veterinary agreement the EU will do with a near neighbour like the UK is one in which we have to accept EU laws... 2/5

"Ministers are trying to use national security laws to keep secret evidence relating to a claim that Britain’s ambassador in Washington leaked intelligence to his alleged lover." 1/6

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/… "Court documents...allege that a senior civil servant was arrested on suspicion of leaking diplomatic cables & his home raided by counter-terrorism police a day after Lord Darroch... was warned his alleged affair was being exposed by a tabloid newspaper." 2/6

"A series of reforms since the Blair years made civil servants effectively un-sackable by ministers & unleashed the sock-puppet state-funding of left-wing charities, undermining the policies officials are supposed to enact." 1/14

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/2… "After the fall of Dominic Raab, it was a question of when – not if – the Blob would claim its next scalp. And, in the past week, our home secretary & former-Prime Minister (again) have found themselves in the firing line." 2/14

"Brexit has given Sunak complete control over the borders, to numbers as low as he likes. But he won’t use these powers, because the newcomers offer such help in politically sensitive areas." 1/10

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/2… "...in the Cabinet, there is only one voice regularly calling for lower numbers: that of Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary." 2/10

Spot on again from Tim Stanley.

Sir Edward Leigh spoke for England when he said: “What’s wrong with this country? We used to have proper scandals about sex or money!” 1/4

MPs yearn for some proper scandals as outrage over Suella’s speeding fine stalls telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/… Questions asked by backbenchers, answers came there none:
*How can it be right for the BBC to travel all the way to the G7 in Japan only to quiz Rishi about a speed awareness course?
*How was this leaked when there is a civil service code to adhere to? 2/4

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse 👇 1/6

We made an appalling mistake, so the Bank of England needs a £188bn bailout telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… "...the Treasury now has to bail out the Bank to the tune of around £188bn at today’s 3.5% 15-year gilt rates.
This is a volatile rate, but there is every chance that it will go up, not down, as the efforts to control inflation are redoubled..." 2/6

"Rail worker weekly pay averaged £398 in April 1997, shortly after British Rail was dismantle..."
This has risen to £940.50 by April 2022...Had wages risen in line with inflation...workers would be receiving £681.77 – some 28% less." 1/7 telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… "...there is a good reason why Lynch is holding out for more. The union's militant stance has repeatedly yielded results. Official statistics show that rail workers are far better paid than the average Briton. 2/7

Not surprised at the usual suspects but Tyrone Mings seems to have a short memory 1/14

telegraph.co.uk/women/life/doe… "Dressed patriotically in a red dress with white loafers, Priti Patel took great delight in a visit to Wembley last summer, when she kicked a football across the hallowed turf." 2/14

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/… 1/8 "...it only took a week of rising cases and scientific outrage over the “dangerous” and “premature” lifting of restrictions for the Prime Minister to wobble." 2/8

Remainers don't want time to scrutinise the Withdrawal Bill. They want to humiliate the PM telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/… via @Telegraph @Telegraph "....MPs can spend as much time as they like debating, at length, every clause in the legislation, and will happily do so, if only to humiliate the prime minister as he fails to deliver on his “do or die” promise to lead Britain out of the EU by October 31." 1/5