Help us, Rishi
NO ONE could fairly blame the Government for the economic misery triggered by Covid and now the Ukraine war — unless it fails to do its utmost to alleviate it.
The surge in fuel prices is monstrous. Petrol and diesel are rocketing.
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Gas will soon be so pricey that some will simply stop heating their homes.
Giveaways may be the last thing on the mind of a Chancellor forced to borrow £400billion during the pandemic.
But Rishi Sunak CAN afford to cut exorbitant fuel duty.
As the FairFuelUK campaign says, the Treasury has raked in an extra £2BILLION of VAT due to the punishingly high pump prices.
Let’s not forget, too, that the Chancellor still intends to pilfer extra National Insurance from our April pay.
It looked like folly before. Now it looks insane.
Rishi, turning a deaf ear is not an option.
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Shale shame
IT is shameful that it took Putin’s demented war to jump-start a new “energy supply strategy” from our PM.
We needed that 15 years ago before we let our nuclear plants crumble and put so much faith in wind and solar.
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It will be shameful too if Boris Johnson only approves more North Sea drilling and new nuclear reactors, still years away.
Among the bizarre and complacent Government excuses for abandoning shale — and ordering wells be cemented up forever — is that we don’t have a gas supply problem.
Maybe not . . . yet.
But the EU does. It cannot survive without Russian gas.
So we MUST seize this moment to start fracking, sell UK gas to our allies and loosen Putin’s grip.
We are told fracking is “unsafe” — and unpopular in polls.
The first is simply false. As for the second, so what?
That merely proves the success of the scaremongers’ bogus propaganda — and the failure of Governments to counter it.
You life-saver
YOUR incredible donations to our Ukraine Red Cross appeal are already saving lives.
They have made an instant impact on thousands of refugees pouring into Lviv.
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“Last Thursday there was nothing to help these people,” says a volunteer.
“Now we have hot tents where they can eat and drink and wait for a bus to Poland.”
Many more will need our help. Keep it coming if you can.
Girls’ guides
WHAT an inspiring bunch on The Sun’s International Women’s Day celebrity panel.
Like Ferne McCann and Charlene White, who made it on TV after refusing to tone down their Essex and London accents.
They had some golden advice for the audience of 90 girls: Be proud of who you are and where you’re from.
