Eco sanity
THREE cheers if reality is dawning and sanity prevailing over Net Zero in the Cabinet.
Soaring energy bills should shortly sober up any remaining holdouts still drunk on utopian promises from Cop26.
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Our energy future is in disarray. We are horribly exposed to the cost and stability of imports. We cannot power ourselves solely on wind, solar and our dwindling, dilapidated nuclear plants.
And demands by Labour and eco zealots to go further, faster on Net Zero are deranged.
So we applaud the Government for going ahead with approving new North Sea oil and gas fields.
But we will need a lot more gas in the decades before we finally eliminate emissions. So why stop there? Fracking is still a vast, untapped opportunity.
The Government must face down the scaremongers and seize it.
Now deliver, PM
VOTERS don’t much care who occupies which chair in Boris Johnson’s Government. They just want results.
For what it’s worth, though, yesterday’s changes look like improvements to us.
The cheerful new Chief Whip should help calm relations between No10 and fractious Tory backbenchers.
And Jacob Rees-Mogg, a true Brexiteer, should make a decent fist of maximising the many opportunities from leaving the EU which Covid delayed.
But the public isn’t obsessed by reshuffles. Nor, for that matter, by the choreographed efforts of Boris-hating MPs, Remainer bores and their media mates to blame the PM for random anti-vaxx yobs barracking Keir Starmer.
Voters want action on the cost of living — and the promises of Brexit fulfilled.
Get on with it, PM.
Football brute
KURT Zouma must not get away with sickening cruelty to his cat.
All pets must be removed from his home. And the RSPCA must prosecute.
Zouma’s claim that his two cats are loved and cherished is obvious nonsense given The Sun’s video evidence.
And yet West Ham, incredibly, let him play last night. Do they really still want a cat-kicking brute on their books?
Poles axe
THE Union flag must not fly for Prince Andrew’s birthday.
He is a busted flush, stripped of his titles and status and facing a sex assault case over a girl of 17. Very far from a cause for national celebration.
Yet his birthday next Friday somehow remains on the list of events meriting the flag flying from council buildings.
The Government must delete it.
Honouring Andrew would be as big an international embarrassment as he is.
