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Trump is doing a better job of acting in our nation's interest than Labour

Trump is doing a better job of acting in our nation's interest than Labour

Telegraph6 days ago
It's often said the UK and the US are two countries divided by a common language. In another instance of life imitating art, Donald Trump, ahead of his visit to Aberdeen in two weeks, called on Keir Starmer to abandon the windmills blighting so much of rural Scotland.
Trump is absolutely correct to call out Labour's deranged energy policy – concreting over the countryside and installing unsightly pylons, annihilating arable agricultural land and carpeting the countryside with solar panels in pursuit of their mad dash to net zero.
Anyone who has ever left London and seen the impact of these damaging policies on rural Britain would agree with Trump on this. But that can't be said of our London-centric Prime Minister. It should not take a foreign leader coming over here to spell out common sense to him. But we are where we are with our mediocre middle manager-in-chief.
Part of what makes Britain great is our green and pleasant land. I get it. Telegraph readers get it. Apparently even Donald Trump gets it. So why does Starmer and his cabal of lefties in Cabinet, including Red Ed, seem so determined to take a wrecking ball to it every chance they get?
Having been elected on a promise to reduce bills by £300, they are now radically pushing forward an agenda that is going to throw taxpayers' money down the drain and jeopardise our energy security to boot. It makes absolutely no sense.
It is yet another case of this ideological Labour Government pursuing what works in socialist screeds, rather than what actually works in real life and for real people. The cost of sacrificing rural Britain at the altar of net zero nonsense is set to cost the taxpayer an eye-watering £800 billion by 2050.
Just like the Chagos surrender, or the looming employment Bill which gives the unions the whip hand, it is a lose-lose situation for Britain. It is becoming so bad that Keir Starmer now seems to need Donald Trump to point out the glaringly obvious fact that this won't work, and no one wants it. But still, he seems determined to plough on.
Kemi Badenoch has thrown down the gauntlet. Enough is enough of this eco zealotry that flies in the face of facts and common sense. Net zero by 2050 will not work. Whilst of course we must stop climate change, we are responsible for 1 per cent of global emissions. So why would we blow up our economy, hike everyone's bills and jeopardise our energy security on this madness?
To anyone with two brain cells to rub together, it is glaringly obvious: even businesses and industry experts are crying out for Labour to stop. But, judging by the disastrous first year of this Government, brains are in short supply around the current Cabinet table.
Take Ed Miliband, for example. He spent billions on an energy company that doesn't create any energy. Far from reducing everyone's energy bills, as they promised they would do, they are getter higher than when they took office. Meanwhile, they are set to hike everyone's taxes at the same time as they are forgoing £20 billion in tax receipts by shutting off the North Sea.
It will not be lost on anyone that the president, whose Drill Baby Drill policies on oil and gas couldn't be more at odds with the Dole Baby Dole madness of Ed Milliband, will be in Aberdeen where job losses are predicted to be up to 400 every two weeks.
And, unlike the New Labour anthem, things can only get worse. They have just adopted an 81 per cent emission reduction target without a plan how to get there. All that means is more harebrained policies that cost the earth but won't save it.
We need the Government to have a radical rethink of net zero. Hopefully, Trump will get our embattled Prime Minister to change his tune once again. Otherwise, the only thing their energy policy will generate is resentment.
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