An about-face of epic proportions. You’ll never guess who said this:
David Cameron has ordered ministers to ditch the ‘green crap’ blamed for driving up energy bills and making business uncompetitive, it is claimed. The Prime Minister, who once pledged to lead the ‘greenest government ever’, has publicly promised to ‘roll back’ green taxes, which add more than £110 a year to average fuel bills.
But a senior Tory source said Mr Cameron’s message in private is far blunter. The source said: ‘He’s telling everyone, “We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap.” He’s absolutely focused on it.’ Tory high command has also privately abandoned Mr Cameron’s pre-election mantra ‘vote blue, go green’. ‘It’s vote blue, get real, now – and woe betide anyone who doesn’t get the memo,’ the source said. Downing Street denied the claims and said: “We do not recognise this at all.”-–Daily Mail, 21 November 2013
No. 10 is tellingly refusing to deny the report in today’s Sun that David Cameron has ordered aides to “get rid of all the green crap”. A Downing Street spokesman merely stated that “we do not recognise this at all” (a classic non-denial denial). In reference to the environmental levies imposed on fuel bills, a Tory source earlier claimed of Cameron: “He’s telling everyone, ‘We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap.’ He’s absolutely focused on it.” The source added: “It’s vote blue, get real, now – and woe betide anyone who doesn’t get the memo.” –George Eaton, New Statesman, 21 November 2013
h/t to Dr. Benny Peiser of The GWPF
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It’s a step in the right direction. I would have been a life-long Conservative voter, but no longer. I’m a UKIP man now, and proud of it.
But I would like to return to the fold. However, I will never vote for a party whose policies are designed to push up the cost of energy. I regard it as not only mind-numbingly wrong, but immoral as well.
Before I will even consider voting Conservative they will have to stop subsiding wind farms and scrap the Climate Change Bill.
I’m not holding my breath….
Chris
I don’t believe for one minute that David Cameron said that. David Cameron is a conservative in name only, he has demonstrated time and time again that he loves the green agenda. He walks the walk of the greenie, he’s hopeless.
If, and that is a BIG “IF”, Cameron said this (Don’t believe it for a minute), then view it as some sort of diversionary policy. His trip to Sri Lanka etc, he’s not about to back down from this boondoggle, given family “interests” in “green energy”. When is the next UK election?
If there’s a very cold winter in the UK this year, followed by a drop in the GASTA, and a continuing decline in Tory polling numbers and an increase in UKIP’s numbers, perhaps the Tories will depose Cameron.
PS: What unprincipled fools the Tories were to oppose the instant runoff referendum. Now the UKIP’s popularity will put Labour first past the post.
It appears David Cameron is an intelligent consensus patriot who understands deficit spending eventually leads to currency collapse, very high unemployment, and riots, as has been demonstrated by every country that has tried deficit financing to postpone the politically more difficult balanced budget.
The UK is spending more than it takes in tax revenue and has reached the limit of deficit spending. The UK has the highest total debit (private and government) as a percent of the GDP (400%) of any of the major developed countries. The UK government debit is 89% of the GDP (70% is the maximum limit based on past experience if interest rates rise). The UK is currently running a yearly deficit of 6.2% of GDP as compared to the highest recommended 3%. (The US yearly deficit is 9.3% before the ‘Affordable Care Act’ deficits kick in, Ha Ha Ha)
Higher energy prices are a type of taxation on the public and on industry which makes local industry less competitive and leaves less money for the government to tax. There are only so many pieces in the pie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt#List
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/government-deficit_gov-dfct-table-en
Spending money are green scams that will tripled the cost of electricity – Germany is the post child example where the cost of electricity is three times that of the US – and will result in almost no significant reduction in world CO2 emission if the CO2 content of imported goods is included is madness and economically no longer viable.
The only thing that watermelon Cameron is interested in is stemming the tide of voters fleeing these fake Tories to join UKIP.
Don’t trust a word that clown says. he is toast in the next election and he is desperate.
Kev. But half the problem is that green is often actually NOT good!
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One if the big nails in the Green bandwagon, was recycling. This was forced down householders throats, with some houses getting six bins for recycling – and massive fines if you rebelled. Then it turned out that there was no industrial facilities for much of this recycling, and so the majority of it was going for landfill anyway.
This got many a blood-pressure bursting and the idiocy of it all.
R