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British Prime Minister Flip-Flop will Now Attend COP27

Essay by Eric Worrall

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems to be shaping up as one of the weakest Conservative Party Prime Ministers Britain has ever produced.

Rishi Sunak U-turns and says he WILL attend Cop27 climate summit after ex-PM Boris Johnson revealed he will be going to event after being invited by Egyptian hosts – but King Charles STILL won’t be going

The PM had initially indicated he would not travel to North Africa next week due to pressing domestic issues

But wrote on Twitter this morning that he would now head for Sharm el-Sheikh next week after all 

Change came after predecessor Boris Johnson confirmed he would attend at request of Egyptian government

By DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 21:09 AEDT, 2 November 2022 | UPDATED: 02:37 AEDT, 3 November 2022

The PM had initially indicated he would not travel to North Africa despite the UK hosting the previous event in Glasgow last year. 

The change came after Mr Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson confirmed he would attend, having made the environment a key plank of his premiership. 

Writing on Twitter, Mr Sunak said: ‘There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change. There is no energy security without investing in renewables. 

‘That is why I will attend Cop27 next week: to deliver on Glasgow’s legacy of building a secure and sustainable future.’

The PM previously said he had to focus on Britain’s ‘depressing domestic challenges’ but faced growing pressure to join other world leaders at the conference next week.

Following discussions with the Chancellor (Jeremy Hunt) this week he has now agreed to attend. The PM feels there is sufficient space to make this trip.’

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11381133/Rishi-Sunak-U-turns-says-attend-Cop27-climate-summit.html

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt still appears to be calling the shots behind the scenes, despite refusing the top job. I met Jeremy Hunt in person once and exchanged a few words. My impression he is very much a back room operator, someone who keeps his cards close to his chest, so it is no surprise to me that people are hinting Jeremy is the real power behind the throne. Former Labour politician Gordon Brown once had a similar reputation, but Brown’s reputation as a smooth operator was left in tatters, after his disastrous term as Prime Minister.

Given Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s apparent inability to stick to a decision, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson might be attending COP27 as Rishi Sunak’s minder, to make sure Rishi doesn’t trip over his own shoe laces, or make rash commitments in one of the meetings.

To be fair, Prime Minister Rishi hasn’t flip-flopped on every issue. Rishi’s plan to inflict years of rising taxes, on a British public already reeling from excruciating energy and cost of living inflation, seems to be locked in for the foreseeable future.

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November 3, 2022 9:07 am

Rishi “flip flopper” Sunak takes both sides of an issue to please everyone. He’ll be gone in a month or two — isn’t that the new British system? This month’s Prime Minister is next month’s bum.

Jack Frost
November 3, 2022 10:42 am

Sunak has U-Turned that many times he’s making me dizzy.

November 3, 2022 11:01 am

“There is no energy security without investing in renewables”
Absolutely – just look at Germany for proof of that.
/s

November 3, 2022 11:45 am

This idiot is simply ensuring that the UK elects Labour the next time they’re allowed to vote.

Which means doubling down on energy poverty.

And when that happens, no one in power will admit for one second that they caused the economic collapse of the UK.

Instead, they will blame the voters, and Brexit.

Mike Lowe
November 3, 2022 11:52 am

Is Rishi’s wife a committed Greenie like Carrie? If so, pity the poor British taxpayer!

Olen
November 3, 2022 12:58 pm

A prominent British woman in England said in the mid 1950s, the members of the colonies have as much right to be in England as we do. It is no secret India did not want the British and the British had wanted out of India. There is humor in that, somewhere.

Disputin
November 3, 2022 1:22 pm

“The PM had initially indicated he would not travel to North Africa…”

I hope he does – Sharm el-Sheikh is in Europe (just).

November 3, 2022 1:48 pm

I came across an interesting chart of coal power stations by country that puts the situation into perspective. Notice that there is only one country in Africa in the top 18 and this is bottom of this list:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/

ResourceGuy
November 3, 2022 5:15 pm

What side trips and meetings will he do to secure energy deals?

Kramer
November 3, 2022 7:41 pm

Pretty sure he’s a WEFer (WEF) member.
If I’m right, explains his changing his stance on going to the COP.

Fun fact, Maurice Strong was helped get the WEF started.

November 4, 2022 6:30 pm

Rishi washi at best

Patrick MJD
November 4, 2022 9:28 pm

Sunak was ushered in to do a job (On the UK). He’s a globalist. Don’t be surprised if we hear talk of Britain re-joining the EU. He’s about as Conservative/Tory as my left foot. He’s very wealthy. His wife is a billionaire, wealthy enough to avoid paying taxes in the UK. The UK is doomed (Well, almost all western countries are now) it’s just a race to see who get’s to the bottom first.

Mervyn
November 5, 2022 11:43 pm

Rishsi Sunak is another W.E.P. guy. Britain can expect economic poverty as it implements “the great reset” under the globalist Sunk government. They are not conservatives who believe in traditional conservative values. These Tories in power subscribe to the arrogant, ambitious, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism… an ideology that poses the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity.

Edward Sager
November 6, 2022 9:20 am

UN official Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, admitted, “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”