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3 Jun: Breitbart: Britain Unleashes a Green New Deal to Kill What’s Left of the Economy
by James Delingpole
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has found an ingenious scheme to ensure that Britain never recovers from the economic damage caused by the lockdown: a ‘green industrial revolution’...

There is going to be no escaping this looming disaster, caused by a mass outbreak of green groupthink at virtually every level of the Boris Johnson administration – from Prime Ministerial girlfriends (green activist Carrie Symonds) to key members of the quadrumvirate (Greenest Gove ever), from Prime Ministerial advisors (Dom Cummings) to formerly sound Tory MPs who definitely aren’t any more because they’ve been put on the payroll and have to spout whatever eco bilge they are told to spout.

In the latter category, we can include Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng who, shamingly, can now be heard spouting drivel about how the UK is going to become a ‘world leader in tackling climate change’ by launching a carbon Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Meanwhile, as Western nations choose to hobble their recoveries by burdening their economies with more expensive energy, the Eastern powers, led by China, are heading in the opposite direction.

According to the Times, China is upping its coal usage...

What exactly did Britain do to deserve a Conservative government quite this lumpen, embarrassing and un-Conservative? And given that the Opposition is actually even worse what can we possibly do to save ourselves from this ongoing, slow-motion train wreck of a disaster?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/03/britain-unleashes-green-new-deal-to-kill-whats-left-of-the-economy/

At the end of the day they are still politicians, and have to consider public opinion. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/07/majority-of-uk-public-back-2030-zero-carbon-target-poll blame a leftist woke cultural establishment and education system for brainwashing the public.

That a British Conservative government should pick up a green agenda isn't that surprising - in the UK environmentalism has never been a clear-cut left/right issue to the extent that it is in the US. There has been a 'green streak', if I can call it that, in the Conservative Party since the 1930s and the reaction to the growing industrialisation of agriculture. (There's also long been a corresponding anti-green streak in the Labour Party.) In neither case has that streak ever dominated, but it's always been there.

It's no accident that 'conservative' and 'conservation' share their etymology.