Mar 18 2007
The green police have been active in recent days
I woke up this morning to hear that Gordon Brown has refused to rule out air travel to go on holiday, whilst David Cameron’s rubbish has been investigated.
Recently I was criticised in a local paper when they examined my expenses last year as an MP for driving rather than going by train. They did
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Journalists are quite right to expose the hypocrisy of politicians who continue to lecture us about climate change and yet behave in ways contrary to those they wish to impose on the rest of us. I applaud your criticism of the Government.
As for the Conservative plan to switch some of the tax burden from pay as you earn to pay as you burn, this is nothing more than sloganising until you give details of which taxes will reduce and by how much. The sceptic could be excused for doubting that taxes will actually reduce and what will you do if revenues from “burning” drop, as is surely the real purpose of the tax if we are to believe Cameron and Osborne? More attention needs to be given to reducing the huge waste in public spending and consequently the tax burden - or have the Conservatives accepted the high spend high tax policy of Labour?
I am not a Climate Change Sceptic but I am a strong Cataclysmic Man Made Climate Change Sceptic. I cannot accept the CO2 hysteria that we now subjected to from all directions and, as CO2 is essential gas for life on this planet, cannot regard it as a pollutant. However, your suggestions are eminently sensible and should be introduced but how does one get sensible suggestions adopted?