THE COSTLY GREEN VIRUS
THERE are tens of thousands of non-jobs in the UK. We all know of the waste in the public sector with highly-paid diversity, equality and inclusion staff and that failing managers in the NHS are paid more than most NHS staff. However, these are now well outnumbered by those on the Climate Gravy Train.
Every council in the land, and there are 365, has a climate officer and their staff sucking up council taxpayers’ money with their salaries, expenses and gold-plated pension contributions. Unfortunately this green virus has spread into the private sector, adding costs which are then passed on by way of price increases.
However, the rest of the world seems to have a cure for this serious malaise and there have been no recorded cases of climate officers appointments breaking out. In fact there is no evidence of climate awareness whatsoever as they burn fossil fuels and use coal to generate their electricity.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow.
WHY SHOULD WE TRUST THE POLITICAL CLASS?
IT has been reported that America’s FBI now believes that a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the probable source of the Covid-19 epidemic. It is remarkable that given enough time and money a vast government agency can come to the same conclusion that a layman armed with common sense and Occam’s razor likely came to two years ago.
Similarly, the High Court and now the Court of Appeal have come to the conclusion that the businessman Aaron Banks was not a conduit for Russian government money but funded the Brexit campaign out of his own pocket, just as he said all along.
Also, we now find from the treasure trove of WhatsApp messages released by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott that during the pandemic, as some of us have long suspected, the Government was making it up as they it along. It even contemplated killing the nation’s 11 million cats.
Bearing all these examples in mind, should we not be a little bit more sceptical of the conventional wisdom of the political and media classes?
In particular, should we not ask ourselves whether climate change and the human contribution to it have perhaps been grossly exaggerated, and also whether the extreme actions being urged on us by the great and the good to achieve net zero might perhaps be entirely unjustified?
Otto Inglis, Crossgates, Fife.
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