Rishi Sunak must be bold and delay our Net Zero deadlines or the cost will be ruinous
Pull the plug
IT looks inevitable that the Prime Minister will have to delay our Net Zero deadlines.
That PM could be Rishi Sunak. It could be Keir Starmer.
But a U-turn must come, and long before the 2030 ban on new petrol or diesel cars.
Rishi should be first to grasp reality — and earn the thanks of voters who increasingly fear the horrific expense of an inadequate battery car or heat pump.
The EU is already pushing its deadlines back. And why not?
They were entirely arbitrary and absurdly hasty.
If the technology isn’t ready, and the cost ruinous, what choice is there?
The PM is hinting at a rethink. Be bold, Rishi — and get on with it.
Break-in bad
THE burglary clear-up rate is a disgrace.
Some 584 offences a DAY go unsolved.
That’s 584 homes violated, thousands of lives damaged, none ever getting justice.
What’s the police’s excuse?
A break-in should not be an unfathomable mystery with no clues.
Many homes now have doorbell cameras or CCTV.
Burglaries are commonly done by a few repeat offenders, often living locally.
The cops have the manpower now, yet still say they are spread too thin.
Stop policing Twitter, then, and target hardened villains genuinely wrecking lives.
Mad dogs
LONDON Bridge terrorist Usman Khan duped charity workers into thinking he was a changed man, then murdered them.
He was a mad dog, let loose from an inadequate jail term.
The parole board has now approved his bomb co-plotter Nazam Hussain for release.
He has already been freed once — then a weapon was found at his home.
Did no one learn from that?
Other fanatics are also due imminent parole hearings and possible freedom.
How can anyone know they won’t kill like Khan?
Caged terrorists prioritise faking remorse and deradicalisation.
All need unlimited sentences — decades inside to prove they have changed.
New agender
WE suppose we should welcome Labour finally binning its plan to let anyone legally self-identify as a different gender.
It was utter madness, as its attempted application in Scotland proved.
But it is highly revealing of Labour under Keir Starmer, who still thinks some women have a penis, that the party ever got itself into this predicament.
And that it has now changed course, and vowed to protect women-only spaces, not because it genuinely thinks it is wrong but because voters do.
Here is a wannabe Government basing its policies on fashionable social media causes — then forced to U-turn as reality bites.