Lord Goldsmith quit the Government this morning as he accused Rishi Sunak of being “uninterested” in environmental issues.
The Tory peer, an ally of Boris Johnson, claimed the Government was showing “apathy in the face of the greatest challenge we face” which made his position as a climate and environment minister “untenable”.
In a stinging resignation letter sent to Mr Sunak and posted on Twitter, Lord Goldsmith said: “Prime Minister, having been able to get so much done previously, I have struggled even to hold the line in recent months.
“The problem is not that the government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our Prime Minister, are simply uninterested.”
If only this would then mean less enviro tossery…..
Must admit Goldsmith’s complaint does give me a better opinion of Sunak.
Boganboy,
In terms of being small government, he’s better than Boris. His reported quote about running trains full of air during Covid warmed me to him. I know Boris was popular with some Conservatives but the bloke loved pissing taxpayers money up the wall on shit like the Olympics and HS2. Cummings described him as wanting statues to his magnificence which might be true.
Sadly, most of the public don’t want smaller government. Even though they could do more with the money.
BoM4
Thing is the public doesn’t know anything else but ever-expanding government. All these “Agencies” that were supposed to decentralise govt did was to move the civil servants elsewhere and become their own empires. People expect the govt to step and “do something” because that is what we are constantly told government is there for.
Even under Thatch (pbuh) there was a greater centralisation, partially because she discovered to her horror that local authorities were run by fuckwits (see other thread on water boards ) and couldn’t be trusted.
Off topic, for the benefit of those who believe that a Nobel Prize makes the holder infallible on any particular subject from climate change to macroeconomics, here’s a comprehensive putdown of Ben Bernanke the Wanke. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sorry-nobel-committee-ben-bernankes-interventions-were-crisis
It would almost seem as if the Economics Nobel, like the Peace Prize, is a political award of approval with scant regard for facts.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-groundwater-pumping-has-changed-the-tilt-of-earths-axis/
Presumably, this would blow a dirty great hole in any climate “model” relying on assumptions about emissions.
Goldsmith can fuck off and die in the gutter.
Southerner @ 10.43, to
quote/ paraphrasebastardise the great Richard Feynman ‘ Outside of their own subject of expertise, experts are as thick as the rest of us’.See: David Suzuki, Bill Gates (still looking for his expertise, outside of fleecing the world of hundreds of millions of dollars and killing/ maiming people with dodgy ‘vaxxines’ and making money by thieving someone elses ideas), Feargal Sharkey, Nicholas Stern (Tim’s hero – who ‘assumes’ climate change is man made and posits an economic suicide note to deal with the illusionary problem), Camillas’ Tampon (H/T ‘We got a problem’ for that one), Bonio, Geldof, cor, this list could go on forev.. (cont. p94).
Ottokring,
“Thing is the public doesn’t know anything else but ever-expanding government. All these “Agencies” that were supposed to decentralise govt did was to move the civil servants elsewhere and become their own empires. People expect the govt to step and “do something” because that is what we are constantly told government is there for.”
The public could work this out, but they read shit and spend as much time as possible watching utter nonsense. You even point out that the BBC, Daily Mail, Guardian are full of shit and they keep on reading the shit. Timmy is not knee-deep in supermodel clunge because of the ad revenue from people discovering the blog. More people are probably reading Richard Murphy.
“Even under Thatch (pbuh) there was a greater centralisation, partially because she discovered to her horror that local authorities were run by fuckwits (see other thread on water boards ) and couldn’t be trusted.”
I always thought this was a mistake. The voters should get what they vote for, and get it good and hard. They vote for a load of commies, they suffer for it, and the scars of the experience mean they don’t do it again. Council bankruptcy should include imprisonment and the children and grandchildren of councillors being barred from ever working in the public sector.
By about 3 foot Mr Duck.
I did read that article with a certain amount of amusement. This going to be the output of one of these “scientific models” . Just expansion/contraction of the oceans due to temperature change is going to have orders of magnitude more effect. Then minute changes in the convection patterns in the molten region of the earth’s core several more. So what they’re talking about is well within the error margin of the model.
But I expect some “scientists” didn’t go hungry whilst producing it.