Ship hits the fan
BRITAIN’S economy is facing a twin nightmare of high inflation and virtually zero growth.
So why on earth are ministers going to defy Donald Trump and vote in favour of a UN scheme to impose a crackpot green tax on shipping?
It’s yet another example of this Government backing the wrong horse.
Instead of encouraging free trade as part of Brexit Britain’s new future, the PM is once again tying the UK to costly and pointless bureaucratic regulation which no one voted for.
There won’t be any less shipping or any reduction in carbon emissions.
All that will happen is that the tax revenue — estimated at £10billion to £12billion — will disappear into some obscure global fund.
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And the cost will be passed on to British consumers, causing MORE inflation and squeezing growth further.
It’s a common basic economic flaw in Net Zero that Labour — led by zealot Ed Miliband — refuses to acknowledge even as it wreaks terrible damage on our car industry.
Why are they so keen to bankrupt industry for no green gain whatsoever?
Beyond belief
STILL the questions over the collapse of the China spy trial remain.
No one has explained why the Government’s deputy national security adviser Matthew Collins failed to give crown prosecutors the evidence they say they needed for a successful case.
Is it really credible that this respected civil servant acted entirely alone, without the involvement of anyone in Downing Street or fellow ministers like the Attorney General Lord Hermer?
Why did he cut and paste a section from Labour’s manifesto about “positive” relations with China when it was obvious that could sink the trial?
And why, when the case was collapsing, did the Prime Minister do nothing about it?
This matters because, as the head of MI5 revealed yesterday, Britain is under constant attack and surveillance from Chinese operatives.
Voters deserve total honesty and transparency when it comes to crucial matters of national security.
Are you shore?
WHATEVER happened to the idea that French cops would wade into the Channel to stop migrants from launching their small boats?
Months after a pledge from Paris that they would do so, ministers here admit it has yet to happen.
We pay France hundreds of millions of pounds to stop the boats. They do nothing.
Plus ça change . . .
