Is going to get interesting.
In 2019 Theresa May in the last few weeks of her rule set the UK the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Thus signalling her virtue and doubtless trying to establish her "legacy"
All very well, but someone else has to make it happen because by 2050 Theresa May will be a dusty line in a history book.
Similarly Boris Johnson has pledged to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Will Boris still be PM in 2030?
Today transport secretary Grant Shapps (a man described by Michael Ryan as "worse than failing Grayling") unveiled the government's green transport agenda.
This pledges to ban HGV's by 2040, have net zero emissions for internal flights by 2040, net zero international flights by 2050, etc etc.
You know what this is? Hit and hope. Post some targets, demonstrate your virtue and pray. Because atm there is no alternative to diesel lorries or jet planes. They both depend on hydrogen engines being developed for these targets to work. As of right now, this technology doesn't actually exist!
Plus the government gets in circa £37 million in various vehicle taxes, petrol etc. How are they going to plug that hole? Latest thinking is "road pricing" where your EV will be fitted with a gps transmitter to track you everywhere you go and charge you by the mile. That'll be popular.
Ah well, ne'er mind, because by 2040 Grant Shapps won't be transport minister either.
In other news the government's "food tsar", multi-millionaire Henry Dimbleby (yes, one of THE Dimbleby's) came up with his latest wheeze to stop our naughty eating habits.
£3 per kilo tax on sugar, £6 per kilo tax on salt.
I sometimes think I've gone to sleep and woken up in the nuthouse.
Government's job used to be to try and improve the lives of it's people. Christ knows what it is now; I doubt they know themselves. Being pushed around by "activists" and "campaigners", maybe.