Rishi Sunak has shown he is not afraid to make big calls with Net Zero decision
THE Prime Minister has shown this week that he is not afraid to make tough decisions, especially if it means being on the side of families and hardworking people across the country.
But if you had turned on the TV, looked at X/Twitter or listened to the Labour Party on Wednesday, you’d have sworn that taking the financial burden away from already cash-strapped families, instead of whacking them with green costs to the tune of thousands, was some kind of biblical sin.
Is it fair to force people on tight budgets to pay up to £10,000 to fit a heat pump in their house?
Or to replace their car with an expensive electric model at a quicker rate than other countries such as France, Germany and Spain?
To make costly energy compliant upgrades to homes in the middle of a cost of living crisis?
All when we’re already on track to hit our net zero target by 2050. Labour certainly seems to think so.
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Out-of-touch nonsense
As expected, the usual lefty eco-ideologues flooded the airwaves with their faux outrage, criticising and virtue-signalling from the sidelines.
“How could we have possibly made this decision?” they all cried.
The answer is simple — it was a decision made in the interests of the British people.
From a TV presenter’s ridiculous claim that “poor people don’t drive cars”, to endless negative Twitterati commentary, this is exactly the kind of out-of-touch nonsense we have come to expect from the echo-chamber blob that serves itself, not the public.
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But in the real world, people up and down the country were breathing a sigh of relief that the Prime Minister had recognised the importance of giving them more time and space to prepare for the future.
Especially given the fact we’re already doing much more than our fair share to reach net zero by 2050.
If you had knocked on doors in Tamworth, Staffordshire — as I did on Thursday — you would have spoken to people of all ages and backgrounds who welcomed the news that the Government had taken a bold decision with their best interests at heart.
Compare that with Labour, who responded with criticism and no answers.
Sir Keir Starmer has been missing in action, jet-setting around the world instead of telling people what his plan would be for the country.
Maybe he’s just too busy working out what to change his mind about next.
But why are we surprised? We have seen this time and time again from the Labour leader, who has broken every single leadership pledge and flip-flopped more than 60 times in three years.
We’ve seen Sir Keir change his mind on free movement and a second Brexit referendum, all because he thinks it is what people want to hear.
And now it seems he has flip-flopped on his own Brexit flip-flop, revealing Labour don’t want to diverge from EU rules after all, reversing Brexit by stealth.
It is hard to keep up with a man obsessed with gaining power, rather doing the right thing for the country.
That’s not a good example of leadership in my book.
Shying away from taking decisive action in the national interest because he’s afraid of losing votes.
And focusing on the short-term wins rather than what is best for the British people.
So even if he did have an answer — I wouldn’t trust him to go through with it.
But this Government under Rishi Sunak is putting a hard stop to making decisions just because they sound nice, or because they will satisfy a small group of people within a two-mile Westminster radius — it is about making tough decisions based on reality, taking people with us and not pulling the rug from underneath them, especially at a time when household budgets are already stretched.
Give us a better future
And this week’s new approach to the challenges we face on climate change is just the beginning.
You will see more decisive action from the PM in the coming months on the things that matter most to people.
Strong accountable leadership that people can really trust, making long-term decisions which will give us all a better future.
A stark contrast to Sir Keir, who runs scared because he doesn’t want to be honest with people about the difficult realities our country faces.
Who kowtows to the powerful old guard in his party. And who will say anything just to get his hands on the keys to No 10.
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It’s the same old style of politics I know Sun on Sunday readers, like the rest of the country, are fed up with.
And we’re going to do everything we can to make sure we don’t go back to that again.