Zero defence
WHAT better way to fund a massive ramping up of Britain’s defences than to axe vastly expensive Net Zero spending?
The Sun has been calling for it for months. We hope Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been listening.
The best way to fund a massive ramping up of Britain’s defences is to axe vastly expensive Net Zero spending[/caption]
According to Treasury insiders, she is taking a very close look at the £8.5billion currently earmarked for Ed Miliband’s GB Energy.
It’s been hailed — by Miliband himself — as crucial to Labour’s plans for a clean-energy “revolution”.
But, in reality, it will fritter giant subsidies on dozens of loss-making green projects for decades.
GB Energy’s own boss, Jurgen Maier, has already exposed the fantasy by revealing it would take 20 YEARS for it to create a promised 1,000 jobs.
And while Net Zero actively makes British families poorer, the Chinese are still polluting the world by burning billions of tons of coal to make steel for wind farms they then sell to us.
Zealot Miliband will fight the Treasury tooth and nail to protect his pet project.
But the Chancellor must know that we can no longer indulge Red Ed’s green obsessions.
Not when the priority now is to re-arm our shamefully hollowed-out Armed Forces.
Stirrer Sadiq
SADIQ Khan may be 54 years old but once again he has shown himself to be the ultimate virtue-signalling student politician.
His sly attempt to incite protests against Donald Trump during the US President’s forthcoming State visit are beneath his office as Mayor of London.
The Met has already been overstretched by 18 months of pro-Palestine protests which have cost taxpayers more than £53million.
Encouraging a hard-left mob of anarchists and professional socialist complainers to take to the streets will only push that exorbitant bill higher.
Raising the prospect of violence against brave police officers is also deeply irresponsible.
But Khan clearly doesn’t care about that — or about destabilising the delicate relationship his political boss Keir Starmer has forged with Trump.
As violent crime in the capital soars amid a chronic housing shortage, Mayor Khan has a serious job to do.
He has proved that he remains a deeply unserious person.
Tak a bow
SAS legend Sekonaia “Tak” Takavesi will rest a little easier in his bed tonight.
At a time when his fellow Special Forces heroes are hounded by lawyers for doing their incredible job, it’s heart-warming to see Sun readers raise £55,000 to support his retirement.
He dared, you cared.
