Thanks To Theresa May's Vain 'Legacy', Fiends Of The Earth And The Bad Law Project Intend To Challenge Sunak's Eco 'Climbdown' in Court

It’s like a Who’s Who list of larger than life villains. First you’ve got the abysmal former PM Theresa May (the cringeworthy Maybot Dancing Queen), last seen bragging about her Net Zero legacy and how men in dresses-supporting ‘woke’ she is. As Allison Pearson says:

Promoting her new book, she says one of her proudest achievements was getting Britain to become the world’s first major economy to commit to net zero by 2050.

A legacy of scarcely credible recklessness, it has been estimated that net zero will cost the country more than a trillion pounds and impoverish the poorest families if it were achievable, which it really isn’t. Hey ho, it adds lustre to St Theresa’s halo, and that’s what matters.

Here’s the Maybot Dancing Queen in action during the Tory Party Conference when she was PM, when she tried (and failed) to render Brexit meaningless with her atrocious EU Withdrawal Agreement:

Having failed (just) to keep Britain tied to the EU as a vassal state effectively, she then decided that her parting legacy to the nation would be Net Zero. Asked on the street one day if she could do any worse for the UK than her abysmal Withdrawal Agreement, May said, “Hold My Beer” and she came up with the Net Zero statutory instrument amendment to the Climate Change Act 2008, which was rubber stamped by Parliament without a vote, and without any debate. She was right, it was even worse. We’re seeing the consequences of that decision 4 years later which is why Sunak has made a risible attempt to calm the nation by backing down on just a few of the more unpopular carbon reduction measures signed into law on that fateful day in 2019.

I wrote about St Theresa May’s halo-seeking back in June 2019, warning that it would be very bad for the country. I was accused by one person of being “blatantly politically partisan” for doing so. I think on balance I was simply right. Look at the mess Net Zero is already creating and we’ve only just got started. And yes, predictably, law-faring eco zealots are already making noises about challenging in the courts Sunak’s very modest attempts at watering down Green targets. They’ll probably succeed too, because Net Zero 2050 was already looking unattainable. Even with these modest delays in the imposition of petrol and diesel car bans, boiler bans and compulsory energy performance measures, Net Zero 2050 looks out of reach.

Enter our second villain: kimono-wearing, base-ball bat wielding, fox-murdering Jolyon [old chap] Maugham, who is head of the Good Law Project.

Says the Mail:

The Good Law Project, which is headed by Remain-supporter Jolyon Maugham, has warned, in a letter to Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho,  that it will not allow any 'backsliding'.

Wealthy, upper class, snotty-nosed toff who beats foxes to death trapped in nets in the back garden of his million pound plus home in central London warns the government that he will not allow any ‘backsliding’ on the plan to punish the working and middle class plebs for their sinful carbon indulgences.

Then we’ve got trendily named Niall Toru, a senior lawyer who works for Fiends of the Earth, telling us much the same:

Friends of the Earth has also written to the government. Niall Toru, the group’s senior lawyer, said: “Sunak’s decision to weaken UK climate policies will make it harder to meet our climate targets. Our lawyers will carefully scrutinise any new set of plans. Friends of the Earth has successfully taken legal action against the government’s climate strategy in the past – and we are prepared to do so again if Mr Sunak’s sums don’t add up.”

Finally, ‘clean air campaigners’ with weird sounding names are getting in on the act too:

Clean air campaigners are also considering a challenge. Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the campaigner whose daughter Ella died of air pollution, warned: “We will most likely end up in court again. [This is] a public health crisis as well as a green issue.”

The primary cause of death of this woman’s child was severe asthma; ‘air pollution’ was added as a contributory cause only after she campaigned to get it put on the death certificate, no doubt by referencing the ‘science’ linking air pollution to excess deaths, which is dubious to say the least. Either way, I don’t think I should be forced to give up my gas boiler and spend thousands insulating my home because some woman’s child sadly died of a condition which is probably totally unrelated to gas boilers and the lack of home insulation, in fact more likely related to an auto-immune disorder triggered by childhood vaccines or excessive indoor hygiene measures, not outdoor air pollution.

It is Theresa May’s absurd effort to secure a vainglorious ‘legacy’ for her spectacularly failed premiership which allows all these hangers-on to dictate to a democratically elected government what they should and should not be doing, not for the benefit of the nation, but for the benefit of the planet. An utter farce and about as far removed from a ‘just’ transition as you can possibly get. The Net Zero statutory instrument must be repealed (preferably the entire CCA 2008) if this nonsense is ever to stop. Has Sunak got the balls or the ability to do it? Highly unlikely. Will Weird Starmer do it? Beware low-flying porkers.