NET ZERO IS COSTING BRITAIN DEARLY
There comes a point when you have to admit that something isn’t working.
For years, Britain has chased increasingly expensive Net Zero targets. We’ve piled taxes and green levies onto energy, handed out billions in subsidies, shut down domestic industry, and made ourselves more dependent on imports.
And who pays the price?
British families and British businesses.
Our electricity is too expensive. We face deindustrialisation. Good industrial jobs are disappearing overseas. And instead of producing more of the energy we need here at home, we increasingly import goods and energy from countries with far higher emissions.
How does that help the planet?
It doesn’t.
We shut a factory in Britain, congratulate ourselves for reducing our emissions, then buy the same product from China where it may have been produced using coal before being shipped halfway around the world.
That isn’t a serious climate policy. It’s exporting our emissions — and our jobs.
Kemi Badenoch is right to challenge this.
She has pledged to scrap the carbon tax — the biggest green levy — and scrap the legally binding Net Zero by 2050 target.
Because energy policy should start with one simple question: how do we give British families and businesses abundant, reliable and affordable energy?
That means using our own resources.
It means backing North Sea oil and gas rather than importing more energy from abroad.
It means building nuclear.
It means using renewables where they genuinely bring down costs.
And it means ditching the Net Zero dogma that says hitting an arbitrary target must come before affordability, jobs and energy security.
None of this means ignoring climate change.
We should protect our countryside, improve biodiversity, invest properly in flood defences and make Britain more resilient to a changing climate.
But there is nothing green about making Britain poorer.
There is nothing green about closing British factories and importing the same goods from China.
And there is nothing sensible about deliberately making electricity more expensive and then using taxpayers’ money to subsidise people's bills.
Britain needs an energy policy based on reality, not ideology.
Cut the green levies.
Ditch the Net Zero dogma.
Drill in the North Sea.
Build nuclear power.
Bring down people's bills.
And put British families, British jobs, and British industry first.
