British people are fed up with paying more to “combat climate change”
By Jo Nova
The latest Times polling shows British people have had enough with paying more for electricity bills, taxes and meat in order to change the weather.
Fully 87% said they would not be willing to pay more for domestic electricity or heating bills. 70% said they didn’t want higher taxes, and almost the same number didn’t want to pay more for meat or dairy either.
In a democracy, these would be the easy winners. Rarely on key topics are numbers so far above 50%. Yet somehow, some way, the UK conservative party completely missed the big 80:20 issues and lost the election, and then the Australian conservatives did too.
The EV thrill is over for the British:
The biggest mood shift was away from electric vehicles, and in polling terms, it was seismic. Sometime in the last four years nearly a quarter of Britons changed their mind about whether the government should ban petrol and diesel cars. Between 2021 and now polls shifted from 51% supporting the idea (what were they thinking?) to 58% oppose.
Australian politicians should note how brief the infatuation with EV’s really was. Enthusiasm might be over here before it even starts.
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