Net zero zealots at the Climate Change Committee have been hard at work dreaming up new ways to greenwash Britain – including slapping a fresh tax on flying and telling the public to ration meat to the equivalent of two kebabs a week. It turns out many of the brains behind these bright ideas have been phoning them in from abroad…
An FOI from the Taxpayers’ Alliance seen by Guido reveals that a whopping 64 staff at the CCC were working from abroad in the financial years of 2022 to 2025. Although the quango wouldn’t say how long these staff were overseas, they did provide a list of 25 countries staff based themselves for “business and personal reasons”. Destinations include a mix of sun-soaked escapes such as Greece, Malaysia, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Columbia…
Guido assumes these taxpayer-funded climate crusaders had to hop on a plane to get to their sunny destinations. If they get their wish on flight tax, perhaps some of them will think twice before jetting off again…
Read the list of countries in full below:
- Azerbaijan
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Italy
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- UAE
- United States
- Vietnam
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”
