Voters Reject Net Zero, Opinion Poll Shows
Voters reject Net Zero when asked whether it is more important than cutting the cost of living, an opinion poll has shown, with nearly 60% picking cutting costs and just 13% cutting carbon emissions when asked to choose. The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon has more.
It may sound bizarre now, but only a few weeks ago, many political analysts were convinced that Nigel Farage’s opposition to Net Zero would cost him lots of votes. One polling expert even declared that it could be Reform’s Achilles’ heel.
Frankly, that strikes me as a touch improbable. In reality, I suspect the opposite is true: Mr Farage speaks for voters on Net Zero. And here’s how we know.
This week, a new polling firm called Merlin Strategy asked voters for their views on tackling climate change. But here’s the crucial thing, it didn’t merely ask them: “Do you support Net Zero?” Instead, it asked them which was more important: action to achieve Net Zero, or cutting the cost of living. And guess what they said? Almost 60% chose cutting the cost of living, while a mere 13% chose net zero.
A telling outcome. Asked, in isolation, whether they back urgent action on climate change, voters may say yes. When they’re asked whether they would prioritise it over their own personal finances, however, it’s a different story.
There’s more to it than that, though. In my view, this result doesn’t just show that the overwhelming majority of people think the cost of living is more pressing than Net Zero. It shows that they don’t really believe in Net Zero full stop.
After all, if they did genuinely believe in it, they would prioritise it ahead of literally any other issue.
Worth reading in full.
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About time! Another question that should be asked is whether the climate crisis is real.
My local authority has just declared a “Climate Emergency”. To my mind the declaration is an excuse for shelling out council taxpayers’ money to end-of-the-world pressure groups, to opportunistic but legal entrepreneurs and to the creating of yet more parasitic managerial jobs in the local authority, with titles along the lines of “Net Zero Compliance Enforcement”. Doubtless when NetZero collapses owing to its political and economic toxicity (like the DEI scam and possibly the Covid scam) these new jobs will be retained under some other name.
I suspect most or all of the non-Reform LAs will now double down on all sorts of crap, to show they are truly antifascist.
Perhaps worth asking them to put in writing what facts this declaration, and spending, is based on (for the record)?
Like Covid, the crisis is real, the cause is fake.
Well done Merlin Strategy for asking a meaningful question. How will Wallyband respond? They didn’t understand the question, perhaps?
Off topic but do others find many cartoonists make him look like Mo from the Simpsons?
Miliwili doesn’t need to respond. His only function is to regurgitate.
And he is a cartoon, full stop.
OK Reform, now adopt the Laleham Declaration
https://x.com/AlexStarling77/status/1846296012165357839
With apologies for scrappy editing.
More people are becoming aware that “climate change” is a hoax. (Hoax: noun, something intended to deceive or defraud.)
It certainly is a litany of deceit and has defrauded taxpayers of £billions.
I find regularly that Yougov asks if I think action on climate change is important. I dare not answer that I do, which is true, because I feel it’s essential to counter the climate change myth. Yet I know full well that were I to give that response my vote would be added to that of all the suckers who think we are all doomed!