Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If you read Willis’ excellent essay on energy poverty, you might think countries like Britain would like to address this dire burden on the poor. Think again; The reality is that UK and European politicians just don’t seem to care.
Tax robbery on your lifestyle! Boris Johnson is considering a new carbon tax that could increase the price of ground beef by 40% to more than £ 5, four liters of milk could increase 21% to £ 1.32 and the cost of gas heating
- Downing Street asks all departments for plans for a carbon pricing system
- One of the guidelines being discussed is a carbon tax on high impact foods like beef
- Could add up to £ 1.80 for steak, £ 1.50 for lamb chops, and 20p for milk
- Farmers believe that the climate change debate has a “strong anti-meat bias”
BY MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
Tax robbery on your lifestyle! Boris Johnson is considering a new carbon tax that could increase the price of ground beef by 40% to more than £ 5, four liters of milk could increase 21% to £ 1.32 and the cost of gas heating
- Downing Street asks all departments for plans for a carbon pricing system
- One of the guidelines being discussed is a carbon tax on high impact foods like beef
- Could add up to £ 1.80 for steak, £ 1.50 for lamb chops, and 20p for milk
- Farmers believe that the climate change debate has a “strong anti-meat bias”
BY MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
RELEASED: 8:23 pm AEDT, February 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 02:57 AEDT, February 5, 2021
Families face a tax on their lifestyle as Boris Johnson ponders new carbon taxes and fees for the UK that would mean higher prices for meat and cheese in the supermarket and gasoline for their hobs and kettles at home.
The Prime Minister has directed the Whitehall departments to look at how much greenhouse gas emissions from different sectors of the economy are costing society.
At the moment, only airlines and power generators are charged for their emissions, but ministers want to extend the polluter pays principle to all sectors. This could lead to an increase in the price of goods such as beef, lamb and cheese or to more polluting forms of heating such as gas.
Whitehall didn’t discuss costs, but recent studies by a team from Oxford University have calculated that 40 percent for beef, 25 percent for oils, 20 percent for milk, 15 percent for lamb and 10 percent for lamb would be added to chicken emissions and reduce consumption as the Prime Minister wishes.
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Four liters of milk would go from £ 1.09 to £ 1.32, four lamb chops from £ 6 to £ 7.50, six chicken breasts from 50p a pack to £ 5.50, while the price of a whole chicken would go up by 28p Would rise £ 3.78; The eggs would go up 5 to 94 pence and the sugar a cent to 66 pence.
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Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9222559/Boris-Johnson-ponders-tax-drive-price-meat-cheese.html
The famine in Ireland, the mass hunger of the Irish in the mid-19th century, was caused both by the cruel indifference of arrogant British politicians and by crop failures.
British politicians could have stepped in and saved lives, and to be fair Prime Minister Robert Peel tried to step in, but the interventionists were defeated by imaginary politicians who refused to compromise their distorted vision of free market ideals, even in the face of one evolving humanitarian aid disaster. When the politicians realized what they had done, it was too late.
Could something similar happen again? Fuel poverty is already a serious problem in the UK. According to the government, as of 2018, 10.7% of households are making difficult decisions on a daily basis in winter whether to heat their homes or put food on the table.
In human terms, this means that millions of ordinary Britons live on the fringes, risking hypothermia, starvation and serious long-term health complications in their annual struggle to survive the UK’s cold winters. Occasionally some of them starve to death. A third of people hospitalized in the UK are malnourished or considered to be at risk of malnutrition.
Boris Johnson’s plan to raise the price of affordable high-energy foods like meat, milk, eggs and cheese and to raise the price of heating could push many of these poor people over the edge and spark an even worse starvation crisis.
In my opinion, this cruel sacrifice for the well-being of the common people on the altar of carbon virtue signaling is an incredible betrayal of the millions of ordinary Britons who backed Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in the last general election for believing Johnson’s assurances that the conservatives would make their lives better.
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