Net Zero: “It’s all going to end in tears,” says Lord Frost
EXCLUSIVE – “The Frost Report” video interview, Part II
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An in-depth exchange with Lord David Frost on the issues of the day
The former Brexit Minister holds nothing back on the government’s Net Zero and immigration policies and their implication for this country in this forthright and fascinating exchange.
Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, are pleased to publish the second in this five-part interview with Lord David Frost in which the Conservative Peer exposes the problems behind the government’s current rush to Net Zero as well as the dismal state of our immigration system.
As ever, both Facts4EU and CIBUK reiterate that we are non-partisan.
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Part I – On the Conservative Party, core beliefs, reconnecting with voters, and whether he will run
Part II - On the cost of Net Zero, immigration, the ECHR
Part III – On the NHS, education, cultural issues, the judiciary, the Civil Service
Part IV – On Brexit, retained EU laws, Northern Ireland, international trade
Part V - On taxes, defence, and the upcoming election
Below we present Part II of this series, together with some selected quotes from what Lord Frost has to say about Net Zero, immigration and the ECHR, in just 10 minutes.
Well worth watching!
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Extracts from Part II of this interview
On Net Zero
“What I'm not persuaded of is this belief that we're in some sort of climate crisis catastrophe, [that] the planet is burning. This just didn't seem to me to be justified by the evidence.”
“We've chosen a way of dealing with Net Zero across the West, which is a kind of high cost, high tax, socialist, socialised government direction way of doing it. We've chosen this irrational route of wind power and solar power.”
“Renewables on the grid that just push up costs are not reliable, don't deliver power when we when we need it.”
“We are pushing up the costs, driving business out of Britain to countries who have different sets of priorities and it’s all going to end in tears.”
On Illegal Migration
“What some of us advocated... is a more robust Bill which completely excludes jurisprudence from the ECHR, from UN conventions in this area, excludes to an even greater extent domestic challenge to removals…”
“You’ve got to have a proper deterrent at the heart of it. We’ve got to make that work. We should be much more rigorous about refusing asylum to people who are gaming the system.”
On Legal Migration
“It’s too high. The economic departments within the government believe that immigration is an unalloyed good. They don't look at the costs over time as well as the benefits. They look at the overall size of the economy. They don't look at GDP per head, which is actually falling now and has been for two years.”
“We should have made the rules much more restrictive. And we just haven’t. And that must be done.”
On the ECHR
“We are not going to be able to control our border rules…while we’re caught up in this web of ECHR jurisprudence.”
“None of this insuperable. It is a complex task and it needs thinking through.”
Lord Frost's thoughts on Net Zero seem to be getting through to Government
Today the Energy Secretary, Claire Coutinho, is addressing a business conference where she will say :-
“The first path is one I do not want to take us down. It is one with an ever-increasing and narrowing set of targets, where government dictates outputs and prices, and a net zero leviathan of central planning crushes our brilliant enterprise economy.
“The second is where we live with some uncertainty, knowing that it is one of the key stimulants of risk and product development that competes to win over consumers.”
Ms Coutinho is expected to say that the second approach :
“gives us the space to tackle our emissions” while “keeping the lights on and costs low for British families and businesses”.
“We are less than one per cent of global emissions, and our bigger contribution to tackling climate change will come from innovation.”
Observations
We would like to reiterate our thanks to Lord David Frost for giving up his time to talk to us in this, the second of a five-part series on the challenges now facing the nation.
This is not about party politics because we are non-partisan. This series stimulates debate, we hope.
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